Economic Elite Have Engineered an Extraordinary Coup Threatening Existence of Middle Class: DeGraw

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The Economic Elite Have Engineered an Extraordinary Coup, Threatening the Very Existence of the Middle Class

Amped Status / By David DeGraw
February 15, 2010

http://www.alternet.org/economy/145667/the_economic_elite_have_engineered_an_extraordinary_coup%2C_threatening_the_very_existence_of_the_middle_class

The economic elite have robbed us all. The amount of suffering in the United States of America is literally a crime against humanity.

...It has now become evident to a critical mass that the Republican and Democratic parties, along with all three branches of our government, have been bought off by a well-organized Economic Elite who are tactically destroying our way of life. The harsh truth is that 99 percent of the U.S. population no longer has political representation. The U.S. economy, government and tax system is now blatantly rigged against us.

Current statistical societal indicators clearly demonstrate that a strategic attack has been launched and an analysis of current governmental policies prove that conditions for 99 percent of Americans will continue to deteriorate. The Economic Elite have engineered a financial coup and have brought war to our doorstep...and make no mistake, they have launched a war to eliminate the U.S. middle class....

Casualties of Economic Terrorism, Surveying the Damage

The devastating numbers across-the-board on the economic front are staggering. I'll go through some of them here, many we have already become all too familiar with. We hear some of these numbers all the time, so much so that it appears as if we have already begun "to normalize the unthinkable." You may be sick of hearing them, but behind each number is an enormous amount of individual suffering, American lives and families who are struggling worse than they ever have.

America is the richest nation in history, yet we now have the highest poverty rate in the industrialized world with an unprecedented amount of Americans living in dire straights and over 50 million citizens already living in poverty.

....(Much more at link!)

This is Part I of David DeGraw's report, "The Economic Elite vs. People of the USA. " AlterNet will run Part II in the coming days.


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This is truly unforgivable!

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1. What middle class?

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2. Straits, not "straights."

The middle class died a long time ago.

Reagan started it with the union busting of the air traffic controllers and their supply side economics and Milton Friedman.

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3. Exactly!

K & R

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4. That was a seriously depressing article.

The prison stats were staggering. A new prison opens in America every week! ~gasp!