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^ Yeah sounds like a pretty stuck up place if a Dennys closed because customers don't like people with piercings, tattoos and dyed hair so much they refuse to eat food served by them. Lol those people would starve if the came to certain parts of Denver and rightfully so.

I am all in favor of diversity, just not being called an inbred redneck racist for expressing the views of my group.

We are in the middle. We are the majority, and get problems from above and below.

The problem from above is how wealth is treated. Most of the money is in the hands of very few, invested in Stocks, Bonds, and debt finance. They live off of interest and inflation.

The other large capital pool is Pensions. They do the same.

Both produce nothing and are sucking the life from the economy.

This Government/Wealth Axis writes the tax laws, they pay next to nothing.

Corporations are productive, do produce good jobs, and can chose the cream of the crop. They produce about 30% of the economy. A well run Corporation does not pay a lot in taxes, but the people they employ do. Most of the wealth created goes to shareholder value, untaxed, directly to the wealthy and Pension Funds. All the earnings go directly into higher share value. No tax unless you sell.

We in the middle are just something else to feed on. The rate on debt at interest is controlled from above, and few can afford to buy outright, a house, car, build a business, and are trapped giving 5% or more of our earnings for permission to live.

It is not a small thing, that house will cost three times what you paid for it. Food service tries to turn a 5% profit. Interest is giving all the profit to the credit machine. Almost all houses are Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, government controlled, yet the profits go to the loan servicer. Losses are made up by the tax payers.

We feel the weight of this dead hand in everything we do.

What we do, try to live the best life possible, through our own labors, thoughts, and provide goods and services to everyone.

Small business is a culture that runs in families, they spent generations building a Brand, and a death in the family brings change, some of those who were to get stock want cash, the bank that was always there refuses credit, and someone like Bane Capital comes in and forces a sale, then loots the retirement fund, closes the business, fires half the town, and that Brand is now on a Chinese product.

We are targeted from above, and our love for our community does not fit in their business plan. The company may be sold for less that the year's payroll.

There are economic cycles, loose credit for years brings in the savings of many to buy a house, start a business, then credit suddenly drys up, everything goes to foreclosure, and a year later the market is booming. These are controlled economic cycles, and each time, a claw rakes in the hard earned savings of the people.

Government continues to grow, wants to involve it's self in social issues, and ride around in tanks with automatic weapons. Government fields a third of the vote, so they only need a few more to control it all.

The middle, pays more taxes than corporations, or the trillions in Capital. Half of people pay nothing, so the burden is on people making $20,000 to $100,000. Inome tax, Federal and State, and Social Security. Above $127,000 no more Social Security, 15.7% bonus! More Capital Gains, investment income.

Half of government spending goes to war, they other half to Social Security. Other classes are minor, food stamps is part of the farm bill. Land ownership is subsidised. It is food production Corporation Welfare. Food stamps is a minor part of the Farm Bill.

Congress owns military spending, they are also exempt from insider trading laws. Congress their friends and family get very rich.

While the Constitution calls for the Government to Provide for The Health, Education and Wefare of The People, Congress puts that on the middle, who are given Mandates to provide for education and employment for all. Health Care was profitable, so that was given to Insurance Companies.

The middle does provide 90% of the private employment. which is now a Government Social Welfare Program.

So the middle supports both the top and bottom, but the middle will not hold, the bleeding continues, less companies, less jobs, more restrictions, paperwork, and it shows in the decay of our cities, falling bridges, and a public perception that they are entitled to equal results, without equal effort.

The south gave schools and towns to the blacks, they trashed them. Without welfare and food stamps they would starve. A few years back those towns had full employment. They had a business structure that worked. The south is about half black, we lived and worked together.

Legislation making people equal does not work, it drove up apart.

I am old, when I speak with old black people we agree, today is not as good as it was. We are farther apart, we have less in common, and we are not working together. I complain about white youth, they complain about black youth.

Seperate but equal worked for us, now we are just seperate. Young black men die like soldiers in Viet Nam, 400 a year in New Orleans, and it is the same everywhere. Many more are in prison, it is hard on the black community. It was not like that before, you had to kill or rob to go to prison, and they did not kill each other.

Illegal Mexicans are taking the jobs blacks used to have. Roofing, Brickwork, and unemployed whites have discovered cutting grass. A high School diploma is a fifth grade education, only football and basketball lead to higher education. As they did not get a strong foundation, reading, math, they have problems later.

The hope of the Civil Rights movement was to move up in the world. Southern whites shared that goal.
Whites employed them, taught them useful skills, and made them members of our shared community.

That is mostly gone now, replaced by easy to evade laws.

Blacks and Native Americans were second class by law, it was wrong, something to make right.

Then we got the Viet Nam War, Womens Movements, and Gay Rights, and the legally opressed were left behind again.

The obligation of government is to all the people, and they have failed. It is one political party, that plays groups against each other. They are still sucking all the wealth out of the country, and into their bank accounts.

Taxing all income at a single rate, all personal income subject to Social Security, we can pay off the national debt and rebuild this country.

All it takes is to look past our differances and see what we have in common.

We can afford a first class Health Eduction and Welfare, for all citizens.

Education takes generations, Culture also, we must join as one.

Prejudice against those who would preserve our values, culture, customs, and economy, and develop them, will exclude you from the future. We accept Civil Rights, homosexual marrage, but are still called inbred racists. You got what you wanted, so stop the fighting and name calling.

With equal rights come equal obligations.

Now, can you love Conservtives as much as you love homosexuals?

our practical choices in this gridlocked nation seem to be between a stinking status quo and something far far worse [outright fascism].