Revolt of the Rich: Our financial elites are the new secessionists

[Pryderi]

Thanks to OmahaBlueDog for posting it http://www.democraticunderground.com/101640420

I'm putting it in GD to get more reads

The objective of the predatory super-rich and their political handmaidens is to discredit and destroy the traditional nation state and auction its resources to themselves. Those super-rich, in turn, aim to create a “tollbooth” economy, whereby more and more of our highways, bridges, libraries, parks, and beaches are possessed by private oligarchs who will extract a toll from the rest of us. Was this the vision of the Founders? Was this why they believed governments were instituted among men—that the very sinews of the state should be possessed by the wealthy in the same manner that kingdoms of the Old World were the personal property of the monarch?

More at: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/revolt-of-the-rich/

[nanabugg]

1. Screw them. Let them go and let's grow an new larger, more humane group of rich. nt

[reformist2]

2. Everyone should memorize that George Carlin quote: "They don't give a f*** about you."

[valerief]

4. Thanks. He was such a truthteller. nt

[valerief]

3. We're the new China. nt

[Downwinder]

5. Got a fence on the border and TSA at the airport.

They can't get out.

[BarackTheVote]

6. In college

I wrote a script with this as the inciting incident... finished the first draft on election night 2008. Scary when your dystopian worst-case scenario is actually occurring. (BTW, my script is registered with the WGA, so no stealing )

[socialist_n_TN]

7. This is nothing new...........

It's called "austerity" and it's proven that it doesn't work to improve economies (see Europe for an example). What it DOES do however, is put publically purchased infrastructure into private hands which allows for more ways of making profits.

Because of the falling RATE of profit in an expansive system that's running out of ways to expand, they need these publically purchased real items to keep up the profit rate.

I'd allow any rich fucker that wanted to "go Galt" to do so. He/she would, however, have to leave his stuff.