The less money you have, then the more of the economy you are

[ck4829]

Republicans and Teabaggers seem to think that the backbone of the US economy are corporations shipping jobs overseas, people putting money in the tax shelters in the Cayman Islands, and people who had to do some really, really hard work... as in passing through a birth canal kind of hard work.

Do those groups define the US economy in any way? Do those groups reflect the spirit of America?

Or is it defined by people who came to this country with only the money in their pockets? The people who worked their entire lives and never moved up the social ladder one iota? The people who have to work as hard as they can just to pay rent and for groceries?

It's actually very disappointing to see that people actually think the first group defines the economy and should have even more control over it.

[dkf]

1. The US economy is simply a product of it's people.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy?wasRedirected=true

An economy consists of the economic system of a country or other area, the labor, capital and land resources, and the economic agents that socially participate in the production, exchange, distribution, and consumption of goods and services of that area. A given economy is the end result of a process that involves its technological evolution, history and social organization, as well as its geography, natural resource endowment, and ecology, as main factors. These factors give context, content, and set the conditions and parameters in which an economy functions.

[Billy Burnett]

2. So where does that put Native Americans who were cleared off of their own land ...

... in one of the greatest thefts in world history.

This is the American foundation.

Don't be fooled by the shiny trinkets.