2010: America Held Hostage

[Joanne98]

If you were out of the United States for most of the year, or rely upon the mainstream media for all your "information," you missed the big news of 2010: we're having a class war and greed is winning. To get their way, the rich are holding working Americans hostage.

In September, new Census figures showed the income gap between America's richest and poorest was the widest on record: "The top-earning 20 percent of Americans -- those making more than $100,000 each year -- received 49.4 percent of all income generated in the U.S., compared with the 3.4 percent earned by those below the poverty line <15 percent>." It's one example of what Senator Bernie Sanders called "a war against the working families of America."

This is not a covert action. Every day there's a headline that some giant corporation had record profits and their executives got enormous bonuses; often on the same page there's another story about record unemployment or middle-class folks who lost their homes to foreclosure. The question is why nobody but Bernie Sanders, and a few brave progressives, are willing to talk about our class war.

There are three explanations. One is that it's become politically incorrect to talk about class warfare In the US. By shouting "class warfare" every time progressives tried to raise taxes for the rich, conservatives have done an effective job of robbing the phrase of its potency. As a result, many Democrats -- including the POTUS -- run away from any suggestion that this country is turning into a plutocracy and regard it as too "radical" to suggest that Republicans are engaging in class warfare, holding Americans hostage.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/2010-America-Held-Hostage-by-Bob-Burnett-101226-382.html

[FirstLight]

1. soooo then it is time to have our own 'revolution'...

this year, the only thing that will keep me from continuing the self abhorrent spiral of poverty that exists is to work to make something better in this world...WITHOUT their help. regardless of the labels(dem or rethug) they are all one big corporate owned congress. I have thought for years they should have to wear those patches like nascar drivers, to show who their REAL constituents are...

my welfare worker is not there to help either... they are just grateful to *have* a job, as depressing as it may be. But they have been relegated to the role of slave-overseer...they are the ones who dole out the beatings for us not jumping through the hoops fast enough - their job is to catch us doing something wrong, not empower us to actually finding a viable way to get out of the hole.

nope, this is all uo tp me...and the dozens of resourceful people i know and share community with who have more time on their hands due to loss of work. we need to keep busy anyhow, right? So let's build our gardens together, let's help eachother with energy saving projects, opr teach one another how to make preserves, or trade our skills in organizing for someone who can change the oil in my car...
i refuse to let my talents go to waste, and if i can;t find a 'job' to use those talents...i have to find some way of making somethuing worthwhile.
meanwhile, maybe me & my fellow neighbors and friends can create a way for ourselves to be less dependent on our overlords...

i dunno...it's *something*, right?