Question by Subvertor …: Reganomics, Personal Debt, Tax cuts for the Rich, and The failing infrastructure of America?
There’s no debate regarding the pooling of wealth at the top of the American Economy.. even in a recession year we added Millionaires and Billionaires.. http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/03/millionaires-and-billionaires.html…
While the bottom 150 million Americans suffered through the toughest recession in many decades, and it ain’t over yet.
Now… I know the response to this question will be full of people in that lower 150 million defending the “right” of the .98% of the population to make as much money as they can.. but here is the thing.
We are failing as a nation… we’ve always had poor, we’ve always had crazy military spending, but now we are falling apart at the seams.
Visit any DMV, and see the rot, both human and architecturally.
Shouldn’t we go back to the pre Regan Tax levels? the Rich were still rich but there was enough to keep the country going.. Corporate welfare and deregulation have led to a bloodletting of the middle class and it’s job base.. while multi national conglomerates calling themselves “American Corporations” employ communist Chinese and Socialist central and South American workers at our expense.. we suffer and lose more and more of our way of life by the day.
This isn’t capitalism, it’s Theft!
Agree/Disagree ?
No I don’t want to punish the rich at all.. and that bottom 150 million are actually about 82% of them working poor, many with multiple jobs. In Fact our manufacturing base has been eviscerated for corporate profit by way of “Cheap labor” regardless of what minimum wage is our cost of living is not adjusted at all.. so in fact our Minimum is a pittance against what it actually costs to survive. Wages have flat lined for the majority of the working and less skilled population. Even taking into consideration the 35 million or so illegal immigrants we are at a standstill with wages
ES,… that is total BS… the Poor were not way way worse off.. and you focused your entire rant on the irresponsible poor.. when I’m talking about the working poor.. or the “ex” Middle class.
You see this is the biggest challenge in our nation. People like you have bought the lie that Big Industry gives back.. when in fact they take and they take until there’s nothing left and then they move on and take some where else.
Doubt that ? Go to Flint Michigan or Cleveland, Syracuse, Scranton etcetcetc… Places where Americas hard working enjoyed the rewards of their hard work, only to have it yanked away from them by greedy profiteering corporations …
sorry but it’s not “United Corporations Of America”
Best answer:
Answer by White Bear
I will agree lets give it a go what we are doing right now is not working.
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