Reply #12: Our declining standard of living is as artificial as the rise in it was

[Warpy]

Even my right wing father knew that this country was great at creating wealth but terrible at distributing it fairly and he spent his working life under the New Deal, the best deal working people ever got.

He voted for an end to that New Deal, which meant that wealth was stripped away from people who worked to create it and all was lavished on a very few obscenely rich men. Of course, that has not worked out well and the new poverty is much like the old poverty was, created not by a lack of wealth but by inequitable wealth distribution.

I'm delighted to say that he didn't remain fooled by the right all his life and that his last vote was for Kerry, but it was too late.

The government will have to become terrified of the citizenry again for another New Deal to take hold. Until then, get used to poverty because that's all we're going to see more of while everything we create is robbed by the few.