[Occupymendocino] The Six-Step Process to Wipe Out the Poor Half of America

[nlnelson at mcn.org]

alarmingly explicit - and how many of the "middle class are vulnerable to
all of the same pressures?

Nancy Wallace-Nelson



 The Six-Step Process to Wipe Out the Poor Half of America
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> 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.
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> Published: December 15, 2014 | Authors: Paul Buchheit | NationofChange |
> Op-Ed
> One of the themes of the superb writing of Henry Giroux 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.
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> 1. Deplete Their Wealth
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> Recent analysis has determined that half of America is in or near poverty.
> This is confirmed by researchers Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, 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.”
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> http://www.nationofchange.org/2014/12/15/six-step-process-wipe-poor-half-america/
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