James McMurtry ~ We Can't Make It Here Anymore 

WElcome aboard the Runaway Train of Global wealth concentration. Half a century of quantified Wage Stag-Nation around the so called developed world. That post WW II brief period of a growing middle class and investment to rebuild the ruins of the Wars of Emperors had a bit of genuine populist policy that had to show gains for those who paid the human price from the bottom of the never-ending Class Warfare. The House of Reagan-Bush-Greenspan-Paulson\Goldman Sachs backlash came by stirring up those left on the bottom of distant war dregs. That was Neo-Conservative E-CON. Followed by the House of Summers-Clinton-Greenspan-Rubin\Goldman Sachs backlash and all that Public Spending while Identity Building across the fast spreading left behind focused on Faith-based policies in Wall Street and Winner Take All Pay2Play speculation where our POLICIES were Privatizing, Financializing, Militarizing (even our domestic police forces) in the name of Protection of Private Property Wealth Management Portfolios. Where was the Public Investment in our crumbling physical and social infrastructure? Elegant formulation from lit centers of analysis beyond the Corporate-Captured broadcast Consumerist info'tainment REPLACEMENT POLITICS. That is where we the American body politic REPLACED OUR POLICY DISCUSSIONS with the Cult of Individual Enterprise: The only command the wealth concentrators of the .01 of 1%? PRIVATIZE THE PROFITS WHILE SOCIALIZING THE COSTS, RISKS, LOSSES of our Corporate Overlords. Compare tax rates on the UBER WEALTHY under Eisenhower (no angel was his administrations that used our Post WW II agencies of Global Intel and Propaganda to overthrow Third World Democratic transformation from Guatemala to Iran in partnership with the biggest Investor Networks\Stock Market IMPERIAL FORCES of our 20th Century of Genocide and Rapacious Raj). Meanwhile, U.S. Tax Payers rebuild the centuries of neglected homelands while these Euro-Asian Empires were left in ruins for Washington's Marshall Plan dba European Recovery Program of Wall Street\Washington's Neo-Feudal Lords of Finance, Tech, TeleComm and Life Sciences. All costs to stick on the U.S. tax-payers' tab. And the benefits of Public Funding of Private Profits into small networks of investors did for a decade or so under Eisenhower and Kennedy family constituent Camelot. Camelot's class structured Infrastructure and high tech needs along with military projection grew. But while the receivers of Washington and Wall Street investment tsunamis built Social Democratic safety nets for their latter 20th Century nation-states, we in the U.S. bought into Washington to Wall Street Cold War weaponization of E-CON policies that kept monetarist inflation under control by keeping the boot of our trans-national oligarchs on domestic U.S. Austerity and Social Welfare programs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan The first U.S. generation in White Males Only History\Herstory that only by the 1950's were able to afford to send most of their kids to any form of Higher Education, whether colleges or trade schools. www.wweek.com/news/2023/03/22/in-years-first-six-months-county-spent-less-than-half-its-budgeted-metro-homeless-services-money/ www.wweek.com/news/2023/07/27/seattle-is-producing-housing-at-a-clip-superior-to-portlands/ Back about 20 years ago, James McMurtry was doing much better articulating all this in song far better than today's RU-vid Viral Hit of the past few weeks by unknown country music indie song blogger Oliver Anthony and the Populism that attracts all those under the boot of the tiny group of "Rich Men North of Richmond." tasteofcountry.com/oliver-anthony-rich-men-north-of-richmond-lyrics/ kboo.fm/media/117590-confronting-divisions-left-david-rovics Neither song as President Trump declines to join the GOP debate so he can remain above the fray his unexamined POLICY RECORD like BIDEN'S DNC unexamined POLICY RECORD need not be any part of the next installment of the coming Imperial Electoral Charade as Wealth continues to concentrate, infrastructure continues to crumble and Public\Private Partnerships continue to enrich those who are purportedly solving the Runaway Train and Great Wall Street Corrections of out GREATER DEPRESSION and SPRAWLING NORMALIZED HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS alongside the empty but always increasing in value LUXURY CONDO Developments at Market Rate that too few wages to sustain such a HOUSING MARKET can ever support: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6juSABUfnUg.html PUSH - ( some excerpts from the documentary ) Tiktaks Point of View 352 subscribers 1,569 views Sep 1, 2021 Some excerpts from the documentary "PUSH" (2019) (full doc @ "Push | TVO Docs" on RU-vid) Exploring why people cannot be allowed to live in cities... The high cost of housing and global investment funds that push people to poverty and strip them of a fundamental human right. Producers: Fredrik Gertten, Margarete Jangard Director: Fredrik Gertten From Knowledge Network Aired Feb. 2, 2021 Full documentary can be seen here "Push | TVO Docs" on RU-vid: • Push | TVO Docs ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HsFHV-McdPo.html Housing First: Dr. Sam Tsemberis at TEDxMosesBrownSchool TEDx Talks 38.9M subscribers 52,846 views May 4, 2012 Sam Tsemberis, presentation: "Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Lives, and Changing Communities" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7Vz2LZYU5c8.html Saskia Sassen - The process of “financialisation” of real estate assets OECD SMEs, Regions and Cities 1.63K subscribers 1,920 views May 2, 2019 Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University and London School of Economics, US and UK at the OECD Conference on SMEs and the Urban Fabric, 15-16 April 2019, OECD Trento Centre, Italy. Housing is increasingly becoming a financial asset, including low-income and social housing. This process of “financialisation” of real estate assets is subtracting resources from middle and lower-income households. Investment into real estate assets by financial firms has been especially pronounced in large cities and it has intensified in the last decade. This can have perverse consequences on housing markets, e.g. properties can create value when they are unoccupied. Full event info: oe.cd/SMEs-Cities Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\LookseeInnerEarsHearHere

I've watched it leave here since I was a teenager. Was born in 79. I know this comment comes 8 years later. It's bad here today

I see the Stars and Stripes going down and it hurts because I remember the America I grew up in and it was so much different and better than what it is today. Being raised by the Greatest Generation and their fathers who fought in WWI and listening to their stories of the horse and buggy days. These weren’t stories read in a book these were people that actually witnessed the closing of the frontier to modern society. Like my grandfather that saw his first automobile and airplane that crashed and the pilot was killed. He Saw a retired Texas Ranger gunned down on the street probably out of vengance who was reaching for his pistol that wasn’t there anymore as he lay dying. Our generation was lucky to have been able to talk and interact with men that taught us the clear distinction between right and wrong and those great changes that they experienced in their time. That’s why it hurts to see what’s happening to this country and a number of those that we put in office to basically be traitors

Of our own doing!

I couldn't agree more. :) But is it actually country? Either way, this video has caused me to pay James McMurtry a bit more attention.

mikki harper I wouldn't call it County, which is a good thing ...if anything he seems to fall into the Americana label if I was pressed to use a description...a bit of rock, and singersongwriter vibe...

James McMurtry is special. I highly recommend his work (especially the "Where'd You Hide The Body?" LP.

mikki harper not country fool and most "country " today is just lousy bands with a fiddle.

I've never heard of the song put together any better and it makes perfect 100% sense left the fine hair on my neck every time I listen to it

16 years

We cant write em here anymore

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I heard when it was new release it's still accurate today .

oh uuuuu dont knooow the shape im in

Textiles & Steel & high tech customer "service" etc all outsourced.