According to a STRATFOR (Strategic Forecasting) analysis, what is driving popular revolts across North Africa and the Middle East? Ruling oligarchies "enriched themselves beyond what good taste permitted."* What has good taste -- or common sense -- permitted in the USA since the election of Ronald Reagan? Do you know how far the gap has widened between corporate CEOs and the average corporate worker since the early 1980s? Do you realize that higher pump prices have a far greater impact on those making average wages or fixed incomes vs. those super rich presiding over the economy and the country? Do you think the dismantling of the New Deal, anti-trust legislation and collective bargaining rights is good for the majority of Americans, or the rest of the world? Who is it good for? Follow the money. Who in the USA have enriched themselves beyond what good taste permitted since 1981?
Today's Rune: Flow. *"Revolution and the Muslim World" (February 22, 2011).
4 comments:
In 1980 the avg, CEO made about 250 times the wage of his average paid worker, today that figure has increased to about 600 times the median. (I'd have to back check but I believe that was what I read a few days ago)
I believe though that if we only go back to Reagan we are only seeing the end game. We have to go back to 1904 when TR broke up the monopolies and trusts.
The government took control of enterprise (the economy) from the oligarchs at that time and made it a regulated responsibility. Since then business in collusion with the financial institutions have been whip sawing the people and the government through a series of specific actions creating times of supposed prosperity and disparity to once again take control of the economy from the government.
It took 100 years for the financial sector to gain the control they wanted because it took that long to get the paid for politicians beginning with Reagan to de-regulate. Now with the current climate of no one knowing what to do they can in the tumult sneak the final shank in between the ribs of the population and gut all workers rights.
Can't wait to have a ten year old digging coal for the Massey family mines.
And yet the crowd still bows at the altar as they watch the pigs feed to the point of bursting at the trough we are filling.
It is all so depressing I am hog-tied about what to do.
I think revolution's not as far away as it was just a few years ago. Unfortunately that's only likely to reboot the same process...
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