An Essay by Dot Calm

RCA was a well respected family-oriented company. It offered a wonderful summer student program for college students (kids of employees), enabling them to work in the various positions that would support their studies.

My two daughters worked summers at RCA, helping defray the cost of tuition as well as introducing them to the working world.

Today one is an attorney with the U.S Justice Dept., while her sister is a PhD. EE.

The support received from RCA in those early years was no small assistance to our family.

Eventually the company was bought up and devoured by GE.

That ended any social contribution made by employees and their families.

That lack of support went on repeatedly, company after company, until today America’s middle class looks ever so fragile; not true of the super wealthy. The super wealthy lurk in the background, busily shoveling in all the wealth that was once distributed throughout our economy.

Which brings one to re-evaluate a government based on democracy. Yes, the very form of government our husbands, fathers and sons fought and died for.

Today democracy in America has been reduced to class warfare as it writhes and squirms in gasps for its last breath.

In the future historians will study and write about America’s form of government and what eventually destroyed it.

As we weave through these last painful days of government by and for the people as prescribed by our forefathers, much will be written by economists around the world discussing what eventually took this democracy down.

May I offer a one-word explanation? GREED