Posted on 07/01/2014 11:33:25 PM PDT by Nextrush
Want to really help? Stop the greed by people like you and your kind. Seal the borders and stop taking jobs from real American workers.
Mr Hanauer, your solution is the drive the cost of goods and services higher so even more people can't afford them?
As long as there are bread and circuses, Caesar is safe....
Dollar to donuts he’s got a stash of cash and metals at home.
Juvenal’s famous lament was made in the depths of Roman decadence, which he felt acutely. “Now that no one buys our votes, the people have long since cast off their cares.”
These remarks were made in the context of the demise of Sejanus, who had been immensely popular, and a presumed successor to Tiberius, but was lynched by the mob, in response to a “great and wordy letter from Capri”.
It’s not as though the populace was being appeased by “Bread and Games”. They were already far gone.
Yep, everyone can call it what they want or blame and point fingers in every direction, however it is rapidly declining certainly dying.
Then throw in government pensions where many retire in their 50 with $80,000 plus per lift plus top shelf benefit, while others who worked just as hard in the private sector have had their wages slashed, hours cut, benefits made worthless or eliminate all together, savings and retirements put off or gone....
All this while the price of everything has doubled or more as their wages have been totally stagnant for well over 15 years now...
One not need be a senior economist to figure out this eventually detonates.
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