[Peace-discuss] lorenz transform, lorentz curve.

[C. G. Estabrook]

I posted this to fb with the comment ‎

"'...our entire government has been turned into a machine which takes the wealth 
of a mass of Americans and accelerates it into the hands of the few.' We should 
join the Teapartiers and ask for our money back."

--CGE

On 7/16/11 4:46 AM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" wrote:
> Kucinich sounds like Ron Paul?
>
> Published on Friday, July 15, 2011 by CommonDreams.org 
> <http://www.commondreams.org>
>
>
>     Debt Political Theater Diverts Attention While Americans' Wealth Is Stolen
>
> by Dennis Kucinich <http://www.commondreams.org/author/dennis-kucinich>
>
> The rancorous debate over the debt belies a fundamental truth of our economy 
> -- that it is run for the few at the expense of the many, that our entire 
> government has been turned into a machine which takes the wealth of a mass of 
> Americans and accelerates it into the hands of the few. Let me give you some 
> examples.
>
> Take war. War takes the money from the American people and puts it into the 
> hands of arms manufacturers, war profiteers, and private armies. The war in 
> Iraq, based on lies: $3 trillion will be the cost of that war. The war in 
> Afghanistan; based on a misreading of history; half a trillion dollars in 
> expenses already. The war against Libya will be $1 billion by September.
>
> Fifty percent of our discretionary spending goes for the Pentagon. A massive 
> transfer of wealth into the hands of a few while the American people lack 
> sufficient jobs, health care, housing, retirement security.
>
> Our energy policies take the wealth from the American people and put it into 
> the hands of the oil companies. We could be looking at $150 a barrel for oil 
> in the near future.
>
> Our environmental policy takes the wealth of the people -- clean air, clean 
> water -- and puts it in the hands of the polluters. It's a transfer of wealth, 
> not only from the present but from future generations as our environment is 
> ruined.
>
> Insurance companies, what do they do? They take the wealth from the American 
> people in terms of what they charge people for health insurance and they put 
> it into the hands of the few.
>
> We have to realize what this country's economy has become. Our monetary 
> policy, through the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, privatized the money supply, 
> gathers the wealth, puts it in the hands of the few while the Federal Reserve 
> can create money out of nothing, give it to banks to park at the Fed while our 
> small businesses are starving for capital.
>
> Mark my words -- Wall Street cashes in whether we have a default or not. And 
> the same type of thinking that created billions in bailouts for Wall Street 
> and more than $1 trillion in giveaways by the Federal Reserve today leaves 26 
> million Americans either underemployed or unemployed. And nine out of ten 
> Americans over the age of 65 are facing cuts in their Social Security in order 
> to pay for a debt which grew from tax cuts for the rich and for endless wars.
>
> There is a massive transfer of wealth from the American people to the hands of 
> a few and it's going on right now as America's eyes are misdirected to the 
> political theater of these histrionic debt negotiations, threats to shut down 
> the government, and willingness to make the most Americans pay dearly for 
> debts they did not create.
>
> These are symptoms of a government which has lost its way, and they are a 
> challenge to the legitimacy of the two-party system.
>
>
>
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