CBO study shows growing income disparity - Oct. 26, 2011

We were told by the GOP that giving the rich fat tax cuts would mean the economy would grow and that there would be jobs for everyone. Well, how did all that work out? The truth is, one segment of our society benefits more from our democratic systems, our roads and other governmental infrastructure, the education of our work force and yet they think that everyone else should pay for it, and not they, the one's who benefit the most. It is mind-numbingly illogical. In order for America to keep a strong Middle Class, we need tax revenue to provide free education to those who merit it so we can compete against those countries who currently do exactly that, producing engineers and scientists, while we produce hamburger flippers who think the Earth is 6,000 years old. We need a Middle Class that does not face the specter of being ruined by corrupt speculators and bankers. We need a Middle Class that does not have to face being ruined by enormous health care costs. Instead, we have essentially become a country governed by Wall Street, under a system of legalized bribery called "campaign finance". We have a system of government, where business and the incomes of these fat cats come first, instead of the needs of the people. Attend your local "Occupy" protest, it's time to act! Simply use Google, type in the word "Occupy" and then the name of the closest urban center. If people do not act, this country is headed for Third World status as our Middle Class evaporates, the numbers simply do not lie. America is going to be no different from any other second rate country, with two classes, the very rich, and the poor. They want it that way. Their leaders have no allegiance to "country", their countries are massive multi-national combines and conglomerates. They see the pot of cash held by the US Middle Class as theirs, they see the Social Security System as a ripe plum they need to pluck with market privatization schemes, and they are engineering an end it. And an end to the Middle Class, the group that stands in the way of their dream of a global market where Americans and Chinese peasants and the rest of the Third World are economically equal while they rule the world thru their massive corporations. We do indeed, stand at the cross roads.