[The Urban Sombrero]

Of course there is no economy that has all winners. But that doesn't keep people like you from acting like people who're poor, are all victims of greedy corporations and such. What are you even talking about when you say corporate responsibility anyway? Hasn't the widespread existence of unions largely done away with substandard wages and benefits? Wages and benefits that ObamaCare has devastated for the foreseeable future I might add. I mean owing to ObamaCare, each taxpayer has been saddled with paying an average of 14 thousand dollars annually for somebody else's health care needs. The Dem's mantra; 'We care, you pay.'

Anodyne? People on the left and the right hated Reagan exactly the way they do Trump. And you couldn't be more wrong about the fortunes of the working middle class during and immediately following the Reagan years. But did it ever occur to you that the reason many people are poor is because they just don't have the drive or the desire to get out there and compete? No of course not, it's those darn rich guys who are just too selfish to give them their money, right? The welfare tipping point was reached several years ago.

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[SIZE="2"]"In 2013, according to the Census Bureau, there were 105,862,000 full-time year-round workers in the United States -- including 16,685,000 full-time government workers. These full-time workers were outnumbered by the 109,631,000 whom the Census Bureau says were getting benefits from means-tested federal programs -- e.g. welfare -- as of the fourth quarter of 2012.

"Every American family that pays its own way -- and takes care of its own children whether with one or two incomes -- must subsidize the 109,631,000 on welfare."[/SIZE]
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/sta...-time-wor/

So now you tell me, given the fact that in 1964 only 350,000 people were on food stamps and that today we have nearly 50 million on food stamps, how much compassion and generosity is enough? The 'Great Society" initiative turned millions of US citizens into welchers.

You only thoroughly read your own posts. That's clear. Nowhere do I blame greedy corporations for income stratification. I do point out that things like mountain top removal were not designed and implemented in the overall best interests of the totality of mountain culture and community.
I would point out that massive income inequality and stratification are perhaps a better historical indicator of declining social structures than many of the "culture war" issues you rave about. In my post, I state that no society can continue indefinitely when those who are able but refuse to contribute leech resources they do nothing to help create. I cited the working poor and the low end of the middle class, if the middle class is viewed in three layer cake strata.
Again, you are simply wrong if you hold that trickle down economics lifted the working poor and the lowest strata of the middle class, and have fashioned your own fantasy land in illusory warm fuzzies for Reagan's economy. Right and left, in my view, have to leave old rhetoric and old scars behind. Hard decisions have to be made going forward, including entitlement reform, tax code reform, campaign finance reform. Both sides are going to have to bite the bullet on some past bulwarks. In this, I think, TRT, we agree: this nation cannot remain on its present course and remain solvent and strong for the next hundred years. Sacred cows may have to be slaughtered. For instance, much more emphasis on preventative care, and focus on catastrophic care coverages, with less coverage at lower ends of illness (some of the ideas of the former CBO Director). I personally think we are about to enter a time of social change, and it will be painful, and medicare, social security, and defense have to be on the table.