Consortium news carries the story of a recent study of tax cuts for the rich. The government argument for this is that tax cuts for the rich create a trickle down that means financial benefits for all of us.
But recent studies show they do no such thing. In fact, incomes in the U.S, especially, have been going down, not up. The super rich have been getting even richer. The rest of us have been getting poorer. All this has been especially marked in the last fifty years. Indeed, it goes back much, much further.
Throughout history the super rich have trashed the poor and even the not so poor. In this past, and even up to this day, the super rich have had nothing but contempt for those beneath them. The ordinary child in Britain - up to the early 1900s - could expect only hard work, long hours, danger, filth and low, low pay from the age of five or six. The same was widely true in Canada and the U.S.
School? Good luck. Our great, great grandparents saw little of any schooling - if they saw any at all. The very rich, of course, have expensive private schools. I well remember my own childhood classes were overfilled (as they still are) and most of my classmates (and me) never finished school because nobody expected us to. Some of my friends left school as early grade four. There were some as late as grade 9 who couldn't yet read - not even comic books.
The rich kids, of course, grew up in a society which expected private schooling, small classes - and it had children who expected to finish school because finishing is what their social class did. (many years later, I was a university teacher. To my surprise, the rich kids were not particularly smart. The smartest kids I taught were Jewish - who, for the most part, were not rich in those days. But Judaism has a high respect for education.
It's hard to tell because their numbers were smaller, but the Japanese I taught (the victims of Canada's prison camps for Japanese Canadians) were also impressive. One Japanese Canadian I knew back when he got out of the prison camp became a brilliant medical doctor.
Are there rich kids and dumb kids? Maybe. But I'm flexible on that because in high school I was one of the dumb kids that the principal called down to say to me, "Let's face it Decarie, you have no brains at all. Empty your desk and find a job."
Being born into a poor family is what makes a lot of kids dumb. We're about to see lots of dumb kids in the U.S. as millions are turned into the streets. But don't worry about rich kids. They become smart in their expensive schools.
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I wrote the above to give meaning to my real point.
Our super rich have taken control of our lives and our destinies. And they have no intention of improving that for the rest of us. And this is not the first time this happened. It's a pattern that has been repeated many, many times for thousands of years. This was how kings operated, and the emperors of Rome. The common people were made into trash to be abused, used, and tossed aside.
This is happening to us. That's why American (and Canadian) super rich pay minimal taxes - if any. In fact, the amount they pay has been dropping dramatically for a good, fifty years. While millions lose jobs and are forced onto the streets, the super rich have actually been getting richer. That's why millions of Americans have no homes, no food, no hope. At the same time, the super rich actually have wealth in trillions of dollars. And that's why we live in a world crawling with poverty and human abuse. And, no, it's not going to get better. Even as you read this, the super rich, the most evil people on this earth, are ensuring that all the wealth goes to them and only to them.
Since 1945, we have had nothing but war. That's largely because the super rich make their money out of war. They murder millions to steal resources - but they don't do the fighting. No. They use the rest of us to become mass murderers for them. (They specialize in murdering children.) They have made Latin America and Africa into horrors for the living. With greed as their only interest, they are destroying this planet. That's no exaggeration. Their abusing of nature is destroying our oceans, making fatal changes to our climate, destroying the Arctic and the Antarctic, making huge areas unlivable for their crashing by fire. Our Canadian hero, Mr. Irving, is poisoning the land and the forests of New Brunswick - and poisoning the people and the wild life in the process.
And we, alas, stand by with our faces hanging out. Worse, millions of us have dropped into poverty. And it's not likely to improve.
Remember these names - for Canada, David Thomson makes over 39 billion. Much of that comes from ownership of news media. Think of that next time you buy a newspaper. Lower on the billionaire list, but also the monopoly owner of all news media in New Brunswick is Irving. This year, Canadian billionaires are actually up 37 billion dollars - in just one year. And these are the same billionaires who have been cutting wages for the rest of us.
Another group of major billion dollar players in a very big way is - wait for it - China - which is sweeping American trade off the map.
Merry Christmas. We are living in a typically human period of very evil exploitation, the kind of evil that has always marked our earthly existence. Either we change that now or we go down with all the failed periods of history.
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https://theintercept.com/2020/12/18/afghanistan-cia-militia-01-strike-force/
Check out the story above. (just go to The Intercept on your computer. Checking on the sentence above won't get you anywhere.)
In Afghanistan, highly trained special ops troops, the ultimate American heroes, are being used to lead their Afghanistan allies in night time attacks. These attacks are aimed at residential schools where they murder children as a warning to leave the schools.
That's not original, of course. American heroes have a record now going back some 75 years of very deliberate mass murder of children and babies. (No. I'm not exaggerating. In their days of empire, the British did much the same - in their case inflicting death by mass starvation. Winston Churchill was big on that.)
Funny how our news media never mention these stories.
Our human world has a savage history. We are not, to put it kindly, nice people. For two thousand years we have gone to Christian churches without in the least following the teaching of Christ. Indeed, the Christian churches have always been cheerleaders for our wars. When Christian churches in Canada supported war in `1939, those same churches in Germany supported Hitler. The Jesus jumping U.S. has been mass murdering people for the past seventy years. When did you last hear a sermon on this?
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I really have to go back to something I tried briefly some months ago. It involved lifting the news stories, in full colour and text, and letting them tell the stories. I've been finding it a difficult thing to do for this retarded blogger. But I'm searching for someone who can tell me how to do it.
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