Lewis D. Eigen Quotes
If the upper classes, through their political representatives, pass legislation that diminishes the income of the middle class and reduces services to the poor and further enrich the affluent, this is not class warfare. But if the middle class and the poor, and their representatives, complain that this is unfair, that is class warfare. So say some of our politicians who oppose class warfare.
Lewis D. Eigen, Political Historical Editor, Associate Director, U. S. Job Corps (Democrat), Scholar & Educator, Businessperson, Scholar & Educator, Director, National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, Member, Board of Directors, National Civil Service League, President, Social & Health Services, Ltd., Speech, Potomac, MD, April 18, 2011
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Buffet was the 2nd richest man in America and had been the beneficiary of the George W. Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and had profited from a strong economy but one which found middle class workers actually earning less each year.
The same greatest issue was still before the people a century later. See {633217} , {635104} & {630538}.
The crisis of inequality of income and wealth has occurred seven times in American history.
Worry about the disproportional power of the rich is not a modern concern, but was a concern from the very beginning of the nation. There was a belief that if there were a legislative body representing the entire population the rich would tend to dominate it. The solution that England had found was a bicameral Parliament—a House of Lords representing the wealthy and the powerful and the House of Commons, representing the bulk of the people. America followed suit but never did have the class distinction of England.
Chesterton preceded by almost half a century much of the intellectual dispute of the War on Poverty of the 1960’s where much of the middle and upper class tried to change a variety of behavior patterns and customs and values of the poor.
The Supreme Court had ruled that there could be no limits placed on the amount of money that could be spent by a rich company or person to campaign for a candidate. It would deny them their right to freedom of speech. That was the context of Hollings’ remark.
Lewis D. Eigen is the Senior Research Scientist & Chief Technology Officer at BEA Enterprises Inc. based in Potomac, Maryland, USA. He has worked as Mathematician, Psychologist, Technologist. Software Engineer, Government & Corporate Executive (Public & Private Corporations), Educator, Quotation Compiler & Editor. He is the author of 13 books, over 100 research articles and papers, over 500 multi-media training modules and more than a dozen computer products / systems. In government he has served as the First Associate Director of the U. S. Job Corps, the Director of the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, and as a member of the the Johnson Task Force for the War on Poverty, the MacNamara Commission on Military Transition to Civilian Life, and as a Senior Editor and Peer Reviewer for the National Institutes of Health.
