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jtuck004

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11. Sounds a little like the workers on the plantation are just waiting for the Master to make it better
Mon Nov 10, 2014, 10:58 AM
Nov 2014

I suspect it will never happen, not in our lifetime or the next one.

Over 10 million people have moved into poverty in this administration alone. They took taxpayer money and enriched the banksters. So even when we had the taxes they took care of the banks and let kids go hungry. Still are, too.

We have birthed 2 or 3 generations now under the corporate plantation model, and they will have no concept of what you are talking about. Tens of millions will resist it, because they have been told it was wrong for 20 or 30 years. And nothing you or anyone else can do will change them.

Besides, we need $20-30 Trillion to make up just part of the ongoing losses to the lives that have been destroyed, and the jobs that have been replaced with those which offer a lifetime of servitude ending in death.

I agree, it needs to happen, but I doubt it will, without a huge national change in consciousness which isn't on the horizon. And even if it did it would be symbolic - which is important - but we would need 40 years of high taxes to being to recover the worthless crap we have shoveled under the rug at the fed, the jobs, the lost homes, the broken lives - and that doesn't even start us on the road to providing opportunity to people instead of asking them to prostrate themselves in front of banksters.

I think people better figure out how they can get together and make it better for themselves and their neighbors. 'Cause there ain't no help comin' that's got any substance.




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Woooooooooooooooow. Rex Nov 2014 #1
This probly would never have happened, had Dems and Repubs not colluded in the 40s KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #10
You are so right, we reap what we sow. Rex Nov 2014 #18
Greed has never been and never will be self-limiting. hifiguy Nov 2014 #20
True the scope of greed in the past pails in comparison to what can be owned now. Rex Nov 2014 #24
k&R nt Live and Learn Nov 2014 #2
The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Own And Control The Politicians That Own And Control Us cantbeserious Nov 2014 #3
Progressive Taxes were meant to be harsh on the Rich to make wealth distribution more equal AZ Progressive Nov 2014 #4
It's meant to make money hoarders pay their fair share. If you look at it like grahamhgreen Nov 2014 #9
It actually disincentivizes them from hoarding initially. Sirveri Nov 2014 #25
Well said:) grahamhgreen Nov 2014 #31
I agree, but this is history. Too many people have never been exposed to it, and the oligarchs jtuck004 Nov 2014 #5
The solution is to tax them, make them pay their fair share, grahamhgreen Nov 2014 #8
Sounds a little like the workers on the plantation are just waiting for the Master to make it better jtuck004 Nov 2014 #11
Would you like to see us raise taxes on wealth, again? I assure you, grahamhgreen Nov 2014 #15
I would, absolutely. High time and all that. Don't think anything but a token gesture is ever gonna jtuck004 Nov 2014 #19
The Great Recession almost did, lancer78 Nov 2014 #27
Savvy! blkmusclmachine Nov 2014 #6
K&R woo me with science Nov 2014 #7
Hooray! progressoid Nov 2014 #12
Harder. Longer. Faster. Go slave labor! sis boom bah. lonestarnot Nov 2014 #13
The billionaires' extreme greed is about to sink us into a global great depression. Initech Nov 2014 #14
.....but not for them:( grahamhgreen Nov 2014 #16
Two weeks of a mass general strike/boycott would help balance that out real fast. nt Zorra Nov 2014 #17
one trouble with that statistic hfojvt Nov 2014 #21
Should be better when we get to 90% with zero! grahamhgreen Nov 2014 #22
that's kind of what I mean though hfojvt Nov 2014 #23
And until they start to suffer, lancer78 Nov 2014 #28
striking graphic drray23 Nov 2014 #26
Their selfishness will be legend. grahamhgreen Nov 2014 #30
K&R liberal_at_heart Nov 2014 #29
kick lonestarnot Dec 2014 #32
Why doesn't this kick? lonestarnot Dec 2014 #33
Lord i don't know! grahamhgreen Dec 2014 #34
Hmmm. lonestarnot Dec 2014 #35
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