Why not declare War on Wealth?

Today’s headline says that there are now 15 million unemployed and of those, 6.3 million have been out of work for over 6 months. Many of these people will not get jobs for years to come—even when a recovery is well underway.

Back in the 60s, we declared the War on Poverty and poverty has been slowly growing ever since. The Reagan “Rising tide lifts all boats” tax cuts for the rich are yielding their end results. We have over $12 trillion in federal debt and for the first time since WWII, middle-class income has fallen over the last decade; and the middle class’ share of the wealth of the country has plummeted dramatically.

So we declared War on Poverty and got more poverty. We declared War on Drugs and got more drugs. We declared War on Terrorism and got more terrorism. Isn’t it time to start declaring war on things we actually WANT more of?