Roughly:
Roughly:
- 80% of what we hear from those campaigning for national office (those whom we favor) are things appealing to our self-interest.
- 80% of the money that they use to get elected comes from Big Business -- large-scale corporate interests.
- 80% of the things those who are elected to national office do after they are elected primarily benefit Big Business.
It is a curious fact that most of the screams of agony from the "fleecing operation" come from those whose tax payments, the source of their pain, will in no way diminish their ability to live in the lap of luxury, or some middle-class near-approximation of it -- those for whom the "trickle down" is a horn of plenty.
At the bottom end of the economic ladder the very costs of what are considered the necessities -- basic food, shelter, clothing, utilities, health care -- threaten the ability of families there to have these fundamentals in sufficient quantity, often imposing the additional requirement that the Breadwinner(s) have more than one job. For many of these, "trickle down" proceeds barely enable them to grow enough wool to be worth fleecing.
One aspect of the "fleecing operation" is when one is convinced to purchase a premium version of something instead of a basic version. Such a choice is, of course, a freedom we cherish, but when someone buys a pair of Guess?® blue jeans at $48 instead of Wranglers® at $24, the Guess?® company is fleecing roughly the difference from him whether he cares or not. Business spends billions every year to offer us such choices and to make us happy to be fleeced.
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