Message #1462

[kentay]

How can we as a country brag we are the greatest when poverty is increasing drastically,  we don't have universal health care and we love wars. No other civilized country in the western world has those kinds of statistics for its people. If the type of capitalism we have is so great then why isn't the rest of us benefiting, who are not in the top 1%. When we built the largest middle class the world has ever known was when we have village capitalism where people got wealthier but so did everyone move up under the wealthy at that time. I can remember when the wealthy actually care what happen to all the people of this country and our country became the envy of the world because we were truly number one. But now we are headed down in all of the markers that make countries great except in one and that is the growth in people making million and billion dollars within the top 1%, while the rest of our incomes are falling as well as our standard of living. We also don't build anything big any more something that the wealthy use to do all the time. Today the only fairy tale like vision I have is seeing a wealthy person in his vault playing with his money and only trying to get more and more while doing nothing for the society that others built and he was raised in. kentay