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Change and Cycles Equal Hard Times for America

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Meanwhile, the underclasses are seeing their wages frozen, and the essentials such as housing and food are getting more expensive. The new apartments created during China's housing boom are out of reach of the average factory worker. Wealth in China is going to the upper-class such as factory owners and managers. What America has been experiencing for the last few decades, is now happening to China as well as in Russia.

As the capitalist system continues, wealth goes to the top 20%. In time, the people become angry. They see the 20% in the media, and human nature kicks in. People in the under-classes want what they see advertised on television and other media outlets as well as what they see on the street. The people start demanding higher wages as they desperately want what the top 20% have. They then start looking for a different economic model.

 

This is when they start to look towards Venezuela and what Chavez has done for the underclass. They start to agitate and demand socialist reform. In China, this isn't hard to do as they remember the socialism of the PRC. This time they are demanding bottom-up socialism, not the ridged communism of the last 60 years.

 

In time, the people in Venezuela will not remember the top down neo-liberal system that their fathers and grandfathers suffered under. As the people forget the harsh life before Hugo Chavez, they will start to look around for a different system. The cycle will repeat again.

It seems that in order to maintain a continuous government without social upheaval, the two systems, socialism and capitalism must merge. Chavez allows capitalists to operate freely in his nation. Maybe that's the route that all nations should take.

 

The reasoning of the capitalists is that socialism is expensive is somewhat true. Still, it's the right thing to do. All people should share in the nation's wealth. In the United States this isn't feasible. Most of the discretionary spending in the US goes to the military-industrial complex. The answer to that problem is to stop these mini-wars that they are waging in Yemen, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and other nations.

 

All nations should direct their energies toward the people of their countries. This will stop the cycle of changing economic systems through coups, revolutions and such. The main culprit on this planet is the United States. Since 1978 the wages of the middle-class have been essentially frozen. Meanwhile the top 10% have seen their wealth rise.

 

 Here are some dramatic facts that sum up how the wealth distribution became even more concentrated between 1983 and 2004, in good part due to the tax cuts for the wealthy and the defeat of labor unions: Of all the new financial wealth created by the American economy in that 21-year-period, fully 42% of it went to the top 1%. A whopping 94% went to the top 20%, which of course means that the bottom 80% received only 6% of all the new financial wealth generated in the United States during the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s (Wolff, 2007)

 

Those figures are staggering. It's no wonder that the United States is building detention centers and passing draconian laws that remove our civil liberties. As people argue over gay marriage, abortion and other false-flag issues, they don't understand what has happened to the middle-class and the under-class. They find it hard going in today's economy. Soon, human nature will kick in and they will look towards a new economic model. Unions are powerless in the US and oftentimes they are an instrument of management. Strikes that are not sanctioned by the unions will soon start happening. Movements such as the occupy movement will continue.

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