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applegrove

(118,683 posts)
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 10:13 PM Jun 2013

Big Lie: America Doesn't Have #1 Richest Middle-Class in the World... We're Ranked 27th!

Big Lie: America Doesn't Have #1 Richest Middle-Class in the World... We're Ranked 27th!

by Les Leopold at Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/big-lie-america-doesnt-ha_b_3516185.html

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America is the richest country on Earth. We have the most millionaires, the most billionaires and our wealthiest citizens have garnered more of the planet's riches than any other group in the world. We even have hedge fund managers who make in one hour as much as the average family makes in 21 years!

This opulence is supposed to trickle down to the rest of us, improving the lives of everyday Americans. At least that's what free-market cheerleaders repeatedly promise us.

Unfortunately, it's a lie, one of the biggest ever perpetrated on the American people.

Our middle class is falling further and further behind in comparison to the rest of the world. We keep hearing that America is number one. Well, when it comes to middle-class wealth, we're number 27.



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Big Lie: America Doesn't Have #1 Richest Middle-Class in the World... We're Ranked 27th! (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2013 OP
Exactly! Newest Reality Jun 2013 #1

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Exactly!
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 10:49 PM
Jun 2013

That's the revelation of the PR sell that most people are content to accept as real and it is both an economic whip and a carrot before the servile, subservient horse.

Nobody really should consider themselves as free human beings with choice and real control over their lives until they see deeply into the whole game of how you manipulate millions and billions of people and manufacture their consent to be wage slaves and, eventually, Serfs in a world where the Lords long to return to their previous status in FULL force, as opposed to the total lie of a facade that offers an idealism where you will get some reward, (like heaven or hell) in some future time IF ONLY you will play our game long enough and DO IT JUST RIGHT.

That never has or will manifest for you or your kin unless you already have a trust or a stake in the game of those who have followed the great Saint of Manipulation, (Freud's Nephew) Bernays who initiated the science and means to use bullshit in place of guns and gallows to get you all to do what you are supposed to do and follow along this path to the loss of everything you value or are or is sustainable, just to give a small proportion of our population a way to get "off" on our subservient compliance to their total oneupmanship.

We could easily turn this around and they really do know that. We have to start by stopping our buying-in to the fetishism about life and being alive. They KNOW this and they will always use it against us while the do not hasten, ever, to kill and blow-up anyone who gets in their way. Just how can you, a rational and felling being, rationalize that? They make more and more sophisticated weapons while you do their bidding or allow this to go on because you are afraid that you, or those you love, might die? We are ALL going to die, some sooner than others and FREEDOM is in the balance and that is the currency and they only win when we cannot get to the place in our own minds and lives about recognizing how many have already died, some quite horribly, due to this "non-negotiable" American way of life that only equals blind and ignorant kowtow to being steered into a dead-end for everyone when you extrapolate the results.

The rich lose. The poor lose more. The middle class become totally extinct because the controllers psychopathically only want the controlled and will eventually eliminate the willing and often ignorant middle-man.

Why play an unwitting part in that when you can put your life into it and maybe, even, on the line as thousands have done, over and over again, because, essentially, they intuited the very nature of this game we are in and THEY actually gave a flying fuck about what their children and future generations would inherit, more so then people today are concerned about their Internet access and the next upgrade to their chain ... I mean device ... to the self-perpetuating simulation that is the modern machine of subservient consumption as the way of life and its meaning.

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