Thinking Outside the Borders.

[joemurphy]

I found this article in today's Indianapolis Star and thought I'd share it:

"Two days after President Bush delivered his something for everybody speech on immigration policy last week, he signed a $70 billion tax cut extension that purports to serve "all Americans" but reserves the bulk of its benefits for wealthy investors.

It is important to see these two events as a single story

For while the president touts overall statistical growth in the economy as vindication for his strategy of deficits-over-taxes, he ignores the distribution of this bounty. The mathematical fact is, the rich are getting richer while the poverty rate rises, and ordinary Americans are carrying an ever-increasing share of the tax load compared to millionaires and corporations while falling into an abyss of debt.

If our society is doing better and better at the top thanks to tax cuts and profit hikes, and if it is experiencing greater and greater demand for menial jobs down where newcomers toil, is this a coincidence?

If it is not, should the great majority in between who suffer from stagnant pay and unaffordable health insurance blame the dishwasher from Mexico -- or the golden parachutist from Outsource, Inc?

A business ethic based on minimizing pay and power in the work force creates fortunes for the relatively few and division among the many. Those indignant letters to the editor with their fixations on lawbreaking, loyalty and language are evidence of the latter. So is the resentment African Americans in particular are expressing toward Hispanic immigrants and toward the moderates and liberals who seek to accomodate them.

Dan Carpenter - Indianapolis Star


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[MichiganVote]

1. But...but...the wealthy are the lucky sperm!

[joemurphy]

2. Sorry, didn't mean to start any divisive "class warfare"

That's so unfair and so un-American.