let us look at modern society… our current and present situation…
we have massive income inequality… in which the top 1%, roughly 500 people
owning more wealth then half the world… combined…
we have war that has dragged on in Iraq and Afghanstan that has
lasted longer then any other war in American history and a war
that has drained not millions or billions but TRILLIONS of dollars
away from American taxpayers…
We as an society have engaged in decisions that is not only reckless but
dangerous…We spend more on military budget in one year then the next 12 countries
put together spend in one years… Our medical care system is wildly out of control…
the numbers are staggering… we spend more money on medical care then the next
10 countries put together… and that is after Obamacare has improved the system…
one medical emergency and a family is at serious risk of being force into
serious economic danger… with the risk of losing one’s home to bankruptcy
and all kinds of risk like being force to spends one’s retirement fund to avoid
these catastrophes…
and yet there seems to be no understanding or awareness of
the dangers we face because of our choices and decisions…
you might claim that these items are distinct and separate
with no connections but as I have stated over and over again,
there is no such thing as a distinct and separate elements…
the choices we have made lie along political and social and
economic basis…we have politically chosen to
perpetuate dangers to ourselves because of…
and that is just another brick in the wall…
why? why would we make choices that incur such risk as continuing
a war that so drain us that it creates a danger… don’t think so?
I would suggest that a study of Athenian history in regards to
it continuing a war that so drain Athens that it destroyed Athens…
and we follow that exact same path… those who don’t know history
are doomed to repeat it as we are repeating history in this regards…
why would we make such choices as to having massive welfare to the rich
by massive tax cuts to them and nothing to the 310 million other people?
this income inequality is a very real risk to America and we don’t even
see it… so tell me, what good does it do to have such a massive income
inequality? such income inequality doesn’t help anybody, but the 1%,
and it endangers the rest of us for reasons I shall make clear in a moment…
it is claimed that such income transfer from the middle class and the working poor
to the wealthy will somehow create jobs… a lie that has been disproven again
and again and again… look at the massive tax transfer of wealthy during the
Bush Jr. years and what was the result of that? were jobs created?
did the country have a massive boom in the economy? no and no and in fact,
the country at the end of the Bush Jr. years suffer such a meltdown that
was the worst economic crisis since the great depression… so welfare to
the rich didn’t help the economy and it almost cause the complete economic
meltdown of the American society…so what is your proof that
welfare for the rich actually works? it doesn’t and the evidence is quite
clear in recent economic history… in the fact, that after every national
tax cut, the jobs market didn’t rise because of the tax cuts… other facts played
a role, but not the tax cuts…
and yet people engage in such dangerous thinking… let us carry this even further…
what do the wealthy do with their tax cuts? do they invest in the economy as
claimed? no, that much is obvious because there is no economic growth
created by such a tax cut… the wealthy simply put their tax cuts into ’
overseas tax havens like Bermuda and Luxembourg…or they buy another house
which doesn’t aid or improve the economy…
what really happens with the wealth of those 1% is that they sit in banks
and overseas tax havens and in houses that do not move…
and that is the problem with this economically… for money
to have value it must move… money must act as a fertilizer
for it to have value… if money sits somewhere, it has no value,
no way to improve people’s lives…and the wealthy simply hang
on to their wealth which damages the rest of us…
but that is just one aspect of this… after the break, we shall
further look at this…
Kropotkin