Matt Bors for May 01, 2014

There are winners & losers in any economic system. I find the best insurance is a well stocked armory & an electric fence.

If we made personal finance mandatory in public education, there would be a lot less poverty. Saving money should be compulsory; via wages or government handouts. Once people build a small nest egg (that they are not allowed to touch) and were educated to maintain, we would all be better off.

If income inequality becomes great enough, large numbers of people with little or nothing to lose will exist. At that point your electric fence and all the ammo you can buy won’t be enough..

“Where did you find that article?”“It was in my jacket lining,”

The only thing that is going to save the Middle Class is the Middle Class. We are the 99%—- that means we have the votes to elect people who will actually represent middle class workers and provide a safety net for those who are trying to get into the middle class.We all need to know who is supporting the candidates. That is who they will be working for. They have no choice if they want to stay in office. You have to do the bidding of whoever is paying your way, just the same as we all do in our jobs. So, before going to vote, look it up on the internet. Open Secrets is a good site, but there are plenty.

If the candidate is getting their money from small donors or from unions, they are going to be working for middle class working people. If their donations are from corporations or from 1%ers, that’s who their votes are going to be working for. They are not going to go against them and do anything to help the middle class.

It would be political suicide.

Yes, but many of us can do without the roadblocks and detours.

Absolutely nothing wrong with “well regulated” Capitalism, just like militias, but when banking and “investment companies” become legalized Mafia operations (my retired banker brother-in-law’s statement, not mine) then some corrections are needed.

If these darn poor people would just show some initiative and go out and inherit a billion dollar business like the Koch Brothers did, all them inequality problems would just go away.

Right! Just like the Kochs did.

A asset tax (a wealth tax) of 5 percent would eliminate the wealthnequality and federal and state and local fiscal deficits.