It is not really possible to be too cynical about America’s claims to exceptionalism. Private equity has its dirty fingers everywhere and most of our elected representatives don’t give a rip. They’ve even sold out the elderly and the terminally ill to these vultures. At one time, Sears had some small franchise stores. After a 40 year career with Sears, my dad opened one. Over the years I saw how the constantly increasing demands and unfavorable changes wore him down, until he told me that it was no longer possible to make any profit from the store. He gave it up, and I know he died disillusioned about what had become of Sears once the private equity mogul, Eddie Lampert, got his hands on it. We couldn’t even collect on his tiny life insurance policy because Sears had reneged on what they owed to their retirees. After years of Mr Lampert squeezing out the last drops of life, Sears is dead and buried, and Mr. Lampert resides in the same billionaires playground where Jared and Ivanka are soon to live. People, this is the America we’re settling for.

It is not really possible to be too cynical about America’s claims to exceptionalism. Private equity has its dirty fingers everywhere and most of our elected representatives don’t give a rip. They’ve even sold out the elderly and the terminally ill to these vultures. At one time, Sears had some small franchise stores. After a 40 year career with Sears, my dad opened one. Over the years I saw how the constantly increasing demands and unfavorable changes wore him down, until he told me that it was no longer possible to make any profit from the store. He gave it up, and I know he died disillusioned about what had become of Sears once the private equity mogul, Eddie Lampert, got his hands on it. We couldn’t even collect on his tiny life insurance policy because Sears had reneged on what they owed to their retirees. After years of Mr Lampert squeezing out the last drops of life, Sears is dead and buried, and Mr. Lampert resides in the same billionaires playground where Jared and Ivanka are soon to live. People, this is the America we’re settling for.

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