Reply #40: "Getting theirs" while the rest of us pay [View All]

[Voltaire99]

What is bad for America isn't necessarily or entirely bad for the greedy elites who are to blame for our economic decline.

Even if devalued currency reduces their own piles, they will still have piles. Their piles grew astronomically in the 90s.

Meanwhile the weakening of ordinary citizens' wealth will only strengthen the elites' positions in our society. Consider the Depression: the fattest cats weathered the storm, and people were at their mercy. (Until FDR stepped in; but moves have been taken in our system to prevent such temerity again.)

So a kind of Nero strategy is seen here: fiddling while the dollar burns. Reaganism's intention to bankrupt the federal government remains an essential plan in their all-for-us, fuck-the-rest worldview; they will scupper the ship of state as long as they have gold-plated lifeboats.

There is also incompetence to consider. This gang is very bad at just about everything. But again, they are insulated from the shocks that could tear our society apart, and in the pits of their dark laissez-faire souls they know it.