You can't please everyone all of the time...

... but if you please the top 3% in Amerika, you should do just fine! They might just let you live!

Emma Brockes talks to Barbara Ehrenreich about her new book, Barack Obama and the great wealth divide | News | guardian.co.uk Books

Twenty years ago, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote an article for the New York Times in which she pointed out the growing inequality of American society and was promptly denounced, by a rival paper, as a Marxist. "The Washington Times is an extreme-rightwing publication," she says, so there was no surprise there. But the paper's reaction underlined a general principle: that while one can say "fairly wild" things about race and gender in the US, there persists a certain coyness about class. "There's this powerful myth that America doesn't have classes; that they're an ancient English or European thing that we abolished. And that if you're not rich, it's your own damn fault."

The 'bottom to top' individual is a rare creature, indeed. Most spend each day just trying to keep from losing what they've got! And every wealthy person that I know had it handed to them. Granted they have to work at keeping it, but they can afford good help with that, too.

A good friend pointed me to an interview with George Carlin this morning in which he is basically accused of being a Marxist for calling a spade a spade. I'm just not sure that I can figure out what is so bad about being Marxist! Now, I would be offended if someone called me a Capitalist!

But then, that's just me...

Here is the Carlin short:

Enjoy the book review and the interview. I did!