For much of the past decade, policymakers and analysts have decried America's incredibly low savings rate, noting that U.S. households save a fraction of the money of the rest of the world. Citing a myriad of causes -- from cheap credit to exploitative bank practices -- they've noted that the average family puts away less than 4 percent of its
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It keeps people so hooked on the pie in the sky dream that they refuse to face reality and they keep voting against what is good for them and support things that will only push them further down and take what little they have away from them.
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To fix inequality you have to have legislators that give a shit. Considering that most of them are guaranteed larger paychecks than any of us make, not even taking into account benefits, why the hell would they have any desire to fix the problem?
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Higher taxes? Sure. Or, fuck higher taxes, just get the ones on the books enforceable. Streamline the tax code and remove so many of the loopholes and shit so that people who are supposed to be paying taxes (including peopleCorporations) are paying taxes.
And I am with you. I hope for a day in which we get politicians who can take care of their constituents. I would even settle for a Congress that passes a physical budget. Unfortunately, I don't believe we'll see such a thing unless some shit really changes.
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Hell, that's why I pick up hitchhikers, though I know I shouldn't.
I love my country. Very much. But I'm not blind to the fact that it has some serious issues. The song 'Merican by the Descendents tends to sum up my feelings on the matter.
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