2008-09-26 Bill Moyers Journal

2008-09-26 Bill Moyers; Andrew J. Bacevich Bill Moyers Journal \Bill Moyers Journal/episodes\consumerism\Americanism\culture of dependence\The Limits of Power\videos http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09262008/watch2.html Bill Moyers Journal Bill Moyers Journal "Our foreign policy is not something simply concocted by people in Washington D.C. and imposed on us. Our foreign policy is something that is concocted in Washington D.C., but it reflects the perceptions of our political elite about what we want, we the people want. And what we want, by and large - I mean, one could point to many individual exceptions - but, what we want, by and large is, we want this continuing flow of very cheap consumer goods."

"We want to be able to pump gas into our cars regardless of how big they may happen to be, in order to be able to drive wherever we want to be able to drive. And we want to be able to do these things without having to think about whether or not the book's balanced at the end of the month, or the end of the fiscal year. And therefore, we want this unending line of credit." The problem with putting it like this is that it almost completely ignores the large percentage of Americans who do see this as a problem and are trying to fix it. They are not given any encouragement, but are mostly lumped in with the sheeple who are the problem. Any real solution is going to require acknowledgement of those who have been working to fix it.

&ldquo;Our foreign policy is something that is concocted in Washington D.C., but it reflects the perceptions of our political elite about what .. we the people want. And what we want, by and large .. is, we want this continuing flow of very cheap consumer goods.&rdquo;   