| There are two sides in every war, and in the war on poverty, those fighting to create and preserve poverty currently hold most of the cards. Harken back to 2000 and let us read the business press...I will pick one article by example ( http://money.cnn.com/2000/05/05/economy/employ )...what does the article say? "Joblessness at 30-year low...The U.S. unemployment rate tumbled to a 30-year low of 3.9 percent in April, the government reported Friday, as worker-starved companies raised wages and went on a hiring spree that created 340,000 new jobs. But the good news for workers on Main Street sparked fears on Wall Street" What? Workers looking for a job being more easily able to get a job is something that sparks fear on Wall Street ? "Still, the markets took the data in stride...The markets harbor no doubts of the Fed's concerns over labor market tightness." Both "the markets" and "the Fed" are concerned that so many people are employed? Basically this CNNfn article is saying, correctly, that Americans wanting a job being able to get a job is something that is feared by Wall Street, "markets", The Fed etc., not something that is desired. As that is the way the system is set up, and this is not the only business press article or pronouncement of that time saying this, one has to be skeptical of the desire for a "war on poverty". Because as it says, Wall Street, "the markets", The Fed and most of the powers that be are deathly afraid of that happening. They are in the business of preserving poverty, and creating it when necessary. Of course, this article was written by a corporation owned by people who feel this way. So this is about as blunt an explanation as you're going to get from them, or the mass media, which is completely owned and controlled by them. For a clearer explanation of all of this from a source independent of that, you might try consulting a source such as this - https://monthlyreview.org/2008/12/01/financial-implosion-and... |