Oscar Levant said, "The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
In the past, the oligarchical class has always siphoned wealth away from the general public. Now, the middle class is the victim of a pincer movement from both the rich and the poor to embezzle money from the productive class.
In "Between Two Ages," by Zbigniew Brzezinski, he (a man of the left) admits to the massive resource drain of having African-Americans in the country. He said that they are basically an agrarian population plunked into the middle of a post-industrial population. They are literally centuries behind everyone else. Because they can't compete, resources have to be diverted from the productive people to support and maintain unproductive people. Brzezinski openly wondered if this constant resource drain would lead eventually to America's collapse. And this at a time when blacks were about 10% of the US population and there were no illegal aliens making the same demands upon resources. Since his book was written in 1977, the welfare class has grown immensely. At the expense of the middle class.
Erik Bromberg, in "Evolutionary Ethics" also openly wonders about the wisdom of "re-litigating the past" and diverting resources for "reparations" and things, instead of investing in the future. Instead of jet-packs and cloud cities, money and energy are re-directed to smoothing us down to a common level of mediocrity, resulting in a sort of permanent Detroit.
Not to beat up on the poor classes. The rich have historically been the biggest parasites. Not the productive rich [like Henry Ford or Thomas Edison], but the UNPRODUCTIVE rich [i.e., the aristocracy]. Through manipulation of the laws and predatory taxation, they have created a massive resource drain from the productive class to themselves. Read Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations," chapter 11 to see just how destructive the aristocracy has been to society, and how their activities created mass unemployment and mass-poverty.
One of their scams is credentialing. Unless you have a license, permit (or college degree) you're locked out of employment . . . even if you have the skills to do a job. Unless you had a guild card to be a carpenter, you were NOT ALLOWED to work as a carpenter . . . even if you had skills and people wanted to buy what you sold. They would literally send the police out to arrest you for working. Smith comments that depriving a man of the right to work is to steal his wealth, for, as he comments, "all the poor have to trade is their labor. If you deny them the use of their labor you are, in essence, robbing the poor of their wealth".
This mass (synthetic) unemployment led to lots of people without jobs or homes. So the church stepped in to feed and house them. After Henry VIII kicked the Catholic Church out of England, then the state had to step in to provide charity. Thus England's "Poor Laws" were inaugurated leading to the earliest version of what we today call the "welfare state".
But mind you: All this mass unemployment was caused by legislation. It was wholly synthetic.It was created so that a small group of men could artificially diminish the labor pool, thus driving up wages for a small number of individuals . . . while creating mass poverty for everyone else.
Oscar Levant said, "The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
In the past, the oligarchical class has always siphoned wealth away from the general public. Now, the middle class is the victim of a pincer movement from both the rich and the poor to embezzle money from the productive class.
In "Between Two Ages," by Zbigniew Brzezinski, he (a man of the left) admits to the massive resource drain of having African-Americans in the country. He said that they are basically an agrarian population plunked into the middle of a post-industrial population. They are literally centuries behind everyone else. Because they can't compete, resources have to be diverted from the productive people to support and maintain unproductive people. Brzezinski openly wondered if this constant resource drain would lead eventually to America's collapse. And this at a time when blacks were about 10% of the US population and there were no illegal aliens making the same demands upon resources. Since his book was written in 1977, the welfare class has grown immensely. At the expense of the middle class.
Erik Bromberg, in "Evolutionary Ethics" also openly wonders about the wisdom of "re-litigating the past" and diverting resources for "reparations" and things, instead of investing in the future. Instead of jet-packs and cloud cities, money and energy are re-directed to smoothing us down to a common level of mediocrity, resulting in a sort of permanent Detroit.
Not to beat up on the poor classes. The rich have historically been the biggest parasites. Not the productive rich [like Henry Ford or Thomas Edison], but the UNPRODUCTIVE rich [i.e., the aristocracy]. Through manipulation of the laws and predatory taxation, they have created a massive resource drain from the productive class to themselves. Read Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations," chapter 11 to see just how destructive the aristocracy has been to society, and how their activities created mass unemployment and mass-poverty.
One of their scams is credentialing. Unless you have a license, permit (or college degree) you're locked out of employment . . . even if you have the skills to do a job. Unless you had a guild card to be a carpenter, you were NOT ALLOWED to work as a carpenter . . . even if you had skills and people wanted to buy what you sold. They would literally send the police out to arrest you for working. Smith comments that depriving a man of the right to work is to steal his wealth, for, as he comments, "all the poor have to trade is their labor. If you deny them the use of their labor you are, in essence, robbing the poor of their wealth".
This mass (synthetic) unemployment led to lots of people without jobs or homes. So the church stepped in to feed and house them. After Henry VIII kicked the Catholic Church out of England, then the state had to step in to provide charity. Thus England's "Poor Laws" were inaugurated leading to the earliest version of what we today call the "welfare state".
But mind you: All this mass unemployment was caused by legislation. It was wholly synthetic.It was created so that a small group of men could artificially diminish the labor pool, thus driving up wages for a small number of individuals . . . while creating mass poverty for everyone else.