The System Will Eat Itself
December 16th 2007 13:57
The top one percent of Americans have had pay rise between 2003 and 2005 equal to the combined income of the poorest twenty percent of Americans. The cruel reality of it is something that should be pondered upon for extended periods of time by capitalists. I ask those who find this as acceptable, do you have any heart? Think about it, imagine if the richest of Americans increased income was given to the bottom twenty percent. That means the poorest twenty percent of Americans would have double the income they are recieving now.
For the poor an extra ten or twenty dollars a week can mean the difference between eating and going hungry, between paying the bills and going without heating at the cold nights. The poorest 20% of Americans may not even be able to make ends meet that even their children could go hungry. Imagine this sort of desperation, not knowing what tomorrow might bring, being left out in the cold, out of work with children crying because of hunger.
Just a few more dollars a week, thats all the poor beg for, and the rich? What do they do? They take it all, for themselves. They won't benefit from it, the rich cannot be happy if all they want is more money. You cannot possibly be that much more better off if you have an extra million out of a two billion dollar networth. But just imagine, that one million could sufficiently help thousands of the poorest Americans make it through the year and make them eternally grateful to the donor.
What kind of greed brings about such cruelty and heartlessness? What is it in the richest of people, those who are where they are because fate favoured them or because they were born into it that makes them so heartless?
History shows that when the income divide reaches an epidemic level, as is fast approaching in the United States, then there will be a bloody revolution. The poor cannot live the way they do forever and as time goes on they increase in number. It's better to fix the problem now while in it's infancy. There's a problem when the poorest remain so poor and the rich become even richer. This problem extends beyond that of economics and crosses into the realm of humanity, decency and fairness. Can a country with just laws create such an environment that clearly favours the rich?
As it stands United States democracy is a joke, who do you vote for? A corporately owned Republican or a corporately owned Democrat? Think about it, stop supporting the politicians benefiting from those who are twisted and have their own agenda's at heart. Support those who have no corporate sponsorship in any form, passive or direct. Support those demanding equal rights, if they are made to sound crazy through the majority or part of the media then support them more because they are on to something that's making the rich and powerful scared. Anyone who is not bought out by corporate interests no matter how incompetant, no matter how stupid will be a better man than any politician who has been bought and paid for.
For the poor an extra ten or twenty dollars a week can mean the difference between eating and going hungry, between paying the bills and going without heating at the cold nights. The poorest 20% of Americans may not even be able to make ends meet that even their children could go hungry. Imagine this sort of desperation, not knowing what tomorrow might bring, being left out in the cold, out of work with children crying because of hunger.
Just a few more dollars a week, thats all the poor beg for, and the rich? What do they do? They take it all, for themselves. They won't benefit from it, the rich cannot be happy if all they want is more money. You cannot possibly be that much more better off if you have an extra million out of a two billion dollar networth. But just imagine, that one million could sufficiently help thousands of the poorest Americans make it through the year and make them eternally grateful to the donor.
What kind of greed brings about such cruelty and heartlessness? What is it in the richest of people, those who are where they are because fate favoured them or because they were born into it that makes them so heartless?
History shows that when the income divide reaches an epidemic level, as is fast approaching in the United States, then there will be a bloody revolution. The poor cannot live the way they do forever and as time goes on they increase in number. It's better to fix the problem now while in it's infancy. There's a problem when the poorest remain so poor and the rich become even richer. This problem extends beyond that of economics and crosses into the realm of humanity, decency and fairness. Can a country with just laws create such an environment that clearly favours the rich?
As it stands United States democracy is a joke, who do you vote for? A corporately owned Republican or a corporately owned Democrat? Think about it, stop supporting the politicians benefiting from those who are twisted and have their own agenda's at heart. Support those who have no corporate sponsorship in any form, passive or direct. Support those demanding equal rights, if they are made to sound crazy through the majority or part of the media then support them more because they are on to something that's making the rich and powerful scared. Anyone who is not bought out by corporate interests no matter how incompetant, no matter how stupid will be a better man than any politician who has been bought and paid for.
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Comment by Andy 2
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It is these evil rich people who drive the economy, who generate the fiscal growth that allows America to maintiain its position in the world.
Long live capitalism!
Comment by Ahmed
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These people are not making the economy grow, they're milking it for all it's worth by delibrately by way of an unhealthy (non free-market based) influence manipulating those with legislative powers. What justification does it have, that a multibillionaire should recieve a massive tax cut and an income boost when a low income earner should not even have the minimum wage increased adjusted to inflation!?
Do you realize that poor people are poor not because they want to or because they are inherintly lazy, it's because they have no choice. That goes down to the center of te issue. We cannot live in a supposed free market economhy if it is delibrately choking the poor and favouring the rich. That's not even free market, it falls under the line of feudelism.
Even if it were free market the poor do not deserve this. They do not deserve to have such a law income that refuses to go up, taxes that refuse to let up, poor working conditions that never change. If this is free market then we're looking at another form of a dictator ship or tyranny imposed against the poor, the income divide will just keep increasing and inevitably there will have to be some sort of massive change in the economy's structure because as it stands the middle class is fast dissaeparing, the poor is fast increasing, and the richest of the rich just keep getting inconcievably richer.