Fight Economic Oppression, Target the Top One Percent

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Fight-Economic-Oppression-by-Joel-Hirschhorn-110412-292.html

Massive economic inequality is killing America and we the people. It has already killed American democracy. The rich have captured the political system so they could manipulate the economy and benefit unfairly. Economic freedom and opportunity are gone. Greed among the top one percent has succeeded so well that a true uprising and revolt by Americans, like that seen in Egypt, may be needed to restore America.

US society is riddled through and through with constant lies and political propaganda to keep Americans stupid and distracted. The truth is here, hidden from easy view for most citizens by an epidemic of dishonesty and irresponsibility among elected officials, corporate leaders, cowardly, corporate controlled mass media, and especially right-wing pundits, many of whom are in the top one percent. The truth, of course, is often revealed, but only in venues that relatively few people with sufficient intelligence and critical thinking skills access. Two recent articles should be required reading in every classroom and home.

First, some key numbers tell the true story about the decline of America in recent decades as revealed by acclaimed economist Joseph E. Stiglitz in Vanity Fair. Upper one percent Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation's annual income and own 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and 33 percent. The top one percent's incomes rose 18 percent over the past decade as those in the middle have actually seen their incomes fall. As the recession still hurts most Americans, especially the unemployed, hungry and foreclosed, the top one percent, many of whom created the economic meltdown, keeps their tax cuts and riches.

"Most citizens are doing worse year after year," correctly observes Stiglitz.

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[midnight]

1. K&R When we start fighting for equality all will fix itself.

You can't have women getting payed less than men and be alright with it... You can't have children's nutrition jepodized because their parent/parents are public workers, pilots, and not bankers and ceo of Chamber Corporate friendlies.... You can't have the best health care in the world protected and available at all cost to the top one percent, because this is how a country based on inequality works....

[socialist_n_TN]

2. And everything that you said can be boiled down.......

to class warfare economics. Women are paid less than men because it leads to more profit for the capitalists. Children's nutrition is jeopardized because it cuts taxes of which the wealthy benefit disproportionally. And we KNOW health care in this country today is driven by MASSIVE profits for the wealthy.

Every fucking bit of this is class war against the rest of us. It benefits the top 2% or it won't happen.