The disappearing Middle Class or Class Warfare?
June 15, 2008 by Dusty
Bill Moyers Journal episode from 6-13. Moyers examines a hard working family in Los Angeles, and how they must hold two and sometimes three jobs to just make ends meet. The frustrations and decisions they face are problems the majority of Americans are facing within the last decade. Workers productivity increased 76% but wages have only increased less than 2% in the last 30 years.
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because i want to survive, i want everything to be okay. but there’s a part of me that would welcome a complete economic meltdown and bush instituting martial law because people might WAKE THE FUCK UP!
the similarities between these times and the years that preceded the depression are notable. it took a strong democratic president with an idea PLUS a majority democratic congress to get the new deal through and as a result, this country experienced the greatest period of prosperity ever WITH an enormous expansion of the middle class and WITH strong regressive taxation of the rich.
we have now spent virtually every year since 1980 REDISTRIBUTING wealth in this country, the redistribution of wealth being the thing that so enrages the right wing about the welfare state. but we’ve redistributed UP, not down, and the direction of redistribution needs to change NOW.
i pray every day for people to wake up to the assaults going on right now in the midst of this class war. the victims are the middle and working classes. the victor ~ right now ~ remains the rich. but as i said, more of us than of them. bring on the fucking war. this is one i’ll get behind.