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Something to think about this labor day weekend.
August 29, 2003
This article at AlterNet lists some alarming statistics, including:
Over the past 30 years the productivity of the people whose brain and muscle creates the wealth of the world's richest nation has grown by 66 percent. But the wage of the typical employee — the median wage — has grown by only 7 percent.This one statistic says more than the volumes of hype and tripe that will fill the papers and the air waves on Labor Day. It encapsulates the most massive redistribution of income in American history, from the poor, from workers, from former middle classes — to the rich and the super-rich. As billionaire Warren Buffett said to ABC's Ted Koppel last month, "If it's class warfare, my class is winning."
This explains why I bang on the dashboard and yell whenever I hear one of those dumb talk radio hosts talk about how the rich don't get any government assistance or benefits for "all that money" they are being forced to "redistribute" to the "lower classes."
Fuck the rich. There's no reason why everyone in this country...in ALL countries...should have to go hungry or really need for anything while other have more than they could ever need. That's what it boils down to. You can pontificate all you want, but I've yet to hear anyone provide an adequate reason for why this could possibly be acceptable.
Brooke posts some depressing numbers, as well. I suspect I'll be reading and posting about these alarming labor statistics all weekend long.
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Comments
ah, nothing like reading "fuck the rich" on a friday. thanks dru.
Well, that's what you get for living in a welfare state. I mean, corporate welfare state.
yes, at the risk of sounding violent let me say, yes, fuck the rich, fuck them with a baseball bat. people who are not absolutely furious with with distribution of wealth on this planet are braindead.
put a dollar in someone's guitar case this weekend.
have a good one! food not bombs! -- "r"