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    American Elites and Debt Crisis
    American Elites and Debt Crisis
    American Elites and Debt Crisis
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    American Elites and Debt Crisis

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    Historean Zinn (1920-2010) sets forth the unending struggles between American corporations and workers and claims that government is in the hands of ruling elites not government of and for the people.[1] Zinn was most interested in social movements and how they affect social change. He spent his life finding out and explaining how American presidents have failed the people in the past, and how the people have organized movements to overcome those failings. Certainly, America was built by capitalists and workers but the bottom line is that, while workers through social movements have secured social security and civil rights, capitalists have wound up with enormous wealth and global dominance. It is social movements that grab the attention of politicians and affect policy, and social change has always come with struggle. Zinn says presidents should be pushed. In the present work, I claim government and workers operate, along with corporations, as parts of a living biological cell. Social movements are people's responses to conditions set by government of and for elites. Using the same historical facts Zinn talks about I claim that government can never be in the hands of and for the people. I differ with Zinn in his hope that his guards will someday join with prisoners to eliminate injustice. I say that elites will never join with people except in their biological roles as rulers (good or bad) and ruled. Injustice, to some degree or another, is the hallmark of every society. My citations to Zinn's facts are too numerous to include. To the reader, I say look up Zinn's book and elsewhere for historical details

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    PublisherJames Constant
    Release dateJul 17, 2013
    ISBN9781301964758
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      American Elites and Debt Crisis - James Constant

      American Elites And Debt Crisis

      By James Constant

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 by James Constant

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      I-ELITES II–WEALTH III–CAPITALISM

      IV–TAXES V–BANKS VI–DEREGULATION

      VII–FEDERAL_SPENDING VIII–WAR IX–WELFARE

      X–CORPORATIONS XI–GOVERNMENT XII–PEOPLE

      XIII–ENTICEMENTS XIV–CONTROLS XV–COMPROMISES XVI–CONCESSIONS

      XVII–OBSERVATIONS XVIII–HISTORY XIX–FASCIST_LIGHT_POLITICS

      Historean Zinn (1920-2010) sets forth the unending struggles between American corporations and workers and claims that government is in the hands of ruling elites not government of and for the people.[1] Zinn was most interested in social movements and how they affect social change. He spent his life finding out and explaining how American presidents have failed the people in the past, and how the people have organized movements to overcome those failings. Certainly, America was built by capitalists and workers but the bottom line is that, while workers through social movements have secured social security and civil rights, capitalists have wound up with enormous wealth and global dominance. It is social movements that grab the attention of politicians and affect policy, and social change has always come with struggle. Zinn says presidents should be pushed. In the present work, I claim government and workers operate, along with corporations, as parts of a living biological cell. Social movements are people's responses to conditions set by government of and for elites. Using the same historical facts Zinn talks about I claim that government can never be in the hands of and for the people. I differ with Zinn in his hope that his guards will someday join with prisoners to eliminate injustice. I say that elites will never join with people except in their biological roles as rulers (good or bad) and ruled. Injustice, to some degree or another, is the hallmark of every society. My citations to Zinn's facts are too numerous to include. To the reader, I say look up Zinn's book and elsewhere for historical details.

      I-ELITES (domestic, Bilderberg Conference, trilateral commission) Back to Top

      First, lets talk about elites. Who are they? In general, elites exist in all types of societies, primitive and advanced. In modern capitalist, socialist, communist, authoritarian and totalitarian societies, there are several versions with similar interests. The power elite, count the military as part of the top elite, along with politicians, bureaucrats, judges, lawyers and corporations. The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power. Next, the wealthy elite are the chief financial beneficiaries of government acts, laws and regulations. They are also the chief beneficiaries of spending and wars waged by government. In today's environment, people refer to elites as the 1% and to themselves as the 99%. Academics refer to rulers and ruled.

      Elites rule in every country. The elite's weapons are money, control of military power, government and press. Children, minorities and poor people have been used throughout history-as poorly paid mercenaries fighting to keep or put an elite group in power. No laws are enacted that do not benefit elites in some way and concessions are made to people only when necessary to mitigate unrest. Elites cooperate on a global basis by exchanging ideas privately. They view government as securing all benefits to them and shifting all risks to the public. When forced and able, they will yield minimum benefits to mitigate public unrest.

      The Constitution illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The modestly and greatly prosperous middle class people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Latinos, the Indians, and the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity. Capitalist elites love American democracy because it can be easily manipulated to split the vote enabling divide and conquor.

      When people distrust the elite, they are open to solutions from any direction, right or left. Nevertheless, people's movements, although they show an infinite capacity for recurrence, have so far been either defeated or absorbed or perverted by new or old elites. Socialist and Communist revolutionists with their elites have betrayed socialism and communism, and nationalist revolutions and house coups have led to new dictatorships. In South Africa's apartheid movement,

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