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The New Gilded Age: A bigger con job than the first oneInequality has reached 19th-century levels but that era had a dynamism and optimism that ours can only fake
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rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)"and cram our oddly shaped packages under the seat." I think I'd better just let that go.
eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)The only "charities" they give to are political foundations which lobby to help them pay fewer taxes and protect them from the law.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)The Koch's, especially, seem to be on a mission to turn the US into a third world country
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Surely they must be aware that this cannot end well for us or them. Maybe not.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)They don't anymore. They horde their cash.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)but pot was also legal then, the article implied that legality in a few areas is an improvement, when actually it is illegal in most places now and was not illegal here until someone wanted to fund a new agency in our relatively recent past.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Also keeping pot on the black market keeps the price artificially high. Someone higher up the food chain profits from that. Maybe the CIA as has been rumored.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Then I could swear they open up just enough jobs to keep the rest of us from revolting. Notice how the jobs, crappy as they may be, are opening up a bit recently, after the grumbling of the rest of us is beginning to get louder? And if the wealthy don't like my conspiracy theory, too bad. If they get to take credit for "job creation," then they also get to take the blame if the jobs are not there or are of poor quality. They can't have it both ways.
Someone has to do their crap work and that someone is us. And a lot of US are getting damn sick of it. "Job creation" is not a great thing if those jobs "created" are stressful, low paying, dead-ends.