Consolidating wealth in 2% of pockets is not class warfare.
Monopolizing water and fuel resources is not class warfare.
Transferring wealth from the lower 98% to the financial class is not class warfare.
Giving bonuses to the top 2% and stripping 3 million jobs from the lower 98% is not class warfare.
Transferring wealth from the lower 98% to the insurance industry is not class warfare.
Wealthy people living above the water line while the lower 98% drown or are displaced in New Orleans is not class warfare.
Investors buying the properties cheap and manipulating zoning laws is not class warfare.
Toxic and/or crumbling schools in rural and urban areas is not class warfare.
Old books and empty libraries in rural and urban schools is not class warfare.
Increased costs of State colleges and restricted enrollment is not class warfare.
Under-educated kids enlisting in the military while others go to college isn’t class warfare.
The elderly losing their pensions while ratings agencies skate free is not class warfare.
CEOs and Congresspeople sporting excellent health insurance while workers are bankrupted for its lack is not class warfare.
Congress fiddling in endless hearings while workers are foreclosed is not class warfare.
Food shortages are not class warfare.
Contamination of cheap protein sources (peanut butter) is not class warfare.
Tax codes that reward Buffett and add $12.00 a week to workers’ pockets is not class warfare.
Paying outlandish bonuses to failed CEOs while the UAW is asked to make further concessions is not class warfare.
Putting drug addicts in prison as Halliburton changes its name and gets new government contracts is not class warfare.
Giving taxpayer money to financiers who squeeze taxpayers for increased bank fees is not class warfare.
Secretaries paying taxes at a higher rate than their corporate bosses is not class warfare.
Wealth-based and regional access to broadband internet is not class warfare.
Class warfare is when a pattern of unequal access to wealth and power emerges and we have the chutzpah to complain about it.
Skip Mendler
February 20, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Excellent!
browneyedamazon
September 26, 2011 at 2:41 pm
fabulous!
I truly wasn’t sure where you were going with this (almost stopped reading [sorry]) and then I reached that final line… and laughed out loud.
Such a simple, witty way to make a serious critique.
http://browneyedamazon.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/class-warfare-the-underlying-social-contract/
lizbucar
September 26, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Thank you, brown eyed amazon! I wish I had more time to write at Breathing but unfortunately, “not-class-warfare” is getting ready to bury New York State, our organic farms, our well water, our second-home industry and so much more — NOT the NYC Watershed — beneath the sparkling steel of natural gas wells and compressors. We are at a crux point because, for the sake of us all, “New York Must Not Fall!”
lizbucar
September 26, 2011 at 3:18 pm
PS Just read your “Underlying Social Contract!” Great minds! lol. Wish the NY Times would take a consistent lesson, eh? Much good luck to you.
browneyedamazon
November 4, 2011 at 1:51 pm
So sorry! I just saw your reply. SO LATE.
I wish you luck and blessing! NY was my home for 12 years and I pray for victory for you