50% of All Workers Made Less Than $26,000 in 2010

Subject: Re: [acb-l] 50% of All Workers Made Less Than $26,000 in 2010

Hi Dave, 

So if you turned ten about 39 years ago that would make you about the same age as my eldest daughter.  I still think of her as an impetuous youth. 

Regarding Thomas Jefferson, whose birthday happens to fall on my own although I'm not quite as old, Thomas was a Landed Aristocrat.  The government he mentioned in your quote was his government.  It was established by he and other land owners.  They also were required to be White and over the age of 21. 

But my point is that this was the government he and his fellow revolutionaries set in place.  It did their bidding.  They were not afraid of it.  But this was not the feeling of many Americans.  Blacks for example.  Women.  Chinese.  Mexicans.

The Landed Aristocrats did not have their children working in the mills six days a week for ten or twelve hours a day.  They did not live in shacks, hiding their women in fear of some lustful white overseer. 

So often we quote Jefferson and others of that time, as if they and we lived the same lives.  As well off as I am, my life has little resemblance to the lives of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, etc. 

My people are Working Class people.  If you've noticed lately, we are a fast disappearing breed.  And this government does not represent the Middle/Working Class.  Nor does it represent the blind or other disabilities. 

But it is not feared by the people it actually represents, the Ruling Class.  Those First Class Corporate Citizens who can afford to buy and sell politicians.  Politicians of all parties. 

Recently my governor wept as she told us about the huge cuts our state must undergo in order to balance our budget.  But even as she wept over the hardships it will cost the blind and the elderly and the children, she never once mentioned that it would hurt the Ruling Class.  They are receiving the sort of government they paid for.  They will suffer no cuts.  None of their elders will go without the care they need.  Their blind and disabled members will never go without. 

That is who this government represents.  And the Ruling Class does not want to have our tax money supporting the rest of our needs.  It is a waste of money to them.  And unless we join forces and stop them, they will put an end to all such programs as public education, elder care, vocational rehabilitation, social security, Medicare. 

That is not the sort of government that I can support. 

 

Carl Jarvis