Great rant, Ray. Thanks. Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Harrell To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 9:36 PM Subject: [Futurework] Billionaires have it tough.
For someone from Picher who has never taken any kind of welfare and who refused to use the GI Bill because I thought that I could earn my way and did and leave it for the truly needy and I did, the current article below is beyond discouraging. We cooperated and worked our way out of the Picher Lead and Zinc heavy metal private sector Hell hole. Last week I had a cancer excised from an area where there should be none. The only answer the doctors had was the "Arsenic" in Tar Creek where I played as a child and which now leaches from my bones. Frankly I am much more comfortable with Obama's comments about being helped by being American than I am these cry babies. Although I was hurt by Obama's profession primarily I was hurt by the capitalist system's inability to live up to its claim that capitalism could fund serious culture. A claim that took billions of dollars of funding to keep Europe from being communist during the Cold War because Europe values serious culture. When the American Cold Warriors came home they trashed America's budding classical culture in favor of cash. As a 71 year old, if I was starting over today in my Arts, I would move to either Europe or Asia. The attitude of Americans toward serious culture has never been so toxic as from these current "Lords of Wealth." etc.
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