Dr Kynes
Well-Known Member
of course the gap between rich and poor grows and grows, IT ALWAYS HASHonestly I don't think it's a matter of not giving the government enough money...they are getting more than enough. More so balancing things out so they can't suck all the money out of the economy and funnel it to the top 1%. People can use terms like "redistribution of wealth" and "socialism", whatever, but no one can deny the fact that the gap between poor and rich just grows and grows, and countries that used to have people leaving by the boatload to come to America in search of that dream - that golden middle class - now have a stronger middle class than us. I obviously don't have the solution, and I really don't think anyone does. Pretty sure we're already dug in too deep to climb back out. Fuck the top 1% paying their fair share to the government - they need to re-invest that wealth into our communities without government involved at all.
money accumulates more money, property accumulates more property, and power accumulates more power.
fortunately, the capitalist system has it's own balancing forces: Consumerism
for poor people, Consumerism simply increases their poverty, as they spend more on bullshit instead of saving
for rich people, consumerism drives the old adage "What the Father Creates The Children Destroy"
people like Paris Hilton are a fine example.
she produces nothing, she does not increase her wealth, she only spends, and spends and spends, until eventually the massive pile of money she was born to will be gone, and her kids will become the next generation of ignorant poor dole recipients
does anyone believe Paris will be a benefit to her kids' education?
the bitch dropped out of high school to pursue a career in fame whoring and spreading venereal disease.
compare that bitch to the Koch Brothers.
their grandparents were poor dutch immigrants, their father was a working engineer who hit it big with an invention, the sonse have GROWN that wealth each in his own way, and their kids are NOT out fame whoring or spreading venereal diseases.
the koch clan will grow more wealthy, until eventually they spawn a Paris generation, then they will become poor again.
it has happened many times before.