http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.htmltop 1% holds 6 Times that of the bottom 80% who hold only 7% of financial wealth, so the top 20% holds 93%.. of all the Financial wealth of America.. they didn't get it honestly. Buffet only pays 14% income tax, Gates pays what a family making $80,000 does.. and the Bu$h43 tax cut only benefits the top 2.5% richest not mom & pop.
http://feedingamerica.org/faces-of-hunger/hunger-101.aspx"...20% or more of the child population in 16 states and D.C. are living in food insecure households. The states of Arkansas (24.4 percent) and Texas (24.3 percent) have the highest rates of children in households without consistent access to food. (Cook, John, Child Food Insecurity in the United States: 2006-2008. iii..."
the Psychotic Obsessive Compulsive Hording of wealth in this country should be declared a threat to National Security.
all speculation on Strategic commodities, food, fuel, health care, etc should be forbidden.
all windfall profits in the stock market should be taxed just like the under classes winning the lottery.. immediately and no deductions.
the ReThuglicans have been taken over by the Dominionists.. they believe that Wealth is proof of gods favor of a man, therefore it is a SIN to tax a rich man/corporation, like wise Poverty is proof of gods Dis-Favor/punishment of a man, so it is a SIN to help them.
http://doggo.tripod.com/doggchrisdomin.html "...Leo Strauss was born in 1899 and died in 1973. ... He is most famous for resuscitating Machiavelli and introducing his principles as the guiding philosophy of the neo-conservative movement. ... More than any other man, Strauss breathed upon conservatism, inspiring it to rise from its atrophied condition and its natural dislike of change and to embrace an unbounded new political ideology that rides on the back of a revolutionary steed, hailing even radical change; hence the name Neo-Conservatives.
Significantly, Dominionism is a form of Social Darwinism.<48> It inherently includes the religious belief that wealth-power is a sign of God’s election. That is, out of the masses of people and the multitude of nations, wealth, in and of itself, is thought to indicate God’s approval on men and nations whereas poverty and sickness reflect God’s disapproval.
(It was not until I read this article that I realized that this is a fundamental tenet of Dominionists.
Worldly wealth and power are signs of God's favor -- to attempt to limit or decrease one's wealth and power is to disrespect God.
On the contrary, God's elect on Earth are called upon to increase their wealth and power.
It is not sufficient for a man to be a millionaire, or for a country to have sovereignty within its borders -- a man must strive to increase his wealth as much as possible, and a Dominionist government's behavior toward its neighbors must be "invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity".
Furthermore, any attempt to decrease a person's or a country's wealth and power -- to take from the rich to give to the poor, to reduce military spending and power -- is a direct attack on God.) ..."
..it is really scarry how mant Supreme Court Justices studied under Straus..
http://blog.buzzflash.com/hartmann/10016 "...Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month Review
How is it, some have wondered, that the Republican Party has been taken over by a relatively small band of radical ideologues who don't believe in democracy or honesty or any specific religion, but relentlessly flog the language of "freedom," "honor," and Christianity? How is it that people who run the government into deficit can campaign on fiscal responsibility? Or that people who campaign on a "pro life" position can be responsible for lying us into a war that has killed well over 100,000 human beings, nakedly advocate torture, and openly promote the death penalty in American?..."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5010.htm "...The effect of Strauss’s teaching is to convince his acolytes that they are the natural ruling elite and the persecuted few. And it does not take much intelligence for them to surmise that they are in a situation of great danger, especially in a world devoted to the modern ideas of equal rights and freedoms. Now more than ever, the wise few must proceed cautiously and with circumspection. So, they come to the conclusion that they have a moral justification to lie in order to avoid persecution. Strauss goes so far as to say that dissembling and deception – in effect, a culture of lies – is the peculiar justice of the wise..."
There are dark days ahead for all americans that live in the bottom 80% wealth zone.. we are just a profitable pool of slaves.. to make the mentally ill OCD rich richer..
the GOP are just soldiers for the Elite Oligarchy... who arent the rich... they are the Diciples of Leo Straus, Milton Friedman and Niccolò Machiavelli:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli Machiavelli is the only political thinker whose name has come into common use for designating a kind of politics, which exists and will continue to exist independently of his influence, a politics guided exclusively by considerations of expediency, which uses all means, fair or foul, iron or poison, for achieving its ends - its end being the aggrandizement of one's country or fatherland - but also using the fatherland in the service of the self-aggrandizement of the politician or statesman or one's party.
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