To my fellow Americans who are worried over our current divisiveness within our country and our failure, as a country, to address many of our current problems including our continuing military wars and our need to repair our national infrastructure of roads and bridges, I ask that one and all spend time reading about our American history during the 1940s and 1950s. If you read said history, you will discover that unlike today, our nation was then acting in a much more community-based way where a giant majority of our people were behaving in ways that were looking out for one and all of us. This included our need to deal with our financial costs. Regarding the latter, back in the 1940s and 1950s, the upper middle class and the wealthy among us accepted our federal office holders' decision, based upon earnings, to pay close to 40% of said earnings in federal taxes so that the cost of our nation’s challenges including our World War Two effort and our expansion and repair of our national infrastructure under Republican President Eisenhower in the 1950s could be paid for. We succeeded in these efforts and during those difficult times, the wealthy remained rich and the poor and middle classes were doing much better.
In our world of today, we are seeing a totally different America. Less than 1% of our American families are actually participating in our extended wars and our poor and lower middle class people are earning far less in value today than they were earning six and seven decades ago. On the other hand, the percentage of increases in wealth for our upper class people is incredibly higher which explains why the gap between our rich and our poor and middle classes has grown exponentially over the past several decades.
It is time for us as a nation to become one again. We can be both a nation that supports the concept of opportunities for wealth for our people while at the same time making certain that all of us beneath the wealth are provided with opportunities that allow for us, as individuals, and as families to meet our needs for survival as we once again become a national community that is here for one and all of us.
In our world of today, we are seeing a totally different America. Less than 1% of our American families are actually participating in our extended wars and our poor and lower middle class people are earning far less in value today than they were earning six and seven decades ago. On the other hand, the percentage of increases in wealth for our upper class people is incredibly higher which explains why the gap between our rich and our poor and middle classes has grown exponentially over the past several decades.
It is time for us as a nation to become one again. We can be both a nation that supports the concept of opportunities for wealth for our people while at the same time making certain that all of us beneath the wealth are provided with opportunities that allow for us, as individuals, and as families to meet our needs for survival as we once again become a national community that is here for one and all of us.
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