高い失業率、補助金削減で、絶望した労働者は、低賃金で働くし、雇い主の言いなりで、万々歳

SUNDAY, SEP 22, 2013 01:00 AM +0900
The GOP’s “Hunger Games” vision of America
Cutting food stamps and sabotaging Obamacare aren't irrational – they're part of the 1 percent's all-out class war
BY ANDREW O'HEHIR

Within the last week, we have learned that poverty remains at near-record levels in our supposedly affluent nation. Even amid a so-called economic recovery, nearly 22 percent of the nation’s children live in poverty, and the overall number of poor people reached an all-time high, at 46.5 million. Income inequality, meanwhile, is roughly twice as bad as it was in the 1970s, reaching a level never seen before in this country or any other industrialized nation. The top 1 percent of Americans now bring home almost 20 percent of the country’s annual income



This extended class war has been an extraordinary success, and through the long lens of history it looks less like a series of disconnected events than a coordinated campaign to drive the bottom one-fifth – or one-third, or one-half – of the population into lives of endless drudgery and political apathy, while maximizing corporate profits and concentrating both wealth and power in a tiny oligarchy at the top of the pyramid.



The contemporary hard-right core of the Republican Party only represents the wealthiest people in our society, especially the executives and major shareholders at big corporations. Those people do not actually want to create a more generally affluent society or grow the middle class or any such nonsense



High unemployment and stingy benefits are a boon to employers, since a desperate worker is a cheap and compliant worker.

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　わりにおもしろい記事で、いろいろ論点はあるようですが、・・・・とにかく・・・経済成長が回復しているといわれるアメリカの所得格差は記録的で１９７０年代の２倍、さらに、貧困層も記録的になった、と。

　共和党は、富裕層、とくに、会社の執行役やら、一部の株主の代表であって、貧乏人とか、中流階級とかどうでもいいんだ、と。

　高い失業率や、補助金削減というのは、企業には万々歳で、絶望した労働者は、低賃金で働くし、雇い主の言いなりになる、と。

ーーーなるほどねえ、と思った次第であります。


　もちろん、アメリカの話といって他人事ではないのであります。