Americans Slip into Poverty
Few in Washington talk about the growing chasm between the wealthy and the middle class. The top 1 percent of earners now take home more than 18 percent of national income - an increase from 1973, when the rich's share of income was 7.7 percent.
Globalization and technology have triggered an economy that has proven toxic to the middle-class majority. An unfair tax system, where corporations pay little or no tax compared to private citizens, has helped to worsen the situation.
Jobs which once sustained and grew the middle class are now done more cheaply in India and China or by machines.
The Census Bureau revealed 15.1 percent of the US population are now living below the poverty line - 27.4 percent of Black households are officially poor.
Median household incomes have fallen 7.1 percent since 1999.
Government programs such as food stamps and unemployment benefits, are now the only thing keeping millions of US families from falling into complete despair.
Yet, American continues to spend billions on two wars and rebuilding other countries.
Our collective fear is the American Dream is no longer attainable and for the first time, our children will not be bbetter off than the previous generation.
Americans still believe "the rise and fall" of nations is something which happens to other people.
It's time for us to admit and for Washington politicians to recognize that modern capitalism is no longer working for the rest of us.
Virtually every government administration lies about economic statistics.For example, government stats show average unemployment figures at less than 10% but in reality (due to their faulty accounting methods) it’s probably closer to 20%.Personal bankruptcies are growing and there will be another round of housing foreclosures, both personal and commercial.
Why We Need Change in this Country-Now!
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Stupidity in Government Grows, Economy Declines
There is a distinct correlation between idiocy in government and law and why our country is in decline and why the middle class is shrinking.Not many years ago a young man was denied a position as a police officer.Although he’d passed his training with flying colors, the hiring board decided his IQ of 120 was too high.
Courts upheld this and many other stupid so-called diversity laws which has allowed the government and the legal industry to grow while individual freedoms have eroded.Freedom of association, freedom of contract, freedom of speech have been increasingly abridged.
An odd example…The Boy Scouts of America won their Supreme Court case to ban homosexual scout leaders despite the opposition feeling that “the State has a compelling interest in eradicating invidious private discrimination.”A Gay Rights group file a brief in SUPPORT of the scouts.The group didn’t approve of the ban but wanted to retain their own freedom to keep heterosexuals out of their organization.As the scouts put it…”A Society in which each and every organization must be equally diverse is a society which has destroyed diversity.”
Misguided stupidity by Congress, in its goal to please all, has ruined the United States.According to statistician Aaron Wildavsky, if you examine all of the protected classes, they add up to 374% of the population, rendering it impossible to hire or fire anyone because each must be protected.
We’ve perverted the Constitution and as a nation, we’ve abandoned the notion of personal responsibility…our national motto has become When in doubt…sue!As one sage put it, “any genuine contest between liberty and equality is a contest liberty must lose.”
The Bill of Rights
Designed to protect us from the government.
It’s been proven that the more lawyers a country has , the bigger the drain on the economy.Lawyers are like beavers…they get into the main stream and damn everything up.Each lawyer in this country represents a $2.5 million loss to the economy.The enormous slate of laws in this country adds to cost of everything and destroys entrepreneurship, the backbone of America.This is why we’re fallen so far behind the Chinese and other countries.
Congress, made up of too many lawyers, has shackled our economy with its shady backroom deals with corporate America and this ultimately, has destroyed the middle class, our jobs and our country.
America locks up too many people, some for acts that should not even be criminal. No other rich country is nearly as punitive as the Land of the Free.
In 2000 four Americans were charged with importing lobster tails in plastic bags rather than cardboard boxes, in violation of a Honduran regulation that Honduras no longer enforces. They had fallen foul of the Lacey Act, which bars Americans from breaking foreign rules when hunting or fishing. The original intent was to prevent Americans from, say, poaching elephants in Kenya. But it has been interpreted to mean that they must abide by every footling wildlife regulation on Earth. The lobstermen had no idea they were breaking the law. Yet three of them got eight years apiece. Two are still in jail.
America imprisons people for technical violations of immigration laws, environmental standards and arcane business rules. So many federal rules carry criminal penalties that experts struggle to count them. Many are incomprehensible.
Here’s my final example of government stupidity in action.In 1994, the ABC program, 20/20 showed a Department of Defense memo that stated “In the future, special permission will be required for the promotion of all white men without disabilities.”
We don’t need another election, we need another revolution!
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Do Americans have more, or less freedom today?
The more laws we create, the more criminals we create and in this fashion, citizens are easier to control and to profit from…
President Ronald Reagan once asked “Are you better off today?” Most of us would shake our head no. I ask, Do you have more, or less freedoms in America today?
Everyday, citizens are stripped of their freedom. People's freedom is being taken away by intrusive laws which are created by a legislative body that resembles a corporation rather than a branch of government. The purpose of this corporate legislative body is to createprofits by creating criminals; this can be accomplished by the creation of victimless crimes. Law and order is replacing actual freedom.
If each year more criminals are caught, then the legislative branch has proven that it is creating sufficient profits as well as perpetuating its own existence, by proving sufficient growth. Americans are led to believe that the purpose of laws is to protect freedom and well being; however, many laws are, in fact, created in order to create criminals, and in turn create revenue.
America has more rules and regulations than any other country. Much of this red tape and ‘laws’ are created by non-elected bureaucrats, circumventing the legislative process and therefore, harming what was once a free nation.
The United States imprisons more people than any other nation, feeding a burgeoning prison system with tax dollars. The prison industry and the domestic spying industry are frequently headed by former politicians and bureaucrats who lobby the government to buy various technology used to invade the privacy of Americans.
The government, at all levels, implements new rules annually that would have sparked a revolutionary fever of our ancestors. Every element of our lives is now controlled by government rules. One needs permission to do just about everything from building a dog house in our own backyard, to holding a garage sale.
The unPatriot Act is the best example of a government gone berserk. The Act allows the feds to monitor all financial transactions, the TSA now shakes down citizens not just at airports, but increasingly at bus and train terminals and even highway rest stops.
The irony of this is these laws are spoon fed to Americans in the name of ‘protecting our freedom.’ This is bullcrap.
It’s a case of the boiling frog syndrome. If a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually.
So are you a frog, or a sheeple? Always remember, just because something is law, doesn’t always make it right or ethical.
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