Oligarchy, American Style

The wealthy got wealthy off the backs of the poor and middle class in this country. We made them wealthy, then they sent our jobs overseas. I wonder who they think will be able to buy their products when we are broke can have no means to buy their stuff? It is the economy that suffers, but then that is the Republican/teab agger plan. The rich get richer and the rest get nothing. We are now showing them that we have had enough. No Tax Holiday for them either. They can pay their damn taxes just like the rest of us do.

NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN !!

Anybody "lucky" enough to have a job now knows that hard work just keeps that crimped little paycheck coming -- and the Boss getting richer. No longer does productivity reward both the work bench and the glass office. Worker, produce! Faster! Cheaper! No complaints! Or see your job go to Bangladesh and your kids go hungry.
We have reverted to the Old Plantation -- for too long without a whimper. And now the beaten-down and impoverished are likely to have a college degree -- or several. Plus, the cost of education will soon make degrees a moot point -- because nobody except the Oligarchs' kids can afford one. Which lowers the competence level of our professional classes -- because Oligarchs and their offspring are gifted mainly at turning a profit -- but maybe not so hot at heart surgery or orchestral conducting -- or at anything not focused wholly on Money.
Also, the dumber the population, the better for the Oligarchs. Witness the Tea Party's political choices for how that works --
We MUST DO SOMETHING! NOW!

Sorry to repeat myself.
We just spent 30 years pursuing one obsessive CORPORATE CONservative TALKING-POINT that became the umbrella under which America was transformed from Republic to Corporatacracy and the wealth and power of 'WE THE PEOPLE' was systematically transferred from 99% of AMERICANS to the 1% Global Corporate Wealthy Class.
The Talking Point--> 'SMALLER GOVERNMENT'
According to CONservatives, We The People ALWAYS need SMALLER GOVERNMENT.
Why is this such an accepted CONcept?
LOOK AROUND. What has the obsessive pursuit of LESS Government (of the People) through LESS REGULATION (of Corporations) and LESS TAXATION (of the Corporate Class) and the relentless for-profit CORPORATE CONTRACTING of almost all Functions of OUR Government into a millions bits and useless pieces actually brought to America besides the Edge of the Cliff?
Less Taxation of the Wealthy Class simply equates to the starvation of OUR Government on their behalf. Relentless Deregulation Schemes render OUR Government impotent to act on OUR behalf and has also led to the fact that almost all Media in America is now owned and exploited by just a very few GLOBAL Corporations which seem to view the control of information as a useful way to gain even more wealth and power at the expense of OUR Republic.
SMALLER GOVERNMENT IS THE BIGGEST FLIM FLAM IN WORLD HISTORY

The cover story that the Republicans have been using is that the 99% have declared war on the 1%. This war, they say is demonstrable by the constant complaint from the 99% of all that money in the hands of the 1% is unfair. "What would be fair?", they ask. When they know damn well that absolute fairness is a flat distribution of all wealth. Every 1 Million dollars is spread out to 1 Million persons.

That, of course, is not a desirable outcome; and not a goal of any rational "Complaining Warrior for the 99".

The issue is before the rich get their money. It is the process where they are allowed to collect salaries beyond what even the rich themselves would say thay are worth.

The issue is the tax code that does nothing to reign in runaway inflation of wages at the top and a coinciding runaway deflation of salaries at the bottom. This is in fact a critical function of a progressive tax code and what makes it fair.

What is a fair number? Its like porn, I will know it when its not fair. And the salary distribution model and its supporting tax code in America is absolutely pornographic.

I am tired of our current President and our current Congress capitulating to the Oligarchy. Every four years a new President come into office, and every four years, all the President does is work for the rich and for the war machine.

There comes a time in the life of any man when he can no longer stand the cant of hypocrisy, or stand by the door while the legions of robbers trample down the fair fields, and pillage and destroy all that has ever been dear to him, and trample down and defile the temples of beauty and honesty and Truth. It is in times like these that he must stand up alone, and make restoration to the People for what has been stolen from their Land.

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The really wealthy I know and go to for donations to good causes, are no longer running companies, hiring people or shipping jobs overseas. They're retired. It may have been years since they worked at paying jobs. They do volunteer work. It would not hurt them to pay the same percent of taxes the rest of us pay.
Think of the many wealthy women who are widows. Generally they work hard at their charities but they may have never had a paying job. They are not in the mainstream going to offices, or hiring anyone other than a maid, a cook, nannies and lawn people. Even those in the 99% do some of that now. Their club memberships cost no more than any of the other members.
No matter how rich you are, you just eat three meals a day.
These people will not be hurt by paying more taxes. And they certainly won't be hurting the economy. They may well not be helping the economy that much more than the rest of us.

Louis Brandeis comes to mind: "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we can't have both."

It's obvious what the republican leadership has chosen. Now it is up to the rest of us to see to it that they are taken down. Despite what people say about both parties being the same, if Cantor, Demint, the two Kings, McConnell and similar individuals were not in Congress, things would be a lot different.

You can't have equal opportunity in a nation when there is such a staggering divide between a small group of people with such wealth and power and the rest of us. Worse yet, the great multi-national corporations have turned their eyes elsewhere to make the big profits. The American market itself is declining in importance.

Republicans and some Democrats pretend that the gap between the very wealthy and the poor isn't really a problem. There are many in this country dedicated to NOT allowing that gap to narrow significantly no matter what they say. It is easier for an oligarchic few to make the important decisions, such as which war we are going to engage in this year or whether we will allow opponents either worldwide or in our country. Real democracy is messy and if there really is a free press that exists one can't count on one's smiles and energy to win every election. Elections themselves are only a beginning at any rate. The difficult time comes with trying to establish your democratic values against those who don't believe in such. Perhaps...perha ps that is what happened to Barack Obama. It is so much easier to go with those who have all the experience, and money and power, than try to challenge them.

As long as we're having to search through the internet for something that rings truthful to our common sense, we are in a losing battle. Our "BATTLE" depends on people learning the truth and hearing it everywhere because what we need to turn this tanker is NUMBERS OF PEOPLE. Hoards, like we see in France when they try to cut THEIR health care. We are seeing bits of that but we need to see THAT everywhere! Gang the newspapers and radio stations. In most towns, the newspapers have nothing on the 'occupations' in their town. Therefore, the local people are able to look at the movement as 'oh, it's just THOSE people again..." not realizing that they are those. We need to focus on this and on educating and recruiting people to fill their 2-square-feet of space in the street. It is this visual 'vote' that will make local and national 'representative s' respond. They respond to fear, fear for their job (of doing the 'good' work for US). They justify their means by accomplishing their ends, they stay in office; they keep their job. We aren't keeping OUR jobs because our 'representative s' are too set on doing what they need to do to keep THEIR job. Learn, educate, recruit, get in the street (for whatever time you an afford, 1 min, 1 hr., 1 day, 1 week, 1 duration. get you and your friends and relatives out there! Learn and educate. You need to do it, those with the job to do it aren't.

Once again, thank you Mr. Krugman for that unfashionable statement of truth. Had Obama lived up to his early notices and appointed you, Stieglitz and Reich to his economic team, instead ofr the Wall Street insiders he cozied up to, we would not be where we are. It's not a questions of a lesser of evils, the Republicrats have destroyed our democracy and the big O has proven himself the enabler in chief.