Reply #10: It's a foolish move and yes, they're shooting themselves in the foot [View All]

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(so to speak). Reducing us to the place where we can't buy WalMart crap, and the rich isn't going to want that junk, so they're killing off their cash cow.

BUT, if things get bad enough, if the economy can't support the American people, we will become a society with nothing to lose. And a populace with nothing to lose is not a good thing for the wealthy. Look at the unrest all over the globe due to poverty and the tremendous divide between the richest and the poorest.

The bad thing is that the situation always has to get to the point of nothing to lose before people start to sit up and take notice. Before they get motivated. Before they face the fact that something has to be done.

They bush** administration would like to run this country like the situation you find in the Mariannas (those good old pals of Tom DeLay). The master and slave labor thing. But I think that if things ever get that bad you'll see a lot of unrest in this country. Remember reading/hearing about the early days of the unions? The riots and demonstrations? People taking to the streets even though they knew that the 'bosses' would call out the goon squads and try to beat them into submission? When people have to watch their children do without the necessities, they get angry. When a large group of people have to watch their families go without, they start a movement (for better or worse).

I've always thought that it is a damn shame that Upton Sinclair's works are never required reading in any high school reading class. I heard about him from my Dad. And we don't read Zola. Or any of the greats who dealt with the subject of the eternal struggle between those that have plenty but can never get enough, and those who have nothing.