So many women in this country are needed in public office.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, convince your friends.
FLOTUSA is still young. We need her desperately, asap.
Debbie Stabenow...recruit girls and women.
Alexis Goldstein, and friends,. please run!
Hillary, if you have it in you- get back out there.
And there are more of you out there .Each of you...
'Screw your courage to the sticking place.'
Saturday, June 9, 2012
The American Economy
Yes, children, wages ARE stagnant.
Police, firemen, and teachers have lost enough jobs in America to cost our economy a minimum of
$1 billion dollars, plus what interest it could earn, nearly every decade. That can add up, right? Especially when those doing without that money are doing without basic quality of life quantities of goods and services for lack of that money... The absences of it not only add up, but can create generational, community, family, and personal deficit.
Those persons who do have jobs are NOT apt- under the circumstances of the average citizen having no right or access to the most basic of protections and education- to get appropriate raises...ever.
That means whatever I buy I have to pay more and more for it each year unless those employed in
service industries get back to work and buy some of it as well. What if I live on a fixed income?
Those people back to work would also help the Social Security fund.
The payroll tax breaks working people got recently, are coming from social safety net tax deductions in ordinary take-home pay from weekly and bi-weekly paychecks. FICA deductions and Medicare
deductions are smaller. So down the line working people will have eaten now so they can starve later.
Who will they have been working for? People who refuse to pay their affordable taxes.
Why should that continue just so 1% of the American population can be assured of paying no higher taxes, and in some cases no taxes at all- and even in some absurd cases, get tax refunds and continued subsidies galore?
Police, firemen, and teachers have lost enough jobs in America to cost our economy a minimum of
$1 billion dollars, plus what interest it could earn, nearly every decade. That can add up, right? Especially when those doing without that money are doing without basic quality of life quantities of goods and services for lack of that money... The absences of it not only add up, but can create generational, community, family, and personal deficit.
Those persons who do have jobs are NOT apt- under the circumstances of the average citizen having no right or access to the most basic of protections and education- to get appropriate raises...ever.
That means whatever I buy I have to pay more and more for it each year unless those employed in
service industries get back to work and buy some of it as well. What if I live on a fixed income?
Those people back to work would also help the Social Security fund.
The payroll tax breaks working people got recently, are coming from social safety net tax deductions in ordinary take-home pay from weekly and bi-weekly paychecks. FICA deductions and Medicare
deductions are smaller. So down the line working people will have eaten now so they can starve later.
Who will they have been working for? People who refuse to pay their affordable taxes.
Why should that continue just so 1% of the American population can be assured of paying no higher taxes, and in some cases no taxes at all- and even in some absurd cases, get tax refunds and continued subsidies galore?
Peter Schiff
What Peter? Oh, you say the sky is falling?
'Yes, I said the sky is falling!'
'The sky is falling. The sky is falling. The sky is falling. The sky is falling. The sky is falling.'
Why is the sky falling Peter?
Well, because companies pay salaries!
'Yes, I said the sky is falling!'
'The sky is falling. The sky is falling. The sky is falling. The sky is falling. The sky is falling.'
Why is the sky falling Peter?
Well, because companies pay salaries!
Friday, June 8, 2012
Thank You Wisconsin
Now we know what happens when a Scott Walker wins, principally by outspending Mr. Barrett 8 to 1.
At least the rest of us can take heart in the fact that the democratic opponent was difficult to beat. I guess the Republicans had the money, but it took spending a boatload of it for them to actually win.
Sad for the remainder of us too, that now must listen to these love of European-type austerity
depression politicians talk about what brave, outstanding public servants they are for cutting social
programs.
Mitt Romney, Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, and the like, will all be slapping each other on the back with so much gusto the noise will keep me up nights.
A little old lady about to take a bite of a sandwich will have it snatched out of her hand by Mr.Ryan, who will replace it with a spoon of dog food...the on sale brand. And Ryan will be So proud of himself.
A child whose fever won't break will be kicked out of an E.R. with some substitute for medicine, like a bag of ice.
Mr. Romney will be grinning when he forecloses on the home of a young vet, while he shows him the way to the old rental buildings his new "capital" corporation is land lording..
Banks will continue to believe it doesn't matter how they make money, or who gets trashed by their
practices, as long as they can claim it is capitalism. But I thought when everyone in a country brought home about the same amount of money every week, that was communism.
If only 1% of a population has economic autonomy, how is that democracy? We were taught in school that a representative democracy could never resemble a communist form of government, and that is why we must protect it.
Well, we are slip-sliding into some sort of hegemonic dictatorial rule of the billionaires. How is that any different than communism for the average working citizen?
We know now that in Wisconsin, at least, the vote can be bought. In 2000, and 2004, we learned the vote could be illegally certified twice in Florida, and in 2004 in Ohio.
What I want to know, is: what can we do about it? Is every state in this union really supposed to be
Mississippi? Right to work is right to be exploited. I guess that is what half of Wisconsin wants.
Maybe half of that state is already retired, and believe their pensions are safe. Wasn't that what we
all believed about pensions in the fall of 2008? Oh my were we Wrong.
These voters must be the citizens who can answer that question- "What's The Matter With Kansas?"
I guess Wisconsin could care less about the jobs in their state which go to teachers, policemen, firefighters, nurses, etc.
So when those jobs, pay scales, benefits, and safety and quality of work issues get stomped in the public sector, I hope all prescient citizens realize the private sector won't be far behind. Private employers will not be any more inclined to pay more or spend more on benes than any other employer group.
And unless you are one of their stockholders (where would you get the cash) don't count on any of their increased profits trickling into your family budget. Nothing they control trickles. They make
great strides to stop things from trickling, as do all humans. (Well, we can do nothing about mountain
streams.)
Working people will get what they always got before they organized. A hard way to go, and a short
time to make it there.
For instance, the work week of women and children being shortened to 54 hours per week ... not until
circa 1913, in New York state and that was not done by employers. Surprised? I wonder now when that law even began to get enforced!
At least the rest of us can take heart in the fact that the democratic opponent was difficult to beat. I guess the Republicans had the money, but it took spending a boatload of it for them to actually win.
Sad for the remainder of us too, that now must listen to these love of European-type austerity
depression politicians talk about what brave, outstanding public servants they are for cutting social
programs.
Mitt Romney, Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, and the like, will all be slapping each other on the back with so much gusto the noise will keep me up nights.
A little old lady about to take a bite of a sandwich will have it snatched out of her hand by Mr.Ryan, who will replace it with a spoon of dog food...the on sale brand. And Ryan will be So proud of himself.
A child whose fever won't break will be kicked out of an E.R. with some substitute for medicine, like a bag of ice.
Mr. Romney will be grinning when he forecloses on the home of a young vet, while he shows him the way to the old rental buildings his new "capital" corporation is land lording..
Banks will continue to believe it doesn't matter how they make money, or who gets trashed by their
practices, as long as they can claim it is capitalism. But I thought when everyone in a country brought home about the same amount of money every week, that was communism.
If only 1% of a population has economic autonomy, how is that democracy? We were taught in school that a representative democracy could never resemble a communist form of government, and that is why we must protect it.
Well, we are slip-sliding into some sort of hegemonic dictatorial rule of the billionaires. How is that any different than communism for the average working citizen?
We know now that in Wisconsin, at least, the vote can be bought. In 2000, and 2004, we learned the vote could be illegally certified twice in Florida, and in 2004 in Ohio.
What I want to know, is: what can we do about it? Is every state in this union really supposed to be
Mississippi? Right to work is right to be exploited. I guess that is what half of Wisconsin wants.
Maybe half of that state is already retired, and believe their pensions are safe. Wasn't that what we
all believed about pensions in the fall of 2008? Oh my were we Wrong.
These voters must be the citizens who can answer that question- "What's The Matter With Kansas?"
I guess Wisconsin could care less about the jobs in their state which go to teachers, policemen, firefighters, nurses, etc.
So when those jobs, pay scales, benefits, and safety and quality of work issues get stomped in the public sector, I hope all prescient citizens realize the private sector won't be far behind. Private employers will not be any more inclined to pay more or spend more on benes than any other employer group.
And unless you are one of their stockholders (where would you get the cash) don't count on any of their increased profits trickling into your family budget. Nothing they control trickles. They make
great strides to stop things from trickling, as do all humans. (Well, we can do nothing about mountain
streams.)
Working people will get what they always got before they organized. A hard way to go, and a short
time to make it there.
For instance, the work week of women and children being shortened to 54 hours per week ... not until
circa 1913, in New York state and that was not done by employers. Surprised? I wonder now when that law even began to get enforced!
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Republican Governances
Our U.S. federal government should be an infinitesimally tiny slow moving particle.
Our state governments should be unimaginably gargantuan hegemonic behemoths.
This is the desired governmental impetus the Republican party wants for the U.S. population.
I have a question. Won't we then be the ancient European and Mediterranean city-states which caused centuries of wars? Oh...right...
Republicans like those aggression ideas as well!
Reform It
Hello. Let's reform education. We can't throw money at it right? Money won't help it, right?
So here is what we are doing...we are taking money out of it. What we can do to improve the
education outcomes in our schools, is crush the budgets professional educators and education researchers say is needed to keep up with and improve education world competitiveness in American
schools.
If we take all the money from all our schools, by degrees, we surely will have reformed them.
Any questions?
So here is what we are doing...we are taking money out of it. What we can do to improve the
education outcomes in our schools, is crush the budgets professional educators and education researchers say is needed to keep up with and improve education world competitiveness in American
schools.
If we take all the money from all our schools, by degrees, we surely will have reformed them.
Any questions?
Friday, May 25, 2012
How Would He Know
Human beings don't record their own births. They rely on officials to do it for them. These officials
note the day and date, the time and place of any child's birth, pretty uniformly in Western civilizations.
I believe that like the rest of us, President Obama was a bit of a sack of potatoes when he was born.
However, officials did record the event. They know even better than he what the moment encircled.
And they had no reason to lie about a little black child born to an eighteen year old mom.
note the day and date, the time and place of any child's birth, pretty uniformly in Western civilizations.
I believe that like the rest of us, President Obama was a bit of a sack of potatoes when he was born.
However, officials did record the event. They know even better than he what the moment encircled.
And they had no reason to lie about a little black child born to an eighteen year old mom.
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