Great read Gary Horton: Pitted against ourselves unwittingly (fighting against our own interests)

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Gary Horton: Pitted against ourselves unwittingly
Posted: March 2, 2011 1:55 a.m.

http://www.the-signal.com/section/33/article/41235/

....Today, rich economic masters lead a charge against the ever-shrinking, ever-suffering American middle class. And like gamecocks conditioned and pitted against their own, Americans have been turned against ourselves, fighting against our own interests, manipulated and controlled by powers outside our ring we do not fully see and do not fully understand.

“Deficit reduction at any cost!” is the mantra that resonates today. “Reduction at any cost” of course, save actually reinstating the taxes on the wealthy, which are essential to actually solving deficits.

“Cut public services, cut medical, cut education and slash social safety nets — all cuts needed,” trumpets the power elite. Beaten down after four years of recession, we’re beginning to believe “This is just the way things are.”

Yet over the past two decades, the richest 1 percent has amassed previously unimaginable wealth, controlling more than 40 percent of the financial wealth of the nation. Meanwhile, the middle class has grown stagnant, and is sinking.

(more at link)

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This is what bothers me the most! I don't have so you don't deserve it either! Sick!

:grr:

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