another home run from The Sultan Knish, Daniel Greenfield: Government Power is an Economic Inequality

Excerpts:

The liberal defenders of government power attack concentrations of wealth, but in the true concentration of wealth is not found in the hands of a few billionaires, but in the hands of the government.

The editorialists talk about income inequality and the 1 percent, but they focus on individuals rather than institutions,  and it is the concentration of wealth and power in institutions that threaten civil liberties.

Monopolistic power in 20th century America lies not in the hands of a few industrialists, but in the massive monopolistic trust of government, and its network of unions, non-profits, lobbyists and SuperPAC’s. The railroads are broken up, offshore drilling is banned, coal mining is in trouble and Ma Bell has a thousand quarreling stepchildren– now government is the real big business.

This is not merely a concentration of wealth, but a ruthless concentration of power. The real money isn’t coming from that top 1 percent, it’s coming from unions, lobbies and companies which use political power to extract public money.

HKO

Power used to follow money.  Now money follows power.

I find it interesting that those who have such a problem with the wealthy have no problems with immense concentration of wealth in the counties surrounding Washington DC.

 

 

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