The Superrich Don't Need Our Middle Class Infrastructure

[LongTomH]

Article by Thom Hartmann at Truthout: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19814-the-super-rich-dont-need-our-middle-class-infrastructure

America is falling apart - and this nation's super-rich are to blame.

There was once a time in America when the super-rich needed you, and me, and working-class Americans to be successful.

They needed us for their roads, for their businesses, for their communications, for their transportation, as their customers, and for their overall success.

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As Paul Buchheit brilliantly points out over at AlterNet, "As they accumulate more and more wealth, the very rich have less need for society. At the same time, they've convinced themselves that they made it on their own, and that contributing to societal needs is unfair to them. There is ample evidence that this small group of takers is giving up on the country that made it possible for them to build huge fortune."

Buchheit goes on to say that, "The rich have always needed the middle class to work in their factories and buy their products. With globalization this is no longer true... They don't need our infrastructure for their yachts and helicopters and submarines. They pay for private schools for their kids, private security for their homes. They have private emergency rooms to avoid the health care hassle. All they need is an assortment of servants, who might be guest workers coming to America on H2B visas, willing to work for less than a middle-class American can afford"

Among the things the superrich have decided they don't need is the infrastructure that has sustained our middle class economy.

[elehhhhna]

1. IDEA! Let's try majority rule and see if shit improves around here.

The superrich is a tiny group of inbred people.

[gopiscrap]

2. yeah right

[YoungDemCA]

3. They want to privatize everything...

...and in the "marketplace" of "choices", they will have the most and the best choices.

Most Americans, of course, will have no choice at all.

K&R.

[Jesus Malverde]

4. A perfect example is the rich do not use the airports like we do.

The drive up to their planes and take off. Terminals, security, etc are for the little people.