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2% Have 95% of the Wealth!

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Posted by Mike Burrows on Feb 8, 2011 in Social Issues | 7 comments

How Much Longer Are We Going To Put Up With This Shit?

Redistribution of wealth. These are the three dirtiest words in the English language…to the 2% of Americans holding 95% of the country’s wealth. It’s of small wonder we hear politicians from both sides of the aisle condemning any attempt to even the economic scales. When the insurance companies and their corporate shills, the Republicans, claimed that national health care was a socialist plot designed to redistribute the wealth of this country, Mr. Obama and the rest of the Democrats fell apart like a toilet paper bathing suit. Good-bye single payer, good-bye public option. How could basic health care possibly be considered a redistribution of wealth in the eyes of anyone possessed of a rational mind? It makes you wonder who is representing the 95% of Americans who have next to nothing.

When your boss hands you your paycheck…that’s a mini redistribution of wealth. Guess what else? When you pay for your Japanese Toyota and buy Arab Gas, that’s a redistribution of wealth. If you hope to own a home, or a nicer home or get a better paying job, that’s a redistribution of wealth. Got it?

So do everyone a favor and don’t get all McCarthy-era stupid when you hear the term “redistribution of wealth” and start yelling “pinko commie take-over”. No need to grab the bible and load the gun. WE NEED A MAJOR REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN THIS COUNTRY! There I said it. And if you don’t agree, you are either one of the richest 2% or you’re a fucking moron.

People sit around and complain about the fat cat corporations, but fear a redistribution of wealth. How stupid is that? I have exhausted all patience for those who ignorantly buy into corporate sponsored rhetoric which ridicules/demonizes the concept of redistribution of wealth. Wake up. Corporations have more legal rights than American Citizens. That is not my opinion; it is a legal fact.

We now live in a country whose economy has “fully recovered” as far as banks, corporations, and the government are concerned. There’s one major omission from this assessment…jobs. The middle class is on the endangered species list and your government does not care. To hell with what they say! The real truth is reflected in their trade agreements and foreign policy. Most of which are designed to facilitate big corporations exploiting the cheapest labor globally available. Both Democrats and Republicans are equally guilty. Politicians all claim to “care about middle America”, but then sign bills into law and give tax incentives to corporations who exploit third world labor forces, leaving their former U.S. employees unemployed, all in the quest for higher short term profits.

As Americans we consume more now than we ever have. More goods, more services, more everything, and yet we have high unemployment and a rapidly shrinking middle class. How can this be? It’s because we only manufacture a fraction of what we used to. Instead of paying Americans to build American made products, we currently throw our money away on poor quality imported (mostly Chinese) goods that offer poor service to both the end user and the U.S. economy. But it makes big corporations rich. Talk about a redistribution of wealth! Our lust for cheap goods will likely be our undoing.

The first rule of the “Rich Guy Club” is…NO NEW MEMBERS! Be sure to keep this in mind when you hear assholes like John Boehner screaming about the redistribution of wealth being a bad thing. It is a bad thing…for the fabulously wealthy. The largest redistribution of wealth the world has ever seen is going on right now in the form of American dollars going to Arab oil nations. And yet, the politicians don’t say a word. That’s because they don’t give a damn about the redistribution of wealth, unless it’s to the masses (i.e. you and me). Corporations can shuffle wealth anywhere they wish with impunity. They own our politicians thanks to antiquated campaign financing laws that serve to undermine the governing process and leave all but the very rich unrepresented.

If this country continues to have such a huge disparity between the rich and the poor, we as a nation are doomed. Big business, with the government as its shill, would have us return to the days of feudalism. Corporations and government would lord over us and the masses would exist in a state of sub-poverty, a condition more and more people face everyday as a result of the current recession. Face it; big business doesn’t give a damn about you and neither does big government.

We have to start holding politicians accountable by not re-electing them. We need to build things. We have to quit buying crap at K-Mart and Walmart. We need to patronize small businesses instead of heading straight to the Mega Discount Store. We need to buy things made in America. We need to reject the way governments and big corporations currently do business, especially if it isn’t in the best interests of the American people and humans beings in general.

Finally, we need to embrace the notion of leveling the playing field and redistributing America’s wealth and prosperity back to Americans like you. When it’s all said and done, Americans will ultimately make America sustainable, not corporations and not politicians.

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  • http://www.gonzotimes.com/ PunkJohnnyCash

    There is a great deal that stems off of what you have written. First off you are right, we do have redistribution of wealth. It has been distributed to the ruling class. Endless books have been written on this and I can’t even get into a drop of that in a response. Much of the problem does lay in the distorted view of property rights under the state capitalist system we have.

    I tend to see syndicates as a good point to look at in re-structuring in an anarchist society. Unions I do not see as favorably. The union has hierarchy that negotiates with the hierarchy ruler of the corporations. Sure it’s better than nothing, but when I look at such concepts I rarely look in the context of the current regime.

    The product of our labor is stolen from corporations, the government and the federal reserve. It’s pissed away in a bankers game to gain wealth on wall-street. Really I look to the community organizer concept that those with the answer are closest to the problem. In this system where it is criminalized to deviate it is difficult to re-claim what is taken from us and passed on to the ruling classes, the 2%. If you attempt to claim the product of your labor they will label it ‘theft’ and use their courts to defend their wealth.

  • Fire

    I’d like to see some citations of where you got those numbers. I seriously doubt is that high.

    2ndly, How exactly would you plan to “redistribute wealth”? Are you suggesting taking assets away from people who may very well have worked for those assets all their lives?

    Where in the world did you get the idea that a paycheck or paying for something is redistribution of wealth? Those things are an exchange of money for goods or a service (e.g. an employees labor).

    • http://twitter.com/scalpingelmo William Hinds

      You would need to stop the current redistribution that takes from the productive class. The workers, the small business owners, the middle class and everybody that is not included in the “benefit end” of the current scheme of redistribution are those that are being robbed; taxes, fees, fines and inflation. All of this serves to prevent the small business from succeeding, and to add to the bottom line of corporate vampires like GM and Goldman Sachs whose corporate gigantism is the direct result of government interference in the market place.

      Without prohibition, you would not have Capone. Without anti-free market legislation, you would not have Goldman. Don’t believe me? try and start your own financial services company, it is a protected racket by those in power.

      As for your final complaint, it is redistribution. Simply use the dictionary and stop trying to read between the lines.

  • FREEK power ULTD.

    The war for the government is over. The corporations won it. Corporations like GM can sit down at the table with, for instance, the economic ministers of China, and be treated with the respect given to heads of state because their gdp is equal to many other countries gdps. Yet, a couple of years ago GM was on the verge of bankruptcy. They were bailed out with tax payer’s money. And , oh yeah, their moving most of their production over there. And when the American Consumer Market is weak, well they’ll just go where the money is. The Ideology of Corporatism is winning, The struggle is an internationalist struggle. So, now what?

  • Mitch

    THIS IS NOT TRUE. Although the wealth distribution in the United States of America is the highest since the 1920′s, only 85% of the wealth in America IS HELD BY THE TOP 20% OF PEOPLE. I would love to know where the idiot who thinks he’s a fucking journalist got his data.

    • Mike Burrows

      First of all, you’re a fucking moron. Secondly, my facts are common knowledge quoted by so many different institutions and economists that space prohibits me from listing them. Learn how to google and you won’t have to look far to confirm my facts. Rather than try to bust my balls, why don’t you quit blowing the slave master and quit trying to be such a good Tea Partier.

      • Mitch

        First off, I learned how to write better than you in high school. If your facts use economic data, it’s not considered common knowledge, and since it’s not common knowledge, quote a damn economic paper, something with factual backing. Rather than writing drivel, get off your ass and research. No one can take your drivel seriously if you don’t have any facts. Oh and guess what you idiot? I voted Obama. Guess I can go back to my tea partier rally, huh? Asshole..