glimpse of a Mitt Romney (GOP) future for America

[Bill USA]

(from Dorothea Lang's account of how she came to take the iconic photo of the Great Depression, known as "Migrant Mother&quot

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/migrantmother.htm

Lange had just completed a month-long photographic assignment and was driving back home in a wind-driven rain when she came upon a sign for the camp. Something beckoned her to postpone her journey home and enter the camp. She was immediately drawn to the woman and took a series of six shots - the only photos she took that day. The woman was the mother of seven children and on the brink of starvation.

"I was following instinct, not reason; I drove into that wet and soggy camp and parked my car like a homing pigeon.

I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was 32. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.

The pea crop at Nipomo had frozen and there was no work for anybody. But I did not approach the tents and shelters of other stranded pea-pickers. It was not necessary; I knew I had recorded the essence of my assignment."

Conservatives' idea of utopia is a place where unions are busted and wages are as low as people can survive on. What conservative idiots never learn is that you can't have a healthy, growing economy when most of the people don't have enough disposable income to provide adequate demand for products companies want to sell. Companies aren't going to hire more people unless they are selling everything they can make and they think they could sell more if they could just produce more.

When people are just surviving, the Steven Jobs of the world won't find enough buyers of the things they create to make much money at it. For producers to gain economies of scale you have to have enough buyers so producers can sell products in large enough volume to realize those economies of scale, bringing prices down - leading to more sales. When wages are driven down too far you just won't have enough demand for products to build a strong healthy economy --- and the rich people will be less rich and considerably fewer in number.

But the conservatives never 'get' this. They just don't understand that the well off people will be better off is there is less concentration of the wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

[shcrane71]

1. Get used to it. It's the new America. nt

[Brigid]

2. I can just imagine . . .

Romney gazing at this photo with that creepy smirk and that equally creepy little chuckle of his. Yes, this is exactly what he and the Repugs want.