The rich keep getting richer. That's as old as the hills. Hard to say when the first time that was said, maybe when Grok said it to Gruk. It's not a new thing that's for sure. People used to complain about the Rockefellers, Morgans and Rothchilds back in the day, still do. Now we have the rich, the very rich, the very, very rich, and the very, very fucking rich. Some of them we know, most of them we don't.

We have a gangster capitalism economic system, neoliberalism, completely out of control, funneling most of the wealth to the rich (the 1% and below, i.e., .01%, .001%, etc.) and the future impacts appear downright frightening for most of the human race, maybe for the entire human race.

Something must be done. The wealth inequality being caused is creating a superclass of family wealth that will make the old guard of family wealth created under slavery and Native American genocide seem quaint. We have truly become a nation of haves and have nots, as unequal as any country on earth. With wealth comes power, that's how we humans roll.

"Ultra high-net-worth individuals will transfer $3.9 trillion to the next generation by 2026, according to “Preparing for Tomorrow: A Report on Family Wealth Transfers,” released Monday by global wealth consultancy Wealth-X and insurance brokerage and consulting firm NFP. This reflects a 5% decline from the report’s 2014 estimate of $4.1 trillion, but this is because the massive global wealth transfer among the world’s newest superrich has already begun. The biggest concern for the world’s superrich was “succession and inheritance issues” (67%), a recent survey by global real estate consultants Knight Frank found."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/the-largest-wealth-transf...

Rumors about the Rothschild family wealth have been around for centuries. Some estimates put the total Rothschild family wealth in the trillions although the uncontested figure is "only" $350 billion. The top billionaires on the planet are approaching the $100 billion mark. We WILL have trillionaires at this rate. There are over 1,800 billionaires on the planet now with more being added weekly. Millionaires are added on a daily basis and at the low end have become the upper middle class. The middle class is shrinking and has been stagnant for decades. The working/poor class has replaced the middle class as the largest grouping in the country.

"The rich appear to be leaving the middle class behind. Most U.S. middle-income households (81%) had flat or falling income between 2004 and 2014, according to recent U.S. Congressional Budget Office data analyzed by the McKinsey Global Institute, a global management company. And 61% of middle-income households say their incomes are either not advancing or they’re staying the same as they were last year: “Most people growing up in advanced economies since World War II have been able to assume they will be better off than their parents. Yet this overwhelmingly positive income trend has ended.”

The rich are raking it in and this system is creating more and more of them. Absolutely nothing is being done about this massive, even existential, problem by our political representatives. There have been various proposals such as raising income taxes and rates, establishing a .01% tax on Wall Street gambling transactions and changing wealth inheritance laws.

These proposals are placeholders, only serving to perpetuate rampant wealth inequality while making the Serfs think they're getting a deal. They do nothing to change the system that is allowing the surreal incomes and wealth creation at the top of the pyramid. They certainly won't solve the problem. These proposals should be rejected and We the Serfs should demand a fair and equal economic system.

Ya right.

We're facing critical systemic problems in the capitalist economic system and in this country's representative political system. We're a fading Empire waging a war on the world with a seemingly unstoppable military/security/intelligence complex intent on implementing Full Spectrum Dominance over the entire planet and the air and space above it. The corporate, mainstream, oligarchy owned media basically serves as mind control over most of the population. Bandaids won't help, all they will do is put off the inevitable needed surgery.

There is zero interest from those that make our decisions for us to face these issues because this political system exists to maintain power at the highest levels. This country has never been what it's been played out to be, the greatest democracy on Earth. Never. It's all been a giant illusion.

Now, it seems the people are content to allow this farce of an election between Trump and Clinton to continue to its morbid end. Like there's nothing WE can do about it right? WE the Serfs can't do a thing. Some of us will vote, some of us won't. We'll get a new President to follow successive war criminal and neoliberal purveyors Obama, Bush and Clinton. It's still anyone's guess who we get, this thing is so damn ridiculous. It makes me literally ashamed to be a human. I wish I was a cat.

It remains to be seen what happens after the election. Imagine if we get Donald Trump. Or imagine if we get Hillary Clinton. Imagine hell below us. The so called Revolution emanating from Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign is a non-starter, another placeholder for the failed political system and the oligarchy's Democratic party. The last real activity against these systems was five years ago now with the Occupy movement in 2011. Where the hell is Occupy now? Things have gotten worse and yet there is no protesting? How can that be?

Some say things will have to hit rock bottom before enough people will rise up and demand real change. Maybe. The controls are immense, there may be no way out of this. The Haves are going to protect what they feel is rightfully theirs and they're gaining wealth and with it, power, at an exponential rate. If you're a Have, there is nothing wrong, the systems are working. The Haves, by and large, are not going to rock the boat. They're going to protect their gravy trains and they have the means to do it.

Maybe that's where we're really headed, a civil war between the Haves and the Have Nots. "Hey Haves, we're coming for you. The thing is, it didn't have to be this way. If you weren't so fucking greedy".