A New American Record: The 1 Percent Have Officially Stolen More of the National Income

In 2007, members of the 1 percent raked in 23.5 percent of the total U.S. national income, which was around 14 trillion dollars. Since then the 1 percent have been stealing even more, about 93 percent of all income growth, which has been roughly 1.55 trillion dollars. If you add it all together, the mathematical result is a disaster for economic recovery. The 1 percent has now stolen via government legislation over 30 percent of the nation’s total income, compared to only 7 to 8 percent thirty-two years ago.

This means the 99 percent have less and less income to spend. The standard of living for the 99 percent has dropped from 92 percent of total national income thirty-two years ago, to 76.5 percent five years ago, to roughly 69.5 percent at the midway point of 2012.

The rich don’t spend the vast majority of their money on consumer goods. They invest it in things like stocks, bonds, gold and politicians. That’s why the 1 percent are a drain on the economy. They suck the rest of us financially dry.

The economy is teetering on the brink of collapse since consumer spending accounts for 2/3 of all economic activity and business spending is dependent on consumer demand. The lack of demand is why American corporations are sitting on nearly 6 trillion dollars worldwide. In other words, and as an aside, did I mention that the rich have way more money than they need and are proving to be a parasitic drain on the rest of the nation’s citizens?

The Trans-Pacific free trade treaty will redistribute more income from the 99 to the 1 percent, as has all free trade treaties. This income redistribution aspect of free trade treaties is precisely why our presidents, senators and congress people have supported them during the last thirty years.

Deregulation and privatization scams have also been primary conduits of income redistribution. Wall Street Senator Ron Wyden, President Obama and Mitt Romney are key supporters of legislation that redistributes income from the 99 to the 1 percent. These Wall Street drones have led the United States to the brink of disaster.

Check out the links below for related information.

Striking it Richer:The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States

/eight-key-charts-about-the-growing-income-inequality-in-the-united-states–johnhively.wordpress.com

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Greece is in Flames and Revolution!

Molotov cocktails, tear gas and stun grenades are flying all over Greece. Over a million people are taking part in protests. Yesterday, 50,000 were rioting in the streets of Athens near the Parliament building over budget cuts that have benefited the bankers and wiped out the Greek economy. The riots have begun as the government begins discussion of a third round of budget cuts that will result in steep cuts in wages and pensions. 25 percent of the Greek population is unemployed, 50 percent of its young people have no jobs. Austerity, which means rewarding the bankers that serve as a financial conduit for the 1 percent, does not work. It only destroys the Greek economy and redistributes income from the 99 to the 1 percent. Mitt Romney has similar plans for the United States.

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Rage in Spain as the 99 Percent Begin the Revolution Against the 1 Percent

People are pouring into the streets of Madrid and other Spanish cities to let their leaders know what they already know; budget cuts and austerity programs are not working. With unemployment skyrocketing (above 20 percent) amid the second recession in four years, people are saying they’ve had enough of the conservative bull shit lies and government measures that reward dishonest bankers while destroying the Spanish economy.

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Mitt Romney’s Budget Plans Would Destroy Jobs

According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), Mitt Romney’s budget plan would destroy jobs.

His plan includes cutting taxes on the rich. Those kind of reductions destroy jobs because CEO’s seek to get investors with the newly available cash to purchase their stocks and bonds. That means a bidding war usually begins among CEOs. The best way to attract the cash is to raise profits, dividends and share prices. And the best way to do that is to cut jobs, wages, salaries and other employee compensation, and that typically means sending jobs overseas. The EPI study does not count this reality in ascertaining the certainty that the Romney plan will kill jobs in this country.

Romney’s plan is simple enough. Redistribute income from the 99 to the 1 percent by cutting taxes on the rich, and paying for the reductions by killing government jobs. People will be fired so the rich can have more tax cuts. Great Plan! Of course, those jobs have a multiplier effect throughout the economy; they support other jobs in the private sector, and so the EPI study understates the jobs losses under “Dumbed-Down Wall Street Mitt the Twit Romney.”

The gist of the study is thus:

“* The budget plans put forward by Mitt Romney would lead to small job gains of 87,000 in 2013 and a loss of 641,000 jobs in 2014, relative to current policy, if his proposed tax cuts were fully deficit-financed.
* If some of Romney’s proposed individual income tax cuts were revenue-neutral (he has said that they would be, but has not specified what “base-broadening” adjustments he would make to the tax code to accomplish that), his plans would instead lead to employment losses of 608,000 in 2013 and roughly 1.3 million in 2014.
* The weaker job growth and outright job losses under the Romney plan are driven by his proposal to cap government spending at 20 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), a move that implies very large cuts to overall spending.”

Who would promote job growth most in the near term?–Economic Policy Institute

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Global Warming is Real: You can Now Cross the Arctic Sea in a Sailboat

Why doesn’t the US government do something about global warming? And that means putting an end to free trade treaties that allow US corporations to ship and or create jobs in nations with lower wage and lower environmental standards. The problem, of course, is that to do so would push corporate profits down and that would mean dividends and share prices and a ton the paper wealth of the 1 percent would vanish. That would leave the rest of us better off since the rich would no longer be able to purchase the votes of politicians, like Wall Street Senator Ron Wyden.

Anyway, click the link below for the complete story of a sail boat crossing the Arctic Ocean last August.

Global Warming is Real: You can Cross the Arctic Sea in a Sailboat

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Dumbed Down Mitt Romney Wouldn’t Know Why More and More People Are Receiving Government Handouts

By 2012, a good three years after the end of the last recession, fully 49.1 percent of the US population received some form of government assistance compared to 30 percent in 1980. The under President Jimmy Carter, the economy had just staggered out of a severe recession. During the period from June 1980 to June 1981, the economy created nearly three million jobs, in a nation that was more than 2/3s smaller in population and gross domestic product than the current economy. What happened to cause such giant differences between then and now?

The US government was taken over by the 1 percent. The result has been a massive redistribution of income and wealth from the 99 to the 1 percent via free trade legislation, deregulation and privatization scams, as well as profitable wars for the 1 percent and stuff like that. The result is that the rich have stolen via legislation about 30 percent of all US income, whereas they received 7-8 percent in 1980.

That means the 99 percent only receive 70 percent of the total US income, and the result is they have less money to spend. More of them need government assistance to get by, and that’s why the economy is so weak, as well as why more and more people receive some form of government assistance.

By the way, the 1 percent are stealing 93 percent of all income growth in the US, at least since 2008. That means more people are going to be on government assistance in the coming years; the demand for goods and services by the 99 percent will diminish. This will weaken the economy more and result in an epic economic disaster. This process continues under President Wall Street Barack Obama. Most likely this disaster will begin in the next few years, but it could be ten years away. In reality, the economy is teetering on the edge of disaster as I write this, and we are most likely in the midst of a slow motion collapse.

One more point needs to be made, most of the rich are rich because of the ability to control government legislation. They can purchase the votes of politicians like Wall Street Senator Ron Wyden. The ability to buy the votes of politicians like one could purchase the services of whores on the streets is the biggest government welfare program of them all.

By the way, since the ascendency of Richard Nixon as president in 1969, Jimmy Carter is looking like a hell of president compared to either the elder or the younger and dumber Bush’s, and compared to Obama. Let’s get something straight, next to Reagan and Clinton, by any measurement, Carter is probably the third best president since 1969. He might even be number one.

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The Ponzi Scam Called Wall Street: Why it matters that the US Added only 96,000 jobs in August 2012–Johnhively.wordpress.com

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Video: Riot at an Apple Inc. Factory. Why These Jobs Are No Longer in the USA

A few days ago, the New York Times announced that thousands of workers had (and are still) rioting at the Foxconn Technology factory in Taiyuan, China. Five thousand police had to be called in to quell the riot. Windows were shattered, police cars overturned and fires were set.

One source reported that components for the Apple I-Phone number five are made at the factory.

The cause of the riot is not clear, but some sources say there was an incident between security and workers that triggered the riot. But the reason is probably more widespread than that.

Why are these jobs overseas? The authors of the story, David Barboza and Keith Bradsher, report that “Analysts say worker unrest in China has grown more common because workers are more aware of their rights, and yet have few outlets to challenge or negotiate with their employers.”

In other words, beside the massive difference in pay between workers in the US and in China, the Chinese workers have virtually no rights in the workplace to negotiate pay increases, hours worked, overtime pay, as well as health, safety and environmental standards.

Foxconn has had problems with workers committing suicide on-the-job last year at one of their factories that produced exclusively for Apple, Inc. Here’s another fact; this riots demonstrates that the race to the bottom in China continues, as well as in the USA. The difference between the old wages here in the USA, as well as the higher amount of dollars needed to maintaining higher factory standards, worker safety and environmental standards here, compared to in China, go into the pockets of the rich, (such as the late Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Wall Street Mitt the Complete Twit Romney) via higher corporate earnings, surging dividends, and rising share prices. That’s why the jobs are in China and not in the USA, where they belong. Standards are higher in the USA.

The rest of us 99 percenters are made to suffer lower standards of living, as our income is redistributed to the 1 percent via trade treaties that all US jobs to be exported or created in foreign nations.

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Obama Vs. Romney: Is it Mostly a Battle Over the Speed of Income Redistribution from the 99 to the 1 Percent? Or is it a battle over Taxation and Spending?

The differences between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on all aspects of economic policy are considerable, and they will have significant consequences for the US and the global economy. Tax and spending is at the heart of the matter. The link below illustrates the significant differences between the two on such issues as taxing, spending, entitlements, trade and several other issues. Remarkably, the battle between Romney and Obama is one between two Wall Street factions.

On the other hand, this is really a battle over who will be chosen as the leader in income redistribution from the 99 to the 1 percent. This process has been going on since 1981. The winner will continue to wage war against the middle class on behalf of the 1 percent, and the big difference between the two is who will do it at faster rates than the other. Obama is likely going to do it slower, Romney more rapidly. This the article below does not cover. The 1 percent feels almost to a person that it is entitled to these redistribution programs, such as free trade treaties, privatization and deregulation scams. See the link below in the Related Stories section on how these redistribute income from the 99 to the 1 percent.

Obama Vs. Romney: Is it Mostly a Battle Over Taxation and Spending?–Guardian UK

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Workers beg Romney to stop latest Bain outsourcing

“Being told to train his replacement was humiliating and surreal, but Tom Gaulrapp said the worst part was when the plant’s US flag was taken down before the Chinese engineers arrived.

Gaulrapp decided it was time to take a stand against outsourcing and the man he blames for the loss of his job: Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney, who founded the private equity firm that owns the Freeport, Illinois auto parts plant.”

Click on the link below for the complete story.

Workers Beg Romney to Stop Bain From Outsourcing Their Jobs–Rawstory.com

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The Mitt Romney Video Killed the American Dream

There was a time when most everybody in the USA believed they could succeed by hard work and taking risks. Nowadays, Republicans no longer pretend to believe the myth. Mitt Romney’s comments about 47 percent of Americans show this to be true. “What Romney’s comments reveal is that the American Dream is dead, killed off by skepticism from the bottom up – by the 99% of lower-income and middle-class people who no longer believe in it – and by cynicism from the top down – by the 1%, top-earning people who don’t believe in it.”

The American dream has crumbled beneath a series of income redistribution scams brought about by government legislation, demanded of government by the 1 percent who control the purse strings of campaign finance. These scams include free trade treaties, tax breaks, investor bailouts, deregulation, privatization, lies, fraud, deceit, and lots more. All of these frauds were powered by a corporate news media, whose job it was to hoodwink the 99 percent into accepting these thinly disguised scams to redistribute income from themselves to the 1 percent, which is the only way to keep the parasite known as Wall Street from collapsing, and to keep the vast majority of stocks and bonds held by the 1 percent from sinking to values equal to, or nearly to, zero.

Now the US economy is lurching into the abyss, another Great Depression not far off; dreams are drying up, children are going hungry, opportunities are increasingly becoming non-existent (compared to 30 years ago), all of which are the results of 30 years of income redistribution scams that have swollen the income stolen by the 1 percent to 30 percent of the entire national income, up from about 7-8 percent thirty years ago. That means the demand for goods and services by the 99 percent has brought the economy to the brink of collapse, since they only possess 70 percent, compared to 92-93 percent of the total national income of 30 years ago.

Check out the complete story by clicking on the link below.

How the Mitt Romney Video Killed the American Dream–the Guardian UK

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Eight Key Charts About the Growing Income Inequality in the United States–JohnHively.wordpress.com

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