Wealth Redistribution
Let us discuss “wealth redistribution” for a moment.
No, not the mythological communist plot or socialist platform which Tea Baggers have attributed to the President, specifically, or to democrats in general, but the very real, long-term, political agenda of the Tea Baggers and the Republican Party, themselves.
The Constitution grants Congress the authority to regulate commerce between the 50 states and foreign nations. It also grants Congress the authority to ratify trade treaties the president negotiates.
That authority has been abused.
Elected officials, acting on behalf of their corporate financiers, have repeatedly bestowed upon big business the ability to legally blackmail their American employees into accepting lower wages and fewer (if any) benefits under the threat of outsourcing their domestic jobs overseas — and then actually moving those jobs overseas when there’s nothing left for the employees to give up, pocketing the profits created by those blackmailed workers’ labor the entire time.
Like all crimes involving extortion and theft, this practice is nothing more than “wealth redistribution.”
Unlike extortion or theft, however, what the business community has been doing is totally legal — but only because business is handing bags of money to the people who write our laws with legalized bribes innocently called campaign contributions.
Add to this incredible assault upon America’s workers all of the low tariffs Congress has placed on imports that force American businessmen who want to do the right thing and pay their employees a decent wage with decent benefits, but can’t, because of unfair overseas competition forcing them into seeking the lowest labor costs they can find.
Big business has “gamed” the system, and influenced Congress into ratifying those trade treaties and low tariffs, and denounces any attempt to end this extortion as a communist or socialist plot.
We have a right to demand our representatives protect the economic interests of the 99 percent of Americans who don’t own a factory.
We accomplish that goal by coercing our representatives to do something they haven’t done in a long time: Represent us.
That’s neither a communist nor a socialist plot — that’s representative democracy.
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