Sir;... The redistribution of wealth was certainly The republican isssue; and it remains so... But the distribution of wealth as it stands, is the problem, and so; what is the cure??? Marx said, I believe quoting another, that High profits were synonymous with glut, meaning depression... We have had a lot of record profits and they have sucked a lot of wealth out of the hands of the poor, and now, the government.... When you have sold all you can sell, and you are up to your eyballs in debt, and your government is deep in debt, you have no money to buy what you produce if you are working to produce anything... At that point, money, wealth, and property are all cornered... Is there some little piddly stimulous that will feed the economy to get it going??? The more you feed this failed economy the more it eats... If you do not get the weight of government off the backs of working people, and onto the rich who most benefit from government, you can kiss the whole system good bye... Either the rich will take over government, or the government will have to tax the rich to pay their own way....A people can only afford so many super billionaires, or so big a government; and then the weight crushes the life out of them... No; this land is sold... The people do not own it anymore... They will not even have their civil rights if they cannot make their claim to ownership of the whole nation... To be smart, the rich would volunteer more taxes... To be dummm, they will stand pat on the issue, and find themselves in the street with the rest of us... Rich people are easy to replace... You cannot replace the whole working class...And it is a huge mistake to ride the working class too far without a break... If I may, let me tell you where the weakness of the republican argument lies, and Mr. Greenspan made some note of this in his latest book, but when a whole people are deprived of property, and put on the skids even while working hard, then Property and Property right is deprived, by its own choice, of critical political support...People should remember that everything, and this includes economies, and governments, and property are all forms of relationship... The form of property, and the form of property rights has got to serve most of the people to have enough support as a form to exist... If a form divides us, and injures us it will not have much support... We would all like to be rich, and we all would like a big estate... When we all realize that property is sewed up tight, and we will never have any to speak of, then the whole form is in serious danger, and that is where we are taday....So the rich are right to be afraid... They would be more right to make property plentiful, and cheap... The more people having something to lose, the more support there will be for the great estates of the rich.... Thanks...Sweeney

Of course there is class warfare in this country, and the DLC and GOP have been waging it for decades by replacing American labor with the poor of this world, particularly Asia, and ironically, with the people of Communist China and Vietnam, the same people we of the 60's were told we had to fight over there so as not to have to fight them over here. Sound familiar? It's all bullshit, of course; the corporations of this country are no more patriotic than Cheney and Bush were during the Vietnam war. Our economic difficulties of today, beyond the sheer fraud and criminality of Wall Street, exist because the American public bought into the idea of the global economy 25 years ago because it gave them cheaper products while not taking their jobs away, at least not at that time. Each succeeding year saw Americans higher up the food chain being challenged by global labor, and yet we kept on, lemming like until now when the consequences of "free" trade have gutted this country to the point that we're seeing the light and complaining as though we're totally innocent. What went around has come around. The bill is due and can be paid only if we totally reverse all aspects of American ploicy. Are we mature enough to learn the lesson?