The Rich are Getting Richer …. Pass It on
I heard a rumor the other day — the rich are getting richer. And the poor are getting poorer. I checked with some of the neighbors and a few of my relatives and yeah, it looks like the rumor’s true. Kinda surprised me, though, considering we’re just staggering back up out of the last great recession, the one where the rich gambled on fast profits on hedge funds and derivatives and CDO’s and exotic Wall Street fiscal formulas …. and lost the bet. For all of us.
They say the banks are too big to fail. A lot of corporations are too. Down here I’m mostly surrounded by folks like myself, the ones too small to win. Talk all you want about trickled down economics, it feels like somebody pissing on my leg, pardon my Francais. These days we hate government, but golly, Molly, I don’t think it was government that screwed us over. It wasn’t them that fired us or dropped our pension plans or lowered our wages. Let’s cut the comedy — you can bitch all day about the damn government, but we live in a corporatocracy now and the only thing standing between you and the CEO of some global digital widget-maker is … you guessed it, the damn government.
Personally, I’m not gonna trust either one, but if I have to pick sides, I guess I’m cynical enough to believe the corporations care WAY more about profits and CEO salaries than they do me and you. Back in the radical 60’s, I thought government and business were pretty much the same thing. Now I’m hoping they’re not. At least until I’m one of the rich guys … then it’s good luck to the rest of ya.
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