"Bread And Circuses" Worked In Roman Times & Still Works Today - Nothing Has Changed [View all]

[TheMastersNemesis]

All this cultural clap trap is important to a point and as far as it goes but masks the decline of the US in so many ways. And all the sports and reality shows are more circus that distracts from real issues like the trashed job market and falling wages. And while all of this legerdemain goes on unions and labor attacks continue in earnest.

Sure there are jobs, but they "ain't was they used to be" as the saying goes. Since Reagan most jobs have no job security, pay is much less, and for the most part only very few jobs have any long term future. Careers with upward mobility are practically extinct. Want a raise or want to move up. Find a job with another company. Move on or move out before you are forcibly unemployed. The new job market will be a series of short careers that the worker pays for with retraining every couple of years. Retirement forget it, unless you can make enough to save enough to buy a home, raise a family, and pay your bills and still have enough left over for a 401k that will likely crash just before you can leave the world of work.

The American worker has bought an economic lemon sold by Saint Reagan and the GOP for over 30 years. It is strange that "trickle down" economics is really "tinkle down" economics and looks yellow. And voters kept the GOP in with enough power to deliver this economic "turkey".

And it will only get worse as time goes on because the "Reagan revolution" has really succeeded in delivering a "service economy" which will itself be outsourced. And the "bread and circuses" continues as the plight of the worker class gets worse by the day.

Forget the econ numbers they are no more than a mirage. The real numbers are in your paltry paycheck. And it is not because of too many taxes, it is because of too much CEO pay and too much excess profit.