The Guilded Age of the USA

Guilded Republicans

They claim to love "American"- what they really love is the idea of the haves and the have nots.
They are the haves- and they want - nay, NEED- a social caste to lord it over, to drive past in big pretty cars and flash their jewelry and laugh about how much smarter they must be than those poor working people with no health care, no savings, no retirement, no owned property, and no rights to ever have anything.

They have been ranting and fuming and HATING the social changes in the USA since the turn of the last century, when Carrie Nation rode on a wave of temperance, Mother Jones unionized the coal miners, and Margaret Sanger dared to tell women they had a right to birth control and not have to spew out babies as the natural end of mandatory church sanctioned relations within their marriages.

They have been angry since the upper 1% of Americans were taxed to spread some of that rolling, dirty, mulching lucre around to pay for the poorest of the poor to have their children in public schools, to give a basic public public library system to anyone who could read, to provide for the poor with public health care and television and radio. The ultra rich of our country, who rake in 95% of ALL THE PROFIT IN THE USA, make up less than 1% of the actual people, but, because money makes money, they can make - nay, practically print- more than most 3d world countries run on. Taxing them at all rankles their greed however. Taking care of others less fortunate is something they think should be voluntary- so long as they aren't the one's volunteering.

Fine. But over the years, they have also decided that the few meager gains the poor got and used to become a middle class are part of the problem. Wisconsin is in the center of just one of hundreds of social movements right now over the determination of their guilded GOP governor to strip the rights of working men and women to collective bargaining, kill their unions, and make sure that every person in their state is a single bargainer against the biggest corporations and cities. He also wants to cut their retirements, strip the gains they have made, and do it all under the lie of 'balanced budget'.

That lie is what has driven every vicious, evil, seriously deviant idea of the GOP since the first parent in the USA had the ability to keep their child out of a workhouse and send them to school after the age of 10. The idea that someone lower than them has some money eats at their sick hearts.
Have you noticed that we NEVER hear about how the budgets should be balanced by bringing MORE money in- but ONLY by taking bread out of the mouths of the working man in America? Why is it that when the cost of doing business goes up- as oil prices go up, land prices go up, labor costs world wide rise- no one ever does what normal working families try desperately to achieve- "MAKE MORE MONEY". Yes, we have to live within our means. And our means includes a few million filthy rich Americans and quite a few million filthy rich corporations with the legal rights of persons who then buy their lawmakers and convince them that the laws should only work for the rich.
The rich not only do not want to pay their fare share, they want the government to SUPPLEMENT them at every damned turn.
Now, no one that makes more than a million a year seems to want to look at the reasoning that states that the US must pay McDonald's corporation to advertise overseas to promote itself, but the US shouldn't pay for the health care needs of our own children.

The filthy rich only see that no matter how much they have, they need more, and they won't pay for it- YOU will.
Lets stop taxing the poor, cutting the middle class, and undermining the rights of those who don't make half a million a year and start doing it to those who do.