Which raises the existential question both economists and politicians have debated for centuries:
Why do nations create and sustain economies? Is the economy here to serve average Americans, or are working class people here to serve those who own and control the economy?
Your mistake is in thinking that "nations" create and sustain economies. At least it is mistaken if you think that some government or other form of collective action toward a goal is necessary for an economy to "be created."
In history, it has been the opposite. No one sat around saying to each other, "everybody spends their time eating, and sexing, and gathering and hunting. We'll always be primitive if we keep that up. Let's make a government which can create an economy and then we can start working, producing, and trading."
What happened was that people started moving away from the hunter/gatherer lifestyle to farming, tool making, trading, and other wealth producing activities. People who were not especially good at those things, but who used weapons well in the hunt, turned the weapons on the producers and begain governing them.
Here's a thread that explains it further:
Basic economics for Democrats/Socialists
America has had two different but clear answers to that question during the past century.
From the end of the Republican Great Depression with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s until 1981 (including the presidencies of Republican Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon, who maintained the top 91% and 74% income tax rates), the answer was unambiguous: “The economy is here to serve average Americans.”
Yes, having seen great industrialists create great wealth, and then distribute it to the working class in the from of wages and goods to purchase with those wages, politicians of those days realized that there were votes to be had by telling the uneducated workers that the people whose superior effort, intellect, education, and thoughtful planning allowed those workers to live like kings compared to the third world, were actually mean people whose money should be taken from them and used by the politicians.
The politics of envy is always a winner.
Income and wealth during that time rose at about the same rate for working class Americans as they did for the rich, something we’d never before seen in this country.
I would
love to see evidence for that statement.
This was not an accident or a mistake. It was the very intentional outcome of policies put into place by FDR and then maintained by both Democratic and Republican administrations for almost 50 years during that pre-Reagan era.
And then came the Reagan Revolution, when Republicans decided that the middle class wasn’t as important as giant corporations and the very wealthy after all, and that the rest of us are here to serve the rich.
At the urging of Republican Senators Hawley and Rubio, a new think tank is working out ways for the GOP to change their messaging. They want to shift their rhetoric from support for corporations and the morbidly rich to pretending they care about...
m.dailykos.com
Wait, is this just a cut and paste from the Daily Kos?
Im sure this will hurt the feminine sensibilities of certain moderators, so I expect it to be moved with not much intelligent input.
Dude, why randomly attack the moderators? Are you hoping that they will move your thread so you can play the martyr?
