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mpreorder

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Sun Sep 20, 2020, 09:42 AM Sep 2020

What it's really all about... [View all]

I did a little research recently and was a bit shocked to discover that between the fed and states over a 1 TTTTRRRillion dollars a year are spent on public assistance. Source

OK, so I kinda agree that this is batshit insane and really is one of the things that drive republicans crazy. No one should get anything free, we can't have any policies that act as a disincentive to workers, blah, blah.
(Now, I'm not nearly qualified to make broad sweeping statements on what is really going on, but I can speculate. So if I'm missing information someone please let me know and I'll gladly change my views if appropriate.)

But I started thinking....didn't we have RECORD LOW unemployment before covid?? And despite record low unemployment we have to give out over a TRILLION a year to keep people and families afloat?? What is the real problem if it isn't that WORKERS ARE NOT GETTING PAID ENOUGH?

I speculate that the SYSTEM IS DESIGNED THIS WAY ON PURPOSE. I think that those in control of the money, i.e. BANKERS, deliberately cause the flow of dollars from bottom to top gaining more and more and buying politicians to continue to implement laws and policies to continue more of the same. The trillion a year spent on public assistance is built in as a regrettable cost to keep the peasants at bay. It they didn't do this there really would be class warfare. Generous amounts are spent convincing an unknowing populace how capitalism is the greatest system the world has ever seen which keeps us divided. And division is good for the status quo, isn't it?

So is the REAL problem between the right and left, or is the REALLY REAL problem between the rich and the not so rich and poor?? (Social issues such as abortion and guns aside.)

This IS class warfare, the rich have known this for decades, and they are winning. It's time to fight back.

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