If we didn't already know that this election is the mother of all battles to protect our fragile Democracy from the plutocratic wrecking crew, especially when billionaires like Leon Cooperman dropped the hint in his circulated whine-letter last year about President Obama hurting the fee fees of the super-wealthy, now there is absolutely no doubt we the 99% are shackled to the guillotine.
Chrystia Freeland in this month's New Yorker Magazine pens an extended report asking a question that boggles the mind: Why is it that a small class of people that has benefited the most from the upward transfer of wealth extracted from the poor and middle classes over the last 30 years; the only class that also profited the most from the government rescue of the financial sector crash in 2008, is also the one feeling most aggrieved? They have it ALL yet it is not enough for them? Plus they demand that we the 99% and especially the President show deference to them, to boot! Else what?
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