That's Not Raindrops on Your Heads, Folks!

Trickle Down Effect: Stack the top and eventually some will "trickle down" to the bottom.
This works well for waterfalls, not so much for economics.

Problem: Nothing is "trickling down". Pretty much everything is still at the top.
(Statistics verify this "phenomenon". Conclude trickle down doesn't work.)
Most Republican politicians still favor this plan and many Democrats, too.
Poor people of both parties end up voting against their own best interests, sadly.
(Usually, to keep other people from doing what we think is wrong. But, you can't legislate morality. I'm sorry, but it doesn't work. We don't have a shared morality. If we did, we wouldn't be fighting amongst ourselves, would we?)


      Now, I am not a Socialist that wants everyone to have everything exactly the same.(Sorry about the bad word there, folks.)  But, I am a Progressive that doesn't believe in making the same mistakes over and over and expecting a different outcome.
Doing what has been shown to fail, time and time again, is the actual definition of insanity!
 Change is hard for everyone, but we've tried insanity and it doesn't work.
 
      I've looked at Statistics and wealth distribution is getting REALLY skewed in favor of a very few.

     I am not Robin Hood. I don't want to steal from the rich to give to the poor. But, making sure that those with all of the money do the right thing and pay their employees what they are worth, instead of KEEPING all of the money, isn't Socialism, it is doing the right thing.

     Capitalism is a wonderful thing. However, when a very few people or families ACTUALLY DO have control of the jobs, salaries, influence lawmakers that raise (or don't raise) minimum wage, unduly influences the Judiciary, lives well off of the money of lobbyists backed by major corporations, media OWNED by about 6 people or corporations(literally owned, folks. Do the research yourself. Google Australian Media Millionaire and read a little bit.)...well, you get my meaning. It will mean more to you if you do the research yourself.

    Nobody wants a class war, well, nobody sane wants one. However, I believe it will come to that when more citizens start realizing that all they have is strength in numbers. Because times are so hard right now, a lot of people have started looking at Unions as the bad guys. While I agree that sometimes Union demands are off of the grid, Unions are our last defense against greedy Corporate owners that hold all of the power over us. (Owners' money versus workers' numbers.)

    Remember, the richest 10% have the majority of the money and money equals POWER.
The only thing the other 90% have, that is us, is strength in numbers. That also equals power, but we squander our power by bickering amongst ourselves. It makes us weak. It makes us stupid and intolerant of others.
It makes us sheep.




http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/class_domination.html

You Can't Have Everything; Where Would You Put it?

Get this, folks;

"The top 1 percent incomes (the Super-Rich) captured HALF of all (profit) economic growth over the period 1993-2007," "...while the BOTTOM 99% of incomes (households) grew at a solid pace of 2.7 percent per year from 1993-2000, these incomes grew ONLY 1.3% per year from 2002-2007.

As a result, in the economic expansion of 2002-2007, the TOP 1% captured 2/3 of ALL income growth(PROFIT)."

All that gobbledy gook just says that we made LESS profit and the very rich made many X's MORE.

Doesn't that seem kinda WRONG to you?

Isn't the money (profits) supposed to, you know, TRICKLE DOWN at some point?

There comes a point where Capitalism and Socialism need to learn how to get along. Somewhere in the middle. Yes, it is the American Dream to get rich, marry well, be famous; have the perfect life.But, these days; even working very hard won't make you rich. The deck is already stacked against you.

And let's just say it; monopolies aren't doing We the People any favors.

More and more consolidation of companies and it ends up with little/no choices for the consumer. Not to mention the workers.

That's most ALL of us, folks!

Between the huge conglomerates of Insurance Companies, Banks consolidating, Telecom Companies buying each other out, Stores doing the same thing, (think Wal-Mart running the Mom and Pop stores out of business and you get my drift. )These things carry a lot of clout in our lives.

They fix the prices through buying up the competition.And that clout is not being used for OUR best advantage; you can lay money on that. In fact, you are already laying your money on that.

And the OWNERS of these companies are making outrageous amounts of money.

The President of the United States gets paid $400,000, a year; it makes me wonder why so many CEOs are worth so much more than he is ; the leader of our entire country.

So yeah, it is outrageous to me that when times are tough and the working poor are the first to get laid off or fired while, at the same time, the Owners/CEOs/stockholders are each getting millions of $$ in salary, benefits packages and company profits: it's just obscene!

Moral of this story:

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There is NOTHING wrong with people making A LOT of money.

But, they CAN'T be allowed to make (and keep) ALL of the money.

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Sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/14/income-inequality-is-at-a_n_259516.html

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/Uncategorised_g43-Bad_Times_p2779.html

http://www.pnhp.org/publications/united_states_national_health_care_act_hr_676.php

All opinions are completely mine.