Poor kids are the ones who die in rich men's wars.
This is Steve Earle, "Rich Man's War", off of The Revolution Starts Now.
-- Badtux the Music Penguin
4 days ago
Sunday, February 13, 2011
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Steve hits it out of the park with the very first sentence.
ReplyDeleteRich men love high unemployment for a variety of reasons - this is only one of them.
I've come to believe that the moneyed elite always and everywhere seeks to reduce the rest of the population to the subsistence level - whether by serfdom, slavery, share cropping, the company sto'e, or simple elimination of economic opportunity, as we are experiencing now. And they want every god-damned penny you have, too - hence the attacks on and lies about social security - an issue I've blogged about recently.
WASF,
JzB
Hayek thought socialism was the road to serfdom. Hayek was a fool. Feudal lords didn't need socialism to reduce their serfs to abject poverty and subjugation. So it was then, so it is now.
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