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Originally Posted by Know Nonsense
It you look at the history of America it seems pretty clear to me that it is the progressively liberal ideology and actions that by and large make the already wealthy richer and inhibit the poor from breaking the poverty cycle.
A couple of examples are the Federal reserve act in 1913 which basically straps down the common man with debt and welfare which pays people just enough to make ends meet but gives little incentive to break the cycle.
Why are liberal progressives so easily fooled into thinking it is the conservatives fault for being poor and strapped when it is clearly the opposite?
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Keep in mind that liberalism has its basis in totalitarianism and seeks a system in which enlightened elites rule over a slave class proliteriat. As you noted (as did Stalin), the middle class is one of the chief impediments of socialism/communism and therefore has always been a target of the left.
Let us review how the left has destroyed the middle class-
1. Federal Reserve (as you noted) creates a transfer of wealth in the form of labor from the middle class to elite bankers.
2. Johnson's Great Society- created generational welfare and destruction of the family unit. In the 1920s, over 80% of black families were two parent families. Now we have governmental policies which provide incentives for single parent families, unwed mothers, and generational welfare.
3. Immigration policy- prior to Ted Kennedy in the 1960s, the US had quotas for immigration from different nations, favoring those nations with more highly educated, productive citizens. Since that time, the US has been flooded with uneducated, cheap labor, driving down relative wages and removing the middle class from construction, food processing, and other manual labor jobs. Flooding the job market with cheap labor drives down wages.
4. Trade Policy- NAFTA and China most favored nation trade policies (Clinton) have gutted the US manufacturing base and the middle class, sending good factory jobs overseas. Now we have Obama screwing the middle class more with the Pacific Rim trade agreement.
5. Dumping Glass-Steagle- a gift of Clinton. An important piece of regulation was removed which allowed Wall Street to engage in higher risk policies- the tab for this failure was picked up by the middle class.
6. Granting J-1 visas to foreign tech and IT workers to drive middle class American tech workers out of a job.
7. Affirmative action and preferential treatment of minorities and illegals over US citizens. Many minorities and illegals are able to go to college essentially free, which US middle class citizens have to try to make it on their own.
Libs hate the middle class; that is why their policies have been created to destroy that segment of US society. The more poor, dependent, uneducated citizens, the more democrats there are. This delivers power to the liberal elites who are able to rule over the nation like fuedal lords.
liberalism = totalitarianism
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