Saturday, June 18, 2011

The economy explained. In 135 seconds.


From: Scott Peden
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:45 PM
Subject: The economy explained. In 135 seconds.

 

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Interestingly enough, it really is this simple.

Of about 80% of the income that use to run our government a few decades
back, half that is in the hands of the super rich, who now pay less then
half the taxes they did before creating the shortfalls we are experiencing now.

Which Government Representative of yours will tell you that the only
thing that will recover the US Economy, is a strong middle class, while
the super rich are running class warfare on us trying to get all the
wealth the middle class use to have, and a you might still have some of.

By my reckoning, the super rich have about a 66%+ representation in
Congress and the Senate, while they are less then 5% of the population,
yet control over 40% of all the wealth in this nation.

Good vid, get some better details then I just shared, and it didn't seem
like 2 minutes longer either.

Scott

 

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The response to this video online has been just phenomenal---it really
seems to have struck a chord---so we're sending it out to every single
MoveOn member today.

What is it? It's former Labor Secretary *Robert Reich explaining what
went wrong with America's economy in just 2 minutes and 15
seconds*---with illustrations to boot. It's great, and it's going viral.

*You've got to check it out, *and then pass it on to your friends and
family.

Watch the video
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http://www.moveon.org/r?r=209212&id=28084-4797179-Ogp6sux&t=1
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