The Goose is Dead, Long Live the Goose!

Here's what I don't understand...

It seems to be an established fact that the rich are getting richer while the rest of us are going down the drain.

The number that is used is about 1%. That seems a bit much but let's go with it.

1% of the population has more wealth than the other 99%. Unvetted and unsubstantiated numbers but effective in making the point...a tried and true device.
(See: All politicians...)

So here's my question:

If the wealthy continue to amass the money and, in so doing, we continue to see budget cuts, rising food and gas prices, unemployment and foreclosures, won't the very consumers needed to buy and the workers needed to make disappear as a result?

A Cautionary Anectdotal Tale of Woe...

A friend applied for a job at a nationally orange retailer who shall remain nameless.

The job was that of supervisor.

$12.00/hour.

The location is about 40 miles from her house. 40 hours a week, plus 7.5 hours of commuting and 18% income tax would net her $1,574.40

Now, if you subtract from that amount $160.00 per month for fuel, at current prices, you end up with $1,414.40

Per month.

Now, dear reader, you tell me how that person is supposed to function in modern American society, not to mention buy the things that the rich people are selling...like gas and cars and TVs and houses?

Tell me that, will ya? Can ya??

No you can't because she can't and neither could you.

So...what happens next? If we don't buy it they don't get the money and...poof!...no more rich people.

Actually no more people because we won't be able to afford to feed our children and so on and so on, ad nauseum.

I don't get it. I'm a fairly smart guy but I really don't. You'd think that the rich people would understand that if they continue to price us out of the market there will be no more market left.

So, enjoy $4.00 gas and $3.00/lb. tomatoes. Get 'em while you can because what with the Terminator Seed and the Japanese nuke mess we ain't long for this world.

But we'll be in good company...all of us...rich and poor...pompous and not.

Let them eat crude oil.

Hey! That's it! A new food...

Crude...itay!

The new caviar!