Dkos' buhdydharma: The Class War Comes Home

[Louisiana1976]

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While the Fat Cats and Banksters and Vampire Squids are back to harvesting huge salaries and bonuses for producing absolutely nothing and acting as a parasite on our nation and the world....ordinary Americans are starving.

Not just "poor" Americans, or Lower Class Americans, or Ghetto Americans, but a shocking number of regular, formerly Middle Class, Americans have been added to those who have always had to wonder where their next meal is going to come from.

We have, over the years, grown callous to the needs of the poor. They have always been excused away by the American Calvinist ethic that God made them poor and so poor they shall stay. Foundations and Institutes study them, spend money studying them, but the problem never seems to go away. It never seems to go away because in the American system of Capitalism, it is accepted that there will be a Lower Class...and even a class below the Lower Class. They are considered the "collateral damage" of Capitalism. For there to be "haves" there have to be "have nots." And as soon as belts get tightened, it is the have nots that get thrown under the "collateral damage" bus with nary a thought.

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