Okay, I don’t usually do this but I started reading this article and got sick to my stomach. I mean, I’ve all but shunned the Marxist leanings of my past, but a huge political and cultural issue that is completely flying below the radar in public and political debate is the economic disparity between the richest in the country and the rest of us.
Check out this article about Forbes magazine’s richest 400 Americans.
Especially interesting (sickening) was this sentence:
The minimum net worth for inclusion in this year’s rankings released Thursday was $1.3 billion, up $300 million from last year.
Holy shit, at a time when most of us are not getting raises, or anemic ones at best, and more and more homes are going into foreclosure because people can’t afford their mortgages, yep!, indeed the rich are getting richer.
I know I can’t blame it all on the President or his party, even if I am inclined to do so, but something has to change – with tax policy, corporate culture, most American’s way of thinking…
Supply-side economics sure as shit doesn’t seem to be working unless you are one of the 400 on the list and their ilk.
Those people stand out there as a carrot to all of us, making us think that with hard work we can all make it their one day. That’s an illusion. It helps keep us with our nose to the grindstone thinking that the reward for all of the labor is just around the corner. It’s not coming folks, at least not in the present economic climate. (I guess I have yet to kill the little white-bearded bastard inside of me after all.)
I am glad I wrote this at work. The two head honchos of the company I work for are on that list of 400.
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