{"id":32298,"date":"2025-02-15T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=32298"},"modified":"2025-02-14T20:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T01:20:02","slug":"rebuild-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/rebuild-the-middle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuild the Middle Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the comments to yesterday\u2019s post was this one by TomD:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a number of years, I saw leftism coming and attributed it to a politically motivated elite with a brilliantly executed long focus political motive. There\u2019s probably at least some of that but the revelations of last few weeks lead me to think that what we have been observing with such dismay over the past decade or so is coming from a much baser motivation: greed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The revelations coming from DOGE seem to imply a very large and intricate network of NGO\u2019s lavishly endowed from scantily controlled government disbursement programs. Apparently, the amount of money disappearing into these dark and uncontrolled conduits is well into the $trillions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everybody close to government is getting RICH and they do not want the trails to become illuminated.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think a lot of us who were just plain old patriotic Americans, or what they now call civic nationalists, assumed that the Left really was sincere with all the craziness they preached and that the waste and inefficiency were symptoms of their myopia and unwillingness to use meritocratic selection when populating the federal government with useless people of all imaginable types.<\/p>\n

But just like TomD I\u2019ve finally gotten it through my thick skull that for the most part all these people in government are just plain crooks stealing us blind.\u00a0 And I include almost all the Republicans in that category too.\u00a0 All they want is a way to cash in on their positions in the machine that prints money and hands it out to those in the know.<\/p>\n

I suppose that I should be philosophical about all this.\u00a0 After all, greed is what makes capitalism work supposedly.\u00a0 And I suppose if they were just wetting their beaks but still doing their jobs to keep this country healthy, rich and strong I\u2019d be inclined to say, \u201cWell, that\u2019s just human nature.\u00a0 They\u2019re just good old boys picking up some crumbs from the floor of the bakery.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s nothing like that.\u00a0 They\u2019re like Mitt Romney\u2019s company Bain Capital.\u00a0 They\u2019re selling off the assets of a company (America) and sending the employees home without jobs and without their pensions.\u00a0 They\u2019re liquidators.\u00a0 It\u2019s a giant going out of business sale with us as the former employees forced to take temporary employment, boxing up the equipment as it\u2019s shipped off to China and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

But for as long as the Merry Go Round keeps turning, they get paid by skimming off of the proceeds from the sales of what\u2019s still left.<\/p>\n

Eventually, our bodies will be all that\u2019s left.\u00a0 And the only use for those will be as cannon fodder for the forever wars that still bring in value to the people running the show.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why Ukraine and the Middle East and Taiwan are always in the news and why we still have to hear about how important democracy is.\u00a0 They need our sons to suit up and fly to the desert and die in the heat.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why we should hate these people with all the hate we can manufacture.\u00a0 To them we\u2019re cattle and that\u2019s all.\u00a0 They feel not the least kinship toward us and we should not have the least compunction about them failing, losing their jobs or anything else.\u00a0 Hearing about how NGOs are laying off people means less than nothing to me.\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019m overjoyed to hear about some Harvard graduate who was making mid-six figures working for a George Soros \u201copen society\u201d NGO shocked and dismayed to be out of work and stuck with a huge mortgage on a five-million-dollar house in Northern Virginia.<\/p>\n

Compare his plight to a family that\u2019s been living for the last two hundred years in Ohio or Pennsylvania while the industries that were located there systematically relocated to China and left the working class more and more desperate and poor.\u00a0 Trump has looked at what is going on and clearly seen the liquidation game for what it is.\u00a0 If the rest of his team are smart, they\u2019ll see that their only hope (and ours) is to continue this process to force the corporations to invest in us.\u00a0 To quote a mythical small town American, \u201cthis rabble you’re talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Call it populism, nationalism, whatever -ism you care to.\u00a0 This used to be a great nation.\u00a0 A balance has to be struck that allows for a prosperous middle class.\u00a0 Instead, the masters of the universe think they can settle into a feudal system with them at the top and us as the serfs.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s time we let them know that if this is going to be feudalism then we might as well bring the time up to the French Revolution and make a big old bonfire out of their cool stuff.<\/p>\n

Enough is enough.\u00a0 Empty out Washington, slash the federal budget, lower our taxes, stand pat on the nuclear arsenal, fix all the broke stuff, bring back our jobs, fill up the prisons and rebuild the middle class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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