As the old adage goes...

[delta777]

The rich are getting richer, only much faster than before...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/business...2z4htXMxZN5eQgg

"On average, incomes for the top 1 percent of households rose by $465,700 each, or 42.6 percent after adjusting for inflation. The incomes of the poorest fifth rose by $200, or 1.3 percent, and the middle fifth increased by $2,400 or 4.3 percent."

While i certainly don't behoove those fortunate enough to make it in the top 1%, i can't help but believe that something is amiss when there is this much disparity between the haves and the have-nots.

 

[delldude]

It looks like its a trend in the developed counties globally....also it seems to mirror alot of the conditions in early American labor history that fomented the union movement in the 1800's and 1900's.The man once again has the upper hand demanding longer hours,more overtime and such while the labor force for some strange reason finds union isn't the answer.So history is beginning to repeat itself.

 

[local 12 proud]

"A One World Government and one-unit monetary system, under permanent non-elected hereditary oligarchists who self-select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages. In this One World entity, population will be limited by restrictions on the number of children per family, diseases, wars, famines, until 1 billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population.

There will be no middle class, only rulers and the servants. All laws will be uniform under a legal system of world courts practicing the same unified code of laws, backed up by a One World Government police force and a One World unified military to enforce laws in all former countries where no national boundaries shall exist. The system will be on the basis of a welfare state; those who are obedient and subservient to the One World Government will be rewarded with the means to live; those who are rebellious will simple be starved to death or be declared outlaws, thus a target for anyone who wishes to kill them. Privately owned firearms or weapons of any kind will be prohibited."

 

[Gilding the Lily]

It looks like its a trend in the developed counties globally....also it seems to mirror alot of the conditions in early American labor history that fomented the union movement in the 1800's and 1900's.The man once again has the upper hand demanding longer hours,more overtime and such while the labor force for some strange reason finds union isn't the answer.So history is beginning to repeat itself.

And I think history has shown what happens when the "have nots" begin to realize that they grossly outnumber the "haves" and that the "haves's" wealth is based mostly upon the backs of the "have nots". Let me put it this way... the "have nots" didn't simply request from their congressperson that wealth be redistributed.

 

[delldude]

And I think history has shown what happens when the "have nots" begin to realize that they grossly outnumber the "haves" and that the "haves's" wealth is based mostly upon the backs of the "have nots". Let me put it this way... the "have nots" didn't simply request from their congressperson that wealth be redistributed.

Yes the haves take away their weapons before its too late.

But on the redistribution of wealth.....isn't that an age old liberal democrat mantra?

 

[Gilding the Lily]

Yes the haves take away their weapons before its too late.

But on the redistribution of wealth.....isn't that an age old liberal democrat mantra?

Maybe one step further... a socialist mantra.

And they cannot take everything... history has shown that as little as a pitch fork is useful.