Class War Driving Historic Income Inequality In The U.S (W's administration to blame)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/5728

Class War Driving Historic Income Inequality In The U.S. - 04/18/07

By Doug Cunningham

Income inequality in the U.S. is at near record levels. Dan Pedrotty, Director of the AFL-CIO’s Office of Investment, says it’s bad for society and undermines the middle class.

: “It’s driven by, I think in large part, an administration that has taken up one side in the class war and pursued it unabated. And it’s the reason we’ve seen CEO to worker pay go from 40 to 1 at the beginning of the nineteen eighties to 411 to 1 now.”

[The Magistrate]

1. People In This Country, Sir

Badly need to wake up to the reality that there is a class war, a war of the topmost few against all the rest of us....

[amandabeech]

2. This has been obvious to anyone who lived in NYC in the '80s.

It hasn't stopped and it is feeding the decline of democracy in our country.

Who is going to talk about this topic? Who will lead the charge?

Edwards is the only politician who is making any noises at all related to this topic, and the echoes are faint.

Personally, I think that leaders coming from "the rest of us" generally become sufficiently successful and dependent on the top that they refuse to rock the boat.

Any comment that you have, sir, would be most welcome.

[loudsue]

5. Wesley Clark talks about it, too. It's CRITICAL to a Democracy to have a

strong middle class. And it's CRITICAL to a superpower to have a STRONG, LAW-ABIDING central government, that supports the CITIZENS, and monitors closely the workings of corporations.

Bush and the neocons/republicans have done everything they can to undermine our economic, environmental, and mental health in this country. They HATE government...so government is no place for them.

:kick::kick::kick:

[amandabeech]

7. I'm glad that Clark is talking about it, too.

He isn't my favorite, but I respect him, and if he should get the nomination, I would not have any trouble supporting him.

Perhaps Edwards, Kucinich and Clark, if he enters the race, can get the ball rolling on this topic.

IMHO, each of the candidates should spell out where he or she stands on maintaining the middle class. The same old, same old might not cut it in '08.

[Cobalt Violet]

3. If Katrina wasn't a wake up call....

I don't know what is. I don't know just what it will finally take. It will break sometime.

[1932]

4. I listen regularly to Douglas Cunningham's Workers Indepent News podcast

which you can find at Labor Radio.

I strongly urge people who use their MP3 players to get informed to subscribe.

[MadHound]

6. This isn't new, nor the sole fault of Bushco.

The wealth and wage gap between the rich and the rest of us opened up to a record breaking chasm during the ninties, under Clinton. And it has been growing for the past thirty five years. Granted, Bushboy has exacerbated the problem, but he didn't cause it. It is caused by having a political system where both major parties are beholden to corporate interests.

[Disturbed]

8. This situation began in earnest with Raygun's Voodoo Econ.

Remember "The Trickle Down Theory"?