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Thread #99746   Message #2093368
Posted By: Bobert
03-Jul-07 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: Poverty in the USA
Subject: RE: BS: Poverty in the USA
It really isn't about making a profit or not... And i's not whether or not rich people care if there are poor people... These are red herrings...

It's about a corrupt system that allows for the playing field to be tilted distictly toward the rich and the corporations... That is precisely what we ahve in this country... It's a immoral and corrupt imbalance and the governemnt is no long "for the people" but for the rich and for the corporations... Money buys power and power tilts the playing field that benefits the money... The poor have been 100% disenfranchised... They are powerless... Stuck in a game in which rich people decide what crumbs will be doiled out to the poor...

But the rich have gone even further in tilting the playing field toward their porfits and away from the middle class... The puchasing power of the middle class has been in a steady declince since the 80's... Oh sure, the middle class has kept its collective head above water but only by borrowing from the rich... The savings ratio by the midlle class is the lowest since the last 20's...

This is what has gotten "Boss Hog" in trouble... Because of his greed and desire to control as much as he can he has not put into place a system that is bleeding the heck out of the middle class and this is where the seeds of "revolution" are germinating... Hey, I live right in the middle of veryu conswervative Bush/repub country and people around, as uneducated as many are, are very angry with what is going down... They are feeling it in the pocket book and starting to see things thru a different lense... These are died-in-the-wool Repubs who are very p.o.'d...

I've spoken many times about the revolution and I firmly believe that its is in the embryonic stage now and I don't think that there is anyone in either the Republican Party of the Republican Party can do to stop it...

Is it going to be violent??? I don't know... But it is going to be ugly...

But one of the byproducts of the coming revolution is that there is going to be a major paradyme (values) shift and this will get the war on poverty back on track...

Bobert