The only part of the USA that is afloat is the stock market. Tell the

[applegrove]

1% that there are more facets to the country than just the stock market. America is drowning and the 1% don't want to pony up to help create jobs, improve education, improve the housing market, R&D in green energy, infrastructure, reduce the debt or whatnot.

The only thing that functions is the only thing the 1% need to function. The 1% bought the country and make it work for only them.

[teddy51]

1. I would say the only reason it's afloat is due to manipulation. n/t

[PETRUS]

2. As economist Dean Baker puts it:

(paraphrasing) There is nothing magical about high stock prices. High stock prices only benefit the owners of stocks, just as high corn prices only benefit the producers of corn. And by the way, the 1% controls about half of all investment capital in the US.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. Mass System Manipulation ,should be against the law.

[Warpy]

4. Since the 1% won't invest in this country no matter what

it has to be taxed away from them. The men who devised the progressive income tax structure knew that.

Unfortunately, with the extreme right owning all news corporations, it's going to be a hard sell to get it back. However, getting it back is the only way this country will survive.

[orpupilofnature57]

5. Exactly! Vested interest instead of Hedging Interest ,or Ike's 90% tax!!