Corruption Further Expands the Wealth Gap

“The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the knowledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.”

~Upton Sinclair, from “The Jungle”

Keep in mind that Sinclair (pictured at left) wrote this about 100 years ago, long before anyone dreamed of the level of quid pro quo and rank corruption that we’re seeing under Trump.

For example, in Herbert Hoover’s day, we didn’t have huge donors to presidential campaigns with no military experience appointed Secretary of the U.S. Navy (see pic of financier John Phelan). It never would have entered the mind of a president in that period of history to do something so bald-faced.