Reply #124: You do understand that in order for there to be a middle class, government has to support that idea? [View All]

Economic policies have to be in place to support it --

Tax codes can't support elites as they do now -- while burdening the

poor and middle class!

So government is a very active player in whether or not we have a Middle Class --

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rightwing wasn't interested in keeping the

Middle Class going -- nor concerned about creating homelessness!!

And that's what we've gotten from them --

Keep in mind that in 1978 -- according to Wm. Greider in "Who Will Tell the People?" ...

in 1978 Democrats colluded with the GOP in breaking the tax code for the benefit of the wealthy.

Democrats were in full power -- and this was pre-Reagan.

"Democratic Party majorities have supported this great shift in tax burden

every step of the way" -- !!



Capitalism isn't about benefitting from personal effort -- it's about cronyism -- who you

know -- wealth -- inside information -- and the frequent "crises" and "crashes" which

enrich the wealthy and steal from the poor.


The depression we are in now was caused by another of those financial coups --

See: Catherin Austin Fitts --

See: James Galbrith's comments to the Cat Food Commission re Social Security/Medicare

and the crimes which caused the meltdown -- which no one has bothered much to investigate!


Capitalism is essentially fascism -- and certainly the opposite of democracy --


Capitalism is a ridiculous "King-of-the-Hill" system intended to move the wealth and

natural resources of nations from the many to the few -- and it has done that quite

successfully.


The Vatican invented capitalism when Feudalism was no longer sufficient to run their

Papal States -- it certainly isn't economic democracy!


Again -- please tell me what socialism you are referring to -- and presume you know that

Europeans have always mixed socialism -- socially responsible government -- with capitalism?


This extreme socialism is what Republicans fear.

Again -- both Hitler's radicalized NAZI party -- originally a truly socialistic organization --

NOR Russia's totalitarian communism -- as J. Edgar Hoover always made a point of calling it -

were democratic socialism which is what our Social Security and Medicare are about --

or were intended to be until rightwing began tampering with it, moving the burden of FICA taxes

onto the shoulders of the poor and middle class.


Unregulated capitalism -- which we've been getting a taste of over the last decades --

is merely organized crime.

Neither is capitalism about competition -- it's about killing the competition --





PS: How's your weather in Texas now? Are you getting any relief -- ?

Or are you far removed from the problems with drought/fires? --

See from the map that it's across 14 states now --