Can We Just Agree that Everything is Fake? The American Aristocracy is Real.

[hunter]

45. Enjoy the dream while it lasts.

Or maybe you've got the resources that you could quit work tomorrow and still live comfortably for the rest of your life.

Many USA citizens don't realize how close to the edge they are living until they fall (or get pushed) off. Until they fall, they often sound like you.

I know how to fix it -- tax the very wealthy out of existence.

Innovative people will still innovate even when their wealth is limited to a very comfortable upper middle class lifestyle. Create a world where a guy like Steve Jobs lives in the same community as his lowest paid workers. Sure, maybe he lives in a huge house behind a gate, but he's within walking distance of the comfortable apartments where the people who assemble his products live. They shop in the same stores, go to the same hospitals for care, are served by the same police and fire departments.

We don't need any super-wealthy people to function as a society; in fact these super-wealthy people are dragging the nation down with their unconscionable hoards of wealth and their destructive money games. They are playing with the lives of ordinary people but they live in their own universe, disconnected from the consequences of their games. Look at Romney, he knows nothing about the ordinary world, and he doesn't care. Working people are merely numbers to him.

The economic structure of the USA is not that of a first world nation. Instead we've become the top dog banana republic of the world, a powerful nation with a corrupt government seeking to impose our economic structures on everyone else.