Tunisia has seen a revolt – not by soldiers with guns but by citizens of the country who are expressing dissatisfaction with government.
Politics may be transparent to the dissatisfaction. And so may religion. The dissatisfaction may be more basic than type of government or kind of religion. The dissatisfaction may stem from the distribution of the country’s wealth.
It may well be a case of the “haves” versus the “have nots”. That is a very basic problem not confined to any region of the world nor any particular country. And wise leaders of countries are cognizant of a possible “wealth distribution problem” and tries to avoid it.
What happened in Tunisia can happen anywhere – even in America.
America’s democracy has played a positive and significant role in the distribution of America’s wealth. At least that was the case up until 1980 – when the neocons took over America’s government. The neocons made radical changes to America’s government.
Below is an indicator showing what happened to the distribution of wealth in the “business friendly” domain of the neocons:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5303590.stm#graph
Take a good look at the above graph. During the pre-neocon years you will notice that workers wages and productivity were pretty much in parallel and going up. If you look at the years covered by the graph, you will realize that both Democrats and pre-1980 Republicans allowed workers salaries to track their productivity. And in a democratic society that seems fair and just.
Now take a look at what happened to that wage growth AFTER the neocons got political traction. Wages stayed flat as productivity went “skyward”. And if you think that “business friendly” business did not like that then you may be a candidate to purchase that bridge – in New York – cheap.
Into whose pocket did the money that should have gone into labor’s pocket – go? Keep in mind that monkeys(man’s nearest relative?) have no use for money.
The money went into business’s pocket. You may think that sounds democratic but it ain’t. That puts emphasis on the domain that fascism puts emphasis on and left workers to wrestle with an upcoming burst of the housing bubble.
First the neocons drained the pockets of America’s workers and next there was an attack on America’s treasury via war spending and TAX CUTS. And by December of 2007, America and much of the Western world was in recession. The neocon politicians who wrecked America’s treasury won’t be the ones who pays for what could rationally be called, “stupidity”. Even their TAX CUTS – designed to die in December of 2010 may escape responsibility for what the neocons caused.
De-regulation of a privately owned, critical government requirement, could rationally be called “stupid”.
When privately owned businesses, that make up a government’s economy, go bad – citizens of that government pay. When a government shows favoritism to a smaller group at the expense of a larger group there is the distinct possibility that the larger group may one day “explode”.
America is headed in the fascism direction which shares not much with democracy. It is weird to hear of a business, an Ohio McDonald’s, requesting its employees, via their paycheck envelopes, to vote Republican.
The neocons warned America against opposition to their political party by suggesting a civil war. America’s press, took the civil war warning and sanitized it by placing the “civil war” in the context of an intra-party political squabble between the 1980 neocon members and the new Tea Party neocon members.
An intra-party squabble is not a “civil war”. A civil war is what the South and the North did in 1863.
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