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A More Equitable Distribution of the Wealth?

Last week, I noticed a Gallup Poll that stated that “More Americans Want a More Equal Distribution of the Wealth” I have been ruminating over this poll and finally I felt that something must be said in reference to what American’s want. First, wishes for a more equitable distribution of the wealth will continue to be just that until America’s shrinking middle class wake the hell up and stop buying that bullshit cool aid that says, “work hard, play the game right, stay out of trouble, and you can make it” Yeah right, just what the hell is “it”? Moreover; America’s middle classes and below are currently in self-destruct mode, that is; notice the growth of so-called “right-to-work” law states. This is the destruction of American unions which, as history informs, is mainly responsible for the rise of America’s middle class, from the early days of violent demonstrations and protests for wages, benefits and the like into the 1970s when the wages of middle class America begin the long decline. America’s middle and lower classes have begun to realize that they are, and have been, getting royally screwed, BUT folks, guess what, there is little they can do about it. They are at the mercy at the owners of the means of production, which, in the name of lowering costs, and increasing profits, they have sent most of the former middle and lower class jobs–off shore. America should have seen this coming when former Rust Belt employers decided to move their plants into the “right-to-work states of America’s south. And no, stop crying about the various trade agreements. Employers, for you capitalists, made the decisions to off shore your jobs because in the “cost-effective” calculus, LABOR is the greatest costs of doing business, even with the invasion of low waged immigrants doing America’s labor. Moreover; here’s a news flash for America’s currently unemployed middle class