<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div id="fb-root" class=" fb_reset" style="background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: auto; direction: ltr; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-shadow: none; text-transform: none; visibility: visible; white-space: normal; word-spacing: normal; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div style="overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; top: -10000px; height: 0px; width: 0px; "><div><iframe name="fb_xdm_frame_http" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" id="fb_xdm_frame_http" aria-hidden="true" title="Facebook Cross Domain Communication Frame" tabindex="-1" src="http://static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter/7r8gQb8MIqE.js?version=41#channel=f381531c24&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationofchange.org" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "></iframe><iframe name="fb_xdm_frame_https" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" id="fb_xdm_frame_https" aria-hidden="true" title="Facebook Cross Domain Communication Frame" tabindex="-1" src="https://s-static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter/7r8gQb8MIqE.js?version=41#channel=f381531c24&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationofchange.org" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "></iframe></div></div><div style="overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; top: -10000px; height: 0px; width: 0px; "><div></div></div></div><div id="primary" class="site-content span9" style="float: left; min-height: 1px; margin-left: 40px; width: 770px; "><article id="post-7456" class="post-7456 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-economy category-featured category-human-rights tag-america tag-income-inequality tag-inequality tag-poor tag-u-s-economy tag-wealth-inequality content-print" style="display: block; "><header class="entry-header" style="display: block; "><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Futura, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif !important; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 36px; ">The Six-Step Process to Wipe Out the Poor Half of America</h1><div><br></div></header></article></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><header class="entry-header" style="display: block; "><h2 style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Futura, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif !important; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 16px; ">American citizens are deprived of living-wage jobs, meaningful education and equal treatment by our system of justice. Rebellion, in the form of violence, is not hard to understand.</h2><div class="entry-meta" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin-bottom: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; ">Published: December 15, 2014 | Authors: <a class="author-name" href="http://www.nationofchange.org/2014/author/paul-buchheit/" rel="author" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; outline-color: initial !important; -webkit-transition-property: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; ">Paul Buchheit</a> | <a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; outline-color: initial !important; -webkit-transition-property: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; ">NationofChange</a> | Op-Ed</div></header><div class="entry-content" style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 18pt; position: relative; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; min-height: 215px; float: right; max-width: 590px; width: 590px; margin-bottom: 15px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">One of the themes of the superb writing of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13033599-disposable-youth" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(140, 198, 63) !important; text-decoration: none !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; outline-color: initial !important; -webkit-transition-property: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; ">Henry Giroux</a> is that more and more Americans are becoming “disposable,” recognized as either commodities or criminals by the more fortunate members of society. There seems to be a method to the madness of winner-take-all capitalism. The following steps, whether due to greed or indifference or disdain, are the means by which America’s wealth-takers dispose of the people they don’t need.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>1. Deplete Their Wealth</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Recent <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/more-evidence-that-half-of-america-is-in-or-near-poverty/18551-more-evidence-that-half-of-america-is-in-or-near-poverty" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(140, 198, 63) !important; text-decoration: none !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; outline-color: initial !important; -webkit-transition-property: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; ">analysis</a> has determined that <b><i>half of America is in or near poverty</i></b>. This is confirmed by researchers <a href="http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/SaezZucman2014.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(140, 198, 63) !important; text-decoration: none !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; outline-color: initial !important; -webkit-transition-property: initial; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial; ">Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman</a>, who point out: “The bottom half of the distribution always owns close to zero wealth on net. Hence, the bottom 90% wealth share is the same as the share of wealth owned by top 50-90% families – what can be described as the middle class.”</p></div></span><div><br></div></div><a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/2014/12/15/six-step-process-wipe-poor-half-america/">http://www.nationofchange.org/2014/12/15/six-step-process-wipe-poor-half-america/</a><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>