Conspiracy Nation Vol. 08 Num. 60

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              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8  Num. 60 
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BEEL CLEENTON SAY: 'CONOMY GOOD 
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Talking back to my television set,  when I see news, for example, 
that this country is nearing a state  of  armed  revolt,  I  keep 
saying to them: "Oh, but Beel Cleenton say, 'conomy good." 
  
Is the increasing dissatisfaction in this country somehow related 
to the fact that the gap between haves and have nots has steadily 
increased for the last 25 or so years?  As James W. Loewen writes 
in his devastating attack  on  current American History textbooks 
(*Lies My Teacher Told Me*): 
  
  Stressing how  middle-class  we  all  are  is  particularly 
  problematic  today,  because  the  proportion of households 
  earning between 75 percent  and  125  percent of the median 
  income has fallen steadily  since  1967.   The  Reagan-Bush 
  administrations  accelerated  this  shrinkage of the middle 
  class, and most  families  who  left  its ranks fell rather 
  than rose. 
  
  
But Beel Cleenton say, 'conomy good. 
  
Coincident with the decline in the American middle class has been 
the "liberation" of women,  who  now  get  to  trudge off to work 
along  with  their  husbands.   This  dire  necessity  has   been 
disguised as a "great leap forward." 
  
The 'conomy is so good that the  past  decade  has  seen  college 
graduates waiting tables and driving cabs.  The lucky ones get to 
"intern"  --  work  at  sub-standard wages -- for the corporados. 
The deal  these  semi-slaves  get  is  like indentured servitude; 
someday they can join the insecure world of corporate employment. 
  
Those  who  still  nod their heads in agreement with the official 
line on the marvels of  monopoly  capitalism, the puffed up suits 
and ties you see on television, are well paid to nod their  heads 
in  agreement.   How  long  before people stop being impressed by 
suits and ties, silken tongues, and Harvard diplomas?  
  
A local radio show,  News  From  Neptune,  points this out:  When 
they tell you that the economy  is  good,  ask  them  --  *whose* 
economy  is good?  Yes, the economy of rich people is doing fine. 
But that is not most of us. 
  
Studs Terkel, in his  book  *Hard Times*, conducted interviews of 
persons who had lived through the Great  Depression.   One  thing 
that emerges is that those who were unemployed at that time often 
blamed  themselves  for  their  situation.   They did not see the 
larger context they were  living  through.  So too, underemployed 
Americans are counseled to  "polish  their  resume,"  "dress  for 
success," and "network," as if their declining standard of living 
is entirely *their* fault. 
  
Are you having doubts about how great the  economy  is?   Do  you 
think  you  are  having  to  work  ever-longer and harder to stay 
afloat?  Just turn on  the  television  and  see Harvard boys and 
Yale boys telling you it isn't happening,  that  the  economy  is 
good. 
  
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