Ron Kent Hooper uses the following article to explain how Billionaires Koch Brothers and other members of the privileged one percent rich class have united with the Military Industrial Health Care Prison complex and brain washed Tea Baggers to create an American Apartheid, which comes from the Afrikaans word for apartness, their Monopolist Right Wing has caused the Republican party to sanction our government’s racial and poor class segregation and endorses political and economic discrimination There Once Was a Time When the Super-Rich Needed a Middle Class to Be Successful -- Not Any More Times have changed -- and the elites inhabit their own private economy. November 5, 2013 There Once Was a Time When the Super-Rich Needed a Middle Class to Be Successful -- Not Any More Times have changed -- and the elites inhabit their own private economy November 5, 2013 | America is falling apart — and this nations super-rich are to blame. There was once a time in America when the super-rich needed you, and me, and working-class Americans to be successful. There was once a time in America when the super-rich needed you, and me, and working-class Americans to be successful. They needed us for their roads, for their businesses, for their communications, for their transportation, as their customers, and for their overall success. The super-rich rode on the same trains as us, and flew in the same planes as us. They went to our hospitals and learned at our schools. Their success directly depended on us, and on the well-being of the nation, and they knew it. But times have changed, and the super-rich of the 21st century no longer think that you and I are needed for their continued success. And in some ways, they have given up on America, period. As Paul Buchheit brilliantly points out over at AlterNet, As they accumulate more and more wealth, the very rich have less need for society. At the same time, theyve convinced themselves that they made it on their own, and that contributing to societal needs is unfair to them. There is ample evidence that this small group of takers is giving up on the country that made it possible for them to build huge fortune. Buchheit goes on to say that, The rich have always needed the middle class to work in their factories and buy their products. With globalization this is no longer true... They dont need our infrastructure for their yachts and helicopters and submarines. They pay for private schools for their kids, private security for their homes. They have private emergency rooms to avoid the health care hassle. All they need is an assortment of servants, who might be guest workers coming to America on H2B visas, willing to work for less than a middle-class American can afford Unfortunately, these millionaires and billionaires who have given up on America and on the working class are in control of the political process in this country. They have brainwashed Republicans into thinking that the success of working-class Americans no longer matters for the future of this nation. As a result, Republicans are no longer investing in things that have traditionally made America - and the working-class - successful. Take Americas infrastructure for example - or lack thereof. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers annual report card on Americas infrastructure, Americas infrastructure is a mess. Our roads are falling apart, our transportations systems are in turmoil, and our energy and electrical systems are stuck back in the 1900s. A new graph released by investment research firm BCA shows why. Non-defense related infrastructure spending was around $325 billion per year when George W. Bush stepped foot inside of the White House. Today, its around $235 billion per year, a $90 billion drop in funding from when Bush took office. Republicans, brainwashed by Americas super-rich, have repeatedly refused to fund comprehensive infrastructure spending bills, all in the name of austerity. But cutting funding to the nations infrastructure isnt the right way to address Americans debt or spending problems. And it certainly isnt the right way to rebuild this nation. As Cardiff Garcia over at The Financial Times points out, Its also likely that much of the investment that has been forgone in the name of fiscal consolidation will have to be made eventually anyways - only it will be made when rates are higher, exacerbating the long-term fiscal outlook rather than improving it. And as Think Progress points out, continued underfunding in this arena over the coming years will cost businesses a trillion dollars in lost sales and cost the economy 3.5 million jobs.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:52:02 +0000
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