Warren Buffett: 'If There Was A Class War, My Class Won'

Thus quotes the incomparable Bill Moyers in "We are Living in the United States of Inequality," a gut-wrenching summary of the extremes of economic inequality now permitted... no, encouraged... in America.

Today's gap between rich and poor is arguably the worst ever in America. Goodness knows it's bad enough... and the number of people experiencing that gap is vast. Let Moyers tell you about it in under 15 minutes.

(Link points to a transcript and a Vimeo video of the summary. Moyers packs a powerful message in a very short segment. Found by several indirections beginning at Avedon's Sideshow.)

Sometimes...

Sometimes, recently approaching all the time, I want to FACE DOWN THE FINANCIAL POWERS‑THAT‑BE IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, SLAP THEM BACK‑AND‑FORTH ACROSS THE FACE A FEW TIMES, HARD, TO GET THEIR ATTENTION, AND DEMAND OF THEM, "HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING AT ALL FROM AMERICA'S HISTORY???"

Armando at Daily Kos, faced with the same frustration, wrote a well-reasoned position paper, "The Lessons of 1937"; his post is probably less damaging to our cause than all that face-slapping would be, though I don't know that it will have any more positive effect on Obama's Wall Street gang...

Do you suppose there's any way, perhaps through the work of a stage hypnotist, to implant a suggestion in all of Obama's advisors that "austerity" is equivalent to, say, "obscenity," or perhaps "marijuana," or maybe "WikiLeaks"?