In 1980 the top 1% owned 20% of Total Financial Wealth
In 1989 it was 36%.
An 80% Increase via good old Ronnie enrich the rich policies and shaft middle class.
Even his Econimic Advisor David Stockman said Reagun’s Tax Cut was Trojan Horse to enrich the rich.

And GHW Bush called it Voodoo economics.

Bush II took over and now 20% own 93% of Total Financial non-home Wealth.
Top 2.7% got four times as much of Bush Tax Cuts as bottom 80%.

Those are, primarily, Wall Streeter who own our major corporations.

During Bush II, 2,300,000 jobs were sent to CHINA.

Fundamentalism is a specific form of sabotaged-by-big-business Protestant Christianity that arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, one that expressly excluded most Protestant denominations. They are the anti-Deists, the anti-Jeffersons.

Jefferson removed the miraculous and spiritual from his Bible, not necessarily due to disbelief but because he wanted to concentrate on the actual message of Jesus, as opposed to the mystical and ethereal interpretations emphasized by some of his later followers. Jefferson was interested in the intelligent organization of society, not the vagaries and impenetrable metaphysics of the supernatural. The presence of a fantastic spiritual realm did his world of reason no harm nor good. The intelligent organization of society that Jefferson observed in the Bible, however, did a world of hurt to elitists then and today. They subverted the threat the same way they did the threat from a potentially liberal media: they bought it.

The term “Fundamentalist” comes from a series of essays by conservative pro-business preachers contained in twelve volumes entitled “The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth.” They, like all of their fundamentalist contemporaries, were shilling for corporate interests. The essays were written by 64 British and American conservative Protestant theologians between 1910 and 1915. Using a $250,000 grant from Lyman Stewart, the head of the Union Oil Company of California, about three million sets of these books were distributed to English-speaking Protestant church workers throughout the world. This is the origin of the transmutated pro-corporation, pro-business, anti-Gospels, form of non-Christianity that is warping the minds of millions of hapless Americans today.

Fundamentalism in modern times includes Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority down to their fellow loons, charlatans, and hucksters such as Oral Roberts and Pat Robertson. The common thread running through fundamentalism is the alliteration of Christianity by moneyed interests and removal or distortion of Jesus’ message of anti-materialism, anti-hedonism, and anti-wealth. Anything in the Bible that is a threat to business is ignored (I got your “eye of the needle” right here) or “transmutated”. Business neutral themes are retained. Any pro-business messages that are lacking are invented.

We live now in the United States of Corporate America. So those who’ve been voting for that for decades now: Congratulations.

“There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.” William Jennings Bryan, 1896

In the Republican and Democratic parties you of the common herd are not expected to think. That is not only unnecessary but might lead you astray. That is what the “intellectual” leaders are for. They do the thinking and you do the voting. They ride in carriages at the front where the band plays and you tramp in the mud, bringing up the rear with great enthusiasm. E.V. Debs, June 16, 1918

cor•poc•ra•cy (kôr-pŏk’rə-sē)
n. pl. cor•poc•ra•cie
A society dominated politically and economically by large corporations.

The biggest predators we need protection from are the people who’ve figured out they can vote themselves treasure from our pockets. This includes Congresspeople, friends of Congresspeople, government employees, welfare recipients etc, etc. Who protects us from the government? If our various units of government didn’t confiscate such massive amounts of private wealth (to dole out according to their whim), big business wouldn’t be in bed with government in the first place and we’d have a free market. Any involuntary transfer of wealth is immoral, whether it’s to GE or the welfare queen down the street. Everything that’s wrong with government, business and society can be attributed to the massive wealth transfers government designs. Too much money causes corruption. Shrink government down to core functions (like protecting the citizens from invasion, force and fraud), leave charity to the charitable and everything will sort itself out in freedom.

Cap and trade wouldn’t be on the table, there’d be no climate scam if it weren’t for the incentive of big taxpayer bucks! If we aren’t entitled to the fruits of our own labor how can we be free? Who owns my hands, my mind? Who owns the products they produce? Me, or the federal government?

Socialists will inexplicably argue that more government, more regulation and bureaucracy is the answer to corruption and freedom will ensue - if only we can get the government big enough and seize enough through taxes. It’s paradoxical at best.

More government = more corruption, less personal wealth. More regulation = less freedom.

It’s impressive how the left has equated freedom with greed. It reminds me of how effectively the abortionists have equated abortion with women’s rights - as if the lynchpin to suffrage and female equal rights is abortion. If Roe v. Wade is overturned, well, men will be raping and beating women, and they won’t be able to work or own property… Same kind of psychosis with the left’s fixation on “greed.” You want to keep what you earn? You want to make your own decisions? Freedom? How selfish and greedy! It’s Orwellian Newspeak. But I digress.

Government IS inherently evil. The founders knew that and also that it’s a necessary one, which is why the Constitution was created to severely restrict government’s power, to narrowly define it’s legitimate purposes and create a system of essentially, gridlock. Unfortunately, those barricades got burned down a long time ago. We’re charged with rebuilding them and forcing government back into it’s narrowly defined space in society.

When the feds are actually banning Edison’s light bulb in the name of Mother Gaia, and in an attempt to legislate the creation of a global thermostat, things have clearly gone too far.