Stupid is as Conservatives Vote!

Every election cycle in America some people go to the polls and vote for their lives and the lives of their families to be adversely affected. Especially since the Reagan presidency, this group has been voting in a way that has seen their real earning power drop by more than 20 percent while health care costs have skyrocketed. And a good deal of the blame for what has happened goes straight to the voters who have been duped into supporting candidates that helped to make this happen. Compared to the myriad failures of the American conservative movement there is a resounding success in the continuing effort to concentrate wealth in the hands of their constituent aristocracy.

Some numbers....
1.In 2001 the top one percent of Americans held one third (33.4%) of wealth in America, while the bottom 80 percent held around 15 percent.
2. When you look at financial wealth (money holdings) the disparity is even greater, 40 percent vs. less than 9 percent.
3.Since 2001 estimates are that the disparity has grown to the point where the top one percent now holds around half of the wealth of America.

What this means is that the top one percent holds half of what runs America, financial wealth. And the top 10 percent have almost all of it. This is the money that has so corrupted Washington that no one but the top select few are having their interests addressed in any meaningful way. That's why there is little concern coming from the powers that be concerning rising food and fuel prices. Did you know food and fuel aren't even used as components in computing the inflation rate? Why do you suppose that is?

We need a new "New Deal!"

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