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The 1%: "If you can't stop us from taking it from you, we earned it."
This seems to be the mentality. Utterly devoid of ethics, fairness.
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most Americans run like chickens when the term is used. That's what it is. When the rich squeal about 'class warfare' and 'taxes redistribute the wealth,' they are saying the truth but folks are afraid to admit it. But the wealth was distributed up and it needs to come back down, the stream can only flow up out of the banks for a short period of time.
Taxes are taking back the booty without literally scaling the walls of their fortresses. But Americans are brainwashed and don't want to say the words, 'tax and spend.' That's exactly what we need to do but we won't do it because the billionaire owned media says it's naughty. From their perspective, it is.
We have lost our perspective, folks don't want to be called working class or poor, so they stretched the meaning of the words 'middle class' to some mythological place that really never existed.
Now billionaire media will tell us 'middle class' is a naughty word. It implies something on either side of the middle, and that points the finger at them.
Americans have too much pride to admit what they are and what their circumstances are to face the fact that we do have social classes, and lie to ourselves about the one we live in.
When you call yourself middle class and have a mortgage or owe a debt, you aren't really there. You don't really own anything, you are gambling on the good will of someone who you placed above and made yourself dependent on. Doesn't matter if they are nice or mean, that's the reality.
People don't stand up for the Commons that allowed social mobility, they are afraid of the word, most of them. Sounds too much like 'common-ist' so they let private groups take over what their parents, grandparents and themselves paid taxes to create.
for tonight...
Taxes are taking back the booty without literally scaling the walls of their fortresses. But Americans are brainwashed and don't want to say the words, 'tax and spend.' That's exactly what we need to do but we won't do it because the billionaire owned media says it's naughty. From their perspective, it is.
We have lost our perspective, folks don't want to be called working class or poor, so they stretched the meaning of the words 'middle class' to some mythological place that really never existed.
Now billionaire media will tell us 'middle class' is a naughty word. It implies something on either side of the middle, and that points the finger at them.
Americans have too much pride to admit what they are and what their circumstances are to face the fact that we do have social classes, and lie to ourselves about the one we live in.
When you call yourself middle class and have a mortgage or owe a debt, you aren't really there. You don't really own anything, you are gambling on the good will of someone who you placed above and made yourself dependent on. Doesn't matter if they are nice or mean, that's the reality.
People don't stand up for the Commons that allowed social mobility, they are afraid of the word, most of them. Sounds too much like 'common-ist' so they let private groups take over what their parents, grandparents and themselves paid taxes to create.
for tonight...
