From the Middle East to Wisconsin - the party is over...

Following their 18 day struggle which ended with the toppling of President Mubarack, the Egyptian people clearly showed they had enough with high unemployment, the listless growth of the country, the transfer of wealth to the top one percent of the Egyptian population, the excessive power of the corporate world, and the gluttony of the leadership!

If this sounds familiar, it is! The only difference between Egypt and other parts of the world is the number of band-aids available and a media not doing its job in exposing the unsustainable problems that are showing up everywhere. But change is coming. People are getting very agitated for having to pay the bill for the reckless behavior of the financial community and the lack of Government "supervisory" efforts, for which they were elected,  to curb these excesses when they became apparent. Consequently recent Government moves to austerity  in Europe were seen as unfair, resulting in public demonstrations in Greece, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

But this is only the beginning. There certainly will be more demonstrations and violence to come all around the globe, for they all indirectly relate to many of the same "deficiencies" that are now violently coming to the surface in the Middle East. This week the unrest even showed up, of all places, at Madison, Wisconsin, in the US, where thousands of state employees marched on the capitol to protest austerity measures imposed by the new Republican Governor, Scott Walker. Among the measures, slashing workers benefits and busting the public employee unions, despite the $100 million in concessions state employees had already given to help the state's budgetary shortcomings. Governor Walker even called in the National Guard, fearing union members' outrage, and threatening to have the National Guardsmen take over their jobs.

As US states like Wisconsin, Illinois and others attempt to balance government shortfalls by raising taxes, reducing pay, and vacating promises of retirement and health-care on the backs of the middle-class, there is no doubt, these demonstrations will increase and accelerate.

Not one country in the world is immune against this Tsunami of People Power that is engulfing the Globe. Even Americans are finally awakening to the realization that their country has become a combination of a plutocracy and oligarchy; run by a corporate-congressional complex. Like Abraham Lincoln said: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time". The party is over....

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