One of the most obtuse posts I have ever read. Seriously...anyone that still touts voodoo economics s FOS or intellectually challenged. After half a century of destruction of the middle class and you need further proof? How pathetic! There’s nothing “normal” about having a middle class. Having a middle class is a choice that a society has to make, and it’s a choice we need to make again in this generation, if we want to stop the destruction of the remnants of the last generation's middle class. Despite what you might read in the Wall Street Journal or see on Fox News, capitalism is not an economic system that produces a middle class. In fact, if left to its own devices, capitalism tends towards vast levels of inequality and monopoly. The natural and most stable state of capitalism actually looks a lot like the Victorian England depicted in Charles Dickens’ novels. At the top there is a very small class of superrich. Below them, there is a slightly larger, but still very small, "middle" class of professionals and mercantilists - doctor, lawyers, shop-owners - who help keep things running for the superrich and supply the working poor with their needs. And at the very bottom there is the great mass of people - typically over 90 percent of the population - who make up the working poor. They have no wealth - in fact they're typically in debt most of their lives - and can barely survive on what little money they make. So, for average working people, there is no such thing as a middle class in “normal” capitalism. Wealth accumulates at the very top among the elites, not among everyday working people. Inequality is the default option.
The wealthy sure used to brag about how badly they wanted to "Pay Their Fair Share!" So, let's take them up on it. And this whole idea that the government can't do with one dime less? WTH? You Can't Make This **** Up. Our betters continue deficit spending on "Environmental Justice." The Environmental Protection Agency is spending $1.2 million on "environmental justice." The agency will award 10 grants to nonprofit organizations and religious groups, according to a grant announcement released earlier this month. "EPA defines ‘environmental justice' as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies," the announcement states. "Fair treatment means that no one group of people, including racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic groups, should bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal environmental programs and policies." Thanks a lot Richard M. Nixon.
