After Luigi Mangione shot and killed the late Brian Thompson, the Chief Executive Officer of UnitedHealthcare, in broad daylight in Manhattan, New York, people who had suffered bad experiences with health insurance companies posted on social media that they felt that the late Mr. Thompson had deserved his fate. I am not someone who condones the use of violence and homicide to confront the professional misconduct of someone high up in a health insurance company.
Nevertheless, I will not be giving the late Mr. Thompson any pity parties either, because he had committed some reprehensible transgressions against his own customers throughout his tenure as a management official in the health-insurance industry. At the same time, I had questioned whether the prosecution would have been seeking the death penalty against Mr. Mangione if he had murdered a poor person or a homeless person.
I don't normally publish articles about socioeconomic issues here on this writing platform. However, I thought that this particular topic about the problems that the rich have caused average Americans should receive at least some attention.
It seems that rich people always get the best of everything whenever it comes to the criminal justice system. The system is definitely rigged in their favor. Also, they seldom ever serve any time behind bars for any crime no matter how heinous it is.
The United States has gradually evolved into a plutocracy. Jesse Watters of Fox News is a good example of how you can love the art but hate the artist. His investigative reporting skills are impeccable. However, he is always making fun of homeless people and running his mouth about how he feels that they are losers who have failed in life. He also directs these same callous remarks of his against homeless war veterans who fought for his freedoms and rights.
Because Mr. Watters is from a rich, Jewish family, I would have to question how he would feel if someone were to suggest that the Federal government of our nation stopped dumping money into Israel and utilized that same money to get homeless people back on their feet financially. I'm sure he would feel as though he were sitting in the hot seat, because he wouldn't be able to speak against it without calling too much attention to his apathetic, disgraceful ways.
Then again, Mr. Watters would probably accuse that individual of being anti-Semitic, because usually his kind seldom ever see the ills of their own ways. He is the very definition of hate and bigotry.
All these narratives that Mr. Watters delivers on television about how he feels that homeless people are social degenerates who have failed in life are likely sermons that he has written up at his dining room table underneath his diamond chandelier in his ivory tower while eating caviar and sipping champagne. He's disgusting.
One time when I was having a conversation with my brother-in-law, my brother-in-law kept ranting and raving about how he admired rich people and how he felt that they were so misunderstood. I couldn't figure out why he was going off on this rant of his, because, to the best of my knowledge, no rich person has ever invited him to a cocktail party in their mansion; and they probably never will.
I simply cannot feed into this pity of his for the rich. It's not as though you ever see a homeless rich person pushing a grocery cart full of his clothing.
I can appreciate the argument that rich people do experience personal tragedies. Erik and Lyle Menendez both grew up rich and look at what a nightmare their lives were during their childhood and adolescent years. For that reason, I don't believe in parental testamentary freedom. They should be released from prison, because their father drove them over the edge.
These rich people should not be able to procreate children, abuse them, and then cut them out of their will. I don't feel that any parent should have the legal ability to disinherit their children under any circumstances.
Now, I'm not here to hate on the rich. I realize that there are rich people out there who do heroic things and are philanthropists in every way. Nonetheless, there appears to be a number of rich people in the United States who are greatly to blame for the pain and suffering of individuals in the lower income bracket. Therefore, I can understand why there is all this collective animosity against them.
Herein I'm going to describe a whole host of injustices that rich people commit against the middle class and the poor. If you are a rich person reading this article, try not to be offended. I'm not here to antagonize anyone, but rather to enlighten others about what rich people are doing and what they need to stop doing.
I don't know how rich people are where you live, but here in the United States where I live, most of them are deplorable. They love to exploit the less fortunate, and they go as far as obstructing improvements in the quality of life here so that they can line their own pockets.
1. The Wealthy Class's Misuse Of Big Pharma
Say you have allergies. You're coughing and sneezing at night, and you're unable to fall asleep. What do you do? You vacuum and clean your bedroom the next day to get rid of all the dust in it. However, what if you don't have time to do so immediately?
Once I read on the Internet that a vaccination that permanently cured allergies, including dust allergies, had been invented somewhere in the Far East. I was talking about it with a friend of mine named Donna; and she replied that the owners of Big Pharma would never allow for this vaccination to enter the United States, because it would cause antihistamine sales to plummet significantly.
Donna added that the rich owners of these pharmaceutical companies would likely bribe elected officials and employees of the Food And Drug Administration ("FDA") to throw roadblocks to keep this vaccination out of our nation. In other words, they care more about their profits than they do about the people that they are wronging.
When you are struggling financially and you are so strapped for time that you have to plan your schedule carefully to clean your bedroom or do cleaning anywhere in your residence, you can feel nothing but hatred and contempt for the rich people who own these pharmaceutical companies as you cough and sneeze and struggle to fall asleep at night. Sure, you can buy antihistamines to get these symptoms under control, but that costs money; and perhaps it may not even be in your budget to do so.
When the late President Ronald Reagan was campaigning for late President George H.W. Bush's run for reelection at the Republican National Convention back in 1992, he was rambling on about how rich people were so victimized by having to pay taxes. Give me a break. Of course, then again, he was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, I guess I could not have expected him to behave any differently from the way he did.
Rich people couldn't care less about the quality of human life as long as something they do to act on their greed at the detriment of others doesn't harm them. Many of them are selfish, self-serving, greedy, Narcissistic, and devoid of all humanity.
2. The Travesty Of Primitive Dentistry
There are four interesting articles by the same author that describe how the dental prosthetics industry has become so corrupt and dirty that they will go to whatever lengths to force their products down everyone's throats, even if they have to keep the field of dentistry in the dark ages forever and ever. Once again rich people own these companies, and they're snakes about protecting their financial interests.
Those four above-described articles are "Tooth Regeneration Must Prevail!," "Ending Dentures Vs. Fossil-Fuel Production in a Biden Regime," "The Dental Prosthetics Industry Is Finally On Its Deathbed," and "Japan Will Crush the American Dental Prosthetics Industry." After reading them, you will see that I would like more than anything for all the television commercials peddling dental prosthetic products to be banned from the American airwaves.
Back when Elon Musk was shutting down all these different Federal government agencies throughout the United States, I was crossing my fingers that he would eliminate the FDA, because they are the most despicable bureaucracy ever in the history of American government second to the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"). Any FDA employee who has accepted bribes from any of the rich corporate moguls who own dental prosthetic companies belong in prison.
False teeth and dentures have existed since the time that the ancestors of most of us were riding around in horse-drawn chariots and wearing leaves in their hair. Rich people have no right to hold us hostage to such anachronisms. I've even gotten wind that elite scoundrels are making tooth regeneration available to themselves but not to others. That is where our society really needs to draw the line.
3. Housing Crisis Throughout The United States
Rich people are buying up properties throughout the United States. This is making the cost of housing unbearably expensive for the average American. Because rich people are renting apartments in Manhattan and leaving them vacant for lengthy periods of time, the cost of living in New York City has become ridiculously expensive. The end results are poverty and homelessness.
I can appreciate the argument that New York City has always been expensive. However, now it's a nightmare to make ends meet in that town. In the two videos below, the mother of a middle-class Christian conservative family originally from California will even give you a detailed description of how she and her family have had to move out of their dwelling in Harlem, because they simply cannot afford it.
A Mother And Housewife Complains About How The Expense Of Living In New York City Is Forcing Her And Her Family To Leave The Big Apple
I was stunned to learn that this same family was paying $12,300 a month to live in their rental dwelling in Manhattan. When I was living in New York City, it was not cheap, to say the least, but the amount of rent I spent each month was nowhere near what this family had to pay each month in rent.
The neighborhood I lived in was no different from theirs. Then again, I lived alone in a basement apartment instead of a large dwelling like theirs, so my rent would have been cheaper than theirs; and, of course, it has been a while since I lived in The Big Apple. The cost of living there is much higher now than it was back when I was living there.
I eventually left New York City for the West Coast. This family did the opposite and moved from Southern California to The Big Apple.
4. The Wealthy's Corruption Of The Healthcare-Insurance Industry
I cannot forget to make mention herein of the outrageous cost of healthcare here in the United States because of the soaring expenses of health insurance. After all, I did initially bring up the subject of the late Brian Thompson herein, and Luigi Mangione claimed that he murdered him because of the injustices that UnitedHealthcare health insurance committed against its customers.
Why is it that if English-speaking nations like Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand all four have Universal Healthcare that covers everyone's medical expenses, the United States refuses to take its healthcare system beyond a private for-profit industry? Medicaid doesn't even come through for the medical needs of the underprivileged, and now our elected officials are creating additional restrictions for eligibility for it.
I voted for President Donald J. Trump in the last presidential election; and if you want to snipe at me for doing so, that's your choice. I simply had felt that he had more to offer my nation than Kamala Harris did.
Yes, I am not in favor of President Trump imposing eligibility restrictions on Medicaid for recipients between 19 and 64 years of age. I don't buy into that myth about the "stay-at-home son" who lives in his mother's basement.
I don't even know why any woman would want her adult son to live in her basement. There would be nothing but spiders and other insects down there, and the environment would be musty. It would almost be like a form of punishment for a parent to make their adult son live in such wretched conditions. I don't know all of this from experience, but I have some idea of how it would be like in my mind.
The additional restrictions on Medicaid is only going to turn the American healthcare system more upside down than it already is. Instead of making these same changes to Medicaid to save taxpayers money, President Trump would have been better off banning Medicare Advantage advertisements from the television airwaves. I can only begin to think of how many millions of dollars the Federal government pays to air those television commercials.
Besides, those Medicare Advantage television commercials are very cheesy. The people that narrate them and are in them act like amateurs. These ads get old and repetitious after a while. If they were taken off the air, nobody would miss them. I know I wouldn't.
I suppose that rich people would not want the United States to have Universal Healthcare, because then they would have to reach into their deep pockets and pay taxes to fund such a government program. We all have to remember that rich Americans are selfish with their money, even though many of them didn't even work for it but rather inherited it from their parents and are trust-fund kids.
We also have to remember that those in control of these health insurance companies here in the United States are all sitting on piles of money. It is disgusting how our trickle-down economy has evolved into something destructive to society, and our elected officials don't seem to care about it as long as they get back into office.
Meanwhile, medical debt is ruining the lives of poor and middle-class Americans, because way too many Americans cannot afford health insurance and perhaps don't qualify for Medicaid. Moreover, the longer people let their health problems go untreated, the more complicated their health conditions become.
I remember this one film from 2002 that was titled John Q. that starred Denzel Washington in his role as the main character. In that movie, the protagonist takes an emergency room hostage at gunpoint to force them to give his little son a heart transplant inasmuch as his health insurance won't pay for it. I get the intuition that we're going to see incidents like this one unfold in real life here in the United States if elected officials don't do anything to address the problem.
5. Slave Wages From Corporate Moguls In Tight Job Market
Isn't it interesting how corporate moguls will drive the extra mile to ensure that they get pay raises, whereas they'll pay the low-level employees peanuts on the dollar and provide them with no benefits simply to save their company some money? Now that Artificial Intelligence ("AI") has entered on the scene, jobs are going to become scarcer than they are now and employers will be likely paying as close down to minimum wage as they can.
Currently, there are over a half million homeless people here in the United States. These numbers are going to continue to grow as more and more people don't have employment and are evicted from their residences.
Once the number of homeless people begin to catch up with the number of people who do have homes, Americans are going to begin to see all forms of violence and chaos unleash. There will be more break-ins, especially against businesses, than there are now. There will be more muggings than there are now.
Nothing is going to get better as we continue on the same downward trajectory. Rich Americans don't seem to care if our country becomes another Fourth World nation like India where rich people live in mansions that overlook the slums of their nation. In fact, I'm beginning to believe that they want the United States to be that way.
We can all count on there being a whole host of riots throughout the streets of the United States. Elected leaders, of course, will deploy National Guard troops to confront and stop the violence and chaos. However, keep in mind that they'll likely need the armed forces to back them up, because these riots will be widespread.
Young men and women are simply not enlisting in the military anymore as they did 10 years ago. As our elected officials spend more and more money on defense, our nation continues to become weaker inasmuch as young adults are simply not interested in defending a nation whose policies they cannot support.
Meanwhile, social-justice warriors continue to complain about the decline in the birthrate. Wow. Get some decent housing and employment available to Americans, and perhaps this same problem could be solved in a heartbeat. However, elected officials have it in their mind that they can utilize the same failed policies and get different results. That's magical thinking on their part.
Nations with wide gaps between the have and the have-nots become cesspools for crime and corruption, and eventually they fall apart. Perhaps India has stood the test of time in spite of its problems. However, many Indian nationals are trying to leave that country, because there simply isn't the opportunities there that exist elsewhere.
Ultraconservatives will argue that rich people are job creators. I don't disagree with that point entirely. The problem I have with it is that those same jobs that these wealthy people create are often shipped overseas before they even see the light of day here in the United States. It's called outsourcing, and clueless Americans need to stop defending rich people for stuff they never give to the less fortunate.
6. Double Standards With American Sex Laws
There can be no question that sex-offender registries are forcing many Americans needlessly into poverty. Because the United States has some of the most ridiculously Draconian sex laws and Americans are being hit with some of the most frivolous and malicious statutory-rape convictions, the movement to end teenage marriage throughout the nation has only increased the number of such convictions.
Because many of these statutory-rape convictions stem from couples in which the boyfriend and the girlfriend each so happen to be on opposite sides of the legal age line, many of these couples are getting married afterwards and starting a family. Having one spouse on the sex-offender registry is forcing these families to live on $11,000 a year. Getting a job and keeping a job is a challenge on its own for these registrants.
Some of these families are doing the smart thing and expatriating from the United States. Unfortunately, that is not an option readily available to everyone for financial reasons.
The reason that I bring this point up in my article is because rich people almost never seem to get into trouble for breaking these same sex laws. On a rare occasions that they do get into trouble, they don't have to worry about struggling financially inasmuch as they already have money to sustain themselves.
Although I am well aware of the well-meaning intentions of sex-offender registries, I still find them to discriminate against the middle class and the poor. Too many people are being railroaded for these alleged sex crimes, and they don't have the same amount of money to fight the charges legally as rich people do.
It would probably be better if the United States abolished sex-offender registration altogether, because it's mainly a product of an oppressive caste system. Because police are more dead set on serving the rich and the elites rather than protecting the public safety, I cannot emphasize this point more than I have done so.
"Statutory rape" should be downgraded from a strict-liability offense to an intent offense, because prosecutors are getting carried away with these criminal cases in our courts throughout the nation and police don't show much sensitivity with everyone who becomes involved in them, including the alleged victims. Any minor over the age of 12 should at least have some form of veto power in these matters.
The only weapon that any of us have to keep the wrong person from going to prison for these so-called crimes is the doctrine of jury nullification, and elected officials are beginning to attack that line of defense as well. The victims industry that pertains to teenage minors has become like the Third Reich in our nation.
7. Final Thoughts
Perhaps you've heard the above-cited arguments in other articles and the likes in the past. You may even want to add something to my article if you can. In any event, the United States cannot continue upon the same trajectory as it has been doing.
Once our nation becomes filthy and poor, nobody is going to travel to here from overseas on vacation. Then we can kiss our tourism industry goodbye. There doesn't appear to be as many Good Samaritans and philanthropists among the rich elite nowadays as there were in years past.
Our tax dollars are being wasted on useless wars in the Middle East and dumped into nations like Israel that don't necessarily have our best interests at heart. Meanwhile, there is poverty, homelessness, and misery everywhere here in what is supposed to be one of the richest nations in the world.
People are leaving the United States and even renouncing their U.S. citizenship, because they distrust our elected officials with the well-being of all Americans. Our nation has to be losing a whole mint of tax dollars because of it.
Cutting back social welfare programs is not going to make our situation better. Now, yes, I can understand our elected officials wanting to deny such benefits to an MS-13 gang member who is in our nation illegally and has murdered Americans. However, cutting Medicaid from ailing individuals who are too sick to work is only going to increase the number of premature deaths in our nation. Suicides will also probably skyrocket in the long run.
A woman from Ghana once told me that she thought that anyone who becomes homeless in the United States only has themselves to blame for it. I tried to explain to her that most of these people are not homeless by choice, but she continued to get up on her moral high horse on this topic.
What part of the truth does this woman not understand that immigrants like her are taking away American jobs? Moreover, corporate moguls are shipping American jobs overseas to the People's Republic of China. Just give another dollar to the communists if you're rich and high up on the corporate ladder.
I'm not looking to sound xenophobic; but I'm sure that if the tables were turned the other way around, this Ghanan woman would feel the exact same way that I do about these matters. She got fired not too long ago, so perhaps the experience of becoming unemployed has enlightened her since then.
American elected officials need to spend tax dollars on Americans rather than on foreign interests. If poverty and homelessness continue to grow in our nation, our national security is going to go down the toilet. There eventually won't be anything left to fight for or defend here in the so-called land of milk and honey.
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