Middle East Inflation Agitates Lower Classes

I wonder if there is an article in Arabic somewhere who's headline reads
"US Inflation Agitates Lower Classes"
I know I am agitated with a 30% decrease in the value of the dollar.

HEADLINE - U.S.: Inflation Up, Markets Crumble, Didn't that cute guy sound good on American Idol?

SUBLINE: Laid-Off Machinist:"I ain't votin' for no woman or black guy, no matter how smart they are, and they don't like guns or church-goin'"

Throughout the world traditional people have been introduced to the new world through television. Their new knowedge has turned them into a state of frustration, envy, anger and self pity. This new powder keg in many countries need only a match of fanatical doctrine to ignite a mass movement that may shake the world.
In our own country similiar powerful negative emotions are building because of the decline in sustenance, opportunity and hope. If our leadership at all levels don't start assuming the responsibilities of their job descriptions, there will be the inevitable rising of a messiah with single strength of purpose who leads a fanatical following to no good end.

There is one critical element that is lost in the story. Most of these nations practice a more socialist economy than we do; they have price supports and heavy government direct subsidies.

So when the government goes broke, something's got to give. In these cases, fuel and food.

We haven't seen these sorts of massive increases because we have a free market for foodstuffs, albeit one that has price supports for manufacturers.

To the New York Times, low class is the same as working class. Working class is to dignified. Who gives a shit if low class people cant afford food. I'm going to change my handle to "LowClass" I will speak out for people who pick their nose in public. Or cant afford food because they have no class.

There is not a direct link between Islamic Fundamentalism and poverty, or at least not , directly to Osama Bin Ladin's type.

Many of the Islamic fundamentalists are very well educated (engineers, doctors etc) or have traveled to the West and been appalled by Western Culture, enough to react violently against the West.

But this economic situation can not be helping.

I recall my professors, years ago, discussing Egypt. With it's limited resources and growing population they said that Egypt was not a viable economic system. They were pumping out college graduates at a very high rate, but there were not jobs in the Egyptian economy for all those graduates.

What they would do is increase the state beauracracy in order to absorb these well educated grads. If they didn't the grads would become rebellious.

What my profs did not anticipate 30 years ago was that these well educated people would turn to Islamic Fundamentalism.

So the threat may not be from the poorest of the poor but from what should be an emerging Middle Class.

I also recall that revolutions do not occur when things are at their worst. Rather, they happen after people are given some hope.That hope leads to a wish for change and revolutions occur because that change doesn't happen fast enough

But you have to figure, poverty is fertile grounds for rebellion of any type. And growing poverty even more so.

The world is not flat; it's vertical. This is a global class struggle. It isn't about Allah of God - it's about money and decent working conditions.

The United States wants there to be a "divide and rule" policy based on sectarian strife, tribalism, religion, race, but not about MONEY. A class struggle is what is really going on. The Arab Nationalist Movement was stopped because the U.S. wouldn't get cheap oil. The Muslin Brotherhood took care of that for the wealthy.

The global elite want to Balkanize these little countries and stomp out class consciousness so that oil is not nationalized. The rich monarchs dictators, and the multinational corporations continue to exploit the working poor. This is neo-liberalism in action - backed up with neo-conservatism.

Current U.S. foreign policy, with all our eggs committed to the unnecessary Iraq war basket, assumes best case scenario in the rest of the World.

The changes of that assumption being correct?

Zero.

That best case scenario wasn't even correct in Iraq.

So what happens when we actually need our military and financial assetts to deal with an emergency elsewhere in the World?

We are screwed.

And it's just a matter of time.

The difference between us being poor and they being poor is this. We are apathetic, they get pissed off.

Man, this is getting very ugly. It's not long before the peasants figure out that we outnumber the rich by 10,000 to 1.

Well,... at some level at least it is nice to know that the peons in both our and their part of the world are in the same boat.

Maybe it will give us something in common to rally around when it comes down to removing our collective 'rulers' from power?

Who will be the first ones against the wall when the Revolution comes?

What's interesting is that the fat cats seem determined to prove Marx right about his theory of the inevitability of capitalism as a self-defeating institutional construction. As for the Middle Eastern rulers for whom the Bushonians have so much love, let their heads roll as cavalierly as they chop off other people's hands for petty theft. May their palaces tarnish and their indoor man-made ski slopes, in the sand, melt.

A nice glimpse of what were headed for in a few months.