College of Political Knowledge

Subject:  Class Struggle

I was recently surfing my butt off when I ran across an excellent piece in “The Smirking Chimp” and it right along with a piece that I had written about the possibility of a class war which used a graphic that I uncovered on another wordpress blog, “runawaylawyer.wordpress.com”…….

Even if you are not a socialist you have to see where the decisions being made in the Congress and in the party ideology shows signs of a coming class war, though some will say that it is already here…….

A little class resentment to spice things up? Try a pinch of this: Mother Jones found that American CEOs make 185 times more than the average workers, another gap that has widened in the last three decades. These are people who are “lucky” enough to have jobs — many with limited or no benefits — as the unemployment rate has hovered near 10 percent for two years.

More tasty morsels? Currently, 6,736 households are in foreclosure in Connecticut; in some parts of the country, 1 out of every 84 houses is in foreclosure. Meanwhile, the sales of Rolls-Royces were up 171 percent last year, and someone called Richard Mille makes a wristwatch that costs $500,000 and can’t keep up with demand. The tax rate on the top dogs in the U.S. is at its lowest level since 1945, and thanks to the craven bipartisan work of Congress, the Bush tax breaks, which funneled most of the nation’s wealth to the top, are still in place.

There has always been an income gap in this country and the fact that poverty existed “in the richest country on earth” was a source of shame to some Americans, including members of Congress who once declared a war upon it. However, in past eras when the wealth gap was as dramatically severe as it is today, such as the Gilded Age, the Robber Barons at least built railroads, infrastructure, libraries, universities, etc. Today’s robber barons use money to make more money, creating absolutely nothing in the process other than chaos in households across America as retirement funds and bank accounts are wiped out by investment scams gone wrong. The perpetrators of the scams then award themselves bonuses while their victims foot the bills.

(from the Smirking Chimp)

Nothing being offered in Washington says anything different than a class war…..nothing is being done to protect the middle class and the working poor….instead everything is done to prop up corporations and their bank accounts…….

(Sorry Quin…I just had to go there!)