This article may hold some clues as to what is blocking the path to
common sense.
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A Little Poverty Never Hurt Anybody By Jason Miller
Excerpts:
Wage slaves and sweat shop laborers have supplanted serfs and chattel
slaves. Five major corporations comprise 90% of the mass media in the
United States. What are their specialties? Shaping public opinion to
maintain the illusion that one of the world’s most rapacious and
bellicose nations is a “benevolent superpower” and enticing those who
fall prey to their charms to experience a virtually insatiable desire
to acquire more material possessions. A brain-washed complacent
citizenry perpetually ready to go on a buying binge is a wet dream for
the ruling elite. [...]
Combining the gross domestic products of the 48 poorest nations
(representing 25% of global population) yields a figure that is less
than the wealth of the three richest people in the world. [...]
In terms of types of financial wealth, the top 1 percent of households
have 44.1% of all privately held stock, 58.0% of financial securities,
and 57.3% of business equity. The top 10% have 85% to 90% of stock,
bonds, trust funds, and business equity, and over 75% of non-home real
estate. Since financial wealth is what counts as far as the control of
income-producing assets, we can say that just 10% of the people own the
United States of America.”
see full article at:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14664.htm
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Walt
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with
the rich is uselessness.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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