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And They Wonder Why We Are Pissed...

Intuitively, I knew this was true. I guess I just didn't want to believe it. It was and still is, the time honored tradition of class warfare. Check out these statistics. It is far worse than even I believed. The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it Posted Jul 15, 2010 02:25pm EDT by Michael Snyder in Recession Related: ^DJI , ^GSPC , SPY , MCD , WMT , XRT , DIA Share retweet Email Print From The Business Insider Editor's note: Michael Snyder is editor of theeconomiccollapseblog.com The 22 statistics detailed here prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in America. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer at a staggering rate. Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world, but now that is...

Minimum Government, Maximum Freedom

The Libertarian Party is a no brainer. For the life of me, I don't get it. I simply don't understand why people can't understand that excessive government is the problem. And we have excessive government. Don't we all agree that we have too much government? Are there really people out there that think we need more government? Our "two party" system is a travesty. Individually, these parties don't stand for anything anymore. It doesn't matter whether you steal my money and give it to the poor or deliver it to the elite. Once you've taken it from me, it's gone. But there is one thing both parties are very good at. Creating more government. Without campaign reform, these two parties hold a monopoly. In fact, I don't think they'd survive any kind of anti-trust scrutiny as we apply it to business. It's probably too late. The opportunity to stop them has long since passed. The elite have theirs, and now it's the welfare recipients tur...