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In reply to the discussion: If People Understood This One Thing, We Would Have Revolution Overnight [View all]Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)30. You are blind to what's happening.
There has (sic) always been the 'have nots and the have mores)
Trying to change this reality is like wishing away gravity
I do know that it's fast becoming the Have Nones and Have It Alls. And that's not hyberbole nor poppycock.
The wealth plutocrats don't let their money sit idle. Of course not, they themselves are sitting idle. They aren't creating jobs or doing a damned thing for the economy or the people. They are the true takers: the lucky-birthers and their minions. They all say some variation of, "No poor person ever created a job." But that's not true at all. It's fair to say that no idle rich person ever created a job, except at a bank. The mother of jobs is demand. If demand falls it has to be stimulated by putting more dollars into the hands of people who will spend them, producing more jobs, and so on. It's the engine that could, except when people are wiped out for anything except food, housing, transportation. The elite are destroying themselves and the rest of us along the way.
Trying to change this reality is like wishing away gravity
I do know that it's fast becoming the Have Nones and Have It Alls. And that's not hyberbole nor poppycock.
The wealth plutocrats don't let their money sit idle. Of course not, they themselves are sitting idle. They aren't creating jobs or doing a damned thing for the economy or the people. They are the true takers: the lucky-birthers and their minions. They all say some variation of, "No poor person ever created a job." But that's not true at all. It's fair to say that no idle rich person ever created a job, except at a bank. The mother of jobs is demand. If demand falls it has to be stimulated by putting more dollars into the hands of people who will spend them, producing more jobs, and so on. It's the engine that could, except when people are wiped out for anything except food, housing, transportation. The elite are destroying themselves and the rest of us along the way.
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If People Understood This One Thing, We Would Have Revolution Overnight [View all]
WhoIsNumberNone
Dec 2014
OP
It is not only the 99% that need to learn this - the 1% needs to know that this must be done.
jwirr
Dec 2014
#2
A lot of people don't realize how multi-faceted an infrastructure program would be....
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2014
#25
"If there is one thing a wealthy plutocrat does not do it is let his wealth sit idle."
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2014
#18
I don't see them working to alleviate poverty. it's within their ability to do so
Scootaloo
Dec 2014
#26