Explosive Outburst by Melissa H Perry Example Why Economic & Ethnic Diversity In

[CactusCarlos]

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egbertowillies (86 posts)

Explosive Outburst by Melissa H Perry Example Why Economic & Ethnic Diversity In Media Important

Melissa Harris Perry had a most necessary explosive moment on her show after Bloomberg’s Monica Mehta intimated the misguided notion that the risk taken by the wealthy with their capital is so much more risky than what the average middle class or poor person takes comparatively. Most in the mainstream media seem to be intimidated by wealth or tend to believe that their worth is less than the worth of the wealthy and in doing so they provide the information and news through the prism of the wealthy.

Ensuring that the media is populated with both economic and ethnic diversity as well as people with intrinsically strong self-worth like Melissa Harris Perry is essential if we are to get from under the knees of our plutocracy.

While the wealthy take risks with their capital when investing in that oil rig, the middle class and poor workers risk their lives enhancing the wealthy’ s wealth. The refinery worker, the miner, the factory worker, the meat packer, the garbage collector, the police officer, the soldier, the teacher, the fisherman, and all other workers take risks, many of them with life ending possibilities.

The wealthy are not the job creators. They assist in job creation. Here is the reality. There are three components, the consumer, the manufacturer/producer/servicer, and the investor. Note that the owners of capital are just that, owners of capital. The middle class and the poor are the largest consumers and they are the producers of what is consumed. We must get away from the notion that the wealthy is intrinsically worthier. It is a community. In our form of capitalism one cannot live without the other and as such none should get special taxing or any other financial privileges.

Those who equate the risk of losing capital as some major risk relative to what the poor and middle class risks illustrate the inhumaneness of the type of capitalism the Right has made it possible to practice and be comfortable with. Yet they attempt to claim to believe in the sanctity of life and that they have some moral superiority to liberals.

Melissa Harris Perry, THANK YOU. I could not be prouder this week of you, Chris Matthews, and Soledad OBrien. I hope you guys keep the pressure on. You must no longer allow the Right Wing from spouting out their bastion of provable lies without pushback as is being done by most of the mainstream media.

See the video HERE.

[J P Sousa]

What Melissa Harris-Perry’s tirade on risk tells us about the liberal mind
http://www.examiner.com/video/melissa-harris-perry-goes-ballistic-on-msnbc

This is the BIG DIVIDE between DUmmies and sane people. The DUmmies believe government creates jobs.
 
They have NO IDEA how business operates and why THEY (the DUmmies) have jobs, if they in fact have a job (I believe most are on the government dole).

I had a liberal tell me "business does not create jobs".    
 
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[JohnnyReb]

So, if we kill capitalism and accept socialism there will be no dangerous jobs...uh huh

[Vagabond]

They go on about the rich and the "risk of investment" without ever realizing that middle class and poor people take monetary risks and make investments as well.  Wall Street does not exist solely for the "rich".  Any one can invest in stocks and bonds, and enjoy the benefits and risks associated with them.

[GOBUCKS]

What Melissa Harris-Perry’s tirade on risk tells us about the liberal mind
http://www.examiner.com/video/melissa-harris-perry-goes-ballistic-on-msnbc

This is the BIG DIVIDE between DUmmies and sane people. The DUmmies believe government creates jobs.
 
They have NO IDEA how business operates and why THEY (the DUmmies) have jobs, if they in fact have a job (I believe most are on the government dole).

I had a liberal tell me "business does not create jobs".

You may recall during the recent Bellevue, Nebraska council election, the guy who finished fourth in a field of four, the Weeper, declared the main purpose of government is to hire more people.

[obumazombie]

Some people can't figure out which side of the cash register they are on.