The United States of... Class War, Inequality, and Poverty
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/28-1
New economic data obtained and analyzed by the Associated Press appears to show that when billionaire financier Warren Buffett says, “There’s class warfare, all right.. and we’re winning," he knows what he's talking about.
According to the report by AP, four out of every five American adults will "struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives" revealing the strained fabric of a national economy which once saw the meteoric rise of the middle class returned to a state where increasing inequality is the norm and class tensions—though often muted for popular discussion—is undermining the prospects for tens of millions.
The resulting analysis of the numbers by AP points to an "increasingly globalized U.S. economy"—in which companies search the globe for low wages, minimized regulation, and corporate-friendly tax rates—as the main driver of the "widening gap between rich and poor" and the destruction of the manufacturing base that historians and economists credit for previous and more widely shared prosperity.
Responding to the survey, William Julius Wilson, a Harvard professor who specializes in race and poverty, told AP: "It's time that America comes to understand that many of the nation's biggest disparities, from education and life expectancy to poverty, are increasingly due to economic class position."
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I wrote this during the last election and it is now obvious to all:
•Rapid economic growth generated vast wealth during the Gilded Age
•New products and technologies improved middle-class quality of life
•Industrial workers and farmers did not share in the new prosperity, working long hours in dangerous conditions for low pay
•Gilded Age politicians were largely corrupt and ineffective
•Most Americans during the Gilded Age wanted political and social reforms, but they disagreed strongly on what kind of reform
now consider: Mitt romney " Corporations are people"
Newt Gingrich "do away with union janitors and have the children clean"
Herman Cain " If you don't have a job blame yourself"
Michelle Bauchman " If you don't work you don't eat"
The republican and tea party want " tax cuts for the wealthy"
"The elimination of all Social Programs and Regulation on wall street"
" The elimination of all pollution and worker safety laws"
" The end of unions and collective bargaining"
If these people get their way, kiss your butt goodbye, like it or not this is what we are facing if we don't fight OCCUPY, EDUCATE , VOTE
ThThThats All Folks 
