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Fishing with dynamite.

All those rosy economic benefits you mention have been bought at unsustainable high prices; just for starters, a crushing load of debt: corporate, governmental and consumer.

We have also given away a great deal of our industrial strength and capacity, by selling those capabilities and assets to potential rivals and adversaries. And why, for short-term profits.

Our long-term prosperity has been sold away for peanuts, just so a handful of oligarchs and plutocrats can amass huge fortunes.

The short-sightedness and greed of capitalism is not just the criminal activity of a few 'bad apples', its the inevitable consequence of a system that incentivizes corruption and waste.

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