Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The 99% speaks

If the 1% thinks that the 99% should stop complaining and consider themselves lucky because even the median income of $35.000 a yr. would be considered 'wealthy', in any other Country, he just doesn't get the picture. The issue is not how anyone measures and compares economically to someone else in some Foreign Country, or on some 'universal scale', but how he measures in his/her Country. The economic imbalances in an economy, within any Country, that creates an income disparity of a top 1% and a 99% at the Bottom is clearly not democratic. If we were an Autocracy, that would just be the Top patting themselves on the back. But, we are not an Autocracy and we are not a Plutocracy and we are not an Oligarchy. We are a democracy. And I defy anyone to show that they did not earn their status at the Top 1% in a Democracy. They 'used' democratic principles and now they criticize the 99% because the Bottom is calling them out on the income disparity created by greed. The disparity exists because the medium of exchange is being hoarded and greedily concentrated by the same 1% that does not allow the medium of exchange to circulate at the Bottom. All the money is at the Top. The Bottom does not have jobs, fair wages, a fair tax bite, health insurance, education opportunities, homes, and the Bottom cannot compete with "legal fictions" called 'corporate persons'. Corporations have 'stolen' human dignity, by depriving humans of the right to compete in that so-called fictitious 'market place'. How fast we forget. The real problem is that even the 1% is still unhappy and wants more money and more economic 'power'. The economy is the place that needs more government control. The dignity of the human condition has got to be returned to the People. The 1% preaches democracy, but practices Plutocracy. Hence, its up to the government to implement democracy. Where's the government?

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