FOX News is running a series this week called “Entitlement Nation, Makers and Takers.” Well let’s just take a look and see who the makers and takers are. The 99ers for the past 30 to 40 years, for just a living wage, were the makers of products which created enormous wealth, which the takers, the corporations, piled up. Those same 99ers and every other middle class working person also accumulated about $4 trillion in Social Security and Medicare paid in. Not to mention the $3 trillion we paid in income taxes, that by law we did not owe.
Now let’s look at the takers. Wall Street has taken a trillion dollars in bail outs and stimulus. They have taken billions in tax cuts. They have taken a trillion through their industrial war complex. They have taken $25 trillion through buying and selling debt back and forth among themselves for the past 40 years.
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