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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 60
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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BEEL CLEENTON SAY: 'CONOMY GOOD
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Talking back to my television set, when I see news, for example,
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that this country is nearing a state of armed revolt, I keep
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saying to them: "Oh, but Beel Cleenton say, 'conomy good."
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Is the increasing dissatisfaction in this country somehow related
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to the fact that the gap between haves and have nots has steadily
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increased for the last 25 or so years? As James W. Loewen writes
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in his devastating attack on current American History textbooks
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(*Lies My Teacher Told Me*):
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Stressing how middle-class we all are is particularly
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problematic today, because the proportion of households
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earning between 75 percent and 125 percent of the median
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income has fallen steadily since 1967. The Reagan-Bush
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administrations accelerated this shrinkage of the middle
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class, and most families who left its ranks fell rather
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than rose.
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But Beel Cleenton say, 'conomy good.
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Coincident with the decline in the American middle class has been
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the "liberation" of women, who now get to trudge off to work
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along with their husbands. This dire necessity has been
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disguised as a "great leap forward."
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The 'conomy is so good that the past decade has seen college
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graduates waiting tables and driving cabs. The lucky ones get to
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"intern" -- work at sub-standard wages -- for the corporados.
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The deal these semi-slaves get is like indentured servitude;
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someday they can join the insecure world of corporate employment.
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Those who still nod their heads in agreement with the official
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line on the marvels of monopoly capitalism, the puffed up suits
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and ties you see on television, are well paid to nod their heads
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in agreement. How long before people stop being impressed by
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suits and ties, silken tongues, and Harvard diplomas?
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A local radio show, News From Neptune, points this out: When
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they tell you that the economy is good, ask them -- *whose*
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economy is good? Yes, the economy of rich people is doing fine.
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But that is not most of us.
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Studs Terkel, in his book *Hard Times*, conducted interviews of
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persons who had lived through the Great Depression. One thing
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that emerges is that those who were unemployed at that time often
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blamed themselves for their situation. They did not see the
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larger context they were living through. So too, underemployed
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Americans are counseled to "polish their resume," "dress for
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success," and "network," as if their declining standard of living
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is entirely *their* fault.
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Are you having doubts about how great the economy is? Do you
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think you are having to work ever-longer and harder to stay
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afloat? Just turn on the television and see Harvard boys and
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Yale boys telling you it isn't happening, that the economy is
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good.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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