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MARK WAYNE MOHR'S FINAL DYING WORDS, CHAPTER 013


























'MARK WAYNE MOHR'S FINAL DYING WORDS'



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A stagnant economy has undoubtedly put a lot of financial stress on the middle class. And that is bumming out America’s 1 percenters. “Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society,” entrepreneur Nick Hanauer wrote recently in Politico, in an open letter to “my fellow zillionaires.”


Hanauer — an early investor in Amazon (AMZN) who says he has been involved with more than 30 startups — cites the well-documented rise in income inequality during the past 30 years as the ultimate cause of a Mad Maxian dystopia he envisions. "If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us," he writes. "One day, somebody sets himself on fire, then thousands of people are in the streets, and before you know it, the country is burning. And then there's no time for us to get to the airport and jump on our Gulfstream Vs and fly to New Zealand."
He’s not the only wealthy worrier. Venture capitalist Tom Perkins complained earlier this year about the “persecution” of the rich through high taxes, while magnates such as Sam Zell, Wilbur Ross and John Mack have griped of late about the unschooled masses scapegoating America’s moneyed elite.
Chill out, rich folks
The rich ought to chill out. While the masses may envy their wealth, there’s no evidence of a revolution brewing, or even a well-behaved civil disturbance. Americans are clearly dismayed at the direction the country seems to be heading, but they are also docile in the face of decline and confused about possible solutions. Hanauer fears mobs heading for the castles of Greenwich and Palo Alto, but America’s disaffected these days are more likely to vent their rage behind closed doors as they shake their fists at Fox News or MSNBC and leave cranky comments on websites such as this one. If there’s a populist threat to the plutocrats, it’s years or even decades away.
Here’s the proof: Before the pitchforks, there will be higher taxes on the wealthy — yet there’s meager support for more redistribution of wealth. Polls show that slightly more than half of Americans favor raising taxes on the wealthy for specific causes such as helping reduce poverty, which makes it sound like tax hikes have widespread support and are inevitable. But here’s the catch: An even higher portion of Americans are disgusted with the government, with little trust that it spends tax money wisely. That’s why Republicans can consistently block tax hikes on the wealthy with little payback at the voting booth.


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If there’s simmering outrage at this state of affairs, it’s not evident in the public square. The “Occupy” movement against the financial elite enjoyed a moment in 2011 but has largely fizzled. Hanauer argues that the occupiers helped sharpen the focus on income inequality, but The Tea Party is probably a more lasting phenomenon. And the Tea Party's gripes about the wealthy are limited to corporate welfare and crony capitalism that puts government bureaucracy at the service of the rich. As for wealth and income inequality, the Tea Party generally takes a laissez-faire, free-market view: Those who can get rich, should.
Labor unions have represented the workingman’s concerns for a century, but they’re on the wane, too. Union membership has been in steady decline for at least 30 years, with no rebound on the horizon. The United Auto Workers couldn’t unionize a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee earlier this year, even with the tacit support of the company itself. Michigan became a “right to work” state in 2013, diminishing the power of unions in their own backyard.
More power for the wealthy
The Supreme Court, meanwhile, has enhanced the power of the rich through two decisions during the past several years that have eviscerated limits on campaign donations to political causes and candidates, which favors those with millions to spend to influence election outcomes. Two well-regarded academics, Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin I. Page of Northwestern University, argued in a recent paper that economic elites have gained so much power that “America’s claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened.”
Hanauer sounds more like President Obama than a self-important plutocrat when he suggests ways to even out the wealth and income gaps. He favors a minimum wage of $15 per hour and chides wealthy business owners who feel they, rather than their customers, make the economy hum. "We rich people ... have convinced ourselves that we are the main job creators," he writes. "It's simply not true. There can never be enough superrich Americans to power a great economy."
Most economists would agree with that, but Hanauer risks hyping the consequences of a growing wealth gap when he warns that “revolutions, like bankruptcies, come gradually, and then suddenly.” That may be true in repressed states that don’t allow ordinary people to express their frustrations. But in functioning democracies (and even in the United States), there’s plenty of warning when social unrest is percolating. These days, all you have to do is read the blogs and follow the right Twitter (TWTR) accounts. If you do, you’ll encounter plenty of angst — but not much revolutionary zeal.
The economic trends Hanauer identifies are, in fact, real problems. America as a whole will suffer if the fortunes of the middle class don’t improve. There are solutions, however, and they’ll probably materialize in the usual American way — right before disaster strikes. It’s nearly inevitable there will be government spending cuts and, yes, tax hikes, when the government’s finances become unsustainable, which could take a decade or more. When it happens, the politicians in Washington will find ways to spread the pain around and America will muddle through. The rich will have to pay more, but they’ll still be rich. And they still won't have to worry about pitchforks.
Rick Newman’s latest book is Rebounders: How Winners Pivot From Setback To Success. Follow him on Twitter: @rickjnewman.
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This is merely the surface scratch printed attitudes of the world-owner brats who were born with silver spoons in their mouths for 90-99% likelihood, and how they view us victims of their eventual legal-criminality, to quote my now late and highly intelligent father. One jeer after another at all of us and our ways of life, it is all through that little story I have shared with you, but wait, as they say on so many fucking infomercials, because ''THERE'S SO MUCH MORE''. Still I just want anyone that is fortunate enough to be poor, or just, NOT-RICH, to come and stumble onto this blog, if not now, who can know, maybe a year or ever three years from now. Let them all relax and laugh at OCCUPY and folks like me and us, because they must. They know the alternative is too horrible to fucking ever really face up to. If it came to blows for real, not just their blood, but watching entire wealthy families, sliced up in meat grinders like in the days of the great royalty of France and Marie Antoinette. She had this same attitude, and she thought she would go to her ugly old miserable grave, rich as shit, happy and free, and at least, safe. But one day, as the article reminds everyone, shit changed real quickly. When it did, they were beheaded, and worse. Now this blog is by no means an incitement of violence. I hope sincerely to be long fucking dead before so much as the smallest national revolution were to really ever taking off. But what I like, or what they like, is not one and the same with what will or will not, happen eventually. History so far shows that we one percenters can be appeased only so long with our rock concerts and DVD's and so fast cars and clothes and lots of toys for the ordinary nobody's, you know, shit that's allowed us on our very limited budgets, to keep our minds OFF REVOLTING against these arrogant mother fucking total pig-shit slobs. Yes, I hope to be long dead and gone before any of that happens, should it happen. My only motive for bringing you these pasted in words from this pile of human chew-turd and so many wealthies just like him, is to keep you aware and force your blinders and rose glasses off your faces. Because people, if you don't see that this is the most monstrous snow job since Antarctica invented snow and began spitting it all around our world, well, then there is no hope for any of us, not now, and not ever, and then, honestly, the world SHOULD belong to dudes and duddesses, just like this pile of disgusting rich rubbish, who I was kind enough to share his words on my blog about. If none of you care at all any more, than fine, why shouldn't they own us all, and own the land, and tell us all what to do and how to live and all of it? Hay folks, Mashell Daniels said it all back in 1980 at the RPL Sound Recording Studios. Everyone, this writer, that writer, EVERYONE is entitled to two things, one, to have their opinions, and two, to express them without fear of reprisal and punishment. Now poor folks, laugh with me on that final part, all the way to the poorhouse and back. AHA-AHA-AHA, right Mike MMCN from 1971 out in Exton, Pennsylvania??????????









What you need to see is that the rich don't mean any of us 99ers one bit of good. They would be more than happy to have one of two sick fantasy's of their come true tomorrow morning. One, we all legally go back to slavery, and they actually absolutely own our lives, our children, our property. At first this may seem to be more civilized than the horrendous treatment or mistreatment of the African American slaves. But humans very quickly change and adapt and justify and rationalize and I could go on with stupid adjectives, proving only that I read books that are written by Tolstoy and others like him, and can speak when I want to, and am perfectly happy with hood-talk, BRO, YO! Still, in no time at all, we would be, a bunch of poor slaves, and we would be in the hands of these masters who would indeed rape our daughters, beat us if we objected, and all the other possible nasty horrendous things that you might think up if you grab a bottle of hard liquor right now, and sit down all alone, and begin to see just how horrible this shit all really is, and JUST HOW DAM SOON, it will be ushered into American and even new age Global-Society, you just watch. I will be dead and gone, praise the lord, I am 60 and unhealthy, I have only months, maybe years, not many of them. But those of you in your forties right on down, I say unto ye, GOD BLESS YOU IF YOU ARE NOT REAL RICH, very soon. Politicians will never let this happen you say. Do yourself a favor. Really get into the Holocaust history someday at a library, get a study group together. Screw the dam past, the Jews can take care of themselves, goddess bless them, but you need to study this nightmare, to save YOU and to save your poor loved ones. You'll quickly come to learn just how an entire otherwise pretty dam good governing body such as Germany in the early 20th century, could and DID allow such horror to really happen. So if you close down my words laughing, then you're a dam fool. It happened before, and there is no reason this will not happen again, unless we stop it. Don't get violent, don't revolt. But there does have to be a second or an alternate road to begin driving our forces down, if for no other reason, than to procrastinate the inevitable of another and maybe worse, repeat of Nazi Germany last century. It's coming, and if you read that rotten article I just posted a couple of times, you WILL want to get a dart board and darts, and find out what the person's face looks like, to attach it to the dartboard. Morianity never ever will tell anyone to do anything illegal, or criminal, which of course violence speaks for itself unless it is done to preserve or protect ourselves. This is not giving out ideas, and nothing I could ever think up has not already been printed up in a hundred powerful and yes, interesting, series of books of all kinds of dirty tricks, spewing out more hate than my blogs ever could all put together and multiplied by a million. The real answer, is for the poor to somehow organize, it would be very complex, and would take a while, and if nothing else, it would buy us some time to fight these power-monger world owner controller people, who will get their way, one way or another. God help Planet fucking Earth, and I genuinely mean that, folks, I truly do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You really do need to read CH.-12!

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