5 Acts Of Terror The US Government Has Imposed On The World
Every clear-thinking American knows that education and jobs are needed more than armed guards in poor neighborhoods.
Every clear-thinking American knows that education and jobs are needed more than armed guards in poor neighborhoods.
Are political and corporate leaders even remotely aware of the conditions of society beneath the wealthiest 10% or so?
First of all, who are they? Mostly the 1%. But the top 2-5% have also done quite well, increasing their inflation-adjusted wealth by 75 percent from 1983 to 2009 while average wealth went down for 80 percent of American households.
Some of America’s leading news analysts are beginning to recognize the fallacy of the “free market.”
The first step is to learn the facts, and then to get angry and to ask ourselves, as progressives and caring human beings, what we can do about the relentless transfer of wealth to a small group of well-positioned Americans.
Free market idealists argue that capitalism works for anyone with a little initiative and a willingness to work hard.
As we try to grasp the reasoning behind cuts to life-saving programs while billion-dollar incomes and trillion-dollar profits are being made, we must understand that extreme wealth deadens parts of the brain.
4. TV News Dumbed Down For American Viewers.
“Save the public education!”
It’s not a game for Americans who need jobs and education and public transportation and infrastructure repair. But public services continue to be cut, while the wealthiest Americans benefit the most from a government they say they don’t want.