Reply #162: Rich people are parasites

[murdoch]

This society is so dominated by the rich, even the language is. It is like 1984, we are talking in the language they give us to use.

A better word I think is that old word rentiers. Those who live off of rent, usury and profit.

As Murray Kempton once said - there are two kinds of people - those who work and those who own property.

I think the problem is in most of the political and economic discussion is BS on corporate television, in newspapers etc. Even on this website, we are required by the rules to support the Democratic party at all times in our posts. Unlike even Free Republic, which supports an ideology (conservatism), not a slavish devotion to a party no matter what ideological turns it takes. Even Daily Kos endorsed a (liberal) Republican recently.

Wealth is created by those who work. Rentiers are those who live off the wealth of others. People work at Hilton hotels and create wealth. Then they hand that money off to rich heirs like Paris Hilton, who use it to repress them, as well as to live self-indulgent, extravagant lifestyles. Which are the model of our culture. Because these parasites control the culture.

This is very basic, and has been well understood by the world labor movement since the nineteenth century. Although the US really doesn't have a labor movement - less than 10% of private jobs are unionized. And US labor movements have never really been in international labor confederations like other unions around the world. How could the AFL-CIO be in them as it supported the Vietnam war? I witnessed a large labor union organized pro-Iraq war rally in New York City in 2003. Which was an echo of one the same union confederation organized decades ago to support the war in Vietnam. Recently the AFL-CIO has been working with the NED to undermine the PSUV in Venezuela. So its understandable why the most basic points of the labor debate are completely unknown to most of the laborers in the US.