This generation's Vietnam

The current generation has been robbed blind by right wing policies that have distorted income distribution and led to the current mess. Since 1978 the working class has gone backwards by 12% in real income. Meanwhile CEO pay has gone from 147 times the line worker pay to 350 times what a working person gets. The net result is all the increase in productivity in the last thirty years has gone to the top five percent of the population. Now the economy has collapsed. This is exactly what happen during the depression of 1929.

Lord Kadizzle is amazed that most of today's young people seem to have no clue what has been done to them. For our children to dig out of the mess those with the Bush mentality have created, will be next to impossible. There is only one solution, take the money back. Until we come to grips with recovering the money that has been stolen by a select few at the top of the pyramid, the economy will never recover. The average person has to share in prosperity for the economy to work. It is that simple. Until the young get fired up like my generation did about the Vietnam War, it is hard to imagine the change coming. The right wing will continue to promote the usual scare tactics. Socialism will be the great scare word, as usual the rich will point to the poor and claim they are the problem. The usual propaganda machines will be rolled out, you can already see them. Two classics, already the health insurance lobby is out to defeat effective health care reform, and of course the coal industry, along with the oil industry are both fighting any attempt to use energy efficiently.

Meanwhile the young don't keep up with the scam that is going on. Sports, and celebraties keep the young thinking in la la land. The economy is going to hit the young soon. Those living on the larges of their parents will soon hit the brick wall of reality. College graduates will find there are no good jobs. The awakening cannot be that far off. One piece of good news is the support Obama had from the young, however it is very disturbing to see the number of young who have caught the right wing fever from their parents. As the young see it is next to impossible for them to get ahead under the right wing trickle down mantra, they will awaken, and when they do let the revolution begin.