Raygun was batting clean up. It was Nixon that enabled those at the top to increase their pay manifold while holding pay to the workforce flat. Normalising relations with the Chinese was not about rapprochement or deescalating the cold war. It was a means to exploit a ripe populace that would do the same work for pennies on the dollar, under a government which had no use for environmental protections.
The great patriots that owned the means of production closed factories here, then saved on lobbying costs fighting regulation of pollution. Pass laws, who cares when we are moving the caustic to a totalitarian state? End result was that manufacturing has gone from employing 26% of the American workforce in 1970 to 8% today; if you believe the modern number. That is a loss of 66% of jobs in that sector. All so that the exclusive could get truly and filthy rich.
In a law and order following country, those who planned, fomented and achieved the gutting of our manufacturing base, should be considered indictable for treason. If only we lived in a law and order society.
George Orwell once described his family of origin as ‘lower-upper middle class’ There are just two: the 1% and the rest. Warren Buffett: ‘there’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.’ Consider, the top 0.1 percent of American households hold the same amount of wealth as the bottom 90 percent and (pre-covid) every 38 seconds a U.S. citizen dies of poverty and poverty-related social conditions. ‘The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor’ –Victor Hugo.
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Raygun was batting clean up. It was Nixon that enabled those at the top to increase their pay manifold while holding pay to the workforce flat. Normalising relations with the Chinese was not about rapprochement or deescalating the cold war. It was a means to exploit a ripe populace that would do the same work for pennies on the dollar, under a government which had no use for environmental protections.
The great patriots that owned the means of production closed factories here, then saved on lobbying costs fighting regulation of pollution. Pass laws, who cares when we are moving the caustic to a totalitarian state? End result was that manufacturing has gone from employing 26% of the American workforce in 1970 to 8% today; if you believe the modern number. That is a loss of 66% of jobs in that sector. All so that the exclusive could get truly and filthy rich.
In a law and order following country, those who planned, fomented and achieved the gutting of our manufacturing base, should be considered indictable for treason. If only we lived in a law and order society.
George Orwell once described his family of origin as ‘lower-upper middle class’ There are just two: the 1% and the rest. Warren Buffett: ‘there’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.’ Consider, the top 0.1 percent of American households hold the same amount of wealth as the bottom 90 percent and (pre-covid) every 38 seconds a U.S. citizen dies of poverty and poverty-related social conditions. ‘The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor’ –Victor Hugo.
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