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Saturday, April 11, 2015

SSI

HuffPo: Social Security: The Empire Strikes Back by Richard (RJ) Eskow
In reality, most Americans are incapable of saving for retirement. Their wages have been decimated by the diversion of wealth toward the powerful few, their pensions have been gutted by corporate cutbacks, and surveys show that they're struggling from month to month just to make ends meet.

3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

The attitude of our overlords is so?

Jim Sande said...

The middle class is the problem from their point of view. Eliminate the middle class and their march to total wealth accumulation by whatever means they want is wide open.

Glynn Kalara said...

I agree. The last thing the elite want is a "middle class" society. What they want is a return to a plantation style economy or neo-feudal arrangement.