Class warfare summed up in a simple joke (with an accompanying cartoon)

micropolitan guy · Mar 7, 2011

Interesting story on 60 Minutes tonight about formerly middle-class school children who are now essentially homeless because their formerly middle-class parents lost their jobs in the Great Recession.

There are an estimated 2 million more children (16M-14M) now living below the poverty line (22K for a family of 4, hardly easy livin') than three years ago. Who knows how many formerly-working adults share the same fate.

Those millions of people know all about trickle-down economics after getting pissed on while America's top 2 percent got richer and richer.

Double J · Mar 7, 2011

Azrael said:

Frick was Carnegie's man. Plenty of historians argue that Carnegie knew exactly what Frick was doing. Hence his absence in Scotland at the critical moment.

The Roebling comparison doesn't really hold. He didn't order his hired goons to shoot any of his own muckers or diggers. They were workers who knowingly undertook dangerous work, and were compensated for doing so.

The Chinese on the other hand were a disposable necessity of railroad building, like ties or spikes or shovels, and were buried along the roadbed as they dropped or were blown up.
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