The Disuniting Of America

[xchrom]

http://www.nationofchange.org/disuniting-america-1320239911

In the Bible, Paul doesn't say that money is the root of all evil — rather, it is the love of money that he warns against.

In re­cent years, the in­sid­i­ous love of mam­mon (in the form of greed and ex­cess) has not merely been tol­er­ated in our coun­try, but cel­e­brated and even ex­alted into of­fi­cial pub­lic pol­icy, mar­ring our econ­omy with dan­ger­ous in­equal­ity and in­jus­tice. The reign­ing ethos of those at the apex of our na­tion's wealth pyra­mid is that too much is not enough. They're not merely out to make loads of the money they love, but to make a killing, every­one else be damned.

New num­bers from the Con­gres­sional Bud­get Of­fice con­firm that as the mon­eyed elites have been mak­ing their killing, wealth dis­par­ity has be­come ex­treme in a coun­try that once prided it­self on try­ing to build a more egal­i­tar­ian so­ci­ety.

An­a­lyz­ing 30 years of in­come data, the non­par­ti­san CBO re­ports that the rich­est 1 per­cent of our pop­u­la­tion has en­joyed a stun­ning 275 per­cent in­crease in their in­come dur­ing that time. As a re­sult, these priv­i­leged few have more than dou­bled the slice of Amer­ica's in­come pie that they con­sume, going from 8 per­cent to 17 per­cent of the whole in just three decades.

[bulloney]

1. There's your real Reagan legacy.

Reagan got the snowball rolling on cutting taxes on the wealthy, deregulation, free trade agreements and mega-deficit spending which have been the catalysts of the current polarization of America.

The distressing thing is that those in power don't want to let go of this system and we as a society perpetuate it by supporting it verbally, financially and politically, thinking that "it" just hasn't kicked in yet and when "it" does, we will join the wealthy elite.

What did Einstein say the definition of insanity is?

[tcaudilllg]

2. Reagan's legacy: external victory, internal strife.

[pansypoo53219]

3. mourning in america.

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[GeorgeGist]

4. End the Reagan Legacy.

Occupy the Shining City.

[tcaudilllg]

5. +1