(Written by an American expat living in the European Union).
Please ask yourself throughout the history of Western societies how many millions have been put hungry into the food stamp lines? Doesn't that beg the question who are the real mobsters, is it the spirited youth rampage in London? Or is it the mob rule by the plutocracy. Which causes more economic devastation, who are the real criminals? To be clear violence in any form should never be condoned, nor should what I as an MBA call the lawful economic violence of the plutocracy be condoned which is devastating the American working class, and literally filling up the breadlines with millions of hungry desperate people not knowing the way out. When the robber baron plutocracy continues through America's de-industrialization, job shifting to developing nations to garner cheaper labor costs, they create a low wage service economy in America which in turn creates hunger. The chart below attests to 46 million Americans on food stamps, which is a new record for hunger in America caused by the criminal robber baron plutocracy.
The good people are shocked and dismayed at the mob rule in London and quite rightly so we should never condone violence. But those same good people are perfectly happy to embrace the plutocratic mob rule in Washington DC, wherein the banksters and other plutocratic mobsters whitewashed criminal enterprise is getting ready to economically devastate working Americans again with a coming second bailout according to Germany's Spiegel magazine. The American plutocrat owned media's owners won't let America's so called free press report on that. But the mayhem the devastation in the lives of American people on America's main streets imposed by the Wall St banksters is just as glaring and even far more devastating than any mob of misguided spirited youths could ever produce in terms of putting by some estimate a quarter of all American mortgages underwater. In fact the Wall St banksters by any estimate by the trillions stole from you, in fact stole more money than all the bank robberies in the history of America combined, and still not a single Wall Street bankster is in jail, but God help these misguided spirited youths on the streets of London, because they must be hunted down as if they were war criminals. To be clear no one should ever condone violence, but by the same token why the hell doesn't the craven plutocrat owned media speak out just as forcefully against the mob rule of the plutocracy and the economic violence perpetrated by de-industrialization on a scale never seen before in human history, to where the only workers that can compete in the Western world against the 20 cent an hour wages paid in Bangladesh to the American prison labor industry are incarcerated youths for the most part working in prison labor industries in America.
According to the United Nations, the United States now has the highest level of income inequality of all of the highly industrialized nations.
http://endoftheamericandream.com/...
If we are going to be horribly outraged in a sanctimonious holier than thou fashion, let's point the finger at American cities that through de-industrialization have been so brutalized with such economic violence that it looks like the place was carpet bombed. If you don't believe that look at Michael Moore's home city of Flint, Michigan. It looks like huge swathes of devastation rampaged through the city. People's lives quietly destroyed, where the hell are the media's cameras in Flint, Michigan? The answer is they are no where to be found, either nationally or internationally, that is why Michael Moore was successful at making documentary films about this issue, so that the I give a shit good people who prefer to quietly dwell in a happy place called denial, and surround themselves with happy talk from Fox news nation about American exceptionalism, while concurrently their children are being drowned in student loan debt, every 4th neighbor's home is under water.
In 1950, the United States was fifth among the leading industrialized nations with respect to female life expectancy at birth, surpassed only by Sweden, Norway, Australia, and the Netherlands. The last available measure of female life expectancy had the United States ranked at forty-sixth in the world.
As of September 23, 2010, the United States ranked forty-ninth for both male and female life expectancy combined.
http://content.healthaffairs.org/...
They're being strangled by out of control medical costs and medical bankruptcy. There are more Americans dying every year according to a late Harvard study, than died in the dozen years of the Iraq and Afghan wars combined, and no one talks about that devastation, but God help the wayward spirited youths on the streets of London for their lawlessness! While concurrently kissing the asses of the jackbooted plutocracy that is standing on their necks with measures that are so oppressive, that not even America's family farms could survive, because they too are being quietly strangled by the corporatists through corporate farming practices, being forced through perpetrated economic violence of the land, that sometimes has been in their families for generations. Where is the public outcry there?
Should this picture be entitled "The death of the American family farm dream"?
I say enough of the false airs and graces from the good people. Enough! of the conspiracy of silence. It's time to stand up, speak out and democratically make yourselves heard so loud, that we will be heard all the way to Washington, London and the other capital cities of the world, because we are mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!
We're not going to take there being 59 million people anymore in America who don't have medical insurance. We are not going to take there being 132 million people who don't have dental insurance. We are not going to stand by according to the latest Harvard study and watch 45,000 of our fellow Americans die each and every year in America simply because they do not have health insurance. It is time to stop the GOP led class warfare against America's working class. It is time to stop tolerating 60 million Americans who don't have paid sick leave. It is time to stop tolerating 46 million Americans living on food stamps. The American plutocrat mob rule which produces a posture wherein America is the only major industrialized nation in the world that doesn't have job protected paid maternity leave by right of law, this has to end. Why do American workers have fewer paid annual vacation days by half as do their counterparts in the European Union?
Why do we tolerate this type of economic violence against the huddled masses of the American working class, which is perpetrated on a regular basis? Why do we allow progressive politicians to be bought by the plutocracy K Street lobbyists, just as soon as we can elect them. When is it enough? How many more of your pensions have to be stolen, how many millions of mortgages have to be pushed underwater? How many more bankster led Wall street bailouts will you allow to be rammed down your throats by the plutocracy, when is it enough? When are your children through indentured labor servitude due to high college loan indebtedness going to stand up? If you won't stand up for yourselves, then stand up for America's children who are this great nation's future. How much further does America have to fall before you will stand up? Is it when medical bankruptcy becomes the leading cause of bankruptcy in America (because that's already the case). How many more years will we sit on our hands while we watch 45,000 of our fellow citizens according to that latest Harvard study die each and every year simply because they cannot afford health insurance. What say you Mr or Ms Progressive America? When have you had enough? When?
When we allow the plutocracy through job shifting to de-industrialize America, so that they can get access to low wage markets, the result is hunger in America plain and simple. That's why we now have a record 46 million Americans on food stamps. A statistic which is appalling but certain to grow. Yet for this criminality the robber baron plutocracy will not be held accountable because their theft has become legalized and socially acceptable perversely as so called good business practices. To which I would ask for whom? Certainly not good for the American working class dream. They have to call it a dream, because the only way that you can believe in the American dream is if you're asleep.
(Guardian.co.uk) America's new poor: the end of the middle-class dream
America's middle class is disappearing. A lifestyle sustained for 30 years by rising debt is dissolving as the credit dries up. And the question beyond the crisis is: can it ever come back?
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The kindest thing they could do is tell the truth: Americans have been living a middle-class lifestyle on working-class wages – and bridging the gap with credit. And it's over.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
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