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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-17-06 12:03 PM
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Palast: The Front Lines of the Class War-----------> VIDEO link
6/14/2006 Democracy Now
The Front Lines of the Class War from 1927 to Today

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/14/1424239#transcript
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-17-06 12:31 PM
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1. I'm going to write to him and suggest a different name for this war. GAP
Edited on Sat Jun-17-06 12:33 PM by higher class
Let's call it what it is - a GAP war.

If we call it a class war - we get a little vagueness of interpretation and with overshades of communism and sociology.

If we say GAP we immediately catch the attention of shoppers and mall marathoners.

GAP is what it is. A financial and political GAP that they are trying to create within the U.S. in an attempt to create a GAP between the have mores and all so-called middle class. This is an anti-middle class war.

They need to bring down the standards of living and wages to parallel the stratas in third world nations in order to have ease of manufacturing, supply and end product trans portion and distribution.

This means eliminating the middle class by pushing them down or allowing them to come up and enter their ranks or wealth.

We are in a GAP war, not a class war.

Outsourcing and the death of unions - the GAP war is fought on many fronts. We are in the middle of the GAP war and we don't even recognize it.

But, it will become more recognizable if we work at it - for example, as time goes on - by broadcasting the theft of jobs and the extent people will go to for cheap labor the way DeLay and Abramoff and others do it Marianna Islands. They got a little carried away with the secondary benefits, particularly the bodily entertainments involved in the night and day job opportunities that were set up there (alledgedly). That will be a good opportunity to ask why people do this. Most will say profit - but it is profit within the bigger picture of profiting - the successful conclusion of creating the GAP within the stratas of people in the (continental, Haw, Ala) U.S.

But, we shouldn't wait for the outcome of that adventure - there are other examples.
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Cassandra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-17-06 01:00 PM
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2. I wrote about my experience at the event...
it's in my journal. Thanks for the link.
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