{"id":598593,"date":"2022-04-10T22:07:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T22:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=128673"},"modified":"2022-04-10T22:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T22:07:18","slug":"booming-economy-leaves-millions-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/10\/booming-economy-leaves-millions-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBooming\u201d Economy Leaves Millions Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"
Despite contradictory news headlines every week, the rich and their political, media, and think tank representatives continue to work overtime to foster the illusion that the American economy is strong, booming, and resilient. The future, according to them, looks bright.<\/p>\n
Nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p>\n
Not only does the economic data used by official circles rest on self-serving definitions and paint a rosier picture of reality than what actually exists, but the facts today show that tens of millions of Americans are being left behind by the so-called \u201cbooming\u201d economy. At this time:<\/p>\n
<\/a>Would these harsh conditions exist if the economy were booming, strong, and resilient? How can the economy be in great shape if tens of millions are experiencing miserable conditions? Why do the rich and their cheerleaders in every sphere routinely disinform the polity about the economy?<\/p>\n The rich and their entourage remain out of touch and are determined to advance a retrogressive agenda that will bring greater tragedies for the people if it is not opposed every step of the way.<\/p>\n While many more statistics and percentages depicting miserable conditions could be given, humanity must look at the entire ensemble of human relations, that is, the whole of human social relations, and not just parts, not just numbers and percentages, to address a large and pressing historic problem. Objectively, these problems should have been solved long ago. There is no reason for millions to go hungry in 2022.<\/p>\n The point is not to reduce inequality, poverty, debt, or gas emissions a little or to increase the food supply and wages so that fewer people are hungry. Yes, these will help. But the need is for a complete reset, a new direction, that favors the people as a whole and puts them center-stage. This means putting human rights, not the narrow pursuit of maxim profit by the rich, at the center of everything and taking a new fresh path free of parasitic arrangements that favor even fewer people every year. The rich and their representatives are not going to usher in this new direction because it would mean making themselves completely obsolete. It is up to working people, women, students, youth, senior citizens, and everyone else to collectively bring in the alternative.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n This post was originally published on Dissident Voice<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite contradictory news headlines every week, the rich and their political, media, and think tank representatives continue to work overtime to foster the illusion that the American economy is strong, booming, and resilient. The future, according to them, looks bright. Nothing could be further from the truth. Not only does the economic data used by [\u2026]<\/p>\n The post \u201cBooming\u201d Economy Leaves Millions Behind<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[305],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599935,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598593\/revisions\/599935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}