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Dec 1 11 3:49 PM
It was a lie that everyone from the bankers, to the financial experts, to the talking heads on TV insisted was true. And people who questioned those lies were referred to as idiots. Was it wise to buy that snake oil from the banks? No, but then again people are gullible.
Add to that the massive redeuction in the tax rates the upper earners have to pay, deregulation of businesses, costly unfunded wars, the allowing our jobs to be exported for the profit of the very few over the past 30 years and the picture starts becoming clearer what the real problems are. And you seem to think that people who have pensions, have been promised those pensions and now are being told to go pound sand because those pensions are being taken away due to no fault of their own, are idiots?
The last time the wealthy elite in the West uttered the words "let them eat cake" it didn't turn out too well for the elite. This is the West, and while a good many people outside of the top 1% are still doing well, it is the first time since the dawn of the 20th century when there are more people who are heading down the economic ladder as opposed to going up it. That is unacceptable...
I would cut the wealthy elite some slack if they were creating jobs other than in Asia. But they're not. And that is at the root of our problems. No amount of additional tax breaks, or business friendly deregulation, will make them start creating those jobs. So you are against that "single-aim pressure group" who want job creation for workers desperate for jobs which the elite refuse to create?
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