tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61033317582894617472024-03-12T21:10:03.698-07:00TimelessAs We enter these pages where Ideas & Imaginations run free, We follow only one rule: Think & Talk about it...Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923273274730877029noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103331758289461747.post-4999385530446676792018-10-30T19:09:00.002-07:002018-10-30T19:41:14.659-07:00Universal basic income aka #UBI <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Capitalism need saving again.<br />
In the 1930's FDR save capitalism introducing 40H workweek, minimum wage and social security.<br />
The effect of those measures last literally till today in America.<br />
Europe and the rest of the developed world, Japan, Canada and Australia, respectively add to their social network programs like universal healthcare, living wages, tuition free college education and retirement programs. The benefits from those programs build strong middle class and the positive effects last also till today.<br />
It give to capitalism much needed boost to the system that couldn't resolve the boom and the bust cycles on its own.<br />
Until the crash of 2008 when the world went the opposite way, ripping all the safety nets wherever they were weak enough to be torn apart with various degree of austerity measures or spending cuts depending on what side of the Atlantic and the Pacific ocean one lived in.<br />
The crises continue masked as recovery enabling mass transfer of wealth from the middle class to the rich. No-one really cared for the poor this time around, amidst the widespread slather of the middle class.<br />
Electing Trump just put the nail in the coffin of the whole <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/america-s-millennials-are-waking-up-to-a-grim-financial-future" target="_blank">millennials </a>generation of the middle class Americans. The brexit killed a generation of the english middle class.<br />
Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy are devouring their public sectors and their commons as homage to Germany and France.<br />
Japan is in perpetual decline as economy and as nation.<br />
What can be done to save capitalism nowadays?<br />
Europe come up with an idea called UBI or universal basic income.<br />
Living in America i can't really tell how popular the idea is in Europe, except that is the only idea circulating around the world as waves hitting the shores of every country.<br />
Theres no other way they say, automation will displace vast majority of the labor force and taxing the robots to pay the labor is the only solution.<br />
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Not to mention the corporations who abandon the western countries in search for cheap labor across the globe and left the native population fighting over service jobs and diminishing standard of living.</div>
Soon all wages will flatten to some substandard level where full time job will not pay the rent while the renters will wear I-phone watch on the wrist. Cause progress you know.<br />
So someone come up with the idea of universal basic income: use the taxes instead of wages to supplement the income of the majority of the population who are facing extinction as human beings.<br />
It sound horrible, but that is what most of the developed countries are facing: native population decline as combination of reduced natality rates, increased suicide and homicide rates and decreased life span.<br />
We have less babies, we kill ourselves in desperation, we neglect our bodies and therefore die younger of stress related deceases as obesity, diabetes and heart failures.<br />
Will UBI save us?<br />
It will save capitalism for sure.<br />
It will give him another century or two, to sharpen its teeth and devour its host.<br />
Host being us, the people and the planet Earth.<br />
UBI and the renewable energy breakthrough.<br />
The Elon Musk of the world.<br />
<a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-class-rise-of-populism/" target="_blank">Not the precariat. </a><br />
And the poor people campaign that will accept anything in desperation.<br />
The Age of Flattening is upon us.<br />
Chinese wages will rise, African wages will rise, Latin wages will rise, and European wages will stagnate, American wages will stagnate, Japanese wages will stagnate until the whole world wage equilibrate into one flatten minimal standard of living amidst unimaginable technological exponential advantages no-one can foreseen today. It will change the way we look at class. <a href="https://medium.com/the-establishment/why-millennial-precarity-should-change-the-way-we-think-about-class-1cde377caf0" target="_blank">Penniless labor force </a>able to purchase the amazing 21 Century technology.<br />
The exponential technologies of the future world.<br />
And in that centuries that UBI will deliver to the capitalism, the negation will germinate.<br />
It will not be called Socialism, cause socialism run its course and burn out in flame.<br />
It will be the name no-one knows or use today in my humble opinion.<br />
Cooperatives, democracy at work, resource based economy, all reminiscence of the world we live in today will come to past, and new ideas will develop to organize a world were<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eOFokM3lUI" target="_blank"> energy will cost zero, </a>ideas will flow freely and new conscience will be destine to follow.<br />
I don't think i will see the light myself, i just hope it will dawn on my children children faces one day.<br />
That or some grotesque version of Darth Vader future. Army of robots in service of one very religious man and the clergy around him. Empire strikes back: all the technological benefits lost in egotistic vanity spree.<br />
Lets go back to the present.<br />
Universal Basic Income is inevitable.<br />
Inevitable for humanity and i hope my generation will be the first generation to enjoy it.<br />
And for my generation it will be beneficial.<br />
Those who are earning poverty wages will be given a lift into secure future without stress of not having the basic needs met. The poor will not be poor anymore. They will have money to pay the rent on time, money to buy real food, meat and veggies and fruits too. Money to go to the movies. Money to even see the ocean. They will feel stability for the first time in their lives. They may even be embolden to go back to school and follow their dreams.<br />
Vast majority of the people will perceive UBI as that supplemental income they always wish for to pursuit leisure. Money for that house in that neighborhood with an extra bedroom for the kids. Money for that trip to Paris, or to see the pyramids of Giza.<br />
Money for that van to fit the kids and the dog in the back and be save. Money for a cabin in the mountains. Money for that fancy dining out. Money for that that new furniture. Money for a pool in the backyard for the kids to splash in. Money for that business idea one cherish from high school. Money for....take a pick, people never run out of ideas how to spend their extra money.<br />
That will boost the overall world economy not just the economy where the universal basic income will be introduced.<br />
The rich will benefit cause their businesses will increase in volume. Growth: abracadabra word of Capitalism.<br />
For the world of my generation it will be period of renaissance in art, music, travel and leisure.<br />
The world will benefit, cause there will be no need for refugees migrations and domestic crimes.<br />
Overall happiness will rise up due stability in one families as the building cell of the society.<br />
And the renaissance could spur the innovation unleashing the human potential breaking new frontiers and probably saving the earth from climate change.<br />
Why then theres so much resistance against it?<br />
Cause no-one is more stiff in parting with their money then the rich.<br />
Cause the money for UBI must come from the rich.<br />
Not the middle class.<br />
The rich. The one percent rich of this world and their Corporations.<br />
Taxing the rich and their corporate business, impossible mission.<br />
They will not allow the middle class to vote away their wealth.<br />
Not as long as they have option.<br />
The Roman Emperor and the Roman senators could have send money to pay the Visigoths tribes or send food to the outline posts and prevent their march on Rome and fall of the Roman empire, but they didn't.<br />
Louis XVI could have unburden the serfs from taxes amidst the financial crises caused by the American war and the crop failures in France, and prevent them from storming of the Bastille, but he didn't.<br />
Will the Bezos and the Zuckerberg of this world learn from the past?<br />
And if they don't, what kind of revolution awaits?<br />
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Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923273274730877029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103331758289461747.post-33640122663650457042018-10-16T19:25:00.002-07:002018-10-23T23:56:07.011-07:00Taxes that build middle class <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-who-owns-a-record-2121-trillion-of-us-debt-2018-08-21" target="_blank">American debt is staggering $21,21 trillions </a>and no end in sight, because we do not generate yearly revenues to cover our current expenses, in excess of <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/us-budget-deficit-expands-to-779-billion-in-fiscal-2018-as-spending-surges.html" target="_blank">$779 billions for FY 2018. </a><br />
Meanwhile latest GOP tax cuts plan reduce the tax burden across the <a href="https://www.thebalance.com/trump-s-tax-plan-how-it-affects-you-4113968" target="_blank">taxable brackets</a> of our income earning population giving the lion share to the business community, from 35% to 21% in particular the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-30/corporate-america-is-saving-boatloads-on-trump-tax-cut-windfall" target="_blank">corporate world. </a><br />
No wonder the federal deficit is on the path of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/business/trump-corporate-tax-cut-deficit.html" target="_blank">$1 trillion</a> per fiscal year or more.<br />
GOP and president Trump assured the public that their tax cuts will create such jobs boom that the revenues will flash flood the federal and the states budgets.<br />
At some level even the most dedicated red hats make America great Trump supporters will have rude awakening and face the reality: you may get a job, but you will need another one to get ahead on the greatness path if any awaits your communities.<br />
Theres no jobs that will generate enough revenues to cover the shortage created by GOP tax cuts.<br />
Many reasons why, and i will address that in the near future, point is, America needs new tax system. <br />
I do not assume my proposal will get any legs anytime soon, but i will make one anyway.<br />
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<b>First: payroll taxes. </b><br />
American economy generate<a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA" target="_blank"> GDP of $56,446 per capita. </a><br />
I believe the national country GDP per capita should be the amount of income tax exemption.<br />
Anyone who make below $56,466 or $27.1375 per hour in a year should pay zero payroll income taxes.<br />
Employers should be paying for their employees their social security and medicare taxes too, currently 15.30%.<br />
Employees who make more then $56,446 in a year should pay 10% payroll deduction on every dollar above the taxable exemption amount. For example if employees make $28/h he/she would have to pay income taxes on $1794 dollars or $6.9 per paycheck on biweekly payroll income.<br />
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<b>Second: income taxes. </b><br />
Establish the yearly tax exemption, as previous GDP per capita.<br />
i will use the above mention amount of $56,446.<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">* Stands for GDP per capita in the current fiscal year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">** Stands for twice the amount of the GDP per capita in the current fiscal year. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">*** Over $1M all income is subject to 25% income tax rate </span></div>
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Anyone who make in a fiscal year up to the previously established GDP per capita for that year, will belong to the basic income bracket and will not be subject to any payroll or federal income taxation.<br />
Income over previous FY GDP per capita for individual and double for family, will be subject to 10% tax rate on every dollar above that amount up to $1M, no matter the income source: wages, dividend, capital gain, interest, rent etc.<br />
Anyone who generate income above $1.000,000 - will be subject to 25% tax rate on every dollar thereafter.<br />
No deductions or tax exemptions apply.<br />
Collected revenues will increase according to the available data compared with the current taxable income brackets.<br />
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<b>Third: Corporate taxes. </b><br />
I don't know how America drop the ball and allowed the tax burden to shift from employers to employees, from wealthy to middle class, from business to individuals, but i guess it start with diminishing the corporate taxes.<br />
Current corporate income taxes are $21%. I don't mind the percentage if we eliminate every tax exemptions from it.<br />
Corporations should pay their employees Social Security and Medicare taxes, currently 15.30% on top their income taxes of 21%.<br />
<a href="https://smallbusiness.chron.com/top-10-corporate-tax-deductions-10403.html" target="_blank">No deduction and no tax exemption whatsoever.</a><br />
If we take the current tax expenditure between individuals and corporation and apply them into the current budget, without any additional change of any proposal i make here, they will still cover universal healthcare for all, tuition free college education, and much needed cost free childcare, cause they amount to about <a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/policy-basics-federal-tax-expenditures" target="_blank">$1.5 Trillions of dollars last year according to CBPP. </a><br />
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<a href="https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc751" target="_blank">FICA taxes</a> should not have a cap on income and employees FICA taxes should be completely paid by employers.<br />
<a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/increasing-payroll-taxes-would-strengthen-social-security" target="_blank">Currently eliminating the tax cap on social security will affect only the 6% of the top earners. </a><br />
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According to Bureau of Labor statistics,<a href="https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm" target="_blank"> 93% </a>of all occupational employments in America are making less then the current GDP per capita per year.<br />
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The cost of current public healthcare in America is<a href="https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-2016/reports/51385-healthinsurancebaselineonecol.pdf" target="_blank"> $1.38T according to CBO. </a><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Federal Program</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Cost in 2016in billions</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Medicare (over the age of 65) </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">$612</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Medicaid </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">$203</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Medicare ( under the age of 65)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">$80</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Medicaid (ACA expansion) </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">$64</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Tax deductions for health insurance </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">$272</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Veteran Healthcare </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">$63</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">ACA marketplace subsidies </span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px; width: 225.0px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">$43</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">ACA premiums tax credits </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">$32</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Childrens healthcare programs </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">$13</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Total *</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>$1382</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_330.10.asp" target="_blank">Cost of public college attendance in USA 2016/17</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Student enrollment </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Cost per student </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Total </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">14.8*</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">$6817</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">100.8**</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;">* Figure in millions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;">** Figure in billions </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.care.com/c/stories/2423/how-much-does-child-care-cost/?AID=13214124&PID=6176055&SID=jnmp3fkjtg020o8h003m6&cjevent=6696fb6cd74a11e8825a00bb0a1c0e0c" target="_blank">Cost of childcare in America </a></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: #bec0bf; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 23.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px; width: 108.0px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Child care per child*</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>weekly rate per child</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>month expense per child </b></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: #bec0bf; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 23.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px; width: 108.0px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>year expense per child</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Child care center </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">211</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px; width: 108.0px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">844</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px; width: 108.0px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">10128</span></div>
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<td style="background-color: #e3e4e4; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px; width: 108.0px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>After school sitter </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">242</span></div>
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<td style="background-color: #efefef; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px; width: 108.0px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">968</span></div>
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<td style="background-color: #efefef; border-color: #000000 #000000 #000000 #000000; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; padding: 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px 4.0px; width: 108.0px;" valign="top"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">11616</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">hourly rate </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">40 hours week</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">7.25</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">290</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">15080</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">K12 </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">4.7</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">24.7</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">25.8</span></div>
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Fiscal policies only generate revenue the Nation can spend on social priorities.<br />
The American fiscal policies are the last thing that couldn't be more wrong.<br />
And it is the first thing that can change literally overnight.<br />
It is just a matter of passing a bill.<br />
How many people are passing a bill?<br />
As many as the American congress have 535: 100 Senators and 435 House of representatives in 50 American states.<br />
2018 is around the corner.<br />
I don't know how many democrats are willing to support fiscal politics that will build middle class on the back of the corporations, but i know that not one republican is willing to even consider tilting the odds in favor of middle class.<br />
For some strange reason, republicans are winning elections, holding whole states as hostages and they never stop paying the corporations and the owners tributes.<br />
Strange indeed.<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>"It is believed by many that America has the world’s best health care system. But by what measure? By three key criteria — costs, access, and results — America’s health care system is abysmal, the worst among the democratic industrial countries. In fact, no nation anywhere pays more per person for health care and has an unhealthier population." </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Americans are having the worst healthcare system of any developed country, period. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">We spend the most money per capita in the industrialized world, 17% of our GDP goes on our healthcare spending, so the answer why the results are so poor is obviously one and only: </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">- Completely monopolized private for profit ownership of the industry and insurance corporations as mediators between the providers and the payee of healthcare services. </span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;">There comes 2018 election and the issue of healthcare is number one political issue driving voters all over again. </span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;">Medicare for all is what the democrats offer, while republicans watch the dow jones performances of their healthcare industry stocks and cross their fingers the trend continue as it is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What is Medicare for all what democrats push for actually? </span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;">It is elimination of the medical insurance corporations as primary payee between the providers and recipients of medical services, nothing more. </span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;">America is not willing to change the system, America just want to modify it under the pressure of its population suffering in neglect and depravation of the basic healthcare even among the people who have coverage via their employers or via popular ACA and hated Obamacare so brainwashed they don't even know it is one and the same bill. </span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;">America will not tackle the Medical industrial complex, it will just compartmentalize it. The insurance corporations will restructure becoming supplemental insurance options just as medicare has it now. </span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;">That is what America will do, if it do anything at all. </span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;">The political drama surrounding this tragedy is Shakespearean as always. </span></div>
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Nothing ever really changes in America. </div>
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Its like new shuffle of the same deck of cards offering somewhat improved or worsen hands the next time around, and the game has no ends in sight. </div>
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What will the real change looks like? </div>
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Public ownership of the medical services vs public paying for the services. </div>
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Unfortunatly, almost all health care systems are a mixture of public and private paying for services, and its the ratio that varies. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42950587" target="_blank">In America, that ratio is in favor of private over public coverage. </a><br />
What can be done immediately, cause overhaul of the whole system is not practical at this time, disruption takes time for adaptation:<br />
Place Medicare for open enrollment to every citizen and legal permanent resident of United State no matter their age or medical history.<br />
Deduct from the citizens who enroll the same percentage they pay in their payroll taxes currently for medicare for their coverage under the name family health care coverage, and respectfully their employers too.<br />
Employees can have a choice to keep their current employer provided healthcare insurance or opt out.<br />
Eventually, as more and more employees opt out for public instead of private insurance, the system will transform itself into one Medicare for all system.<br />
<a href="https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/factsheets/colafacts2018.pdf" target="_blank">Currently Medicare deduct 1.45% from employers and 1.45% from employees. </a><br />
Opening Medicare for all will respectfully means contributing 2.90% from each, employers and employees.<br />
What happens to people who are self employed or who are uninsured via employers?<br />
They should be able to enroll in Medicare for all paying 5.80% of their income according their tax returns filings from the previous year in monthly installments or a lump deduction when filing for taxes the following year.<br />
Every member of Medicare for all will enjoy the same coverage as current Medicare participants age 65 and over.<br />
Its a simple start.<br />
It is not breaking the Medical Industrial complex, but it is a stepping stone from the current injustice we all endure under the current American healthcare system.<br />
The employers will have to offer the option to their full time employees.<br />
Part time employees will have the healthcare coverage not having a bill to pay every month cause they can opt out for tax return filings.<br />
I am sure part of the population will always opt out for private insurance, so god speed to all.<br />
It is completely different issues how to fix medicare, and i will not dwell into that theme now.<br />
Political victories are one step at the time until those step increase and turn into sprint and overrun the current system. We are not there yet, but we are warmed enough after the ACA to move to the next step.<br />
And Im sure democrats will compromise and make Medicare for all something else then what I think is needed to be done, but whatever Medicare for all look like in the future, it will be step ahead breaking new grounds.<br />
It will be transition toward universal healthcare system America desperately need.<br />
It is a rational and right thing to do.<br />
I hope 2018 midterm will flip the house and make advance in the senate, so we as a Nation will be closer to valid Medicare for all bill passing in my lifetime.<br />
I will welcome any universal single payer healthcare system in America.<br />
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I have this blog since 2010, when i was called upon my conscience to say something about the current affairs happening all around me.<br />
It was popular for a while mostly among conservatives and libertarians who mocked my imperfect english writing ignoring I have never learn english ever. My attempt to write in language i barely speak depend on google spelling correct, so i took the mockery & i kept writing.<br />
I was deeply moved by Obama presidency and deeply disappointed in Democrats and the American democracy. Coming from Europe, being born and raised in socialism there was certain occurrences that make no sense to me.<br />
Growing up I learned about capitalism from Marx and from his followers naturally, not mandatory, not voluntary, marxism was part of the schooling curricula in every high school in former Yugoslavia.<br />
As someone who graduate macroeconomics, i become economist who study the adopted version of marxist economics as applied in the society i lived in.<br />
We learned that between the european capitalism, the asian capitalism and the american capitalism, this of the United State was the most backward.<br />
We learned that America legs behind on human rights, labor rights, civil right behind every developed country in the world.<br />
We learned, but it didn't look that way when i first come to America in 1997.<br />
I found job easily, i get full time benefits less then a year after i start working in America, i got healthcare, 401K, i was able to save, and take my family on vacation, live was good, even i worked minimum wage job, cause i supplement my income with tips.<br />
The story we learned about systemic racism and classism & civil injustice where invisible to me.<br />
First crack on the perfect image shield I have about America start breaking when Union attempt to organize the dealers in Vegas casinos.<br />
The labor struggle of union busting employers tricks become open and visible.<br />
I was shocked, but i was immigrant and i kept to my self.<br />
The second shock come after 9/11. Overnight so many people become laid off cause Vegas become ghost city in fear of another airplanes being hijacked and slam into buildings.<br />
In that horrible psychological stress the nation was facing, labor was the mass preemptive victim to capital preserving its interest.<br />
The casino industry show no compassion or mercy or empathy.<br />
I was petrified & I said nothing. True I offered to work less hours if that can help anyone else from being laid off, even i was pregnant with my second child and expecting in december.<br />
By the time i was returned to work after delivery, many of the part time labor were returned to their part time jobs and the rest we never heard about.<br />
Years pass by and then 2008 happened.<br />
The recession we called crises of Capitalism was major this time.<br />
I watched people being laid off again, without compassion, mercy or empathy. This time i didn't offer my hours reduced, cause I knew the crises was coming and i knew what will bring.<br />
The crises was not some terrorist attack, it was natural occurrence of capitalism.<br />
I get involved this time politicly and helped President Obama being elected and i have high hopes things will get better. They didn't.<br />
I watched the rise of the Tea Party, I watched the protests going on against the ACA, against any measure Democrats attempt and nothing make sense.<br />
Years after years nothing make sense.<br />
I start writing on my own. I couldn't keep quiet anymore. I was leaving public comments in New York Times, in the Nation, on Huffington Post, and i become really active on twitter.<br />
And then i start blogging.<br />
I write for years, but my hopes start melting with each day passing.<br />
The more i read the more i get disappointed, and i read everything i could have find in my local public library, i read the opposition too. Hell I read Hannity books too. Imaging my suffering.<br />
Nothing make sense to me.<br />
Not one solution offered from both political party make sense to me.<br />
I supported Sanders, but i was deeply disappointed in his solutions too.<br />
Anyone who advocate Medicare for all without addressing the private medical industrial complex is placing a band aid on open gangrene wound hoping natural immunity of the host will heel the sick.<br />
Then again compared with ACA, Medicare for all is only option. No sense I tell you.<br />
Advocating $15/hour is like advocating food stamps for all, but compared with $7.25/hour is blessing.<br />
Gun control, justice system, foreign politics of perpetual wars, nothing make sense to me.<br />
It was like the whole nation is saturated with greed, with oblivion from history and subscribed to survival of the fittest policies of a slave owners who feed and clothes their slaves and occasionally punish them, but never use the whips.<br />
The whole nation.<br />
Till i discover Poor People Campaign.<br />
Not everyone is slave owners in America.<br />
And I don't know if i am ready to join them and march with them and be arrested, but i am glad they are out there for me.<br />
Someone is talking true in America at last.<br />
Someone born and raised here.<br />
Someone who understand the interlocking of systemic racism, classism and civil injustice with what they called predatory Capitalism.<br />
Its a start.<br />
Its a long way before they figure out Capitalism always was and always will be predatory, but Americans must start somewhere.<br />
God knows Socialism of 20th Century give bad name to Socialism maybe to the point it will never recover. Maybe the next society will not start with the letter "S" at all, and thats fine with me.<br />
I may not see the promised land, but i remember being there once in my youth and i know how it looks like to live there.<br />
I know how it looks like to have no need for a second job or food stamps because the least skilled and educated labor make a living wage, have healthcare, education, housing, sick pays, vacation and job guarantee from high school till full retirement.<br />
I know how it looks like when police have no guns on their belts, and its there to help and protect, not arrest and submit.<br />
I know how its like to have no idea how drugs look like because family lives are so rich and organized in the community that no-one need escape from reality.<br />
I know how it looks like to serve in army that will never fight on foreign soil.<br />
I know, cause i remember my youth, my parents happy stress free lives and neighbors who never locked their doors.<br />
I don't know how far will Poor People campaign comes close to change anything in America.<br />
Occupy Wall Street get nowhere.<br />
MLK was assassinated.<br />
I am just happy i heard they are aware and they speak out and stand up.<br />
Thank you. <br />
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Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923273274730877029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103331758289461747.post-58813934619539154232016-06-19T13:42:00.000-07:002016-06-19T14:41:01.784-07:00$15 an hour in America <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">On April 4, <a href="http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx#1" target="_blank">California</a> become the latest state to pass a bill that will increase the state minimum wage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Democrats hold a ceremony as great legislative victory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">However the Californian people tragedy can be greater only if Republicans were in office and never pass the bill at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Personally when i first heard off the bill, i have to pause in effort to grasp the reality behind this major democratic victory event. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Living in Nevada, I am frequent visitor of California. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Last summer we visited San Francisco for the first time and stayed at Petite Auberge. I book my hotel online and try my best to budget as many vacations days as possible. California seems more expensive then Nevada, but it isn't drastically so different if one take gambling out of equation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Being economist I instinctively compare prices of good and services, but even as simple visitor it is obvious that $15/H income will get you nowhere in California. </span></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;">As a matter of fact, <a href="https://www.parkviewmc.com/app/files/public/1484/2016-Poverty-Level-Chart.pdf" target="_blank">$15/H will send you on welfare</a> and qualify your family for food stamps everywhere in America.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CTeK6BfVBQU/V2bgOZ6-vNI/AAAAAAAAA6g/xIR1hhPq0GQ4_wcoNc8lmHqRhRf99e5sACK4B/s1600/ClUvWPWUkAEKBlD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><img border="0" height="264" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CTeK6BfVBQU/V2bgOZ6-vNI/AAAAAAAAA6g/xIR1hhPq0GQ4_wcoNc8lmHqRhRf99e5sACK4B/s320/ClUvWPWUkAEKBlD.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some will argue instantly that no business owner supposed to pay his labor for family of four expenses. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why those people expect someone else and not the parents to be able to raise their own children?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It just make no sense, if one isn't a business owner who therefore expect the government to substitute his wage laborers with necessary income to survive and raise a family.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Theres that word again: family. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And i use specifically statistics based on family of four members. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mother, father, two kids. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Blasphemy to a naked eye. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In this age of sexual liberation when it is nobody business who one love or married, cause love is love, is love, is love, here i am suggesting stereotype known as family of four. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And yes I do. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">don't</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> really care if the mothers name is Jane or John, what i do care is second adult in a role of a parent. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Why?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cause of the possibility of a second income source and the economic consequences of it?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Maybe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let just focus of the logistics of two kids for now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ask every economist and he will tell you the same answer is valid not for America, but for every country in the world: demographic simple reproduction require <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility" target="_blank">2.1 kids</a> in order the Nation to maintain its population level. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is not question of different opinion, it is a fact of nature. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whether the American business owners want to comply with the scientific fact or they wanna deny it, it is irrelevant. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every business owner expect the labor to walk through the door and begin his working day with skills and with attitude that will maximize his own profit. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What the business owners don't expect is to pay for the workers family needs. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If the worker has one or two or no children, it is his own private business and completely out of the realm of responsibility of the business owner. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">One get paid for the task one perform, not for the consequences of the lifestyle one choses.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I can't even begin to point all the wrongs in the popular belief that permeant the conscience of the whole Nation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">How else can the discrepancy between the official minimum wage and the federal poverty level guidances occur?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Someone, somewhere along the lines of law making and executive decisions know better how 46,5 millions Americans end up on welfare depending on taxpayers to supplement their food needs. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The housing projects, the food stamps, medicaid, soup lines, churches, none of those programs are secrecy. The whole Nation knows about it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why we allowed it?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why the charade of organizations and programs whose existence and purpose is to help the poverty stricken part of the population instead of resolving the issue where it originate: in the working places. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">How does the other countries in the world solve this issues? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some establish minimum wages that represent living wages. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some countries as <a href="http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080515/5-developed-countries-without-minimum-wages.asp" target="_blank">Sweden or Switzerland </a>use trade Unions to negotiate the wages and don't even have minimum wage at all. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">America choose food stamps, among other taxpayer financed Government programs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We choose as a Nation to discriminate the poor based of their level of poverty, based of the region they live in. We bundle 50 states with statistical one fit all needs and probably everyone who never need uncle sam help sleeps righteous at night thinking they'd everything in their power to help the needy, the misfortune, the sick, the poor. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">From time to time democrats come along and adjust the misery for a dime or two, and life goes on. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why bother. Theres whole Government department, theres organizations and programs designed and paid to work on the issues, while the Nation moves on. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/datastatistics/September-Performance-Report-2014.pdf" target="_blank">46,5 Million</a> on food stamps currently in America and only <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf" target="_blank">7.4 Millions</a> are unemployed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Theres <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/00" target="_blank">116 Millions </a>households in America according to the latest census statistics.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Over 20% or <a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/30SNAPcurrHH.pdf" target="_blank">22.4 millions </a>households receive food stamps. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poverty is romantic only in the movies. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">To people or family that live in poverty it is <a href="http://www.poverties.org/effects-of-poverty.html" target="_blank">devastating. </a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What is the solution?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wages.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It start and end with wages.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Theres no Government program, Govt organization that can help poverty stricken families and individual other then establishing federal living wage standard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not a minimum wage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Living wage standard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Different economist will fight over the formula.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have a very simple solution.</span><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">GDP per capita.</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If that measurement is accepted as standard, it will mean minimum wage of $27.50/h.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We rise and we fall as one nation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thats the minimum.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It does not matter if one is married or its single, have one of more children, work as janitor or don't work at all, one deserve to have equal opportunity to procreate and live to his best potential away from the devastating pitfall of poverty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It start when a Nation decide to rise to the occasion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">No excuses.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">No fallacy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A choice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We share our prosperity as one Nation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We live no-one behind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">America do not need another billionaire.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Billionaires do not need another billion in their portfolio. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">America need her middle class back on its feet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Europe is flirting with the same concept under the name of basic income, except to accomplish basic income they intend to use taxes as redistribution.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I dont. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I believe the businesses that are unable to pay living wages shouldn't be in business.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I believe no one should work second job.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I believe our technological and scientific advances create enough wealth to eliminate poverty if not in the world, at least in the richest countries in the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There will be economist who disagree. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I expect their opposition.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">However, i do not belong to a party, i do not work for anyone. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am self employed and i am </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">responsible</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> only to my conscience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No one expected, at least no one in the Media and the political establishment of both party the movement that happen in Democratic primary about a man who describe himself as Socialist.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now, that's a new turn in American politics for sure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His name is Bernie Sanders and he is seating Senator from Vermont in the present US Senate. His 73 years old and he attract more crowd everywhere he goes then all the individual candidates combined. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Will he snatch the nomination from Hillary this time around as Barack Obama did 2008?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Possible!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cause its the same people who deviate within Democratic Party the first time around with the current President away from Hillary in 2008.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Democratic Party clearly has some issues that need to be indisputably addressed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For a candidate that has a second chance, Hillary is doing herself no favor at all. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What issues will determine the democratic primary?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before i go on to the list, let me just mention this simple fact: The other political Party has such insignificant appearance, even the field is crowded with all sorts of candidates and party color denomination, libertarians, conservatives, black,, brown, white and woman too. Older, younger and foreigner. Present and ex Governors, Senators and actors! Political Rashomon on display for entertainment of the masses! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">None of them even represent an option in 2016 election year. It does not matter who will win their primary colors, the Republican Party is only local event nowadays. On Federal level they have nothing to offer whatsoever. The conservatism failed miserably everywhere was implemented, from states in America to sovereign states in Europe and the whole world. Its nothing but the politics of institutionalized racism, bigotry and discrimination. Maybe in the Southern Bible belt States that backwardness still ring any bells, but the rest of the world is rejecting conservatism as thing of the past. Like a rotary phone in a wireless world. It just don't fit anymore. Obsolete! The politics of low wages and lower taxes serve no good to any nation. Not even our South that become pitfall of poverty and pollution. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That being said, let us focus on the split in the democratic Party.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The issues that will determine the outcome of 2016 election are as follow:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>1. Income Inequality;</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>2. Climate Change;</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>3. Human Rights; </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They are all equally important and they are consequential upon each other, meaning one can not be separated from another and vice verse, not just in America, but in the World as a whole.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How do Hillary and Bernie Sanders approach and solve those issues will separate them from one another. Nothing else matter. The rest is just accent on a tomato: the first or the second syllable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How does <i>Income Inequality</i> manifest in America: <b>Minimum Wage Increase</b>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Recently <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/30/hillary-clinton-speaks-favorably-about-12-minimum-wage/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Hillary come out in favor of $12 per hour </span></a>minimum wage increase, contrary to <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-federal-minimum-wage-120468.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sanders support for $15 per hour</span> </a>minimum wage increase. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">"- Let not just do it for the sake of having a higher number out there, lets get behind a proposal that actually has a chance of succeeding." - she said as seasoned politician who know a thing or two of passing a bill into a Law.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> At first glance it seems Hillary is right, lets not fight over higher number, cause 12 is better then 7.25, even is lower then 15. After all, the increase will definitely depend on the will of the opposition in House and the Senate also.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">In reality, nothing is further from the truth. One number represent nominal wage increase, other represent transforming the minimum wage into a living wage. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #333333;">Right now the Federal Government recognize the need for assistance to any family of four making less then<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: red;"><a href="http://familiesusa.org/product/federal-poverty-guidelines" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">$32 243 a year</span></a>,</span> <span style="color: #333333;">or 130% of </span><a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligibility" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Federal poverty guidelines</span></a><span style="color: blue;">,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> in income per year, which represent $15.5 per hour working 40 hours 52 weeks in 2015. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #333333;">If we dwell in quasi economics that don't recognize the importance of being able to raise a family of four for the purpose of </span><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">simple demographic reproduction</span></a>,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> then i offer this short information for anyone in pursuit of better understanding of the standard used here. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Having said that "fighting" for less then $15 per hour minimum wage is nothing but political pondering in order to gain support of the gullible population and it is completly detach from the reality. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Hillary either don't understand the logistics behind the issue of raising the minimum wage to certain number and currently that number is closer to $16 per hour, not a year from now, not by 2020 or some other date in the future, but this 2015 year, or she have economics advisers who are not advising her properly, which in either case is her failure as presidential candidate. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">How does <i>Climate Change</i> manifest in America: <b>The Keystone Pipeline.</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Recently Hillary was asked if she will allow the building of the Pipeline or deny it. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://time.com/3975054/hillary-clinton-keystone-pipeline/" style="line-height: 24px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">She decide to answer with a pause</span></a><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: red;">,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> same Question being posed to Senator Sanders and the answer is crystal clear.</span><span style="color: red;"> "<a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120760/senate-will-vote-sanders-climate-amendment-keystone" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">No" to building Keystone Pipeline under any circumstances</span></a>. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">I do believe Hillary believe in Climate Change being man made and accelerated with use of dirty oil, i just don't believe she see how important is to draw a line in the send to Oil Industry lobby in America. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">And Keystone Pipeline is that line in the send. I don't need studies to show me how many people will be hired along side the pipeline, i don't need a studies that going to assure me how safe the pipeline is transporting dirty oil compared with other form of transportation. I don't need any studies about the Pipeline, since i made my mind up to believe that climate change is<a href="http://www.defense.gov/pubs/150724-Congressional-Report-on-National-Implications-of-Climate-Change.pdf" target="_blank"> treat to this Earth as planet</a>, yet alone America as a state in witch i live in. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">How does <i>Human Rights</i> manifest in America: <b>Penitentiary System</b>. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Many will associate this with legalizing marijuana, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #333333;">The </span><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/6/private-prisons-public-shame.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">private for profit system</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> need to become issue of the past. Its not just ridden with racism, it is deeply unjust too. The market approach to justice, create demand for offenders of any kind. Our police become domestic military that serve gun lobby playing fast and furious with our citizens, </span><a href="http://www.attn.com/stories/1256/private-prisons-where-human-beings-are-inventory" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">our prisons protect corporate interest</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> and serve money not the Society, our justice system is breeding ground that </span><a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119083/prison-labor-equal-rights-wages-incarcerated-help-economy" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">turn petty criminals into human factory of cheap labor</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, for years at no end. I </span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 24px;">deliberately don't even mention Guns.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">After Sandy Hook elementary shooting I realize how soak is this country in their love for guns. All of it. Not even mass murder of their youngest will not repeal their second amendment misinterpretation of that outdated Law. The whole country is split between gun and no gun control, no matter how many of their citizens lives will end before their time. Its beyond pale to me. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Let me end this returning to every issue but the Second Amendment issue.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">The Question that beg the Answer: </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Where do our candidate stand on the dismantling of private for profit system? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #333333;">Well, as far as i know, </span><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Hillary_Clinton_Drugs.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">they stumble on the first step: legalizing marijuana and let every inmate on marijuana charges free out of jail</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, </span><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Bernie_Sanders_Drugs.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Bernie little ahead</span></a><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Bernie_Sanders_Drugs.htm" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank"> </a><span style="color: #333333;">of Hillary. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #333333;">None of them will di-privatize our penitentiary system, not even </span><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Bernie_Sanders_Crime.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Senator Sanders</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">How those issues are dependent on one another? </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">What climate change got to do with criminal justice system and minimum wage. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">What minimum wage increase got to do with illegal activities that render people in our justice system committing crime of passion, greed, or pure malice? </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">How the justice system reboot can save the planet? How one well paid family can save the planet and resist vices and vanity?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 24px;">It is a choice we make as Society. Either we build a system that give a chance to a healthy development of a </span><span style="color: #333333;">families enabling their time for laughter</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #333333;">, or we create underclass to work and live in the shadows, one step away from breaking the Law. Either we educate our population to participate in building a </span><a href="http://www.wri.org/sites/default/files/wri13_report_4c_wrr_online.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">healthy environment</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, or we nourish fewer portfolios of selected few.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">There is no middle anymore. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">There is no time for uncommitted mind anymore. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">We may not save and we may not help everyone. It will take a generation or two the wounds to heel, memories to fade, Earth to be restored. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">If we don't start now, every day we wait will be a day later, not closer to our goal. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">If we elevate the minimum wage to a living wage, we will create a tide that will lift all the boats. Happiness is the best crime prevention. More income will generate more taxes in the budget and those programs that are starving now will get revenues to help more people being rehabbed into productive members of our Society. Abundance create more abundance. Knowledge push Science into field previously unknown: Innovations. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Innovations will save our Planet, not prayers. Innovations feedback elevate a Societal Conscience to level previously unseen. Nobility is not a gens one inherit, its years of comfort and stability. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Maybe Senator Sanders Movement will never bring him into the White House, but if Hillary want to create a mark in History as First Female President of United States, that mark shouldn't be her gender, but her attempt to curb Climate change by creating healthy environment for all American Families. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">After all, aren't we "Out of many we are One". </span></span><br />
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#2014 will be imperative election.We will see how many ppl subdue to <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GOP&src=hash"><s>#</s><b>GOP</b></a> abuse last few years,their impeccable PR War will come to fruition</div>
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Each & every time a person who is disrespected & humiliated hang to his abuser he shows he deserve nothing better. <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GOP&src=hash"><s>#</s><b>GOP</b></a> is political abuser</div>
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How many time workers need to hear how they are greedy and worthless when they barely meet their bills, yet so many vote for <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GOP&src=hash"><s>#</s><b>GOP</b></a>!</div>
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Why do veteran vote <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GOP&src=hash"><s>#</s><b>GOP</b></a>?How many time <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GOP&src=hash"><s>#</s><b>GOP</b></a> slash their benefits & refuse to lift them up after they return home from Wars & they're loyal?</div>
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What do woman want? Why woman on min wage dont vote? How many time will <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GOP&src=hash"><s>#</s><b>GOP</b></a> say loud & clear they will note raise min wage?</div>
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Despite the overwhelming evidence what work on the road to recovery we are still divided on every step of the way...what is it that we want?</div>
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We live in a crises last 6Y!We came fast to the rescue of the banks & their wealthy shareholders and we stall help to everyone ever since</div>
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On every issue that truly belong to 21 Century the choice is clear:vote democrat...not because they are spotless or perfect, but up to date!</div>
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If you care for woman right, minority right, workers right,LGBT right,if civil right matter to you,your choice is limited to only one Party</div>
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What can a person do? What can a person change in our toxic political environment of vicious Propaganda War...how to chose the right side?<br />
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In the end of the day, deep inside you know there is something so horribly wrong about our politics...it just bare no result...fruitless<br />
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For some reason this post was in draft since March 2015.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/worldmist1/status/622399869093687296">It appear on twitter this morning,</a> but then the original tweet was erased, so i felt appropriate to post this wonderful tribute to our President on my blog.<br />
Its true I took a break from blogging, I just didn't feel like it for a long time.<br />
Now since we have new general election coming up next year, i felt its time to start again.<br />
What better way to start then giving tribute to the man who introduce me to the American politics, he himself, the current President of the United States, and giving him his dues in appreciation if nothing more.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"We can all agree that President Obama has had a fabulous few months. Gay marriage<a href="http://aattp.org/tag/scotus-gay-marriage-ruling/" style="border: 0px none; color: #1276b3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> </a>is now legal in all 50 states. Relations with Cuba are finally changing for the better. The numbers are improving. Six years of cool, steady patience is finally being rewarded. And to the victor goes the spoils. He is finally allowing himself to be what we already knew he was. A badass.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>President Obama has taken most of the slams and accusations throughout the years with grace and dignity. He has let it roll off his back and shook his head. Often he gives the customary chuckle that We on the left know and love. What else can he do when someone treats him with such disrespect? He is forever under the microscope. Each minor misstep becomes ammunition. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>But times, they are a changin’. The last few weeks has brought out the man many of us voted for in the first place. And I couldn’t be happier. I know why he has held his tongue. He was setting things into place. He had the structure built, it just needed time to grow. He also knew that as the first Black/White President that the scrutiny would be far worse for him than it has been for everyone else. Have you ever tried to do a job with someone over your shoulder telling you how bad you are going to mess up? I bet that was damn near suffocating at times. Finally, President Obama has come out swinging in last few months and showing that he is done with their silliness.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>And so are we. Every time I am confronted by a Tea Party crazies I just give it right back! If President Obama can deal it back, so can I. Who are they to call me a Libtard? Or Feminazi? Most of them have not even read a voting record. Some of their leaders cannot name tree branches of Government. Some of them are still worried about Prayer Curtains<a href="http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=obama%27s+prayer+curtains&view=detailv2&&&id=C6122A1E8EA3B65F2DF53CD9865E634ECD9FDCF5&selectedIndex=10&ccid=barDpPiZ&simid=607994969772003139&thid=JN.RYMMy53eetJ9Kgtv3NwmjQ&ajaxhist=0" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; border: 0px none; color: #1276b3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"> </a>that Obama ‘somehow’ planted way back in the Reagan days. The rest of us have moved on to climate change and foreign relations. Real problems. I'll let them keep up with the invasion of a state that is already in the Union. *face palm*</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Please be warned though, some of them are really off the deep end. If confronted by one of those, just mutter something about how great Reagan was and slowly back away. Tell them you are late for a meeting at the NRA and you gotta go.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> Pick your battles, change minds with facts when you can and learn to back away when its useless."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Christmas for me is the best time of the year...the music the festivities...most of all it is time for joy...nights are long. it is cold outside and we tend to stay home making nothing but pleasant memories...at least some of us do...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">its time when we think of giving some little presents and that sole action become tenderness in our souls...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">its time when we gather around a fireplace or a TV set and we are overwhelmed with the sense of belonging to those family ties that connect our hearts with invisible strings of love...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Its ten days till Christmas...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">A dear friend on my favorite social site send me this video of one of those Christmas carol that fill our soul with the sound of music greater then a imprint of a voice or trace of an instrument...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">His church choir interpretation was so powerful that i have to set that as keepsake memory and share it with everyone...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Thank you Corey...</span></div>
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The social Media is the new public square where people nowadays get together and exchange opinions, debate different point of view and become friends... <br />
I love politics...I love being challenged...<br />
I welcome people who have opposite views...but no matter how patiently I enter every interaction on my preferred social media site, I assure you it's truly frustrating to talk with republicans...Being on twitter I got my fair share of the online battles...and I can attest to this to be true, the whole truth so help me Social Media...<br />
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My friend Eva one day got enough of the run around that few GOP among who were my usual friends JB @nomodebts and Ben @sandgripper , give us...and she come up with this fast list...<br />
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1. State opinions as well established facts. Ex:
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Bury them with BS. Link reading materials, as if you are Moses himself
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State everything in absolutes: Government is ALWAYS inefficient, Business is NEVER
inefficient. Don't worry, if proven wrong, just fall back on "nothings perfect" as
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IMPORTENT! Never, EVER concede point, even if your position has
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Backed into a corner? Twist your opponents words so they don't resemble
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7. If all else fails, DO begin calling names. AT THE FIRST SIGN OF TROUBLE! <br />
8. If all else fails, announce that your phone is dying, so-much as you'd like to-you simply cant continue...<br />
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The buzz word lately is Benghazi...<br />
The cover up that keeps holding the flame in the heart of the demoralized army of Libertarians, petrified Conservatives, and dumbed down Tea Partiers, who still can't believe they actually lost the last election...<br />
The question on everyone's mind is: why does the loyal democratic opposition keep flaming the ashes of the Libyan story, when it was not the first, nor the only attack on a US embassy compound.<br />
Well...the plot thickens when one remembers how the Benghazi story just changed the target, from The Presidents "misconduct", to his Secretary of States "incompetence"...<br />
Little does it matter to GOP that none of their twisted manufactured information has any back up in the real world of foreign affairs, nor does it matter that the investigation concluded nothing but following up a protocol that led to the tragic end...nothing matters to the GOP...<br />
When you can't run on merit, when you have nothing else to offer to the people who's votes you need for election or reelection, the only thing you can do is pander to your most faithful zealots with stories that they want to hear...ergo Benghazi...and wait for the opposition to make a mistake that you can really use against them...<br />
What is then the real story that is underlining Benghazi and all the rest of the culture wars? Why the many divides in our political structure? <br />
Cause each day we talk about Benghazi, IRS, AP...guns, God and abortions, we as people are pulled in their vortex of blame games, and we do not talk about, we actually forget about the truth...<br />
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Wealth and Income inequality...<br />
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The wage divide, the income stagnation that keeps falling behind productivity, behind inflation, behind the growth and pile up so much wealth on one side that becomes something this country has never seen before and not many are even aware of it...<br />
Wages...<br />
Taboo theme rarely anyone talking about on TV, and even when one does talk about it their misconception is so great that is unbelievable...<br />
... To the bleeding heart libertarians it's a no brainer...keep the Government out of the labor markets and abolish even the minimum wage and let the market work its wisdom...so simple, right, except when you ask them... <br />
-What markets set the minimum wage? <br />
Instantly that same bleeding heart libertarians refuses to accept the market, the same market they so faithfully adores! <br />
... To the hard core conservatives minimum wage is no brainer either...you get paid what your labor is worth on the market, but ask them the same question and you will see how shallow their faith in market truly is...<br />
... To the slick Republican wages are also no brainer...they are more educated and they know their economics 101...till you apply mathematics to verify their claim, mathematics that does not add up...then you will instantly see how their faces changes and the ugly, selfish, primitive business owner pop up as Mister Hyde...<br />
I do not blame them...<br />
What undoubtedly unite them is the notion that they all agree to disagree with the market witch all of a sudden they all refuse to even acknowledge...<br />
Wages...the old question of capitalism...the only question of capitalism that unites the wealthy across the borders of religious, national, or cultural spectrums...<br />
I do not blame them...<br />
I understand them...<br />
Every dime they pay their workers less in wages, is a dime that will boost their bottom line, will keep cost low, augment the profit cashing on productivity and enrich their portfolio...<br />
I do not understand the rest of us...we who work for a living, who can't make our ends meet, who work second or third jobs, we who may not work for minimum wage, but still work for paychecks, we who comply to work paycheck to paycheck and never bother why is that...<br />
I do not understand why we do not bother to learn the truth!<br />
Some of us, poor souls will be even fast to answer:<br />
- Labor market set the minimum wage...the competition between workers set the minimum wage...more workers, less their value...<br />
Others will run to correct them...<br />
- No, no, no...Federal Government! set the minimum wage!...<br />
Both answer show maximum indoctrination of the workers into market economics...Reverse economics I shall say...<br />
How easily we are eager to accept and not question the obvious...<br />
- Does the Government really set the minimum wage, or is it just trying to adjust the minimum wage with the cost of living?<br />
The real question is not what set the minimum wage, the real question is what set the minimum price of labor? If the labor market set the price of labor what is the starting cost of that specific merchandize the worker sales?<br />
The Distinction between minimum wage and the minimum price of labor is deliberately erased from everyday talk, because if the minimum wage is defined as the natural cost of labor then it will be easily understandable to every single worker in every possible trade, across all geographic lines too...<br />
Then why do we not know it...after all, it is our livelihood? <br />
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> "<u>Labour</u>, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, <u>has its natural and its market price.</u> The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution. </span></em></strong><br />
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> The power of the labourer to support himself, and the family which may be necessary to keep up the number of labourers, does not depend on the quantity of money which he may receive for wages, but on the quantity of food, necessaries, and conveniences become essential to him from habit, which that money will purchase. The natural price of labour, therefore, depends on the price of the food, necessaries, and conveniences required for the support of the labourer and his family. With a rise in the price of food and necessaries, the natural price of labour will rise; with the fall in their price. the natural price of labour will fall."</span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">David Ricardo, The Principles of political economy, published first 1817, Chapter V, On wages,</span> </div>
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1817 it was clear to the economics mastermind as Ricardo...who was pupil of Adam Smith...1817!<br />
Why did we forgot that simple truth...its not science fiction, after all...its what we all practice every day: we eat...we sleep...we cant go around naked...bare necessities also known as cost of living...<br />
The concept of cost is not unknown to any business owner...its actually their mind trap...<br />
If one asks any business owner how much his business cost of operation are, he will tell you the price to a dime...he knows exactly how much he paid starting with the supplier of the material, how much he paid his workers, utility, transport, taxes...he know how much exactly he invested in every single product that he is selling...good or service, respectively...<br />
One don't need a phd in economics, nor one need to be a business owner to understand the cost theory of value...<br />
If one asks a housewife how much a cake she made cost her, she will also know how to calculate the price of her cake, cause she knows what she paid for the eggs, flower, milk and sugar...frosting or fudge...<br />
Yet we as workers we do not know what make our natural price of labor, what are our cost of living that represent the minimum wage...the base cost of our labor...<br />
If you ask one owner he will know that if he does not recoup all his expenses in the course of the business cycle, his business will cease to exist...He knows...and he will fight tooth and nail to prevent its bankruptcy or closure...<br />
We on the other hand...We the workers, did we forget that poverty is just the end of the equation when wages do not cover the base expenses that are necessary for labor to replenish its own cost of living...<br />
It is utterly sad to listen, to witness a rich man being comfortable talking about how important it is for businesses to recoup every cost in the process and hope the market will grant more than the cost of operation, namely profit, the more, the merrier, but will deny his own workers the same philosophy...<br />
Government does not meddle in setting the price of rent in one city, nor does the Government set the price of food in one grocery store, nor does the Government tell a retail store what the price of clothing will be...<br />
The market sets those prices...<br />
Rent is set by the housing market...<br />
Utility are set by the energy market...<br />
Food is set by the agricultural market...<br />
Clothing is set by the manufacturing market...<br />
No worker is able to lower the price of any of these goods and services he desperately needs in order to sustain himself...<br />
If one tells the business owner the cold reality of his own market creed, he will turn and readily twist those bare cost of living from necessity into a choice, like its an indulgence, not the minimum...<br />
The minimum is not a choice...the minimum is the lowest price of those goods and services...period!<br />
If one person works and he makes less than the cost of those bare necessities for survival, the person will suffer malnutrition, stress and eventually get some chronic disease and face death in the long run...in other words, just as the business that cant recoup its cost of operation ceases to exist, so does a worker who cant recoup the cost of living...<br />
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"When the market price of labour is below its natural price, the condition of the labourers is most wretched: then poverty deprives them of those comforts which custom renders absolute necessaries. It is only after their privations have reduced their number, or the demand for labour has increased, that the market price of labour will rise to its natural price, and that the labourer will have the moderate comforts which the natural rate of wages will afford. "</span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">David Ricardo, The Principles of political economy, published first 1817, Chapter V, On wages</span><br />
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Ricardo was blunt...he knew what is happening in his time when labor was being paid less then the natural price...the number of laborers reduced...One do not need a gross imagination what reducing numbers of laborer meant...life expectancy was not the 19 century highlight...<br />
Some will say...we come a long way from 19 Century...people don't starve to death anymore, they do not sleep under the bridges and they don't get sick exposed on cold weather...and even if they get sick, we have health care program that take care of them...After all, we learn from our past!<br />
Did we? Did we really learn, or we just sooth our conscience turning our blind eye with few Social program and patchwork of same old remedies?<br />
The tragedy of the workers today is that we as Human, we always group together and help each other, Our Society compliment ancient charitable soup lines with food stamps...shelters get additional space by low income assisted living...the Church and Government Welfare...but those programs just prolong the inevitable end result...they create the illusion of help and manufactured a burden of shame and guilt...<br />
None of that should happen...none of the blame is true...<br />
Poverty is nothing but mathematics...simple if I may say...<br />
You wanna see the formula of poverty?<br />
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P= NW- m{f, CL}<br />
where P stands for poverty; NW stands for net wages; m stand for minimum and CL stands for cost of living...In any civilized society minimum cost of living is represented as poverty line for family of four...<br />
Mention to a business owner why a wage can not be set for individual but it has to supply living necessities for a family of four and you will see the naked face of ignorance and rude selfishness...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em> "A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation. Mr. Cantillon seems, upon this account, to suppose that the lowest species of common labourers must everywhere earn at least double their own maintenance, in order that one with another they may be enabled to bring up two children...The labour of an able-bodied slave, the same author adds, is computed to be worth double his maintenance; and that of the meanest labourer, he thinks, cannot be worth less than that of an ablebodied slave. Thus far at least seems certain, that, in order to bring up a family, the labour of the husband and wife together must, even in the lowest species of common labour, be able to earn something more than what is precisely necessary for their own maintenance..</em></strong></span> "<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Adam Smith, Wealth of the Nation, 1776, Chapter VIII, Of the wages of labor</span><br />
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As we see...a slave owner knew how much are his labor maintenance cost, like any machine maintenance, slave owners knew why they have to provide their labor with bare necessity fit for family, or they will lost the replacement of their human machine...of cource they knew the value of their labor, cause well, they paid for them...they purchase them... but our business owners seams lost in the momentum...<br />
Excuses after excuses is all that will drip from their side...why?<br />
Cause they do not feel responsible for workers living expenses...much less workers natural reproduction...<br />
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Poverty is simple equation...its not some virus one catches getting exposed on cold weather...its the amount of money one get paid below the minimum cost of living one depend on to survive...<br />
We as Society step in and cover our underpaid workers the difference...and the only reason why the rich, the business owners and their management representatives are able to get away with paying below those bare minimal cost of living is because they manage to blind and bedazzled all of us who receive paychecks and contribute in taxes,,,<br />
We as taxpayers are supplementing our business owners while they piling up more and more wealth during the last few decade...<br />
We as workers let the owners get away with keeping million of us working and get in return so little that they are not able to support their own families...<br />
Its sad, but it seams we as workers forget our own workers history that "gave" us all the benefits and lifted millions from poverty into the middle class, the same benefits that are shifting away from beneath our feet...middle class wages who were way above minimum wages due to Union contracts and Government Laws...<br />
I do not know exactly how did that happen, cause I was not here in America, but I do know it started with Reagan...<br />
The morning in America that introduced to the American people an economic doctrine that created the chart below...</div>
They say it is the American way...the poor and the wealthy are the American pastime...its the way it is...as long as we have middle class in between them...<br />
Well if you are Republican, I doubt you read past my few sentences, much less will you open the video...but ignorance is a bliss America can not afford anymore...<br />
The chart show how big is the misconception of wealth in America...<br />
I believe in numbers...I am macroeconomist after all...<br />
Wealth inequality starts with income... The income that every one of us gets paid is our source of wealth, and the minimum wage is the starting point...if the minimum wage is below the cost of living, then the whole pyramid of more expensive skilled labor is also depressed and has no space for growth...<br />
If the minimum wage is set below the cost of living, the cost of bare necessities such as food, housing and clothing, then people on minimum wage will end up on Government Welfare programs, while every other wage labor will just fill the gap on its own and have no leftover income to accumulate wealth...multiply that for few decades, and it is so obvious how the wealth inequality came to be reality of the American middle class...its just the perception of being better off, cause one makes way above the minimum wage that blur peoples vision...<br />
The mirage of modern day capitalism...<br />
Worker who generate $15 in hourly wage it seams to be paid double then the minimum wage when in reality one can barely keep up with the bill...<br />
It does not matter where a person live...in Los Angeles California, or in Horatio Arkansas...if one live paycheck to paycheck losing the race with the bills trimming every dime on leisure and scraping by on every expense...one live on minimum wage no matter if one make $20 or $8 hourly rate...<br />
Talking about mass delusion...<br />
When I first saw these table statistics, it took me a while to come to my senses as an economist...<br />
Not every day an economist is able to see a perfect example of David Ricardo's "Iron Law of wages" that has befallen America, and set the middle class on the road of extinction...<br />
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"The market price of labour is the price which is really paid for it, from the natural operation of the proportion of the supply to the demand; labour is dear when it is scarce, and cheap when it is plentiful. However much the market price of labour may deviate from its natural price, it has, like commodities, a tendency to conform to it. "</span></em></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">David Ricardo, The Iron Laws of wages. The Principles of political economy, published first 1817, Chapter V, On wages...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Table 643. Annual Total Compensation and Wages and Salary Accruals Per Full-Time Equivalent Employee by Industry: 2000 to 2009</span> <br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[In dollars. Wage and salary accruals include executives’ compensation, bonuses, tips, and payments-in-kind; total compensation includes in addition to wages and salaries, employer contributions for social insurance, employer contributions to private and welfare funds, director’s fees, jury and witness fees, etc. Based on the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS); see text, section 15</span>]<br />
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Domestic industries. . . . . . 39,157 45,537 51,059 51,615 <br />
Private industries. . . . . . . .38,862 44,717 50,144 50,462 <br />
Agriculture, <br />
forestry, fishing, <br />
and hunting. . . . . . . . . . . .22,154 28,600 33,129 34,159 <br />
Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,983 73,161 88,615 87,214 <br />
Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,742 77,409 86,667 87,578 <br />
Construction. . . . . . . . . . 38,563 43,948 51,226 52,321 <br />
Manufacturing. . . . . . . . .43,933 50,909 56,373 57,374 <br />
Wholesale trade. . . . . . . .50,853 57,922 65,089 64,896<br />
Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . 26,585 29,230 30,861 31,195 <br />
Transportation<br />
and warehousing. . . . . . . 39,057 43,865 48,286 48,453 <br />
Information. . . . . . . . . . . .62,582 68,330 76,747 77,231 <br />
Finance and insurance. . . 64,561 77,981 88,034 84,555 <br />
Real estate <br />
and rental and leasing. . . .37,146 43,708 47,849 47,290 <br />
Professional, scientific, <br />
and technical services. . . .62,568 69,767 79,266 80,077 <br />
Management of companies<br />
and enterprises 1. . . . . . . .74,201 87,971 101,450 96,586 <br />
Administrative and waste <br />
management services. . 25,035 31,370 35,961 36,761 <br />
Educational services. . . . .29,243 34,844 39,221 40,785 <br />
Health care <br />
and social assistance. . . . .35,269 42,286 47,071 48,354 <br />
Arts, entertainment, <br />
and recreation. . . . . . . . . .32,479 37,149 43,746 43,219 <br />
Accommodation <br />
and food services. . . . . . . 18,047 21,018 23,121 23,405 <br />
Other services, <br />
except government. . . . . . 25,989 30,465 34,217 34,885 <br />
Government. . . . . . . . . . . 40,767 49,894 55,891 57,320 <br />
Federal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46,470 64,184 70,785 73,765 <br />
State and local. . . . . . . . . 39,164 46,174 52,058 53,056<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">- Houston we have a problem....Houston, this is not anemia, but a case of advanced economic leukemia...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><strong><em>"We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. <u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject.</span></u> Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. We seldom, indeed, hear of this combination, because it is the usual, and one may say, the natural state of things, which nobody ever hears of. Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate..."</em></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Adam Smith, Wealth of the Nation, 1776, Chapter VIII, Of the wages of labor</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is obvious to me that in present day America, the business owners find a way to organize entering into contract with a whole political Party and they are successfully holding the minimum aka natural wages low as humanly possible...</span></span><br />
No wonder we have explosion of obesity, of chronic deceases and of poverty stricken neighborhoods who's only activity is the food stamp economy...<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">We can indulge in debate about Benghazi, AP, IRS, Verizon...we can debate till the end of time the topic of God and guns...we can debate Obama Care, Medicare, Social Security, Iraq, drones and vouchers...but if we do not address the income inequality in America, we will get nowhere...</span><br />
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The mythical Welfare Queens who drive Cadillac's all of a sudden get their faces on National TV, last few years we get to know them...we realize how incredible shameless they are, how unbelievable daring they are and how they live in whole alternate reality, some Parallel Universe where rules of gravity that we all live by do not apply to them...</div>
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We also come to realize that numbers don't lie...after all the media noise...all the tools of propaganda war that pour on us as a summer rain...all the paid pundits and the masterful comercials couldn't erase the history for those who went searching for the truth...<br />
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GOP may claim they are the Party of jobs creators...but history say jobs creators they are not...<br />
It was a revelation for many of us...the revelation come especially hard for many republicans who heard the story of Government spending so many time but never bother to find out who introduce us to the spending vices...<br />
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We see how worried Republicans are about our future...we see how much they care...well they should, cause they build that spending every step of the way...GOP Presidents are the leading spenders in the White House...</div>
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It was time sanity to step in...it's never to late to speak the Truth...</div>
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It really come to a simple choice...what kind of town we want to live in...Clean and healthy...or we want to step over each other who will get to the bottom of the money pit...Voices of reason could not reach many on the wretched right...Faithfull soldiers of special interest groups...The enablers of our Society ills...</div>
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Maybe they were thinking we will quit cause they become used to see us pulling the weight while they were taking a free ride...year after year...decade after decade...</div>
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We heard their story over and over the years...we just forget that the tune never change...Poor little rich man always whining being burden with taxes, fighting over wages and struggling with so many regulation that suck the daylight over their riches...</div>
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What GOP could not comprehend was the simple fact...they were the only one who still remotely believe that trickle down economics stood the test of time...the culture of denial they indulge for over tree decades...we knew better...we just have no one to lead us out of modern day slavery into the better tomorrow...</div>
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We come to understand that Reaganomics is illusion...we went down...it was not trickle that fail us...it was the plummeting into poverty that left us on the doorstep of 21 Century...Have all and have nothing mentality...</div>
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The culture Wars that separate us on North and South...Red vs Blue...Guns and Religion...were over after one senate candidate who hold office for so long came out with his legit point of view...It was not just shocking statement...shocking do not even begin to compute...it was deep down stupid...but then another contender come up with the same variation and put in perspective everything GOP stand for: half baked Science fiction predatory moral reality toward so many of us...woman, immigrant, minority...<br />
It was the state of mind that show us the glimpse of the future we dare not to envision...disrespectful dark ages where 21 Century meet Spanish inquisition! <br />
Who would ever anticipate that the culture war will be over overnight!<br />
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I was electrified by his speeches...I believe every word he said...</div>
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Yet...this time around there was only one speech that seal the election...and he was not the one he deliver that speech...</div>
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It was this moment...the short 47 percent statement that reserve Romney presidential bid on the loser spot...It was the rarest of any political speech...it was the naked truth...</div>
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This election I spend time talking with people...</div>
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On twitter I spend hours debating Republicans who are absolutely persuaded that almost half of us are having free ride in our society cause they aren't paying any taxes...federal income taxes...</div>
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Romney statement wasn't anything I never heard before...</div>
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Nothing is further then the truth, but ordinary GOP people do believe in that...</div>
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I also spend time talking with people in Nevada...most of them were part of 47% that GOP look down to and I become so proud of them...they knew who lay them off...they knew who throw them with a smile on the pavement like old used shoes...they knew that no one look at their salty tears, nor care for their desperate trembling souls...and most of all, they knew that their pleading voices are being mute for so long...they knew how they are used and abused over and over...but they were not angry...they come to understand that democracy is not spectator sport...that democracy is power that feeds on participation...its not given...nothing is given, everything is worth fighting for...that there is something that make the wealthiest among us equal to the poorest among us...the right to vote...</div>
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Vote...one person, one vote...We can change our Government overnight...we can have Laws that will be written to benefit us...Laws, written by people Government...</div>
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Vote is the unalienable right of the small person that become the will of one Nation...so they vote... Those 47% ...Standing for hours in longest lines this country ever see...and their voices speak...</div>
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I am one of the Romney's 47%...I work every day, all year long...I rarely take extra day off...yet, when I file for taxes I get tax refund, cause of my mortgage deduction...</div>
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We knew better...We know how to win despite their money...There is something money can't buy...</div>
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Sense of pride...honor...dignity...self respect...</div>
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I don't think they understand how much we have enough of their petty complains and their even pettier blame games...I know how right I am, cause they turn to blame Romney and his campaign and the secret video that sound so ugly even that was the most sincere statement that poor little rich man made since he start running for President...</div>
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The fiscal cliff is near by...the debt ceiling...</div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">May this season find you in good health...may this year make your wishes come true...may we all find what we looking for...love...peace...may we all cherish memories we can treasure till our last breath...</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am humbled to share with you one of my favorite Christmas song ever...</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Georgia;">My special gift to all of you is however the poem under the video...</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Its what Christmas mean to me...remembering...</span></em><br />
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Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923273274730877029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103331758289461747.post-83886318476440564572012-10-27T23:59:00.002-07:002012-11-26T15:21:40.007-08:00Mitt and GOP Mythology...They have no plan, but old worn dogmas...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remember... Remember<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That day in November...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is almost surreal...the theater
about this election...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two diametrically different men
running against each other to be the next President of the United State of
America…and different just does not even compute... <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We know the incumbent...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We know that skinny man with a funny
name…we get used to see his face last four years frequently on our TV for good
or bad...we get angry on him for the things he said and more for the things he
didn't say... we went bezerk for the things he do...but most of all...what
really bake our noodle was the things he didn't do...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Christmas come early this year in
America...the frenzy and the wishful thinking, the season of hope and dreams.
Main Street and Wall Street...everyone pop up last few months with a list of regrets…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">President Obama give as the hard truth...we are on the road to recovery, but we are not there yet...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Romney, the contender, cleverly pick
up every single roll of complain and he address them all...he told us what we wanted to hear...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I think there isn't a single
constituency in America that the challenger Romney did not please and promise
fix even he does not remember what he said when he said it but he definitely
stand for what he said...in a nutshell...that man turn us all into National mash
potato!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How on Earth anyone can argue with a
man who agrees with everything today and who will tomorrow deny everything he said
yesterday… especially when we live in this digital age of video recorded statements? Think about it...He deny recorded statements so bluntly as he wake up every morning with a wipe out recollection and expect that we go along with him...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Horrendous...and that man is running for President and he has a whole political Party behind...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s
hard to comprehend, but if he wins, he will turn the political landscape upside
down not just here but all over the world...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">New political principle will arise
from our mist...it does not matter what one say yesterday...it’s only NOW that
count...everything go...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Romney reinvent himself affront of our eyes every few days by
presenting a man who has a plan...plan without presenting any detail, without any
valid verification...plan that numb and neuter us all...Media pundit keep praising his glorious turnaround plan, much like in that children fable: "Emperor without the clothes" while he run around politically naked....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How on Earth can such a man get
political traction in one Nation? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Guess people wanna believe that someone can turn the economy around because people are nostalgic...because
people remember how well it was "Once upon a time in America" and
they can't perceive where the change comes from! So many of us can’t grasp the
ugly reality:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We live in a Society that promote
and worship human version of Darwin's survival of the fittest! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It's not America that is changed as much as the whole World economic stage is changed... <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We no longer compete with each other
on local but global stage: and our leadership leave us toothless and claw-less in the jungle for so many generations...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We become easy prey to our corporate
predators that decade after decade, election after election meticulously propagate the urban legend that only if you work
hard and play by the rule just being in America it’s a guarantee of getting
ahead...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No one like the bad news…People like
to flock to the new prophet who promises to take them safely into the holy
land... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The reality is, people are so tired
of scraping by...People just want this crises to be over!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People don’t want to hear about Romney
record that has nothing in common with job creation...they don't want to hear
that! All they want to hear is someone saying: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- I know how to do it...I know how to fix the economy...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So many of us just cover our ears
and sing "La, la, la..." - they don't want to hear that he is nothing but corporate raider! Modern day
pirate! </span><br />
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</span>- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> No</span>...-they say...- I only want to hear good
news...</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do we really?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do we honestly are so beaten up with
this crises that we just want to forget what happen last time Republicans hold
the White House and control the Congress...and the time before that...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How short is our memory? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p>Some say... Why bother, both Party are the same...it does not matter who hold the White House or the Congress...those people are politically blind to say the least...those people are ignorant of history...</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p>They expect certain change, but they don't understand that changes happen first in the soul of every one of us...changes grow every day till they reach a critical mass of support and become a norm in one Society...Politicians just respond to the changes that are swiping the electorate...politicians aren't the one who start change, they just verify the obvious...</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p>Slaves dreamed of freedom but it took Centuries for slavery to be abolish; serf dreamed of freedom but it took Centuries till they break the landlord dependency; workers dreams of better standard of living, health care, vacation etc for Centuries...and we still so much behind with poverty ridden pockets of our Society all over the World and blurred vision of what we as Humans really fight for... </o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p>We got Obama Care, because people wanted better health care system in America, system that will incorporate all of us, but those who wanted single payer were not so many and most of the people wanted a health care but didn't know what kind of health care they really want...and the special interest Powers seized our politicians who found themselves between a rock and a hard place...n</o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p>o wonder they give us extended Insurance based Health Care...</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p>What we need not to forget is that it was only one Party that push for the change, one party that put its reputation on the line...the other fought tooth and nails to keep the things the way they were...status quo that serve only those who never care about a single bill, much less medical bills...</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maybe there was a Republican Grand
Old Party that used to have some sound principles...but today they have nothing to offer to us, but the same old policies that did not work in the past and there isn't a single indication that they will ever work...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today we face GOP partisanship who make pledges not to our Nation but to obsolete ideas!</span><br />
Economy is just a start...GOP subscribe to idea in every walk of our Society that are not a step forward but the opposite...they lead us years backwards...<br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Should be no brainer...after all technology went so much ahead...but not for GOP...</span>Listening to Akin, Murdock, West, Backman, Santorum...and Romney fish like flip flopping for political air...to name few example that GOP serve us as their best and brightest are leaving us speechless...all I can say is that on the doorstep of 21 Century to deny Science is automatically sanity issues...<br />
Who are those people? How did they rise to prominence in one Party? <br />
No matter how frightening those Questions are, the worse is yet to come...<br />
- Who are the people who support them? <br />
- What is wrong with their ability to proses facts and to search for the Truth...<br />
- To be ignorant in this digital edge is not religious excuse...its character flaw! <br />
If we separate the smokescreen, if we get to the bottom of GOP plans, the reality is very simple...<br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Winning matter to GOP…Matter more
than the Truth…Matter more than the any historical facts…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Its growth they are after as they always are...Growth due to another wave of tax cuts…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Growth...growth...It was too much uncontrollable economic growth that blew up in our faces during the Bush administration...one more house and we could have landed on the moon...that's how high
our economy grew...and now, we are once again pulled into the "growth agenda." </strong></span></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><o:p></o:p></strong></span></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let me break some ugly truth to all
of you who dare to read my blog...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">America can’t afford another tax
cuts...not for wealthy and not for the middle class either...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">America already has flat rate
tax...it's called effective tax rate... What we actually pay in taxes no matter
what tax percentage is set in the tax code! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Corporate America pay same
contribution in taxes from our GDP as they did before the Great
depression...some pay nothing at all while ranking record profits, swimming in
cash and colecting our taxpayers money in various subsidies and chanels of Federal support...true welfare queens...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the other hand we have our poor
Government grasping for a straw underwater in the sea of public debt...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yeah...</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Clever is in it...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Only in America people who lose a
job blame Government and not the corporate power...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We cant get out of the crises using old ideas that may work long ago, but are outdated today...</span><br />
If we want change, we need to understand the hard reality...<br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All the layoffs happen to protect
Corporate bottom lines...Not a single Corporation lost on operations...they
never do...they lost on Wall Street...they lost on stocks...they throw you on
the street to go and beg on Government door and you lost your house and you run
to the ground your decades of saving and you get cancer out of stress and your
kids lost all their friends moving around just so Corporations will keep their
portfolio looking good...not because you didn't work hard...so get that GOP
dogma out of your head: working hard got nothing to do with your fortune or
misfortune...none! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Corporate America has their
spokesman in GOP and they planted this dogma of personal unfitness to mask the
reality… <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don’t blame yourself, you did work
hard...and you did play by the rules... and don't blame the Government for
going on borrowing and spending binge…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- Your Government spending is
nothing but the effort to do the best they can to hold the fabric of our Society
together... Government spending is just attempt to patch problems that occur
and where created elsewhere…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don’t hate your Government for
giving food stamps to some people, while you get nothing...and no, those people
on food stamps are not all black, lazy and addicted to dependency...and no,
they aren’t illegals either…they are just worse off then you are! Wretched
poor...that's who they are...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And their numbers keep
rising…working poor who do work but can’t even meet the bills…some work two
jobs to get out of that poverty pit…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Working poor…the 47% of us…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don't be like that woman who see her
family jobless for years, who see her house foreclosed and still go to Romney
rally and ask him for help! By now we should all know it was someone like him
who lay her husband off and push her family into poverty! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don't be those workers who lost
their job cause their factory get shot down, but they still go to Romney rally
and are so proud to chant "USA, USA"...By now, we should all know
that it was someone like Romney who outsourced their jobs…and as times go by,
anyones jobs could be next…The only jobs who will not be outsourced will be
retail and service jobs…Everything else is on their way out…Take a look at
Sensata…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don't be that small business owner
who work 14 hours a day, who never get a break but still go to Romney rally to
pledge his tax plan...That plan is made just for the big Corporations...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don't be those elders who depend on
Medicare and still go to Romney rally just because they are afraid what legacy
of debt they will leave to their grandchildren... You did not build that
debt...and your Voucher Care will not help either! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Romney and careless people like him
build our debt with their relentless pursuit of tax cuts and more tax
cuts...sending our good jobs oversea... cutting every way they can on worker compensation
by killing Unions...by paying lobbyist to deliver deduction and exception and
modify our tax code... by being proud to give tithe to their Church and deduct
them as charity from their tax return...and after all the breaks they put into
Laws…and after every loopholes they exhausted, when even that wasn’t good
enough, they send their money in tax haven shelters…all the tax evading scams
in Cayman Island, dirty Bermuda business investments or Swiss Bank accounts...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Romney and people like Romney build
our debt and skip on any public investment in our Nation Physical and Human
Capital by paying less and less in taxes...no wonder we fall behind on
Education and our Infrastructure is barely standard of 20 Century...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Romney and people as Romney rob us
blind all those years and now they want to enter the White House and get the
final nail in our Safety net...last thing left for them to steal from us...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because they never got enough...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yet they go around and they dare to
blame:</span><br />
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</span><strong>-<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> It’s the debt stupid…it’s the debt all right, the debt they create and
don’t want to pay for it…</em></span></strong> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don’t be the person to open the door
for them to the White House again…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vultures…that’s what they are… Human
pack of wolfs…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Romney is the same wolf as Bush was
talking how Compassionate Christian he was...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once in White House…only compassion
GOP is able to feel is toward their own bank accounts that they nourish with
tax cuts and deregulation every time they win...and true Christians will never
start a War…period! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Romney is the same GOP...Wolf may
change its color in winter, but it’s the same wolf from the summer...just
hungry and cunning for a hunt...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GOP is after more blood...more tax
cuts...don't let them in...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tax cuts will not make us better off as a Nation...that train left the Station long before Reagan left the office...Its time to upgrade our Society with 21 Century ideas that incorporate well being of all of us, not just few...its time to face the challenges of the ever changing world...its time to outgrow GOP...</span><br />
Its that simple...<br />
Democrats may be wrong on many issues, but they got few damn right...<br />
Poverty is not acceptable in 21 Century...<br />
Woman have a right to choose...<br />
Universal Health Care is perk of our civilization development ...<br />
Standard of living is the next civil right...<br />
Climate change is happening and we need to acknowledge that as World priority...<br />
Many will find touch by those issues even they consider themselves Republicans...and that is OK...and that is Normal...cause Humanity don't dwell in colors of political divide...<br />
Humanity dwell in every one of us...its that fiber that make our soul and warm our heart in the hours of great despair...<br />
Its that feeling of Hope that is greater then the coldness of Fear...<br />
Its that feeling of Hope that will take us forward into a New arising World Consciousness that cant accept the old dogma of yesterday...<br />
Election is just start...<br />
The seed of change is like a mustard seed that grow in the heart of all of us...<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remember...Remember that day in
November...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No matter what you do...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Go vote ... </span><br />
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Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923273274730877029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103331758289461747.post-34862145594945948002012-05-08T13:08:00.007-07:002012-10-26T23:07:26.472-07:00Today dream is tomorow reality...This is our dream...WE BUILD OUR SOCIETY ...one member at the time...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> "<em>No man is an iland, intire of it self; every man is a peece of The Continent, a part of the </em></span><em><span style="font-family: Georgia;">maine; </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Man-nor of thy </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">friends or of thine owne were;</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> Any man death diminishes me, because I am involve in Mankinde;</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee</em>..."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> <strong>Ernest Hemingway</strong> <br />
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Mitt Romney will run for President representing GOP and Francois <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc">Hollande</span> is the new French President...<br />
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Two piece of info that mean so much...having in mind that they represent two political and economic policies, diametrically different as they come...</div>
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Europe is under Conservative rule implementing austerity measures more or less since the Global Stock Market crash in 2008...</div>
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Francois <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc">Hollande</span> run against Conservative <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc">Sarkozy</span>, against austerity, he run on platform of few peculiar anti austerity measures: increasing the minimum wage, increasing the Social safety net by hiring, putting money in ordinary people pocket directly, but not by borrowing in order to stimulate the french economy, but by taxing the wealthy who make over one million euro with tax rate of 75%...</div>
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We on the other hand, we witnessing a spectacle of unprecedented Media Propaganda Warfare...</div>
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We as people are under siege: Corporate Media saturate the air with cleverly design commercials that glorify one candidate and vilify the other...they don't present information, they taking side...they chew the data for us, and give us all the talking points like a bid on the betting score...</div>
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Both Party are playing political games "we are right, and they are wrong"...</div>
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No time to doubt...red or blue...time to pick a side...</div>
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Red or Blue, the Questions is now...Red or blue...no purple...</div>
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How to make a decision between Red and Blue? What can be sanity test between them?</div>
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How to make a distinction if you are not economist, if you are not politically savvy?</div>
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How to make a decision and practice your civil right to vote and participate in our democracy? </div>
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My response is simple: The next President will shape our way of life for Generations to come, shaping the politics that will change:</div>
- the way we educate our children,<br />
- how we provide health care to everyone in our Society without discrimination,<br />
- our will to commit portion of our resources to our safety net: social security and basic welfare...<br />
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Let dissect every one of those standpoint on red vs blue...<br />
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EDUCATION<br />
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Education is escalator for the future...</div>
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In this time and age on global competition on the World Market only a Nation that invest in Human Capital aka Education can really prosper.</div>
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We all agree that Education is not just ticket to higher wages and climbing the middle class ladder...its about building a Nation of critical thinkers who will contribute in betterment of everyone lives creating new innovations..</div>
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The question we need answer to is how do we make higher education available to every child that wanna pursuit excellence?</div>
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- tuition that every student should bootstrap himself to get it on his own or with government help...</div>
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- administration processing fee as admission to any college in the country on the merits of prior scholar accomplishments...After all "Mind is a terrible thing to waste"...</div>
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HEALTH CARE <br />
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Let get this cat out of the bag: I don't like <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc">ObamaCare</span>...</div>
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I like it as much as i like my medical insurance... expensive beside that don't provide me with care i really need cause have all sort of obstacle, caps, limitation and deduction...</div>
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But its all i have, and beat the hell out of <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc">NoneCare</span>... </div>
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The question of Health Care is not pro or against <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc">ObamaCare</span>, nor the question is privilege or human right...<span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc">au</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc">contraire</span>...</div>
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The question is:</div>
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- everyone should be responsible for its own health care providers coverage on a open Market;</div>
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- should everyone be incorporated under one system of health care that will provide medical assistance to everyone who need it... </div>
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SOCIAL SECURITY AND WELFARE <br />
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In reality Social Security is retirement income for many people, their saving that they are counting on when they get older & ages slow them up.Pension of a sort...</div>
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The question of Social Security is not the question of system deficit, or percentage of contribution, nor participation... its a question of the age of retirement...</div>
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Is being seventy better choice to retire...is seventy truly the new sixty?</div>
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On the other side we have mass of our citizen that need assistance to make the ends meet...most of them do work...</div>
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The question of Welfare is not who should be eligible, nor the layers that build the strata of Government assistance, nor the term limits of it...the question of Welfare is why people who work still need Government assistance...</div>
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Can we set standard of living that will dignify everyone work?<br />
Can we set a standard of living no working man can go below?<br />
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How we answer those question depend of what we believe in...</div>
Who Are we as people...it's 21 Century...we come so much ahead of the Stone age when Druid dance under the moon and pray for rain...What do we believe in today?<br />
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Do we aspire to go ahead of our time, do we look upon the stars...or we can only find solace in the past glory of generation long gone?<br />
Do we belief that part of us will never be whole if we left half of us in the gutter of poverty...</div>
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Do we belief that people who are willing to work eight hours, five days a week deserve wages that will never send them on food stamp support? Can we set the working man free of need for Church, charity of State assistance...can we give back the working man a dignity of Independence? <br />
Do we belief our kids need an equal shoot, not cause of pure natural sperm selection or their zip code of birth...but cause they are willing to learn and excel?</div>
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This isn't a time to doubt...it's time to search one soul and stand for its beliefs...what do we belief in?<br />
Some of us wanna grow the pie..they believe that Growth will somehow set the things strait...Grow the pie...ever wonder maybe we need to better the ingredient we use to make the pie, add nutrition rather then make it bigger, sweet & shallow!</div>
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This upcoming election it's a choice of beliefs, not who can sale better commercial or propaganda...</div>
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After this election we as a Nation will have to live with Consequences of our choices...there will be no etch a sketch option after a month, there will be Laws pass trough Congress and sigh by the President, Laws that we will have to obey and live by it Generation to come...<br />
Its a choice where we wanna live in: in a Human Serengeti where only the strongest survive, and all the rest are left behind to slowly but surly become oblivion...Social Darwinism of highest order...or we can acknowledge that no man is an island on its own and that we can build better Society then Human Serengeti...</div>
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We are the one who build our Society... <br />
I believe that Future is never in the past...it's always ahead...new time offer new solutions...its up to us to catch up with the changes that the horizon offers...we just need to board a train that will take us there...<br />
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Instead of living in the past, instead of cherish what was normal or good yesterday, we should look what are the options today... get on board of a <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc">Maglev</span> train... <br />
I don't wanna be slave owner who feel good cause he never use a whip to control his slaves... I don't wanna be slave owner...period! <br />
I believe all people are created equal,and we should treat them as equal...principle not slogan...<br />
I don't accept that we cant build better society on few basic principles...I accept even less the excuse that we have no money to do so...</div>
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Money are not obstacle to solve any problem in any Society...money don't build houses...human hands build a house from bottom up...Money are never obstacle...they are illusion, a whip that modern day slave owners use to control people today...<br />
Think about it...not long a go we print so much money to safe Wall Street, to cover projected profitability of banks...trillions and trillions of dollars, every State, not just us...Europe...<br />
We could have build Eden on Earth with them...</div>
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Money are not obstacle to build anything...our core beliefs are obstacle to build better Society... Take the money out of equation and let see the naked Human: What is his values when his strip of his possession?</div>
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What is left of him is what make him Human...ability to love and care. </div>
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We Humans created money in the dawn of time to easily exchange values of our good and services, now money exchange values of us as Human...illusion...money, race, religion, sex, gender...all bricks we create and hang around our neck...</div>
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We are not able to fly and liberate our souls cause they holding us back...</div>
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I believe that people are good by its Nature. Deep inside we are all the same..on the surface our blood seems blue,but cut will reveille its bloody red...</div>
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I believe that we can perfect every issue that is cause of animosity among us if we agree on basics with mutual consensus.. </div>
I believe that we can't control the forces of nature, that accident will happen but those things, those basic thing are our choice to make...<br />
We are the one who build our Society... It's Human to love, not to hate...it's deeply Human to care, not to fight... to laugh not to cry...to enjoy art, not destruction...to sing, not to torture...to dance not to stump upon...<br />
We are better then any species that ever walk the face of the Earth cause its deeply human to live and help each other as one...That care lift us above any animal, that ability to understand one another<br />
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We can spend days and years in discussing the tools we can use in order to get there, how to accomplish our basic goals, but to start the debate we must agree on those core basics...</div>
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We gonna build any Society if<br />
1. We agree that children need equal opportunity to pursuit education, <br />
2. Sick need undeniable health care,<br />
3. Elders need granted retirement and <br />
4. We can afford to provide to every family higher then minimum level standard of living...</div>
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Its a start...Are you in?</div>
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Marie</div>
Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923273274730877029noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103331758289461747.post-62922901882034043742012-04-10T20:41:00.008-07:002012-04-11T13:34:48.109-07:00STARVE THE BEAST, WE CAN ALL PLAY THE HUNGER GAMES...On ways our Political Establishment manipulate it's own people<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">We witnessing astonishing spectacle...<br />
Election after election, Republicans and Democrats are competing between each other to please Corporate America...<br />
When the curtain fall in 2008 and left the banking system naked affront of our eyes caught in cheating frenzy with Wall Street in the back room, soak in orgy of mysterious bundle deal on the edge of legality, our Congress run to save them in a speed of light...that was some political expediency of the highest order...<br />
It was a dark legacy of the current Republican President, as well as the whole two Party Establishment that cheer lead economic policies who bring us to that sorry point...last three decade of same politics...with signature of a blue Democratic President if we may say, to be fair to the truth...<br />
Someone will think that was a wake up call for our elected officials of both Party, who will put their finger on their forehead and stop to think a little...but no, they didn't...<br />
While our political Establishment fall over backwards to save Wall Street, the misery follow so many of our Fellow Americans who were loosing their jobs like in a whirlpool...<br />
Did the misery stop after we change the name of our political leadership in DC from red into blue?...Did we change the course? What did we accomplish since then...<br />
Democrats win, but then they sold or watter down in compromises almost all the high hopes we as people were fighting for in 2008 political race...<br />
They lost the midterm election so badly cause of it, our Congress get filled with newcomers under the banner of Tea Party...so happy we switch the colors again...from blue into red this time...<br />
Silly rabbits...tricks are for kids...<br />
Maybe some people need update...yes, the Tea Party did not bring change, they just fill someone else shoes in the process...<br />
Yeah...<br />
Upcoming election, the spectacle get new dramatic turn...<br />
Lies we are accustom to hear election after election yet again begin to unfold affront of our eyes...<br />
Promises of better tomorrow...promises of jobs...promises of prosperity...promises of change...promises, promises...<br />
Pattern we are suck into like flies on a lantern in the nite...<br />
Republican promises...<br />
Democratic promises...<br />
Why the charade? They are just promises...<br />
Did we learn the lesson? How many of us wake up to the reality that there is a little difference between both Party establishment, small little fact that they serve one and the same master: Corporate America...<br />
Our wishes, our aspiration, our dreams, our sole opinion matter so little that is pure blind faith that prevent us to see the Truth...<br />
Do we really need another poll to show us that majority of us believe the burden of taxes should be carried by the most wealthy among us...like that top 1% wealthy American...<br />
Who is more pathetic, the democrats who are so gutless and are able to only beg Bush tax cuts to expire, or Republican who scream Armageddon for pitiful 4% marginal tax increase! <br />
Do we need another poll to tell us that majority of American don't believe our military should be involved in any War, anywhere in the world...yet wars go on, even we are so deep in debt that we are on the edge of default as a Nation...<br />
Do we need another poll to tell us all the things that majority of us live trough day in and day out? <br />
When we will face the reality: majority don't count...our opinion don't count...our political structure is set to serve those who send them in Washington DC, as well as in any local and judicial office all over our 50 states?<br />
So what can we do as people? <br />
What can we do to change anything, to change the pattern that lead us to hunger games year after year...we do pay tribute to our decadent Rich elected and their sponsors...we do sacrifice our kids to them as offer, cause we send them into the same path of indoctrination that they may win next round and move to the shiny city on the hill...<br />
We play the hunger games generation after generation for so long...we just lived in illusion that we didn't.<br />
Aware or not...many of us start waking up...we just don't know who is out of the bubble yet...<br />
Occupy Wall Street was the first step...<br />
Now we need to turn to the second...<br />
See...this system of ours perpetuate one after another illusion...one of them is called democracy...<br />
Corporate America sale this illusion to us for so long that we all as people, we defacto can participate into decision making process, pure illusion Corporate America integrate so much into our core belief system, not realizing that they created their ultimate demise...<br />
Cause Democracy is the ultimate flaw of this cruel system that place profit before people...<br />
In a democracy every person vote count...<br />
In a democracy the will of the people count...<br />
In a democracy everything is possible...<br />
That is why the Corporate two Party Establishment is peddling vicious propaganda of disfranchising more of us using any scarecrow possible...all the wage issues are in display: sex, race, religion, economy, anything to separate, to confuse or divide us as majority into small groups that will be easy to control. <br />
Our very souls are on the line...<br />
The system wanna preserve it's status affront of rising Conscience among people in every walk of life that somehow its just don't work for them...<br />
The division, the polarization went so far that work as centrifuge...1% and 99% is just about right numeric unbalance...<br />
Society tend to balance, no matter how unequal it is, or it will be swept into a social revolution...<br />
Last time this numbers play a role in a Society, they lighten a royal family..for their heads...<br />
We are not such savages...<br />
We evolve since then...<br />
Beside...we can vote...<br />
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Its time to set the goal straith:<br />
We should never ever let anyone who resemble Scot Walker to run a state...<br />
We should never ever let anyone who resembe Paul Ryan to craft a budget that will undercut the future well being of our kids and our elderly...<br />
We should never ever let a Party that undermine half of us, the female part of us, to ever gain majority in any state of federal house, and craft any Laws ever again...<br />
We should let that same Party to pack their coffers and get on fast track back to 18 Century where they actually belong...<br />
Maybe Republicans, as well as the Wigs before them, have their role in our political life, but their time expire...<br />
It's 21 Century...we need to board a fast train that will take us on the journey of progress with our eyes set into future, we don't wanna go back, not a year back, much less couple of Centuries back...<br />
The future is not the politics of "Starve the beast" that's the past...<br />
The future is digital, green, nano...and it's already among us...<br />
The future is between Democrats who still believe that they can tame the Market bubbles with regulations and Progressives who believe that better Society is possible...<br />
Sad to say this, but Republicans as political force are so insignificant for the future, that I don't even wanna mention their candidate hopeful...<br />
It's over for GOP...<br />
They just don't know it yet..<br />
But they will...<br />
Democracy is the people tool for change...and no one, no money or man can't take that away from us...<br />
Marie</div>Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923273274730877029noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103331758289461747.post-49865670984866503302012-02-20T12:56:00.008-08:002013-01-18T15:05:26.979-08:00BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? On poverty as malfunction of Capitalism and the way we soothe our Conscience<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables ( The poor ones) cannot fail to be of use.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The word that becoming more and more popular in politics of today, the word that is commonly used all over the planet as the crises is spinning out of control, is crony Capitalism…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">It seams that the good old Capitalism enter a phase that capture and twist his soul from fair system of Free Market Economy into some ugly creature of some apocalyptic schizophrenic imagination, known as Crony Capitalism…and all we need to do is to go back to its basic principle in order to safe him from blowing up in our faces depleting the Natural resources, breaking every moral norm we familiar with and growing into a monster that sack the daylight of every living creature of this Planet but the top cream of the Wealthy who by the way, never ever complained at all…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Now that will be salto mortale worthy of David Copperfield grand illusion…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Those who even entertain the idea that we can turn back the clock and return to foundation of the 18 Century Capitalism need to visit a library and look beyond the economics of Mises, Friedman and Keynes, who's only job as economists was to justify and blur the reality about the sole character of the system since day one witch always was and always will be THE SAME SOLE CHARACTER of the system: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>“Capitalism by definition is market oriented economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and motivated by profit…”</em></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">All those cheer-leading economists ever did is dressing him up in new clothes, sugarcoating his nature with sweet illusions to diminish the ugly reality...</span></span><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> - </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Capitalism worked well yesterday, it is working well today, and it will always work perfectly well for the Wealthiest people among any given Nation...not for the majority of the common people...</strong></span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Deal with it...slowly...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We can call him “Free Market Economy” as much as we want, sound so liberating, I mean is there a human on this world who do not love freedom?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">A</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">ttaching freedom to its character of Market Economy is plausible, but never the less it is still the same system…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Those who adore the phrase “Free Market Economy” have themselves deluded!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> There is Market they like and Market they do not want without making a clear distinction who is who:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> <em><strong>- What is Market anyway?</strong></em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Is it a place like in those Medieval picture of merchants offering their Earth produce, a rainbow of colors, green pea, red tomato, orange carrots, ripe apples, violet grape, purple blueberries and yellow potatoes, an offers of plenty and a woman with a basket smelling the pink peaches thinking of a delicious tart she can make with them…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Or...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Is it a Wall Street wholesale in a sole click of the button, simple blip on the computer screen, and the destinies of so many workers families are thrown into a mergers that can discard them just cause they are a cost that jeopardize the bottom line? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Market is both…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Those merchant are motivated to bring the product affront that woman and make a back for themselves, as well as the shareholders behind those clicks on the screen… </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> The Capitalism evolved…the place where the offer met demand become elusive but that do not change the soul of the Capitalism at all…</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We like the idea of that woman freely choosing what will go into her basket…but we do not like when we are the one on display and that someone can buy and sale us without even concerning our will…we don't like the idea that our lives, our dream and our very being as human can be no more then a subject to transaction just like those peaches are!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Well...Grow up…wake up and smell the coffee…Cause we all are subject for sale, like it or not...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Sooner or letter we need to realize the reality: everything is on sale on the Market…that’s what Market Economy is…winners and losers…pick and choose…eat or be eaten by the competition...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Instead of dropping your jaw in discontent due to hurt vanity, ask yourself a hard Question: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> - <em><strong>Did Capitalism ever, ever work for the common people?</strong></em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> On the streets of London maybe?…Charles Dickens will have so many stories to tell You…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> On the streets of Paris?…Victor Hugo will have so many stories to share with You…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> On the streets of Chicago?…Jack London will even show You the streets cover with blood stains…</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times;">The glorious past of Capitalism that so many Republicans and Libertarians call for is <strong><em>this</em></strong> ugly reality: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times;">- working 14-16 hours a day, six days a week, just because you need Sunday to hear the Church fathers tell you how much Jesus loves poor people...he just happened to bless the rich all of the other days of the week...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> - winter comes along with a crises, if you are lay off, chances are you will freeze to death ...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> - no medical plans, none...market health care, if you get sick, and have no money for a doctor or medicine, you die...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> - children work since the age of eight, full working days, many never reach adulthood...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> - woman are valued twice as less as workers then men...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> - no public schools...You are born and you may die never to see the light of Knowledge...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Everything we have today, every so called benefit, wasn't given to us by the grace of some wealthy man, we fought for our workers right every step of the way for over two hundred year...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Nothing was given to us, we won those battles one at the time...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">And then many years go by and we forget...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is us who choose the stories of <em><strong>Red Barons</strong></em> to uphold and worship and stories of <strong><em>Les Miserable</em></strong> we tend to forget… </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> We like to believe in Horatio Alger “rags to riches” lifetime opportunity for every one of us...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> We don’t even wanna mention that poor little servant, smaller then her broom, Cosette, much less her mother...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Every crises that come around blow our perspective on capitalism and humanity and we feel bad for those unfortunate among us who fall trough the cracks of this merciless system and our conscience ask to help them…one way or another…charity…soup lines…</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Government programs…</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Last couple of centuries we entertain those solutions, cause we forget our past…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We live in a digital age, but we act as history start yesterday…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Those who love capitalism, those who hate Government welfare programs, those who blame the poor for being poor, are those who forget history and therefore are bound to repeat it…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">While the people were falling through the cracks of the merciless system, those who blame them, have no idea how that happen because they never bother to ask, or look, or wonder!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Fat chance that any business owner ever wonder what is happening day after people loose their jobs! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> - What are the chances to get another job in ones profession…?</span><br />
- <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">What are the consequences for their livelihood if those being lay off are over forty and they can't compete with the young more productive working force eager to replace them for less salary or no benefits at all…<br />
How many of those self-righteous Republicans even ask themselves: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> - When unemployed loose their houses, where do they go?</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">What is the fabric of their live the day after? What kind of school their children all of a sudden have to go to?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;"><em><strong>We never connect the dots between us and the poor...</strong></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> - <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Who are the poor people anyway? </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Where do they come from? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We tend to judge them most of the time as lazy...or worse, cause our hard earn money trough taxes go to support them in various programs...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ah, all those welfare queens and their babies on food stamps...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">How many self righteous Republican who are so eager to cut back their food stamps ever ask: why do they grow up without parents guidance in the first place? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Do those well dressed business owners wives holding charity foundations to safe the polar bears or to help the hungry in Africa ever ask:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> - What is happening with all those teenage mother and their babies in the street of ours cities? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">All those ardent pro-life supporters who condemn abortion, did they ever ask:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> - What opportunity the system offer to those high school drop outs mothers searching for a job without any education…or what time they can afford to spend with their babies working double shift, or what value they can pass in absenteeism to their children rising them from kids to adult!</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Do those ardent pro-life evangelists even consider while fighting for the lives of the unborn babies, that being born is just the beginning of those babies lives! Not really, cause their fierce fight end at the maternity ward...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;"> - Why should they bother to ask w</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">ho look after those babies growing without fathers, while their mothers need to work two jobs?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> - Who should pay attention to them?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Maybe teachers in overcrowded schools?...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Those teachers Republicans don’t really wanna pay taxes for their wages, but expect them to educate and install values in our kids? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Maybe they are the </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">social workers responsibility?... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Those social workers who's pile of files are rising while their department budgets are shrinking cause Republicans don’t wanna pay taxes to support their wages too…</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then again, the Conservatives wing will raise its voice:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> -Why should we bother with them at all...its their parents responsibility!...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Those parents who Republicans wanna keep on minimum wage cause they do not value their common Labor forcing them to work multiple jobs just to make the ends meet? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Even worse outcome is that we don't wanna know do those babies even reach adulthood at all, or they are swept into the penitentiary system for some petty crimes they commit in order to stay alive or blend into community of the poor underworld…</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Ahh, damn drug war so dear to the bleeding heart of the Libertarians wing who will legalize marijuana in a blink of the eyes, but will never shake the corporate boat of their aspiring masters, nor will change the system that breed poverty...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times;">The accusations, the excuses, the patchwork of solution is going in circle, year after year, generation after generation, election after election...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Vicious cycle we don’t wanna see, cause its not us…its them…the poor one…Les miserables…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">True modern day slaves…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">And their numbers are keep rising year after year...crises after crises...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><em><strong>No, we don't wanna connect the dots between us and them...</strong></em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times;">We don't wanna admit that they are Us, We are them, just a few paychecks away from their destiny...just a job away from their neighborhoods...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Its easy to blame someone for a failure, but the failure is not theirs...the odds are stuck against them every step of the way...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">They say poverty bread poverty...<br />
Not True...not True at all...<br />
- Babies are not born poor or rich, babies are born as Human…<br />
Poverty is not a decease one catch walking on the wrong side of the street...This economic system bread poverty every step of the way...its his DNA...<br />
Turning a blind eye is our collective shame, not theirs...</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In a land of plenty, being poor is not one person individual fault but mismanagement of our Society resources...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">We can eradicate poverty overnight, but that will crash the system...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">That is the ugly truth...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Its a simple mathematics that even a child can perform...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">We just never set the task...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">All we ever did is placing a band aid to soothe our Conscience, that we did the best we can to help them...in fact we just helping the atrocity to continue: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><em>"The Worst form of violence is poverty" -<span style="font-size: x-small;">Gandhi</span></em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;">The Republicans tragedy is that they even wanna peel that band aid, cause they never look back where they come from...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Its a level of ignorance that is amusing in a sense: They do believe they are untouchable...but so did Marie Antoinette...so did Romanov...and Les Miserables grow so many in their time that they swept them into oblivion...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Some people learn from Marie Antoinette, some learn even more from Romanov's destiny and create the safety net that will prevent Les Miserables to roam in horde on our streets, but they accept their destiny as the way it is...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">And that is equally wrong...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">My dear Democrats, slave owners that never use whip lash to teach their slaves order are maybe good slaves owners but they are still slaves owners...slavery is not freedom as welfare is not wages...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Its the way we organize or economy...the way we utilize our Human resources...the way we set priority of our economic system to be...not a choice between rich and poor, have and have not...but a system of economics...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Capitalism have profit set ahead of people...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">What is a minimum wage but a fertile ground for poverty...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">What is any Social Program but an attempt to curve the sharp age of profiteering...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">All the Laws and Regulations can't make Capitalism become Human, cause the drive for profit will always tear them a part...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Workers wages, Taxes and Regulations are just cost for the system , cost that take away from the profit, ergo the system Nature will force Capitalism to break loose of any regulation, to cut any cost...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">If any of us get on the way, the system will chew and spit Us, as a side effect...strait in the gutter of Poverty...with the smile on the way down...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;"> -Its not personal...its just business...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Color him pink as much as anyone wanna color Capitalism pink, but the color will always be bloody red...even if it has to swirl us in yet another World War in order to get out of the crises...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">The Great Depression end by giving us The World War II in 1939...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>'War is the health of the state..." </strong><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Randolph Bourne</span></strong></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;">Indeed...when nothing else work, War is the ultimate Broken Window Economy...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Present day crises...we witness the clouds gathering over Middle East every day more and more...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;">I believe in Science that say: There is plenty for all of Us...We can do much better then vote and support modern day Holocaust known as Economic crises...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">How many of Us are even aware to the call of Reason and Knowledge?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">How many choose to ignore the past in order to preserve their own selfish status in the Society they are familiar with...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">They say there is absolute poverty that people in the Third world Countries live in, those who lack base necessity of life and they are dying of hunger, malnutrition or preventable diseases, while their leaders bath in diamonds up high on the hill...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Then there is relative poverty that half of the people live in the well develop countries in the World, and its not just those who live below or around the set standard of living also known as poverty line...its the rest of us, Us, the 99 % who sadly buy into widely extended poverty line with credit illusion of well being...the last forty years...Cars, furniture, vacation, even all the kitchen gadget we ever posses were due on credit...true...we own nothing but our names on a monthly bills...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Then there is a brand of people we rather not Mention cause most of us depend on their will...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">They are those people with rare ability to justify and support the ugly reality around them even when they </span><span style="font-family: Times;">know very well whats going on and even they can do plenty about it, but they rather don't!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Its not ignorance that drive them...its not their inability for compassion...its deep rooted poverty of their soul, disability we can't see, but we sure as hell feel their pressure in our everyday lives...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">No one is safe from those creature that hold the Wealth of the World in their fingertips, but are so miserable that they can't value other people Humanity more then they value their own Portfolios...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">People who will applaud the idea of children janitors, or who will bluntly admit that they do not care about the poor, cause they have their safety net to hold them while working relentlessly to tear that Safety net apart...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">People who think that they are much higher on the scale of Humanity cause they are better off then Les Miserables... </span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">A famous man who win the greatest battle in history of mankind, namely he defeat an Empire without using any force, without shooting a single bullet, once upon a time he said: </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."</i> <br /><br />His name was </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>Mahatma Gandhi</i> and he show his countryman’s how to battle an enormous powerful opponent using his straight against it, with one simple word…<br /><br />Noncompliance…non cooperation…non violence…<br /><br />On my last post I left U in the midst of the Income tax debate to savor the role of the part of our Citizens who were showing their disobediences all over America in most colorful ways: dressed like and 18 Century Revolutionaries…<br />I claim that they are no more then Reactionaries, that even their concerns are legitimate, their anger is misplaced…not solely cause of their nostalgical dreams of yesterday, but cause the Party they subscribe use and misused them profoundly all those years purposely manufacturing deceit called Free Market Utopia…<br />Today we will reflect on the other part of our Citizens who were similarly used and abused as our Tea Party people were, namely the so called Obama movement!<br />You know, those people who carry the President from a unknown Senator from Illinois, till the White House, and all those young people who surf the net, and buzz the word change like undercurrent only to find themselves forgotten and left behind year letter…<br />I remember the energy, I remember the Hope, I remember the enthusiasm cause well, I was part of it…<br />I did ride the pink cloud…till I witness the Democrats empty and impotent Politics, their betrayal of the Public Option, and the relentless compromises they did over and over “in our behalf…”<br />There is no easy way to say this, so I will say this simplest as I can:<br />- The scope of manipulation, of misinformation that surround this crises is appalling beyond measure! <br />- The undermining of its own people that Republicans did for decade and the appearance of help from the Democrat is appalling!<br />- The welfare, the food stamps, the unemployment benefits, the regulations no one uphold, Laws that are dead on arrival...<br /><br />To me it look like the Congress don’t understand, or they simply don’t give a damn about what will happen on Main Street cause they just don’t live there!<br /><br />There is a perceived fallacy that there is two separate and different school of Economic thought, like they fight their economic ideas: Austrian/Chicago school, vs Keynesian school...<br />Now…what a joke that is! <br />Its a game of a good cop, bad cop they play with Us the people.<br />The real issue is the crises.<br />Austrian School of economics ( Milton Friedman is no less Austrian even he is considered a founder of a new school known as Chicago trickle down economics, then he is pupil of Mises ) stand for Free Market Economy, and on the other side are Keynesians School of Economics who stand for Free Market Economy...<br />Yeah...no differences! None…<br />They have its own “founders” but never the less they both serve and promote Free Market Economy as much as possible!<br />Till the crises hit!<br />Free Market Economy is just a fancy name for Capitalism... <br />Capitalism is an economic system prone to crises, every decade like clockwise. for sure, and when he does, the Republican or Austrian/Chicago boy will recall to say: <br />- Let it be...does not matter who will suffer, the system will bounce back! If we intervene in the Market, the crises recovery will be slow and agonizing process that will take years…<br />The democrat Keynesian student will jump on those words like hit by a naked electricity cord and say: <br />- Are You out of Your mind? What a preposterous Idea! We can't take a risk of Public pain turning into a populist movement cause the stakes are too high! People may awaken to a new idea and overturn the whole system into something that is called Socialism!Remember Russia…We have to act and use the Power of the Government to employ all the misplaced people. We are not savages…Its 21 Century after all!<br />So the Keynesian step in, sooner or letter, as we see in our recent history...<br />During Bush last year in office people were loosing their jobs, left and right, they never even make a news on Sunday Media talk shows!<br />Then the New administration came, and what did they do?<br />What is the Keynesian approach? <br />-We will band aid the pain so the population will not be aware that they are no more then a frog in a boiling water!<br />They start a series of Public interventions known as "The Stimulus" and small local patchwork Investment in Infrastructure...<br />Ahh…the Keynesian way, that Wealthy people adore, cause it basically translate to: <br />-Let the Government borrow from the Wealthy, in order to hire a part of the populations while the rest who are outside of the sphere of intervention will wait for their turn of a good luck. The deeper the crises, the longer the slow recovery, but the result is the same, the Capitalism will bounce back, the "weakling" will be cleaned naked, and we will be off for a new business cycle! We prevent the system from any populist movement, so now we can go back to its base principles: free market...<br />Meanwhile the politicians wishing reelection will bring some New Regulations, New Laws that will prevent the same crises happening again in the future!<br />It work with the population, every single time…<br />Both school are designed to spread the Gospel of the Free Market, being the ultimate Salvation! <br />Austrian, pure Market, or Friedman Reaganomics dominate and rule our life even when Democrats control the White House, perfect example is Clinton…<br />To uphold Keynes who is no more then a plumber called only when the System is clog and the Capitalism have no chance of unclogging itself alone!<br />Keynes has never intervene with the Social Programs, they are pure Government decisions under pressure of massive public unrest as it was in the 30’ during the Great Depression…<br />As soon as the system come out of the crises, the sole goal of both Political Parties is to reverse, alter or repeal all the restriction and regulations they legislate under the promise..."so the greedy will be under control and they will not wreck the economy as they did last time"...<br />A good cop, bad cop...while we the people end with a same jail sentence called: unemployment, foreclosures, small business failure...<br />You know...the usual...<br />This time Republican drop the ball…big time…I mean they play the game so boldly that they overplayed their own cards! </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>"But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade"</i></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>- Karl Marx</i><br /><br />Are we supposed to be surprised with the Occupy Wall Street movement? <br /><br />It took almost three decades since American people were set aside on the race track of Progress to be fed on the leftover from the Corporate World, while their Income gradually melted and their indebtedness grow!<br />It was Obama Movement, then it was Tea Party movement and nowadays, the profound dissatisfaction and growing pain of the working people culminate into a massive outburst occupying every major city!<br />This crises ferocity broth them together…<br />Both Movement become Occupy Wall Street identifying the same enemy: The Financial Market who wreck not just their present livelihood, but their future too!<br />Both movement demand Change:<br />The Conservative right embrace Tea Party cause they never really ask for real change! Tea Party slogan “tax enough already” in reality never ask for money in a form of shifting the tax burden from the middle class to the wealthy, as the Occupiers of Wall Street demand! They just declare that “we the people” are taxed over our head! TRUE!<br />Well, yeah…<br />Lo and behold, GOP, a Party that pledge for lowering their own people taxes, cause You see, rich people are people to, normally - embrace the Tea Party movement, and in a way, sadly but true, when the Congressional Republican members speak of people they do not derail the Truth, they just don’t pinpoint the truth behind their words…</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."</i></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>- Abraham Lincoln</i><br /><br />In the following months after the midterm election its become clear that thing are not going to change, they are actually becoming worse!<br />Many of the Tea Party people finally realize that there is a connection between burden of taxes, deficit, Corporate welfare, and that “we the people” are the ones who always paying the bill!<br />Many of the Tea Party people realize that there will always be a way to find money for Wars, Corporate loopholes, Wall Street bailouts, but never enough for the people needs for a decent wages, solid health care, education or retirement!<br />Many of the Tea Party people realize that in the end of the day, when they close the door on politics, they face the same thing as the rest of Us: shrinking paychecks and ever rising cost of living!<br />Many of the Tea Party people realize that when all is said and done, all our differences disappear, we are all the same: Impoverish working people of America!<br />So they come to occupy Wall Street with us…<br />The Corporate Media set Us to hate them for so long that even the most open Progressive Liberals can hardly swallow the reality: part of Wall Street occupiers are Tea Partiers too!<br />The Corporate Power Players and their puppets on Capitol Hills that I will refer to simple as Powers in my future adress, will do anything to undermined the Occupy Wall Street, movement, but all they do its making it bigger!<br />The Powers use and abuse the Tea Party movement just as they use and abuse the Obama movement! They betray both of them and now to their surprise they facing Occupy Wall Street movement!<br />The Powers wonder where those occupiers come from? <br />Who are they? <br />What do Occupy Wall Street really want? <br />Most of all, the Powers see the energy OWS has and they want to utilize it in their favor, wondering: <br /><br />- How do we use and abuse them again?<br /><br />First they ignore the movement, rarely any Media send a crew there!<br />Then the spread of OWS all over America like a wild fire, make it impossible for the Corporate Media to ignore it anymore so they mock them calling them all the names imaginable:</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>They are a mob, young, foolish, liberal, unemployed, leeches, parasites, anarchists, brainwashed, communists, dangerous, untrustworthy, rabble rousers, terrorists…to name just a few… </i><br /><br />Making fun of OWS was an attempt to undermine, discredit, sway people from supporting the occupiers! OWS message was always the same! REAL CHANGE<br />Tea Party want to restore the past, OWS want to own the future and that simple creed that lift so many Generations: "You can make it if You work hard"- The American dream!<br />Both movement are mislead, cause the American people are mislead for so many Generation missing the point: <br />The financial meltdown is just a part of the broader economic system - Capitalism, and its that system that don't really want to change, nor any establish political party want to shake the Corporate boat risking to found itself falling overboard into the deep ocean!<br />Capitalism work well in the past, work well today and will work well in the future! The problem is that the “</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>well</i>” part belong only to the Wealthy…<br />All that the System will accept are small minor corrections in the outfit for the public...a band aid, or a make up! To expect more is naïveté!<br />Those who expect one of our Political Party alone to fix the unfixable is beyond pale! Look "Obama care" and You will get the picture!<br />Our political establishment, both Party, they not just kill the Public Option, they drag the HC into years of implementation giving their campaign donors and Special Interest plenty of time to adjust and find loophole in the “bill” or rewrite it altogether! We get a bill, they preserve the Insurance based HC system!<br />Brace Yourself my Dear progressive, and shake the illusions: <br /><br />- Every Washington DC legislation that will restrict profitability of Corporate America will be risky legal enterprise beside being doom to fail!<br /><br />There is a reason why Democrat don’t dwell much on the OWS parks! <br />Does anyone really think that any “new regulations” will tame the Power Wall Street has? Ask about the Tobin tax or Glass–Steagall Act…<br />Does anyone really believe any “new regulations” will tame the power Corporations have? Ask about the National Labor Relations Act, also known as Wagner act, Norris – La Guardia Act, various Labor Laws, including Child Labor Laws that “affect those under the age of 18 in a variety of occupations” that we proudly break sending our kids to learn “responsibilities” working at McDonalds etc!<br />Does anyone really think that we need more OSHA acts, or new Tariffs, or new Environmental Laws? <br />Or we should wonder why we don’t respect and uphold those Regulations and Laws we already have, even we unquestionable support and maintain enormous bureaucracy that follow them?<br />I can see the Congress railing around those lines…I can see both Party railing along those lines...show of bipartizanshop...how pathetic…</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."</i></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>Tacitus, Roman Historian</i> <br /><br />What the Power miss about OWS is the fact that OWS are mostly Young unemployed, but educated people and they dont need another Law in the book, so they will not withdraw from Occupying our Cities cause that will be turning their back on their own dreams, ergo police brutality!<br />What all those Mayors, Governors & Politicians don't understand is that any arrest is badge of honor for the children of Internet…<br />So now the system fight them, pulling white rabbit out of it's sleeves, imposing millions of excuses and justifications for Police Department raids and rules!<br />Many wonder why so many OWS get arrested while no arrest occur on all the Tea Party rallies! <br />The answer is very simple actually: OWS isn't a Rally, nor a 3 pm meeting one week in November! <br />Their numbers will grow cause The Poverty, The Injustice and The Income Inequality keep growing every passing day!<br />They are there to stay cause they have no other place they ratter be...<br />They are there to stay till a real change took place in our Society!<br />Real change in the life of ordinary people will require a new mind set that will shake the Corporate World inside out…<br />Make no mistake, every passing day that the occupiers spend on the streets talking, sharing their stories, and feeling their own pain is a learning experience about the alternative that are out there...New World open for those Young and restless souls, all of a sudden being aware of the possibility and starve for a higher ground they set themselves on a learning curve…Library of books they never heard of pop up in those park…no wonder the police raids confiscate books in Zuccotti Park last week…<br />Breaking up camping grounds is just a start: normally, the Powers will go down the list of mind warfare, they will hurt many of the Protesters, more and more, they may sand provocateurs, they may retaliate to people who work and spend time in those protest, but in the end, they will loose, make no mistake about that!<br />Don’t despair OWS: First they ignore You, then they mock You, now they will fight You and then You will win!<br /><br />Another great mind of our recent Human History, learn from Gandhi the calm strategies that win over impossible odds and he set his people on a same path of freedom! He never use force, but his call was like a thunder that echo years after: proud to be maladjusted he advocate civil nonviolent disobedience! </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>“…But I say to you, my friends…there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.<br />I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination. <br />I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. <br />I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. <br />I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence…<br /><br /><br />Dr. Martin Luther King's speech at Western Michigan University (Dec 18th, 1963).</i></span><i><br /></i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">As we use to have Laws that were just a dead letters on the paper, we where equal for so many years…white and black, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexuals…we were equal under the Law…<br />It took years for black people till they abolish segregation! But they did it…<br />It took years for the woman’s to get the right to vote! But they did it…<br />It took years for homosexual to break the code of silence and public bigotry! But they did it…<br />They prevail cause they never fall backwards, but they fallow their dreams…<br />Its preamble in Our Constitution: </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>"We know these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” </i><br />Life worth living means not being worry are we going to make it till the next paycheck... <br />If our wages are shrinking faster then our bare necessity bills are rising, they pushing us into debt as a modern day slaves, and that limit our Constitutional right to Liberty!<br />If we work long hours, if we need two jobs just to make the end meet, we will never have a time to pursuit whatever joy in our live, and that will limit our Constitutional Right to pursuit what ever make us happy!<br />Democracy is not a spectator sport…it take participations…and that is what we lack in our lives…that is the real change OWS look for!<br />The Powers cant grasp that OWS is there to stay...cause the Poverty, Injustice and Income inequality are here to stay! <br />Being poor in the land of plenty is no one aspiration…<br />It will take time but we will have Universal single payer Health Care…<br />It will take time but we will have Free High Education…<br />It will take time but we will roll back the retirement age and Social Security eligibility on 62 years of age…<br />It will take time but we will have our minimum wage elevated on a living wage level and Pensions instead of 401k…<br />Those are workers unalienable right cause our life, our liberty and our inner happiness depend on it…<br />We will have it all if we hold the line on OWS...<br />Marie</span></span></div>
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Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923273274730877029noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103331758289461747.post-75937865821157909142011-09-29T14:30:00.000-07:002011-11-28T11:10:57.631-08:00VIENNA CALLING: "WE SHOULD JUST...LET HIM DIE? YEAH..." - WHEN DOES THE GREED STOP?... On personal responsibility as deliberately manufactured deceit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QQp02eGYpCQ" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN">I was getting data to back up my research on the issues of taxes & deficit, when I came across this unbelievable video that make such a clear difference between the two major political parties in the USA...<br />
Facing the greatest economic crisis the world has ever seen: taxes are just the tip of the iceberg that drives the Republicans and the Conservatives from all over the World into a race to the bottom of their National Economies, cause it seems they don't care if they are onboard of Titanic as long as they know they have a reserve spot on the life boats ...<br />
If we want to understand their relentless pursuit of tax cuts and the ballooning deficit as a result of them, we need to look behind the curtain of their public appearance, and go deep in the schools of thought that is the backbone of their beliefs!<br />
Without understanding where their beliefs come from, we will never get a real solution, but another temporary band aid on the wound called crises, ready to be peeled off as soon as the temperature goes down, as soon as we appear to be out of the crises!<br />
- Where is the source that brings so many ordinary people to the doorsteps of a Party that stands for such easily disputable data,?<br />
- Where do their party talking points come from?<br />
- How do they lure so many ordinary, and especially young people to follow them into oblivion like all the true believers do: blind!<br />
</span>The answer came on the National TV and left the Country breathless and shocked: <br />
It was one of those surreal moments when the moderator in the Republican debate asked the presidential hopeful Ron Paul the following question:<br />
- A healthy 30 year old young man, has a good job, makes a good living, but decides, U know what: “I’m not going to spend 2-300$ on Health insurance a month, cause I’m healthy, I don’t need it!” but something terrible happens, and he all of a sudden needs it, who’s going to pay for it if he goes into a coma for example, who’s going to pay for that?<br />
Like a good politician which Ron Paul is, even virtually playing underdog, he starts the answer with a dog whistle: <br />
- In a Society where You accept Welfare-ism and Socialism, he expects the Government to pay for that!<br />
Pressed by the moderator the good doctor continues the libertarian creed:<br />
- He should do what ever he want to do and assume responsibility for himself! My advice to him is to have a major medical policy…<br />
…but he does not have it!- the moderator remind Ron Paul, that the man need a services and he DOES not have medical insurance, no one will insure him under the present condition, and he will make the bill that probably he will not be able to pay living and working and saving for the rest of his life to paid it off!<br />
Now what was the answer that the Good Doctor gave?<br />
What was the Libertarian solution?<br />
What is the solution that the majority of the Libertarians and so called Tea Party people like to hear and subscribe hypothetically to it?<br />
- That is what freedom is all about: taking your own risk…this whole idea that You have to care of everybody…<br />
- Congressmen are You saying that Society should just…let him die?<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><div align="JUSTIFY">- No…said Ron Paul, measuring the awful predicament of his views, but the honest answer came deep from the crowd… </div><br />
<div align="JUSTIFY">- Yeah… came the cry out…and the loud applause from the audience… </div><br />
<div align="JUSTIFY">The Country was shocked…<br />
Now, to set the record clear, Ron Paul did give a plausible future explanation that throws the Church into the mix, and Market, and Inflation, and medical license and all kinds of band aid to smudge the awful reality of his Libertarian view that have roots in Austrian School of Economics and those are: </div><br />
<div align="JUSTIFY">"Any sort of Government intervention, as is Welfare, Medicare, Social Security, Unemployment, Minimum Wage, especially Government Stimulus spending is an abomination of the Free Market Economy they believe in… Any regulation is a restriction on the Market and needs to be removed! </div><br />
<div align="JUSTIFY">What they are not saying in their Internet classes at Mises Institute, or their younger counterpart known as the Friedman Chicago school of Economics, more famous like "trickle down Reaganomics", is that <b>PEOPLE USED TO DIE</b>, when those crises hit, most of them being children or elderly!<br />
If the crises come during the winter it was devastating the population of the big cities...</div><i></i><br />
<i>"During the early 1600s in England the life expectancy was only about 35 years, largely because two-thirds of all children died before the age of four. The average life expectancy in Colonial America was under 25 years in the Virginia colony, and in New England about 40% of children failed to reach adulthood. </i><br />
<i>Public Health measures are credited with much of the recent increase in life expectancy. During the 20th century, the average lifespan in the United States increased by more than 30 years, of which 25 years can be attributed to advances in public health.*</i><br />
<i>* From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia term: crises and life expectancy.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">For a Political Party that claims sole ownership of the Faith, and reliance to the Church, they give so much credit to the survival of the fittest, cause that what was left behind in the sea of poverty when the tide of naked unfettered Free Market Economy crises hit all of Humanity, once a decade, for the last 230 years…<br />
Those of You who will like to have a closer look at the life of the people during the unfettered market economy, during the time when “The Church” was taking care of the seek, and those who were lay off in a cyclical business turn around, You can take a trip to any public library and indulge in the story from France: “Les Miserable” by Victor Hugo, England: “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens, or much closer to home, America “Iron Heel” by Jack London…<br />
And yet, day in and day out we hear those paid pundits on the radio, on the TV, keep peddling the notorious manufactured deceit:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>“MARKET will fix everything, will balance all inequality, IF we only give him a chance“…word of interest is: “IF”,</i> -like we never did give him a chance before…</b><br />
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Mildly put, the whole concept that we need to give a chance to a Free Market Economy is a fairytale, we <b>DO LIVE in Free Market Economy</b>, it is also called <b><u>CAPITALISM </u></b><u></u>and the restoration of his lost freedom is a joke, and if not so, then a tragic and deliberate misinterpretation!<br />
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-The Virus infected Skynet?-asks the dying official...<br />
-No Skynet is the virus!- came the correct answer...<br />
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Why is it that the GOP has to find a way to mislead the masses?<br />
The Answer is very simple: because America is a Democracy, people are free to vote and elect their representatives and form a Government of their Peers that is of the people, by the people, and for the people…at least that’s what the Constitution says…<br />
Having that misfortunate starting point in the Constitution, the GOP has constantly reinvented its ways to divide, distort, and keep majority of the people under deliberate deceit cause de facto, democracy came from a Greek word "<b><i>demos</i></b><i>",</i> means people, and "<b><i>cratis</i></b><i>",</i> means rule,! In a true Democracy "<b><i>people are the Ruler</i></b><i>"</i>, means that the will of the majority of the people need to be respected and live by it, and that simple idea is a no, no, no in the book called Special Interest of the minority of the people who are de facto benefactors of the system!<br />
I find the phenomena so amusing! <br />
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Let me point this another way:<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><div align="JUSTIFY">-How did the Wealthy solve the problem and mislead the masses?<br />
Election after election they reinvent the wheel, they rejuvenate old passions, a mix of race, religion, dash of patriotism, pinch of sexual orientation, gender, and when they run out of ideas:-They invent new names instead of the old discredit ones…<br />
So the system they adore, the system that is so unstable, that favors and cherishes only few, and leaves so many in the gutter of poverty, the system that throw masses of people on the streets of unemployment, stress of foreclosure, massive national suffering, the system that places everything on sale, including the sphere of moral tangible things: like Liberty, Freedom, Constitution, personal integrity, personal responsibility, Society, and on and on…</div><div align="JUSTIFY"><br />
<b>THAT SYSTEM it is not called Capitalism anymore, it is Free Market Economy!</b></div><div align="JUSTIFY"><br />
Sounds so much better doesn't it?...All the terrible stories of the 18 and 19 Century are like wipe out clean, and we are all free to pursuit happiness if we only take personal responsibility for our own action...<br />
It is a smokescreen to lure the vast majority of the population into an election of candidate that will serve the Corporate Interest and once in Washington DC, the name Republican or Democrat it is only a political Umbrella that means nothing but an empty rhetoric, cause Politicians are on sale in Capitalism just like any other good or service, just like any other tangible thing in the system, and to be surprised by that fact is more then </div></span><br />
<div align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: medium;">being naïve.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><div align="JUSTIFY">- Oh, don’t get me wrong…they've done that for decades, but why it is so important today? </div><br />
<div align="JUSTIFY">- Cause the system has a Global Crises of which there no exit in site...</div><div align="JUSTIFY"><br />
</div>This crises is affecting every country in the world, it changes the life of every living creature on this Planet, and the outcome will reflect the future Generation in an unprecedented ways and in a time frame that no one can predict the length of! The whole of Capitalism is in Crises, and every Nation in the World is looking for a solution, some more, some less successful, some try out different politics fast or slow, but the Government of every civilized Country is working toward the exit strategies of this crises!<br />
The sad part is that America and Europe want to transfer the cost of the crises on the shoulders of the working people, and that is wrong!<br />
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- In Europe this transfer of the cost of the crises is called “Austerity measure”!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">- In America the same transfer of the cost of the crises is called Cuts in “Government spending“!</span><br />
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All Common Wealth that People accomplish to gain during the last Century, all is set to be not just slash but repeal all together!<br />
Mastering their divide and conquer politics they went to far, manipulating part of its own constituency... The so called Tea Party people…</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">We witness rise of the Tea Party, the poorest republicans, libertarian and independent leaning republican voters who don’t really understand what the hell happen in the last couple of years, but sure they are angry as Mans can be, and they focus their anger to Government…<br />
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<b><i>The ingenuity of American Capitalism…</i></b><i></i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">None of the angry Tea Party people are angry at people who actually fired them, foreclosed upon them, or turned them into a modern slave under enormous burden of debt and bills they are not able to pay anymore, even they work harder and longer than ever if they still have jobs…<br />
Never the less, their prospects are grim…<br />
Day after day, they are closer to the door that will open the land of poverty to them, so they are angry, and tired and they have nowhere to turn but the glorious past they remember reading about: 1776...<br />
The revolution, the new beginning, the prosperity…<br />
All they need is a King to rebel against, and all the costumes they dress up, and the past will be the present, the rest will be midnight story in a child book someday…The GOP misguide them so long and so successfully that they hate The Government, The FEDS, the fraudulent Bankers and The Greedy Wall Street, and the Crooked Politicians, and if they can only replace them with...with... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">-With WHAT...another set, new, uncorrupted one, small businesses, farms, and we can start all over again!<br />
Just like in 1776...<br />
Yes, it is sad…but it is nothing new in History…the call for the past to be restored came some time ago: Tea Party is just the latest reactionary* attempt to tell loud and clear that the people don’t like the present set of the state affairs…That’s all the Tea Party is!<br />
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<i>*The term <b>reactionary</b> refers to viewpoints that seek to return to a previous state! Reactionary derives from the French word réactionnaire.</i></span><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN">In this French usage </span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN">reactionary denotes "a movement towards the reversal of an existing tendency or state" and a "return to a previous condition of affairs." </span></span></i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Having that in mind, our Tea Party apart of looking historical with all their costumes and the bags of tea hanging on their hats, we must say that they are quite entertaining most of the time…<br />
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Their concerns are serious even their anger is misplaced! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> The deficit is real concern, and need to be address, the debt ceiling is a concern and need to be address but being misguided by the Party of the Wealthy they work toward the fulfillment of the very reason that cause the deviation of the Path of Prosperity America was leading for many decades in the whole world! <br />
Our Government cage is empty for a long time…we are running heavy on red last thirty years… <br />
Its nothing new… <br />
Since Reagan, GOP discover that getting tax cuts for everyone is politically plausible, not to forget as well highly profitable, so they deliver tax cuts after tax cuts to their Wealthy Masters, while Democrats did not want to be a party poppers and went along closing their eyes to the troublesome reality, that more and more of the revenue fall on the shoulders of the middle class…<br />
From the video we see how bad it is, how the burden is set more and more on the shoulder of the middle class...<br />
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">The Wealthy and their spokesperson Republican Party, find the way to pass the Bills to us, working people, and not just lowering their tax rate, but also with including more and more people that will pay the price to run our Society! Wealthy People do like the Public goodies that the taxpayers dollars provide, they just don’t want to pay for them, that’s all…<br />
But that’s a story of another time!<br />
Marie</span></div>Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923273274730877029noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103331758289461747.post-76016151522397363402011-07-07T20:02:00.000-07:002013-08-23T22:53:18.348-07:00WELFARE QUEENS DRIVING CADILACS THROUGH THE ARAB SPRING, MEDITERANIAN SUMMER AND AMERICAN FALL: On the rising sea of poverty in the world and the future under global austerity measures<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>...What variety has Man found in buildings, attires, husbandry, navigation, sculpture and painting! What millions of invention he has in arms, engines, stratagems and the like! What thousand of medicines for the health...of eloquent phrases to delight, of verses for pleasure, musical inventions and instruments! </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Little confession: when I first come across them in the book: “Human Accomplishment” from Charles Murray, the 2003 edition, I gave them a modern note: they sound familiar…maybe around the industrial revolution? Maybe even more recent…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I was wrong…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They belong to a man who wrote them on the turn of the 5<sup>th</sup> Century AD, Augustine of Hippo, 354 – 430, also known as St. Augustine, <b></b>who was bishop of Hippo the Roman Province in Africa, present-day Annaba, Algeria. He was a Latin speaking philosopher and theologian. His writings proved very influential in the development of Western Christianity…</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those are his words that marvel Rome, on the peak of Roman civilization, just before he was ransack by the barbarian Visigoths...Augustine praise the city but he also warned of many flaws in the roman civilization, including the greed of the roman officials, on their inability to rise above the roman vices, as wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony, all seven of them...Rome was bathing in them, as well as Augustine for the good part of his life, till he switched from pagan to being a devoted Christian, left behind the City of Man, and call the <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Humanity to join forces and build a City of God, where the marvels of the Man will be accompanied by the virtues of God Grace...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">St Augustine was a dreamer who was lucky never to see his dream diminish by the reality: Rome fell in 476 AD, in the peak of his technological development, bankrupt, worn out bickering about the expenses to maintain the city needs and empty talk about restoration of the republic while they lost the whole civilization…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the fall of Rome, the religious zealots and fundamentalists took the Faith of Augustine to be a subject of their limited, and most of the time malicious interpretation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The shiny city on the hill that would benefit from the marvel of the Human advances under God Commandments never saw the light of day...au contraire, so many of the advances Romans enjoyed were lost for Centuries under the rules of medieval Kings who were without exception ruled by Churches Fathers whose agenda was to spread the Words of the Holly Bible as they wished, having the rest of the population holding upon their words, unable to even read much less question the meaning of the religious blindness...</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wisdom of Aristotle was lost, the surgical tools of Galen were replaced with the sword craftsmanship of the blacksmiths, the numerous </span><span lang="EN"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">inventions of Archimedes, his discoveries “eureka’s“, all forgotten- as well as many, many others whose scientific contributions was lost in the religious flames that burned over half of Europe…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Glory of Rome was replaced with the time of history known as the Dark Ages!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The peak of the medieval darkness came with the Spanish inquisition, which swept so many innocent people under the rug of intolerance of their religious beliefs, prejudice toward different sexual affiliations and malicious hatred of science… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It took the Black plague to wipe more the a half of the population in the World to break the chain of the religious serfdom into a new era of enlightenment that become a Renaissance of the Humanity, a new born world…after all, out of the decay of the bubonic plague we Humans came out stronger then ever…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did our conscience came a long way since St. Augustine time?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They say history repeat itself for those who never learn from her mistakes...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Surly we have building that are marvel for the eyes of pedestrians, dwelling of glass and steal, we can compete with the magnificent Coliseum who has stood the test of time for 2000 years…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-We navigate the Earth, the oceans and the air and we can even reach the moon...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-We conquer so much of the invisible world of germs and viruses, and we found cure for so many illnesses…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-We improve our tools to the precise mechanic of cyber robotics in order to make our life easier…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-We discover materials that our previous generation did not even know could exist… </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is not a single scientific field that did not undergo a dramatic </span><span lang="EN"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">leap forward in the last couple of centuries: mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, earth science, medicine, all of them achieve unprecedented technological advances, not to mention unbelievable advances in virtual art, music and theaters…whole new level of entertainment on the click of our fingertip…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are living in a digital age!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yeah…Just turning the pages in the book of Human Accomplishments make me feel proud of all of Us Humans…and that is 2003 Edition, well, I say to my self: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-I-phone was not even on the market then!*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">*The first I-Phone was unveiled by Apple CEO on January 9, 2007,<sup><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: navy;"> </span></span></span></sup></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">and released on June 29, 2007.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes we Human can pride ourselves…we came a long way ahead…</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Science and technologies wend so far ahead just in the last couple of decade and yet, this is the World we live in today: protests all year long all over the world...</span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Gungsuh;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The protests all over the world can be summarized like a result of massive unemployment, skyrocketing food prices, wages cuts...</span></span><span lang="EN"></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The underlining reason common to all of the protest all over the World is that the diminishing economic prosperity trigger global insurrection against terrorist bankers, dictators, crooked oligarch and deceitful politicians...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is another underlining reality, common to all of the protests, but We will never see any sign about it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-The Political Ruling Establishment don't pay much attention to all the human misery that is spreading around the World, cause they believe the power of money that is yielding all the strings of the Society will never have a loose end, that all those protests will mean just a bad TV if any, and that their Corporate paid pundit will sway enough of the concerned people into believing that we are all in this together, and we all need to share the suffering...</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We see that attitude in France, with Sarcozy, we see that in</span><span lang="EN"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">England with Cameron, we saw that in Greece with Papandreou!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Conservative Governments pursuit their goals under the same religious zealot of the Spanish inquisition, so they passing left and right all the cuts they can in order to balance the national budgets shortfalls caused by diminishing budgets revenues as a result of the lower taxes paid, while ignoring the suffering and the pain of the ordinary people...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-We all need to tighten our belt…cried out Conservatives: - We all need to live within our means…and they pass another tax cut bill, then board their own private jets…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the Third World countries who are ridden by poverty and hunger, lack of any human right make the voices of all the oppressed people ignored and forgotten, decade after decade they endure hardship...until they took it to the streets, hungry masses that rise like a Tsunami overturning some dictators no one ever believed can be taken down: think of Tunisia and Egypt!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Media called those protests Arab Spring, and they still strolling the streets of Bahrain, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya...little do we hear about them, but being out of the Corporate News did not make them go away...it make them more severe and bloody…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Arab Spring is turning into a Mediterranean Summer starting with Greece were people don't want to accept another useless bailout before they bally up...cause bally up they will, bailout or notits just a question of time, just like the prospect of the same street unrest facing Spain, Portugal, Italy, Croatia, up to the big trio: France, Germany and UK...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Home, we facing unprecedented attack on our safety net from a Political Party that will make the austerity measure in Europe look like a walk in a park for the American People, already stretched to a breakpoint for the last tree decades!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The record unemployment, the resilience of the crises and the impotence of the current government intervention bring no solution to millions of Americans who suffer in silence, totally forgotten by the Local and Federal Government, our soaring deficit threaten to turn the Mediterranean Summer into an American Fall…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">America is on a crossroad: we hear over and over the call to go backwards to the system that was choice at the time when the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution…those calls omit, out of ignorance or in purpose the underlining not so "cplor me pink" reality of that time: the trails of tears they send the native americans, the black people slavery, the woman’s social position or the terrible workers condition…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The reality is so distort that we even hear voices who are saying that we never really have “Free Market Economy” and we should give it a try…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To all of them I say laud and clear as possible:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Wonder no more, just take a good look at the Middle East Streets…listen to those people…they live without any safety net under the mercy of the ruthless system, but they know his true name: Capitalism…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the West we can give him a fancy name, we can call him “Free Market Economy” plausible adjective will not change his true colors…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We can put a lipstick on a pig…its still going to be a pig…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We can turn our deaf ear, or our blind eye, we can shut our senses and live in a bubble of ignorance, but that will not make the problems disappear…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We can indulge in lots of false theories that are circulating around to apologize and find excuses for the undeniable reality:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The whole World is in crises cause it is a failure of the Capitalist system as a whole…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the conservative governments all over the world strip every welfare queen from their cadillac’s they drive, when they take a way all of our hardly won safety nets with their “European austerity measure” also known as “American Government spending cuts”, then what?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When conservatives use all the newly print money, and they spend all the bailout they can possibly sign us on, and after they waged all the wars they can wage under “Humanitarian actions flags” or "spreading democracy" and the system still undergo another recession…then what?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a new Religion rising up in the World and especially in America and its called “The Free Market Economy"!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Its Deity is called The Market…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In America its house of warship is called Wall Street…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Its followers are called The Grand Old Party, they have many cults: Republicans, Conservatives & Libertarians!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every morning they wake up and they turn their computer to pray that their deity will bless them plentifully, that abundance and good fortune will grow their business, so they can serve it better…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Its clergy are elected officials and they are unfiltered in the highest offices with a pledge to deliver abundance to its followers in order to serve her better…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their offerings are unprecedented, humans of every walk of life, from every race and affiliations, even children are sacrificed on their altar called Corporate greed…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their relics are called stocks, rents, interest rate, dividend and the most cherish of them all, the most sacred one is called Profit…</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their Saints are called Founding Fathers, every word written by them, authentic or not is elevated, passed around like a sacred </span><span lang="EN"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their Holly book is called the Constitution…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their New Testament is called The bills of rights!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their call to build a shiny City on the Hill come some 40 years a go, they still regard him dearly building a myth around his name…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Corporate paid pundits are their anchor boys singing every day:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe We, the people, will never learn from history and we are doomed to repeat it, cause if the religious zealots get to power they will again interpret every action of our lives… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They will strip us of every benefits we enjoy and we will be left on the mercy of their Deity…The Market…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How many will fall under the modern day bubonic plague called Poverty because of our ignorance and intolerance in the age of Internet, Apollo, and nano technologies?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We can provide many time over for every human on this planet, yet so many of Us die all over the world out of hunger, not because a lack of food, but because they have no money to buy the food…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">When we will learn that poverty is not some disease one catch walking on the wrong side of the street, or because he is born on the wrong side of the globe,or he bow to inferior deity,or he has a wrong color of his skin, but a consequence of the Capitalism?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - When we will wake up and realize that this system work well for only a few and live so many behind?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - When we will look at the mirror and realize that we are the gatekeepers of the system and that we enable the system to grow stronger every time we tolerate his trespassing…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am a dreamer…I dream every day…I dream of a better world…I know its possible…I know we can achieve any goal we can set our mind to it…</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know there is no limit to human imagination, but most of all I just hope that the progressive forces will prevail, and that the World will be spared never to undergo another kind of medieval Dark ages…</span></div>
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I tend to imagine that The President was sitting in the Oval Office the night of the 2010 mid-term elections silently watching the whole Electoral Map of the United State turn bloody red - district after district, state after state he was watching the Democrat's seats turn Republican, one after another like a unstoppable domino effect, wondering when the rollover will stop and can he keep the Senate at least?<br />
The press the next day conclude, that the President look "beaten up"...<br />
The first black President of the United State of America loses the coalition that brought him the victory two years before, Democrats did lost all over the board, but the pundit were wrong...<br />
He was not beaten up...They just forget that he is that skinny guy with a fanny name who beat the Icy Queen of the democratic establishment, he was far from beaten, he just look like it...<br />
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I tend to believe that the politics is like playing chess, You have to have a strategy that will anticipate every move of your opponent if You wanna win in the end, that You may loose a pawn or two, bishop or knight, but that is necessary especial if your opponent is master of the game, that is playing the field for the long time! <br />
To outmaneuver a Powerful opponent You have to set him to play against itself...that is the only way to win...<br />
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I believe that the President still regarding the red screen of his supposed defeat, knows the electoral seats lost are just the beginning of the turmoil storming in the not so distant future...<br />
The fragile recovery he planned with his political capital did not bring the solutions that he was expecting.The newly elected GOP threatened to repeal his hard won health care bill, the dream legislature of so many generation of democrats...Repeal "Obama care" republicans cried...<br />
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- The rich and powerful hold all the string of society except for one, the will of the people...If the will of the people get to a critical mass of support, nothing, nothing can stand on their way on the promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!<br />
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The Power of the people is in their numbers...it is a catalyst that powers every upheaval in Human History, from ransacking the mightiest city in the world, Rome, to every major legislative victory on their behalf!<br />
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</div>To bring the change, to fulfill the promises Barack Obama gave to America during the campaigning two years a go, he needed that critical mass of people standing behind him, and pressing the Congress to shape and pass bills in favor of the people!<br />
How could he do this with Corporate media machine drumming to the beat of unprecedented malicious Propaganda?<br />
He was not the darling of the democratic establishment, he only had the truth, but would that truth resonate against all the odds?<br />
Two years a go his bold, fearless approach to the Truth build a critical mass of people who cast their vote for him cause they realize he is a honest man from their walk of life, that he grow up eating their bread, walking their side of the street, learning daily how to lift himself above to fray.People recognize him as their own son, and they did not care that he is black, they visualized in him themselves, the kid that grew to be a man, a father and a leader...<br />
Two years a go Corporate media was keeping the beat, but no one was dancing: all the dog whistle they use to summon the voters fail, so they learn the lesson...Fast...<br />
The Health Care town hall meeting were the testing ground of the System that do not need a profound change, but a little lipstick, a band aid and a polish, so the power structure in Washington left the President holding the bag cause he insist on the Health Care Reform, he insist on a Financial Reform, He insist on the Stimulus package, and he get all of them, but they come to his desk so deform, he could not recognize them at all! <br />
Yet, that legislative nightmare would become his signature accomplishments...<br />
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They sit on a stash of a $ 2 trillions, but they were watching how his administration borrow money to keep the wheels of the economy rolling and they were waiting, cause soon or later, the people who stood behind him might loose Faith, might forget the hope, might turn to despair and then things can go back to normal!<br />
Corporations flush with cash, trimmed and poised, could wait, because they knew that their barking dogs will irritate enough of his supporters to accomplish what they are paid to do: bring their own boys in Washington DC, and they did...<br />
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I believe the President was watching the whole country turning red, but he saw the opening...<br />
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What happen after the Presidential Election night was the beginning of a political battle of enormous proportions...<br />
Those who think that American Election are local event that has nothing to do with the rest of the World live like Alice in Wonderland: they are about to wake up...<br />
Rarely we get international news,most of the time they are so filtered it seams American public is protected of the ugly Truth, The Global Economic System crush!<br />
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<div class="tweet-row" sizcache="3233" sizset="0"><div class="tweet-text pretty-link">The conservative movement is on the rise all over the world, since the days of Reagan and Tucher, every time they win an election they deliver to their masters a bags of goodies called tax cuts, deregulation, simple said: Free Market Economy that benefit few and leave behind so many...<br />
Election after election they caved to the Corporate greed slowly but surely transferring the cost of maintaining Society on the back of the middle class just to serve their bottom line. Cunningly they pursued profit searching the globe, destroying the Earth's natural resources and corrupting small countries into a domestic system of slavery, leaving no prisoners behind just the dust of dept and decay...<br />
So when the crises hit, almost all of the governments treasuries were empty not just in USA but all the western countries were on the verge of bankruptcy cause the ruthless Corporate layoffs just put additional pressure on the budget shortfalls...<br />
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The national governments borrowed and printed money and when that did not work, then they reached toward the only thing left to rob - entitlement programs...<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span><br />
Austerity measures become a reality in Europe...<br />
In the middle East, hungry people left to the mercy of the merciless system stormed the streets and overran their current Governments!<br />
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<div class="title"><span lang="EN"><strong>"Obama, GOP reach deal to extend tax breaks"<br />
Washington Post Tuesday, December 7, 2010; 2:42 AM <br />
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The House of Representatives has passed the Obama-GOP tax cut deal on a 277-148 vote, <br />
sending the bill to the president.<br />
Huffington Post, December 17, 2010<br />
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Wisconsin protests: Gov. Scott Walker and Senate Democrats prepare to start negotiations <br />
Monday, March 7, 2011; 4:37 PM<br />
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To Cut the Deficit, Look to Social Security<br />
April 4, New York Times<br />
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Education cuts coming, but fewer than GOP wanted<br />
Washington Post April 12, 2011<br />
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Paul Ryan's budget would slash $6 trillion, reform entitlements, cut taxes Politico, April,29 2011<br />
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Don’t Raise Debt Ceiling Without Repealing Obama care April 29, News max.com<br />
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Anger on display at Republican town hall meetings over Medicare and taxes... April 26, Daily Kos</strong></span><span lang="EN">It did not take long that the GOP demanded what they were sent to do: bring the goodies to their Masters!</span><br />
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</div></div><div class="title">There was no need to fight for the extension of the tax cut for the wealthiest Americans cause they did not get any resistance from the president, actually, HE WAS THE ONE who cut the Tax Deal with them!!!<br />
- He knew he was beaten...<br />
- He is one term President...it was so obvious, the GOP conclude...</div><div class="title">The corporate media was having a field trip, they were glorious, bold and reckless, the Birthers, the Truthers and the New World Order pursuers, the Libertarians and Tea Partiers, they were feeling so strong that they did not care to reveal their secret desire and wishes: <br />
-While we are here, why not finish off the Unions once and for all, why not unleash the Wall Street bonanza once again, let the gold flow and the gas prices skyrocket, after all they killing each other in the middle East again, right?<br />
- Oh, and repeal "Obama Care", water down Medicare, give the elders to the mercy of insurance companies, extend the retirement age,but we will keep Social Security cause we need the Social Security contributions to flow into the budget to cover our tax cuts! What we dont really need anymore is Education, so let's cut the education - we have unlimited supply of highly educated people from overseas, we don't need domestic graduates anymore, much less expensive teachers...<br />
Ahh...the GOP buzzword: "Cuts"...Government spending is out of control! - Government spending cuts!<br />
Yeah, they drum the beat for decades: - Starve the Government beast: say GOP, but the reality behind their words is their true desire:</div><div class="title"> - Enslave the population cause there is no one to stand for them fools!</div><div class="title">Then a miracle happened...<br />
It started in Wisconsin when the Unions were attacked and about to be stripped of their hard won collective bargaining rights...The people rejected the GOP plans to reshape the future of the generations of human accomplishment: Education, Health Care, Social Security and Retirement Benefits, the four pillars of the American Social fabric were crumbling under the Corporate Greed, and the people realized it was now personal!<br />
- It did not matter what party they belonged to, what God they bowed to, what nationality they were, where they come from, those Pillars need to be protected cause they belong to all of them...</div><div class="title">Previous generations of Human, how many bled so today we can have a decent lifestyle, weekend off and basic medical care...</div><div class="title">No one was asking for Gold and Riches, no one, people just wonted to keep what was left of what generations had fought to achieve...</div><div class="title">The Corporate Media was stoned again: How the hell that happen?-Who is waging the tail this time?<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: justify;">The Ryan budget was brilliant...brilliant...it was everything they were dreaming for...</div></div><div class="title"> - Exactly...It was everything they were dreaming for...</div><div class="title">The Ryan budget was the new blueprint of all that GOP aspire for, make no mistake, the only one who stood on their way was that skinny man with a funny name, so they plotted to take him out of the office, with obstructionism every step of the way for the last two years, and when they would get to install a Republican President, they will take care of the Unions, Medicare, Social Security and the Public educations once and for all...</div><div class="title">Not so fast...<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"></span></div></div><div class="title">For me personally, this political drama was best summarized with the words of that old Republican who looked at the Ryan presentation and told him bluntly: </div><div class="title"> - You don't know anything about Medicare, do You?</div><div class="title">The so called budget whiz kid try to be charming and smile:</div><div class="title"> - No I'm not on it...</div><div class="title">And that is the whole Truth and nothing but the ugly Truth: <br />
- The rich do not understand nor do they care for any of the Pillars cause they are not "on it", and that included the Democrat establishment's lame excuses to "compromise" to GOP political pressure!!!</div><div class="title">Hard working people depend on Medicare, depend on their Social Security, and most of them never knew how to invest in the 401 K so they didn't have nest egg for their elderly years...<br />
What those people have is the Government structured to work for them as it also work for those who seek business opportunities and riches...</div><div class="title">People knew that Education is the Light that leads out of prejudice, bigotry and racism into a opportunity for a better life...People remember that tuition was bearable under Government Grants and low-cost Loans!</div><div class="title">They remember how it was like when the Union were strong and delivered a decent pay so people did not need to work two jobs to make the end meet, and retirement was dues paid into companies they worked for, not some stock option they did not understand...</div><div class="title">They remember the time when the local grocery serve local produce that was plentiful in season, smaller but tastier, that was the time when food was produced to feed the people, not to make extra profit to a Retail chain...</div><div class="title">They know that Medicare did not have supplemental or any B, C, D plans, nor donut holes, and it worked well for them...</div><div class="title">They know that Social Security check is the only thing that hold many above the drowning into sea of poverty and scavenging through the disposal containers for food, or warming on an open fire under the bridges...</div><div class="title">All those memories, not to mention the dreams People have all of a sudden become a story tell on the street while they protested in Wisconsin, Ohio, England, France, Greece, Spain, even they did not know about each other, a whisper start among them:<br />
-We will fight for that safety net! - We have to protect that only safety we have!- cause it is not a Privilege, nor a Human Right, but a Human Accomplishment of Generations and Generations of Human who fought before them, from every corner of America and of the World...</div><div class="title">Pitagora did not have a patent, but his formula is used in building architecture known to man...</div><div class="title">Pasteur did not have a patent when he discovered penicillin, and yet many antibiotic contain his medicine...</div><div class="title">The Arab did not patent the zero, yet no computer program will work without it...</div><div class="title">We can look around us and everything we enjoy all of our current technological advancement is just a cumulative knowledge pass to us from a previous Generation of Humans to build upon it...<br />
All that Knowledge belong to Us, to all of us...it was given free like a Human Heritage to be utilised from all of those scientists who love to explore and invent and who did not do that to make themselves rich...<br />
Until the Corporations came...<br />
The Mighty Corporations!<span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Courier;"> </span><br />
How is it so?<br />
The Corporation is just a form of Human Organization, they dwell in cement and brick building yet they are not made of stone, to last forever, and they are not persons!<br />
Corporations are a finely tuned man-made money making machine that can easily be reprogrammed to serve Us, the people by paying back into our Society, but if we think that they will do that out of a good will, think again:</div><div class="title"> - They are like that Terminator!<br />
No one cant negotiate with them individually, many of them are more powerful then the Economy of many of the Third World countries, and nowadays they will crash everything on their path of growth, cause the Market system demand they pursuit more and more every year, or quarter, it just the way the system is...<br />
Their greed is part of their inner mechanism,and If we look at them like that, then we can see that they are no more powerful then the people who own them, wealthy people, and only few of them...<br />
The rest is Us, not so wealthy, squeezed more and more under the pressure of the merciless system all over the World, no matter where we come from, what religion we belong to, what is the color of our skin, or what language we use!<br />
Our Dreams and aspirations are all the same, the world of people is much closer knit then you think:<br />
I will present you a Global study called:<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong></em></span></div><h2 class="title"></h2><div class="title"><span lang="EN"><strong>"The Future of Retirement" Around the World</strong><br />
<strong>Conducted in the fourth quarter of 2004, "The Future of Retirement" study canvassed 11,453 adults in ten nations and territories: Brazil, Canada, China, France, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom. </strong><br />
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<span lang="EN"><strong>Canadians view their later years as a time of reinvention, ambition, and close relationships with friends and family. </strong><br />
<strong>Americans view their later years as a time for opportunity, new careers, and spiritual fulfillment, but are less focused on family or health than are other countries. The French view these years as a time of dreams and aspirations, but also as a time of worry, and they are concerned about being a burden to their families. </strong><br />
<strong>The British view later life as a time of self-sufficiency, independence, and personal responsibility, counting on neither government nor family to care for them. </strong><br />
<strong>Brazilians view later life as a time for slowing down, relaxing, and spending time with their families, relatives, and friends, and they expect significant support from their children. </strong><br />
<strong>Mexicans see it as a time for continued work and hard-earned financial stability. </strong><br />
<strong>In China, younger generations view retirement as an opportunity for a new life but continued careers, while older generations want to stop working and relax All Chinese people view family as an important source of happiness and support. </strong><br />
<strong>Respondents from Hong Kong view it as a time for rest, relaxation, and the enjoyment of accumulated wealth, which is seen as the cornerstone of well-being. </strong><br />
<strong>Respondents from India view later life as a time to live with and be cared for by their families. </strong><br />
<strong>The Japanese look forward to their later years as a time of good health, family considerations, and continued fulfillment work.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The research was carried out by Harris Interactive under the direction of AgeWave and HSBC.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">as presented in FPA financial Planing association </span><br />
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If we allow the Corporations to cover their projected profits by taking away everything we ever accomplish it will not be a fault of any politician but ours, We the people...</div><div class="title"><div class="title">Make no mistake, Corporate World will release every fear goblin they have to sway us into believing that Our Government is not functional, that "we need to take it back"! <br />
Some of their Goblins will talk about Guns, some will invoke God, some will talk spending and taxes, some will talk defence, some will mix an imaginary new world order, some will talk freedom, some small business, some will spin, some will runt, some on radio, some on TV, some on the Internet, but all they do, all of their paid pundits ever do, no matter how independent they call themselves, all they are doing is praying upon our fears, desires, dreams and hopes to divide Us, to steal our votes and make us vote not our best interest, but the corporate interest as peoples best interest...<br />
They will whirlpool every emotion we have into hatred toward our own Government pointing to GOP as a solution and back to a sense we missing lately...because GOP will deliver to their Corporate Masters, same way as the lukewarm Democrats will deliver to their Corporate Masters...</div></div><div class="title">What we need is people like Bernie Sanders and few other in the House...human with strong conviction who will not betray the work, who will preserve the safety net and who will not get lost in the Web of Deceit...<br />
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Meanwhile, I'm looking upon the skinny guy with the funny name...<br />
I see hope again, cause the masses have risen...<br />
Author: Marie Bagatela...<br />
Editor and contributor: Claudia O...<span lang="EN"></span></div></div>Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923273274730877029noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103331758289461747.post-72460058721868347002011-04-01T22:42:00.000-07:002011-07-10T22:48:56.082-07:00GONE BABY GONE...GLOBAL! The austerity measure and the economic prospect of the new world order...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> The World is shaken by economic crises that no known Government tools can shift dramatically into a better gear, as a consequences people in the most affected arias of the world start uprising on the streets against the impotent Government measures, part of the World are swirled in the whirlpool of War atrocity under the banner of Democracy and Humanitarian actions, and then a natural tragedy unfold affront of our eyes:</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> An earthquake, Tsunami and a possible Nuclear Meltdown of enormous proportion...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> There is no doubt in anyone mind that any one of this event will shape a new trend in the world, but all of them combined is a sure predicament for a global not just geopolitical change, but a setup for a different world order, newborn consciousness that always follow a global uprising of human potential...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> The question is: </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> - What kind of new world order will take a place in lieu of the old?</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Even better mind boggling question is: </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> - Will the austerity measure prevail, here or abroad, or they will be replaced with the New Era of Enlightenment that is ripe for happening since the fall of the Berlin Wall?</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> In his book "The world is flat" distinguished journalist Thomas Friedman explain in great detail the changes that are happening daily on the Globa l stage due to the fast expenditure of human and technological advantages in every sphere of the Society, from the way we work, innovate and interact, among us, nationally and all over the World, to the way we socially connect: he call that interaction between the technologies, humans and society:</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> A triple convergence!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">Excited all together in awe of the fast passing changes that were unfolding affront of his eyes, the author share his enthusiasm with a Harvard professor of political science: Michael J. Sandel, only to realized that the triple convergence is a process identified more then a century a go by the most controversial scientist of them all:</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">Karl Marx lay out so bluntly his vision in a down to earth language in his even more controversial little booklet, the Communist Manifesto, published first in 1848...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> "The bourgeoisie by the rapid improvement of all instrument of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all , even the most barbarian nations into civilization. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with witch it batter down all Chinese walls, with witch is forces the barbarians intensely obstinate hatred of foreigner to capitulate. It compel all nations, on pain of extinction to adopt the capitalist mode of production; it compels them to introduce what its called civilization into their midst, i.e. to become bourgeois themselves.</strong></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> In one word, it creates a World after its own image."</strong></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Citation from "The World is flat", page 203</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">2005 edition, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux/ New York</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">Many spend years to diminish and discredit the German scientist, years after he died economic school of thought were start, many spend time and energy to bury him like a philosopher of a failed system that use to dominate half of the Globe until recently, and yet, he keep popping up, on a places we expected him the least...on the Global stage...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">What the Friedman book fail to deliver is that the lining up of all three "convergence" will bring lots of unrest in the World cause its a prelude to a social revolution of Global proportion, forced to unfold because of the tremendous pressure of the Natural Laws of Capitalist accumulations... </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">That's is what we are witnessing today...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">Some will argue that the Dark Forces of " The New World Order" are taking over, and are shaping the World a new, but I doubted...I doubted!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">As much as a I am a fan of a conspiracy theories, I like them keep in the square box full of tubes and LED flat screen, blue ray, if its available...bucket of all over batter popcorn and an icy cold Coke...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">That's as far as a can go in a good trill ride down the conspiracy lines... </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The rest is a bad advertising pitch...underground media and extremely cleverly covered GOP dog whistles to sway people in nothing but hatred toward its own elected government...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">You can recognised them by their call to go backward, not forward in better future...their call is the same like the rest of the GOP: less taxes, free market economy...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">There is nothing new in the conspiracy of the New World Order, except the name...its the same old Rich Boys Club that dominate the world with money and power to shape the Human Society in their best interest, no matter if that require a global changing of the Map of the World, erecting or turning the national government of any given country upside down to suit the corporate greed and corporate need!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">The globalist of the New World Order are just the name in the mist of the changing background set, they are the same the owners of the wealth who went global and multinational, their dominion is not any national economy but the world stage, they meet and make agreement to shape their field of interest to best cover their appetite for profit in the field of their dominion...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">History tell us that they never ever care about the people, not when the Arena was cover with slaves blood to entertain them, not when they were sending the peasants on the battles to the last man standing for a piece of land in a far a way countries, and not when they were stomping the workers strike with a police batton on a horseback...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">They names are changed over the Centuries from Centurions, to Dukes and Businessman, but their unsettled thirst for riches is the same, over and over again: thirst for more, and more...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">What they miss are the Laws of economics that are pressing the World in a direction that's is beyond their control: </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Global triple convergence!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Yeah, economy have also laws that are shaping the World sort of like a gravity, they will happen no matter how much Society wanna bend them, mask them, curved them or denied them all together...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So the question we are asking today is not: Is it happening, but where it will take us?</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">To the New Era of Enlightenment, under a higher conscience?</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Or to the Corners of the New World Order, under the call of restoration of the "Free Market Economy"!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">Make no mistake, the system is resilient, and always on edge of preservation, the last time the system was crushing under its own weight it took the World War II to spur him out of the crisis, this time we are facing turmoil in the middle east, youth marching on the street of Europe and the workers awakening in United States!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">In my post: "Hark, hark the dogs bark" and the follow up: "Corporate crime and Public Punishment", I already lay out the need that should be met in order to get out of the crises, as well as how certain country react facing the crises so anyone who like to explore, is welcome to revisit the pages all over again...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Today I will just state the obvious:</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">American Political Establishment is on an all out open attack toward the working people of America in order to preserve the system going backward while destroying the fabric of the safety net that the people accomplish to enact through the years of fight for Workers right and Civil right, and Women's Right...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Every step the People gain during the years and years of a vicious class struggle is slowly melting affront of our eyes, not just here in America, but also in the European countries...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It will be slow but painful awakening of the High educated youth of Europe and USA, I heard so many time that their education is not worthies, but it is...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">They are architects and engineers, economists and doctors, but they are also obsolete cause they becoming to expensive to be hired when the Corporate can supply the line of need with a Chinese, Indian, Russian or Brazilian architect, engineers, economist or doctors for the fraction of the price needed to maintain the labour cost in the west...so they will march in vein...they will see their dream hosed down by their own Government, and crushed by their own police forces, and the circle of hate will gain more and more momentum...or they can wake up fast, look at the facts that the science is unfolding affront of our eyes and smart up rapidly...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">The Youth of Europe and America may come to realize that the best way to use their skill is not to offer themselves to the lowest denominator on the Global Corporate market and ended up waiting tables at the Corner restaurant, for a dime and a tips in a napkin, but to unite, and resist with and educated resistance: </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Demand a New Era of Enlightenment!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Set a New Agenda!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Mark a New Goal!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Don't withdraw, dont retreat...their is nothing to loose but to shake the invisible chain of slavery that is upon our souls under the Corporate dominion...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">If people stand together like one, and they come to realize that if the Corporate dont sell they will not make profit, if they dont make a profit their stock will fall, if their stock fail, they will crush like a tower of cards...every single one of the mightiest of Corporate, will come down crushing under its own weight of unrealized profit, of under performance...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">That's is the New battlefield we the people need to master and conquer...our smartest and brightest kids are the new Generals of tomorrow who will spark the new conscience of Idea and who will bring the New Era of Enlightenment into the Dawn of a New World...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div>Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923273274730877029noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103331758289461747.post-72790549452443796052011-03-06T17:32:00.002-08:002012-05-16T10:19:11.087-07:00THE STATE OF THE UNION... On Government Role, on living wage...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
Last year I spend some time on Huffington post, the so called liberal Internet Media...<br />
I enter the publication reading about the new Arianna Huffington book: The third world America...<br />
Well done research, good analyze of the current issues...totally miss the topic!<br />
This was my response:<br />
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<span lang="EN"> <em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">- To have a "good" life, one need first and foremost not to worry about bare necessity: food and shelter!<br />
- To have a meaningful "good" life, one need more time to spend with family and friends!<br />
- To have a really "good" life, one need to sustainable combine the two premises!</span></em></span><br />
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<span lang="EN">The answer to all of the tree questions is summarized in two word: </span><br />
<span lang="EN"> <strong>- L</strong></span><span lang="EN"><strong>iving wage...</strong></span><br />
In a time when the American political divides between Red States and Blue States are extremely polarized mainly on the role and the size of the Government, the tables are somewhat turn upside down:<br />
- The very people who are so loud against the Unions, as well as they are in favor of the "Free Market Economy", less taxes, less Government spending; its these same people are also fiercely against the one and only solutions that will solve almost all of their concerns!<br />
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They say: Ignorance is bliss for a reason!<br />
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GOP wide spread idea that seams plausible to many less taxes & amaller Governement, leave so many completely ignorant of the meaning of the philosophy they subscribe too!<br />
- Aah, the spending is out of control...<br />
Government spending: the holy grail of the GOP...<br />
The tune continue as a broken record: <br />
Cut the spending...Cut...cut...cut...<br />
If they can get Governement spending out of the equation, taxes will be lower, market will be less regulated, business will be less restricted to invest, and grow, grow and flourish, flourish and grow even more...<br />
Fairy tale for the small business libertarians wanna be multinationals, but not quite there yet!<br />
Fairy tale indeed...<br />
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There is only one common denominator, aside from their "Free Market Economy" Utopia, one common denominator for all of the GOP collors of the Political Rainbow: Rebublicans and their Conservatives ofspring; Libertarians and their newest Tea Party offspring, and all their schools of thought up and down the specter, from Vienna, to Chicago and Texas Alex Jones New World Order Headquarters:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>They never talk about the wages</strong>...</span><br />
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Free market...yeah, let the market freely set the stage for the players, he will be the ground where the forces of capital and labour can meet in the perfect equilibrium...<br />
So ...so...18 Century...<br />
Skip two hundred years or more, and why not...no one will notice, right...<br />
Over two hundred years since the fierce class battle began on the streets of London, Paris, then it spread in our backyard, but hey...<br />
If no one is talking about it, its like never happen....<br />
Wait...The New Generation?<br />
Well...not to worry, the new generation is so busy downloading the latest apps for the I-phone, and yes...the I- Pod 3 will hit the stores any days now, instant gratifications is the new buzz, who care what happen years, and years a go...<br />
Or so the GOP mantra goes...<br />
They dont care about tomorrow, they dont wanna invest today in our future generations, cause their generations is well provided anyways...<br />
Why would they care for the public educations or the teachers pays, their kids go to private schools anyways! <br />
Why would they care about the vouchers in Medicare, when their golden years come with a golden parachutes!<br />
Why would they care about the Social Security benefits when the whole check is a Sunday brunch bill on the golf course tournament...<br />
My question is not why they dont care, my question is:<br />
Where are the Democrats in Washington to stand and get lost like those 14 brave souls in Wisconsin!<br />
Where are the Democrats?<br />
All of them...<br />
The People Party should stand up to the Busness Party and say, loud and clear:<br />
Taxation is not the solutions to the budget Deficit: the living wage is, and here is why:<br />
The more the workers receive in pay, more goes into payroll deductions, directly on the side of the budget revenues... more budget revenues means less deficit...<br />
The Government social spending can be reduce and control only if the population become independent of Government help, and that can be accomplish if workers receive a living wage for the day work...<br />
People who earn living wage dont need food stamps, subsidize housing or welfare checks...<br />
People who earn living wage dont need medicaid...<br />
People who earn living wage dont work two jobs...down will go unemployment numbers...<br />
People who earn living wage have full time jobs and benefits...<br />
Social Security and Medicare solvency is in tight correlation with the percentage of the populations who earn living wage also, just look at the stats from the 60's and 70's...<br />
The case for the Living wage should be the corner stone of Democrats Agenda, but t<span lang="EN">he million dollar Questions is not how much the living wage should be, but how do we get there!</span><br />
<span lang="EN">We have two, and only two options:</span><br />
<span lang="EN"> a ) Union bargaining with the Corporate America!</span><br />
<span lang="EN"> b ) Government making a New deal with Corporate America!</span><br />
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Notice the key word in both cases is Corporate America...<br />
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- Are we ready to shake the boat called Corporate America?<br />
I ask this question again...<br />
- Are we ready to stand tall to Corporate America? - Do we understand that some of us, many of us will fall in the dark blues sea to swim with the sharks named layoff and fired, cause to assume that Corporate America will accept the change in payroll cost without a vicious fight is naive... so yes, Corporate will fight back with everything they have...and more...<br />
How can we the people fight?<br />
Letter of the Laws...<br />
GOP cleverly wanna get Federal Government power down to State level cause they know very well that their masters Corporations, are individually stronger then any of the small state of the Union, and they can get what ever tax break, sweet land or utility deal, and labour tax credit they wish in order to land a business, living for greener pasture if they dont...<br />
But Laws are just the start, cause without massive people support they can be neglected in State courts under power pressure of individual Corporate interest, just look at the latest Health Care Bill...what a joke on State level that become...<br />
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That being said, the rest of us can ask the hard core Question:<br />
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<strong>- What is a living wage?</strong><br />
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If You, my dear Readers think that the discussion about the pros and cons of Unions is a painful, divisive issue in the way of coming to a compromise, try the living wage, just to see a fierce debate turning bloody nasty one!<br />
- Let just clear the air right from this common misunderstanding: <br />
Living wage is not an hourly or daily amount of money in exchange for a day work...no its not! <br />
The minimum wage set the way it is set today should be, but it is not living wage...sorry, its not...<br />
So...cry the impatient readers...what is it then?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong>Living wage its <span lang="EN">how much its needed to support a healthy survival of the individual houshold, set as family of four: two adult and two children, as needed for maintaining healthy Society...</span></strong></em></span><br />
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The difference between the minimum wage set like maintaining survival of the sole individual, the way it is today, and the individual houshold set as a family in order to maintain a healthy Society is no less dramatic! <br />
The basic cell of a Society is not an individual person, but a Family!<br />
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On the other hand, the living wage should be calculated by a broader standardized cost of living index, COLI, which normally differ from state to state in the Union but the common denominator<wbr></wbr> should be:<br />
1. The consumer basket* ( food and utility, among others goods and services);<br />
2. Average housing expenses;<br />
3. Cost of Energy, Educations, Insurance Premiums, Health Insurance Payments;<br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">*The <b>basket of consumer goods</b> or <b>consumer basket</b> is the market basket intended for tracking the prices of consumer goods and services, i.e., it is a sample of goods and services, offered at the consumer market. The consumer basket is the base for the definition of the Consumer Price Index(CPI).</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Consumer basket</span></em><br />
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The list used for such an analysis would contain a number of the most commonly bought food and household items. The variations in the prices of the items on the list from month to month give an indication of the overall development of price trends.<br />
The market basket may be further classified into Household Items, Personal Goods and Services, Leisure Goods, Households Services, Housing, Alcoholic Drinks and other categories, depending on the country's people preferance survey.<br />
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<em>"In Belgium, for example, wages, pensions, house rent, insurance premiums, unemployment benefits, health insurance payments, etc. are <b>by law</b> tied to a consumer price index."</em><br />
source: <span style="font-size: x-small;">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</span><br />
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The name commonly used in America to correspond to the consumer basket is Consumer price index or CPI, ironically used to track inflation...<br />
Those of You who never belong to the Unions, who have no idea whats the fuzz with the collective bargaining is, a word on the agenda of Scott Walker, the GOP wannabe next Reagan; just to let You know: <br />
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<li><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As a means for indexation (i.e. adjusting income payments). Over 2 million workers are covered by collective bargaining agreements which tie wages to the CPI. In the United States, the index affects the income of almost 80 million people as a result of statutory action: 47.8 million Social Security beneficiaries, about 4.1 million military and Federal Civil Service retirees and survivors, and about 22.4 million food stamp recipients. Changes in the CPI also affect the cost of lunches for the 26.7 million children who eat lunch at school. Some private firms and individuals use the CPI to keep rents, royalties, alimony payments and child support payments in line with changing prices. Since 1985, the CPI has been used to adjust the Federal income tax structure to prevent inflation-induced increases in taxes.</span></em></li><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">United States Consumer Price Index</span></em><br />
<div id="bodyContent"><div id="siteSub"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</span></em></div><div></div></div>They say the picture is worth a thousand word, so here it is:<br />
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/US_Consumer_Price_Index_Graph.svg"><img alt="File:US Consumer Price Index Graph.svg" height="250" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/US_Consumer_Price_Index_Graph.svg/750px-US_Consumer_Price_Index_Graph.svg.png" width="400" /></a><br />
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The "item" that are taken in consideration will give better or worse picture about the rise of the cost of living expenses, no wonder now why GOP representatives in the Congress always fight to limit or totally take many items out...<br />
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Those of You who are still buying the GOP fallacy of the "Free Market Economy" and believe that the Corporate America will take care of You, will give you the benefits out of the goodness of the business profitable quarter, well believe, and next time when the energy market react on a problem in Libya and go on a price surge, take your plain gas bill to your CIO, and ask him for a raise...ask him to level the playing field...ask him to maintain the market equilibrium...and good luck with that!<br />
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The rest of us need to wise up, wake up, and smell the coffee:<br />
-The battle that We the People need to ask Washington to win in our behalf is to include more "items" into the measurement of the CPI, and serve that like a Law that Corporate America need to respect next time they seat on the table to negotiate any Union Contract...<br />
We need Washington to stand for Us, We are all middle, going poor lately class, We are all WI...<br />
Economy dont need a Stimulus package, Economy need every one of the participant to receive a starting living wage, and climb from there according to the qualification, complicity and utilization of the labour force!<br />
Whats is happening in Wisconsin is a lesson, We Progressive should never forget!<br />
- Never again we should stay home and let Midget of a Mans take the powerful position the way some of them did in the last elections...<br />
Governor like Scott Walker are nothing but a bell boys in the hand of the Corporate that will come running eager to please the Masters, and Unions are the last levy that hold the flood of our livelihood above the gutter of poverty that seams to plague the Third World Countries...<br />
The rise of the middle class, the height We the people can climb above is the scale that separate us from the Third World Countries...its not the kitchen gadget that are standing on our disposal, or the high tech goggles that can make us socially well connected, but our ability to lift every one of our People up the scale of prosperity...<br />
Cause the Cake of Wealth is there...<br />
Corporate America is riping the benefits of the rise in productivity due to a tech advances and the international trade, while they have GOP home to make sure that the lion share of the Wealth stay on their plates...and that's nothing new...<br />
History remember a ruthless Emperors, reckless Kings and terrible Congress, but also history show us that the wheels of the Societies are always moved forward by the People alone, never backwards, no matter how much send are thrown in it to slow it down, stopped altogether, derailed, or blow out of proportions...<br />
Somehow, each and every time, People manage to pick up the broken bones, heel stronger, and pursuit the dreams of a better tomorrow...<br />
History teach us that...<br />
History never fail...<br />
GOP fear mongers are not able to embrace the winds of change, cause it is much better and certainly much more comfortable for them to dwell in the past or in the dark corridors of conspiracy, its much easier to try to prevent the real New World Order from happening, World where the cake of our People Accomplishment is shared among all, not just few...<br />
If GOP cant see that simple yet profound fact, then they are destine for a oblivion, like many Party of the old World, cause if the new tech can be used to liberate the Middle East from a vicious dictators, surly we, here in America, can talk and connect and spread the forgotten knowledge:<br />
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- <strong><em>You negotiate with Corporate America with the Letters of the Laws, and with the Straight of the Unions body Numbers!</em></strong></div>Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10923273274730877029noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103331758289461747.post-53394082650551739662011-01-29T16:48:00.000-08:002012-11-26T15:40:35.057-08:00THE LAND OF THE PHARAOH IT IS A LAND OF MYSTERY! On the Arab Spring: Egypt is the poster child of Modern " Free market economy" failure<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Egypt was always a mystery to Human Civilization...<br />
Mathematicians and Scientist, Architects and Engineers even today stand affront of the great Pyramids of Giza and scratch the head puzzled how that ancient civilization build those marvels of Human Imagination!<br />
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The fertile Nile valley was more then a cradle of Human civilization, it was also a food supplier for the known Ancient world, Failure of the Egyptian harvest meant a famine in Ancient Rome and the rest of the Mediterranean cities of the Ancient world...<br />
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Today Egypt is one of the major food importer in the world...<br />
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To understand this dramatic change in perspective is to solve the puzzle of the event that are taking place those days on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria, to name just a few of the metropolitan area in this historical country...<br />
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If we can single out an event from our latest history, an resent event that send Egypt to the road of the current unrest what will that be?<br />
When do the levee of National Prosperity shot the door to so many of the Egyptian people and left them behind with their broken dreams of world integrations...<br />
Many will focus on the current President, many will point to the People that surround him, or support him, but on those pages we will not do that...<br />
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To understand the turmoil that Egypt is undergoing is to understand the engine of the Middle East, what make them thick and boil those days...<br />
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I can tell You my Dear Readers right from the start that the Story of Egypt is nothing new, nor complicated, and certainly is far a way from the sphere of mysticism of the religious domain cause Egypt is nothing but a Poster Child of the modern "Free Market Economy" failure...<br />
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Yeah simple as that...<br />
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In defence of Mubarak who did not do anything more or less then following the grand plan of globalization, a road that is chosen those days carefully and deliberately from the International Institution of Power that any country in the developing world is bound to follow...<br />
It is a predicament of compliance, or the International Community will left any given country in the doorstep of the Civilized World...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"During the 1990s, a series of International Monetary Fund arrangements, coupled with massive external debt relief resulting from Egypt's participation in the Gulf War coalition, helped</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Egypt improve its macroeconomic performance. The pace of structural reforms, including fiscal, monetary policies, privatization and new business legislation, helped Egypt to move towards a more <em><u><span style="color: #660000;">market oriented economy</span></u></em> and, since the turn of the new millennium, prompted increased foreign investment., reduced subsidies, reduced inflation, cut taxes, and partially liberalized trade and investment. Manufacturing become less dominated by the public sector, especially in heavy industries. A process of public sector reform and privatization has begun to enhance opportunities for the private sector.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The reform program is still a work in progress and the government will need to continue its aggressive pursuit of reforms in order to sustain the spike in investment and growth and begin to improve economic conditions for the broader population. Egypt's export sectors—particularly gold and natural gas—have bright prospects...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">source: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia: Economy of Egypt</span><br />
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What Mubarak wanted making the deal with the IMF was probably Egypt to be a part of the World, simple achievement of the ones glorious place in human history...at least every projections of the foreign expert designing the loans prospect was telling him...or so the story goes...<br />
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The ink on the loans paper was not properly dry yet when the great bankers ask him to give them the keys to the National Treasure: to all the resources of the fertile Nile Valley along the black gold hidden in the desert send and under the blue Mediterranean sea...<br />
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And so as promised came the foreign investments: new glamorous Resorts become the jewelry under the Saharan sun offering ancient history, curtailed with the world famous fashionable restaurants and malls bringing the latest tech goodies and design clothing, never mind they were made someplace else...<br />
During all those years Mubarak become aware that Egypt get short side of the deal, he most have realized that the never ending demand for subsidies, tax cuts, privatisations and the heavy burden of the Interest payments will catch up with the dissatisfaction of his people in the manners he was leading the country so just in case he was building the security, the military and the police forces around himself, cutting political deals and making friends and Allies against the will of his people...<br />
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Of course he knew all that, he just decide to ignore his own people plea for help...<br />
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Or maybe he was counting that when the unrest came he will not be around, or maybe he was hoping that people will forget the atrocity, especially if he and his closest official make sure that enough of the people are well fed, well wormed, well housed in a better neighborhoods, and a way from stinking stench of Poverty that was in their doorstep for the most of their lives...<br />
Yeah...Mubarak and the rest of the puppet Government in the middle East, they all new that, they just did not care!<br />
Things were going good for Mubarak the last decade or so, it was the best of time for the ruling class of Egypt, never mind that more and more of the Egyptian populations was fighting with starvation, no things were going good for the Wealthy in Egypt...<br />
The Free Market Economy in full bloom:<br />
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- Egypt open the door for liberalizations of the trade: the finest Egyptian fruits and veggies find the way to the natural markets of Europe and USA, the best seafood, shellfish and the best Egyptian spices enrich the table of the refined customers, while the population of the country get rationing food cards!<br />
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All of those "Market Oriented" Reforms become a field of unfulfilled dreams leaving the open questions:<br />
- What good came out of them?<br />
Or even better questions will be:<br />
- What are the "benefits" that the Egyptian people stumble upon?<br />
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Surly they, the Egyptian people, can't expect the Global multinational corporations to open Factory in Egypt when they can produce in China and India for the fractions of the <span style="background-color: white;">labor cost, right!</span><br />
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Surly the Government need to loosen the tax code,and give more incentives to the multinational corporations<br />
in order to make investment opportunity favorable for the fragile middle eastern market, given the danger of the religious fanaticism and instability of the whole regions, right!<br />
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Surly the trend in the ever changing labor market demand more and more educated and skilled workers to follow the technological advantages and naturally leave so many people behind in the gusher of poverty and misery, but self reliance is the exit for the millions left behind...and taking responsibility for its own actions, right!<br />
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And if all of this sound familiar to the persons who read those pages, not to worry cause it is the familiar lines:<br />
- It is the way of the Globalization and the "Free market Economy"<br />
A familiar blend of policies designed to suit the business cause feeding the racing horse there will always be left overs for the small sparrows...<br />
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So they say...<br />
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Those of us who are watching the news with a distant fear of rising fuel prices hitting our shore, especially if the tide of protest get wild and shot down the major Suez ports: the bloodstream of energy supply, we should not miss the big picture:<br />
The story of Egypt is the story of Us:<br />
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The pressure to break the levees of our social safety net are stretch so tin, they can broke every day now...<br />
It will take a few votes thru the Congress and a President willing to sign then into a Law...<br />
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Cause those wretched Social Program are the only thing that keep us roaming the streets in a need for food...forget about our fancy lifestyle of kitchen gadget and the newest Apple goodies...<br />
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Hungry people roam the street of Alexandria and Cairo...hungry, malnourished and forgotten from its own Government...<br />
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If our Corporate Media is afraid of the Domino Effect of the Egyptian Revolution I suggest they look at the following two maps:<br />
- The first one show the in dept of the country in the world...the more dept the country faces the greater are the chances of social unrest!<br />
- The second one show the GINI coefficient of the countries of the World...the greater the coefficient the greater are the chances of unrest!<br />
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- The third indicator of the future instability and unrest in the World is the flexibility of the different Political System mach up with the Social Safety Net, or shall we say the absent of them...less safety net feature, the greater the risk of unrest!<br />
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Combination of all tree of them is the Perfect Storm that is heading toward the shores of any given country, even the one that seams to be the least expected!<br />
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source: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: External Dept<br />
Map of countries by external debt based on 2005 CIA fact book figures<br />
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source: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Gini coefficient<br />
Gini-coefficient of national income distribution around the world<br />
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*<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The GINI coefficient is a measure of the inequality of a distribution, a value of 0 expressing total equality and a value of 1 maximal inequality. It has found application in the study of inequalities in disciplines as diverse as economics, health science,ecology, chemistry, and engineering!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is commonly used as a measure of inequality of <span style="background-color: white; color: black;">income </span>or wealth!</span><br />
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