Len Hart: Who Owns America and Why!

Always severely divided in one way or another, the U.S. has become two nations –one of the very,very rich elite on the one end and the rest of us on the other. The rich have literally waged war upon the poor since the nation’s founding. The so-called ‘Robber Baron Era’ was notable for preceding and causing the Great Depression.

Income and wealth disparities are even worse now! As a direct result of Reagan/Bush tax cuts benefiting only the upper classes just ONE PERCENT of the U.S. population owns more than 95 percent of everyone else combined. Poverty is higher among every minority group. A ‘ruling elite’ of just one percent is primarily White Anglo Saxon Protestant.

…two Americas…one privileged, the other burdened…one America that does the work, another that reaps the reward. One America that pays the taxes, another America that gets the tax breaks.

–Sen. John Edwards

Edwards was absolutely correct and, if anything, understated the problem. It is not surprising that the ruling elites, the establishment, and the fossilized leadership of the GOP would respond with yet another label: class warfare! If ‘class warfare’ it be, then ‘bring it on’!

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