TRICKLE DOWN

Trickle Down!! If you look in the dictionary at the definition of the words, 'trickle' and 'down' you will find :

Trickle:

1. To flow slowly in a thin stream or fall in drops.

2. To move, come go, etc. little by little.

Down:

1. From a higher to a lower place, toward the ground. (this says it all)

Did anybody notice these definitions some thirty years ago when this was sold to us, Americans, as the greatest form of capitalism? Well, it indeed worked well for about 10% of Americans who now own 90% of the income, the wealth in the United States of America, today! The remaining income, wealth, the 10%, is indeed 'Trickling Down' on 90% of Americans. Well as the saying goes,"... let them eat cake"! To add injury to insult, 1% of that wealthy 10%, own over 1/3 of the 90% of the American wealth!!!

The human condition is such that our ongoing struggle is to try to gain, maintain balance in systems, in life, a Homeostasis. If this is not remembered, we will go from one extreme or another. Exactly what has happened as a result of the unbridled quest for even more money, higher PROFITS, and the attending POWER which = 'Unbridled Capitalism'. No system can be maintained once it is allowed to go to its extreme, one way or the other!

Beginning in the mid 1970s, business was encouraged to make even more profit . They found they could do this the old fashion, a proven way, with Cheap labor! Well, the Government, because of the preditory practices of the plantation owners, and more recently the "Robber Barons" of the early part of the 1900s and beyond, the Government got into business's business and established fairer labor laws, and unions were established to make sure workers were not treated as slaves.

But, during the mid-70s, because history showed how well preditory business practices worked to make money, fueled by the sublte master of addition, GREED, with the help from American politicians, such as President Nixon, and Diplomats such as the Bushes, China was opened up as a source of cheap labor with no labor rights concerns. Then, the first workers slaves in China were actually prisoners, much like the old American style, Chain Gangs. The ground work was set for the early 80s when 'Trickle Down' was embraced. The rest, as they say, is history. We are now living with the unintended consequences of these actions!! And, now because of the tightning of immigration laws, we can look for the return of the Gang Gang, as a source of cheap labor for work that cannot be exported!

The Wall Street protestors have a real uphill battle, as do the rest of the 90% of Americans. Most that was done to gain more profit was not illegal. Wall Street and others, for the most part used the letter of the law, as they ignored the SPIRIT of the law!!