Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

This may not make a great deal of difference in the actions of the ultra rich, but it should be something for them to think about. Most if not all of them got wealthy because they have or had something that other people bought. So now you are sitting on these mountains of money and looking at the class of people that are your customers and saying lets take away the programs that help them have the money to spend on our products. If you sell cars and you take away jobs by allowing tariffs to be put in place that end up closing your factories, who is going to buy your cars? If you sell news papers and people only have enough in their pockets to either buy the paper or something to eat, which do you suppose will come first? Most of the newspapers around the country have been bought out or crushed because the big boys did not like the message that was being sent by the local press. Has it really improved your circulation that much? Take the controls off of medicine and the ones that benefit for now are the drug companies, and when no one can afford the medicine and start dying off then will the drug companies do better? The only things that improve with loss are disease and stupidity. Keep on believing that putting debt back on students, or families trying to same a sick family member and all other facets of life will begin to suffer. When buying medicine causes someone to not pay the rent, if you are a land lord you end up with emptry apts. If you are a rancher and sell beef and people can only buy hamburger your cattle are not that valuable or become a liability. If no one can buy anything more than basics in groceries the novelty foods are left to be thrown out. The wealth of a nation depends on the how well all of the inhabitats are doing not just the ones at the top. The Robber Baron era finally proved that to at least a couple of those that made fortunes off the sweat of others. One started building libraries as a for instance. What are you going to build? If social security gets cut or eliminated that truly means that millions of people will be out on the street. The benefit was earned and should be repaid. The fund would be self generating if it were allowed to take care of only what it was designed to do versus all the crap that it has funded over the years. Other social assistance programs are necessary because of many factors, not the least of which is the reluctance of the wealthy to share some of that by way of paying living wages. Many of the wealthy today high someone to do all the grunt work to keep things going and they usually offer a golden parachute if that person fails to do a really good job. You have boards of directors that do nothing to improve or produce the product you are selling but they get paid lots for hot air. Hopefully that is not what is being offered to the less than competent people that are being approved by the fearful congress to hold such important cabinet positions. Big business has for years put limitations on people for being inventive. If you come up with something that makes this better the company owns it and you can not profit by the invention. Really causes everyone to be creative or inventive doesn't it? The bottom line is that the arrogance of wealth is leading to ecconomic ruin and it will not just be the people at the bottom that have nothing, no one will. Look at history and what the more corrupt nations of today look like an you have the view of what your programs and hubberus will cause.