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Time to Get Angry

How much money do people really need? Is it decided by how you fit into the Have Nots, Have Littles and Used to Have or the Have More and Have Everything? If you are one of the Have Everything, you might think you need Balenciaga’s Triple S sneakers for $850. A pair or three houses, at least a jet and yacht and a fleet of cars for a start. Then there is the Have Mores. They are making between $150,000 to $2 million a year at least. They can send their children to a private school, ensuring they get a better education and can make as much or more money than their parents. And they, too, will be able to afford big houses, lots of cars, nice vacations, healthcare, and a good retirement. What will your children have? Then there are the Used to Haves, who are the old bitter people who voted for Trump. They once had the More, but have now lost it and now blame the government, but take all they can get. Then there are the Have Littles, who are like children with their faces up against the candy store window. They can see what they want and just about smell it, but they cannot touch it or afford it with their minimum wage jobs with probably only 30 hours a week or less with no healthcare, pensions or unions, but they are the backbone of every business and corporation, and make those businesses and corporations a lot of money from their labor. Then we have the Have Nots. These are the people who were just one or two pay checks away from the streets or one large event, like a medical emergency or accident and they start the spiral down, losing their living accommodations. Sooner or later they may turn to drugs and eventually have a run-in with the law. Why is this? Is it that the money is hoarded by the people at the top and not put to good use? Like starting a company with living-wage jobs and helping the workers get ahead, the workers who made the owners wealthy from their labor. Is it because of the wage inequality and lack of a living wage, like $15 to $24 an hour, which could take people off the streets, lessen crime and maybe even go to night school to better themselves. Money is the tool of capitalism. For it to work, capitalism is driven by about 77 percent of spending. In order for money, which is just a tool to work, the oligarchies must not sit on it and just play the stock market, spend it buying back shares of corporations and paying millions to top CEOs. If they keep doing what they are doing the system will fail and with it all democracies, and countries, not just the U.S., for their policy is eating their seed corn. Trump's tax plan is a gift to the wealthy and we get to pay for it in cuts to programs many of us depend on. A lot of people took advantage of the Afford Care Act. Gone. Tax breaks for adopting children, having children, special needs children and buying a home. Dust. They're coming after Medicare and Social Security. They're behavior and greed is not going to stop until we make them. It's time to get angry and fight back. First at the ballot box, and if necessary in the streets. In order for the workers to win, we must understand how things work. Then vote for the right people and support them and ensure they stay on track. At this time, the Have Nots are growing in numbers fast and when you are at the bottom, you have nothing to lose—and hungry people can get nasty. This is might be the time for universal basic income to help even things out.

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