mythirdworldamerica.com

If I could change the URL of this blog to the title of this post, I'd do it.

There is a hell of a lot to read out here about what I have been saying for over 30 years.

The filthy rich (aka "superrich" CEOs) are--surprise!!!--stealing your retirement in order to further enrich themselves.

These people all belong in prison and their assets should be seized to pay the federal debt.

I what they are doing a result of Bonnie and Clyde economics.

Meanwhile, Robert Scheer reminds us that the class war is a bipartisan affair:

The veterans of the Clinton years, so prominent in the Obama administration, still deny their role in the disaster of the last 25 years. Yet the sad tale of income inequality that Stiglitz laments is as much a result of their policies as those of their Republican rivals. In one of the best studies of this growing gap in income, economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty found that during Clinton’s tenure in the White House the income of the top 1 percent increased by 10.1 percent per year, while that of the other 99 percent of Americans increased by only 2.4 percent a year. Thanks to President Clinton’s deregulation and the save-the-rich policies of George W. Bush, the situation deteriorated further from 2002 to 2006, a period in which the top 1 percent increased its income 11 percent annually while the rest of Americans had a truly paltry gain of 1 percent per year

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You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to recognize the Koch brothers' filthy tentacles are everywhere in this country.

That's what having too much money and too much time on one's hands does. These jerks really believe they deserve to buy public opinion and politicians.

Note the map: The brothers' outfits are in almost every state in the union.

Snip:

Charles and David Koch are not newcomers to the right-wing ideological movement. Their father, Fred Koch, was an original member of the ultra-conservative John Birch Society. For decades, the vast Koch wealth financed and built the rightwing movement in America. In 1977, Charles Koch co-founded the Cato Institute. David Koch was the 1980 vice presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party. In 1984, David Koch created Citizens for a Sound Economy, an advocacy group established to pursue the Koch agenda.

In 2004, Citizens for a Sound Economy split into two entities: FreedomWorks and
Americans for Prosperity Foundation. The Kochs remain active with Americans
for Prosperity Foundation. Americans for Prosperity Foundation, along with its
sister organization, Americans for Prosperity, pursues the right-wing ideological
agenda through education efforts, and holds rallies and events across the states as
well as runs television ads and other voter mobilization efforts. FreedomWorks is
a similar organization that is now headed by former Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX).
But the Cato Institute and Americans for Prosperity are not the Koch brothers’ only avenues to pursue their ideological agenda. Not by a long shot. Indeed,
the Koch contributions read like a “who’s who” of the right-wing movement
(see table on pages 9-10). An examination of the Koch nonprofit organizations
records show they have given at least $85.9 million to more than 85 different
right-wing organizations over the past decade and a half.


These donations are a conservative estimate and just the tip of the iceberg, but the number of groups reflect the vast reach of the Koch money. Not only do the Koch brothers fund the right-wing intellectual mo

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