It's the OVERCLASS, not the underclass that is REALLY draining our pockets, yet that slips right by typical Joe American Citizen while he is busy complaining because we have shelters to house and food stamps to feed people instead of letting them starve to death on the street like is done in the wonderful third world (India, Brazil, anyone?).
The fact is, that since 1979, the share of pre-tax income going to the TOP 1% of American households has risen by 7 percentage points to 16%. At that same time, the share of income going to the bottom 80% has fallen by 7 percentage points. This is as if every household in the bottom 80% is writing a check for $7,000 every year and sending it to the top 1%. It is what Paul Krugman calls "The New Gilded Age." The return of the Robber Barons. If you look back to that time, you will see life was pretty cruddy for the majority of Americans (aka the "non-rich" or "everyone else"). It is getting more and more like that now, isn't it? You and I who are middle class see less and less of the fruits of our labor, while upper corporate executives literally live like rock stars and royalty.
People love to complain about the chronic poor (aka the underclass) who rely on entitlements, as "dragging down the middle class." That is not so. It is actually the "overclass" that is dragging us down and accumulating more of the country's wealth than the underclass could ever hope to get their hands on. Although this may look like this is turning into a socialist or communist rant, it is not. That is not what I would consider a solution. However, something needs to be done in this country for the rest of us when the rules (corporate rights, tax status, voodoo economics, etc.) are all bent in favor of draining us financially for the benefit of the overclass.
The top 1% of the wealthy elites are LAUGHING AT YOU for being so vapid as not to notice what they are up to while you complain about the "unemployable." You have fallen right into their hands once again.
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/655585-what-should-america-do-about-unemployable-3.html#ixzz0vBcZ07p2
