The Guilded Age becomes the Glutted Age

Joe the Plumber talked a lot about the redistribution of wealth and he was right. Wealth was redistributed when George W. Bush took office and instituted his tax cuts. It's still happening ladies and gentlemen of the Tea Party and will go on until business realize they are killing the fatted cow known as the middle class.

"Today, the concentration of privately held wealth at the top is at its highest peak since 1929, the year the financial markets crashed and gave rise to the Great Depression of the 1930s. At that time, 25% of the population was out of work.

Despite our economy being mired in the deepest recession since the 1930s, people in the top 1% continue to own as much wealth as those in the bottom 90%, and education is essential to reversing this trend and constructing a strategy for recovery."~ United Fair Economy Dot Org

What are we willing to do without so millionaires can take a few more trips to Europe, build another home to visit every now and then, speculate on the market while millions struggle to keep their homes, keep their jobs, eat well, enjoy their lives.

Never before have so few taken so much from so many and resent that the little people exist. Never before have so many people been so angry that they try to destroy all efforts to help them and their families and help the very people who's policies and propaganda made them angry.

Money is being redistributed alright - Flooding up and never trickling down.

"What is the chief end of man?--to get rich. In what way?--dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must." ~ Mark Twain-1871

The excesses of the Guilded Age were best shown in the breaking of unions in a more violent way then the movement Ronald Reagan began but it is a parallel between then and now.

"The brutal depression of 1893-94 triggered some of the worst labor conflicts in the country's history, including the strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company. When George Pullman slashed wages and hiked rents in his company town, a national strike and boycott was called on all railways carrying Pullman cars. Railroad traffic ground to a halt as 260,000 workers struck, and battles with state and federal troops broke out in 26 states. The strike ultimately failed, its leaders imprisoned and many strikers blacklisted.

The labor movement lay in shambles, and would not rise again for nearly fifty years. Although workers would find new strength in the next century, they would never again pose the same broad challenge to the claims of capital."

Those who refuse to understand their history are doomed to repeat it.

Amen brother

Common Sense and common senseless

The GOP and extreme right wing puppeteers are being charlatans when they talk about President Obama lecturing, and living in an Ivory Tower as if education is a bad thing and college is a place to be indoctrinated.

Rush Limbaugh graduated from Cape Girardeau, Missouri Central High School, in 1969. Because of his parents' desire to see him attend college, he enrolled in Southeast Missouri State University but left the school after two semesters and one summer. According to his mother, "he flunked everything", and "he just didn't seem interested in anything except radio."

It isn't any wonder Rush Limbaugh resents education and makes statements like, "Now, we've all acknowledged while they are book smart, they're genuinely ignorant, devoid of common sense, real-life experience people. "

There is such a thing as smart and scheming and Rush is probably a little of both with his love on power and money far exceeding his morality and common decency.

Then there is Glen Beck.In 1996 Beck took a theology class at Yale University. The class was called "Early Christology" and it marked the extent of his post secondary education. This was followed by Beck going on a "spiritual quest" where he "sought out answers in churches and bookstores." As Beck later recounted in his books and stage performances, his first attempt at self-education involved six wide-ranging authors: Alan Dershowitz, Pope John Paul II, Adolf Hitler, Billy Graham, Carl Sagan, and Friedrich Nietzsc

Today Glen Beck lectures his followers in front of a blackboard while complaining about how President Obama acts like a professor (which he was, teaching Constitutional Law) when giving a speech.

It is Beck and Limbaugh and others that have convinced their listeners that only they know the Constitution of Common Sense and it's all smoke and mirrors.

There is no one who respects common sense more than I do but the common sense does come equally to those with an education and those without. I've known some very wise people in my lifetime who never went to a University and some really dense people with a Doctorate. I have also met some really misinformed individuals with no education and some very brilliant college professors who have a great deal of common sense and a genuine humble personality.

The most unsettling thing about Beck, Limbaugh and their followers is that while they say they want to restore the Constitution they at the same time have tried to tear down everything in the constitution except the Right to have a firearm.

They are teaching anarchy in the name of patriotism and division in the name of unity and neither is qualified to teach a dog to roll over.

Government is not the problem these people are the problem or spokesmen of a higher power with lots of money, gold and drugs.

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