Reply #8: Something needs to happen soon before this country drowns under the weight of inequality.

[HughBeaumont]

In all senses of the word, the private sector and it's excuse-ridden "free market" way of doing things has FAILED us and we have to operate in the sense that it's failed us for the last time. The fact is that America can no longer survive with this predatory way of doing business. The government has to step in and put a stop to the greed. Start enacting tariffs. End these incredibly costly occupations. Not only roll back the Bewsh tax cuts NOW, but enact more taxes on the wealthy. This debt is ballooning so bad and unemployed people cannot be expected to prop it up. Stop the belief that "they'll just pass their tax onto the consumers" unless you subpoena them and make them admit in front of a camera that they'll do so.

The wealthy are never going to stop hurting us. The reason they do this is not out of love or hate for their employees, because that would imply it's personal. It's something far worse than that: it's that they simply don't CARE about our situations. They simply don't CARE that weakening employee power and continuing to hold mass firings would kill their businesses. Big deal. They'll just drive down costs even further, cut until there's nothing left to cut, import workers until most positions are filled with visa holders, and ramp up productivity on those that feel they're priviliged and HAPPY enough to HAVE a job.

When are these people going to start sharing the costs as well as the fruits?

Is it really going to take the unthinkable . . . a French Revolution Pt II . . . to make them care?

"We're all in this together!"

Er . . . except when we're not.