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Now when you compare it to total combined worth and see that the number of $$ has not paced the increase in poverty, you are heading up to a modern day French Revolution.

It is strange how easy it is to convince the "average Joe" that it is somehow American to give "absolute freedom" to individuals and companies when they seem to forget about the textile warehouses, coal mines and railroad industry. They look at other countries and say "well, that is not how WE do it" but yet balk at any allusion to "socialism". (While at the same time scream bloody murder if anyone touches Social Security, well, touches it in a way that will take it away from them, not in a way that will eliminate its trust fund for vapid savings and reduction in corporate taxes for a few years).

There is a big problem, however. How are we going to be able to keep a large, undereducated workforce working in modern day America? It is one thing to say that they will have to give up on some luxuries that we take as commonplace now (HDTV, hell, I remember when CABLE TV was a luxury!), but that is not everything. We want 99¢ lettuce, but scream about migrant (illegal) labor.

We scream about joblessness, but refuse to take the crappy jobs that are out there that are being forced to be crappy because of our own unwillingness to pay... vicious cycle. Hell, I just had a bit of leftover roast chicken with rice and broccoli from Costco. The chicken was $5. The whole thing! And the other stuff, cheap as well. We have gotten so used to that we are unwilling to give up on wireless internet access in order to allow our farm workers to be able to afford to feed themselves.

There are just too many things in this loop to simply point a finger and say "There he is!" But we need to stop sitting on our asses and find a way to turn this around or we will not be able to sustain this growing imbalance and shift in the job markets.