Reply #16: Yes, it has been going on for centuries in the South, but today

[Cal33]

corporations are doing this not only in our country, but also worldwide.
Rupert Murdoch tried to buy his way into Britain and Canada, and was
rejected by both. Corporations are the worse of the two, and so are
more dangerous.

I don't think the middle-classes are useless. The word also means different
things to different people. I think of anyone earning less than $200,000/yr
as middle-class. This would include scientists, engineers...and other skilled
workers (at least in the first 10 to 20 years of their working lives). They
are the ones who come out with new ideas and inventions. The unskilled ones
are those who produce goods in factories, or services in various forms.

The super-rich people produce neither goods nor services. What they do can
generally be described as to MANIPULATE MONEY, generally in the direction of
their own pockets. They are the PARASITES who produce nothing useful, yet they
think of themselves as being superior to others, and have convinced themselves
that they are entitled to all the benefits, without having to do any work.
These are the sickos.