Why Customers Are Disappearing, Why Higher Unemployment Is the Likely Result, and Why Many in Washington Don't Have Half a Brain

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Creatures like the kochs don't really care very much about tax rates. Public whining about that is just propaganda that claims the rich are abused, precious resources.



They care about being able to decide who pays what, who deserves to make any money, and who deserves help. In short, they care only about power.



- When you have the power to control Congress, you have the power to control your taxes.

- When you have the power to control Congress, you control those who police you.

- When you have the power to air your side of any issue to the masses and the power to restrict dissemination of contradictory messages, you have the power to get away with murder.

- When you have the power to wage war against other nations in order to help gain control of raw materials like oil and minerals, you can do almost anything you want.



Power is what they want. And as many, many nations in the world can clearly demonstrate, the more you concentrate wealth and its ability to feed, heal/kill, and manipulate the masses, the more entrenched the rich become and the more devastatingly impoverished the citizens become.



I wish we had someone in the White House who could sound the alarm and fight the fight, but, alas, all we have is the negotiator - the man who created and unleashed the ever-rolling train wreck that is simpson-bowles... the drum major for austerity
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