Watch this unfold. It's going to be a nightmare for Boeing and many for the flying public, but hopefully no one gets seriously injured or killed here or abroad. See if outsourcing or corporate irresponsibility ever get mentioned by those in the govt. or the private sectors. If anyone doubted who the govt. serves in matters of safety, it was pretty obvious when LaHood came out, at the same time an investigation was being announced, that he would fly on 787s and didn't have problems with them. Hey, Ray, that's called prejudging an investigation and kind of stupid and unprofessional. Why announce an investigation if everything is going along according to plan? Massive outsourcing and labor saving moves do have serious consequences, and do endanger not only the economic security of individuals, families, and communities, but do cost real lives. Like I said, let the bigwigs work in one of their factories making products for pennies in Bangladesh on the 6th floor of a locked firetrap and face angry security if they try to leave too early or don't work their 80 hour week. Let them insist on continuing flying on a 787 on a plane in which only execs are aboard and HR that aids outsourcing while smoke fills the compartment (somehow without endangering the pilots trying to save the plane and everyone on board). What's to worry about - 36,000-40,000 feet above the ocean, acrid smoke filling the cabin and cockpit, but all is well.
Yup, outsourcing and treating good people like dirt does have very real and very dangerous consequences, and until the people that cause these issues are forced to personally live them, they will continue to not care and blame everything else (e.g., just couldn't "find skilled Americans," "Americans are lazy," etc.).
Can you tell me what OS and browser you are using? i.e. XP, Internet Explorer 8 or dare I say Windows 2000? (no way!) This site has ads and I suspect they are blocking ads from the layout description, but those blocks should collapse.
It's probable the site is messed up and we like screen shots, just email.
Known issue, working on a fix:
the comments so they stay open after replying and when linking from another area in the site. TBD.
I like the new site. I don't know if it's my outdated IRS computer or if the site is messed up but the first box has not data in it and a box to the side.
Yuck, seems our automatic spam deletion isn't working after the upgrade. Temporarily, anonymous comments have been disabled until I figure out why automatic spam delete isn't working.
Plenty of folks can teach themselves, and teach themselves many things far better than any school could. Colleges are now offering free courses which should definitely be exploited - it won't get a job or recognition, but it does bring free knowledge. Schools are about conformity for the most part, beat down the student so he can work in a cubicle and is used to being beaten down. "Thinking outside the box"? Oh, sure, Microsoft and LinkedIn and politicians spout that, but reflecting on it, really, aren't schools about sitting there in a box or else getting thrown out, colleges force people to sit in boxes with 500+ students to check off boxes during exams (and check of boxes to get into those colleges), and the prize is a box/cubicle at a company where you can drive a box to work and if you dare speak your mind at work, you will be fired for non-conformity, look at a box with ads at home, and then be buried in a box. Nope, it's all about fitting into a box and schools play their role very well.
Especially now with the Internet, if you're motivated and want to learn specific things, it's amazing the amount of knowledge one can gain. Also, as we leave school, college, etc., it's always amazing the way learning becomes truly enjoyable and many fields + areas we never knew about suddenly appear. It's tragic the way businesses, schools, colleges, etc. want people to pigeonhole themselves and if you didn't study such-and-such field for a BA or BS or MA, then you can never learn or excel in that field - what utter crap! It's also part of the way they want to discriminate against people beyond a certain age, they want to force people into high amounts of debt for certain degrees that may or not pay off. Can you imagine these clowns forcing someone with IQs 50% higher than their own dictating whether or not someone can explore or excel in new fields or even make new discoveries at 40 or 50 or 80? Who are they? Leeches and tyrants that do nothing to unleash human potential but merely look for the next dollar or look for ways to crush their fellow Americans. How's that for noble?
These days one can self-teach so extensively and university costs are through the roof. Take textbooks. One can find earlier edition textbooks for as low as a $1 (this site links extensively to Abe Books for that reason!) yet to take a course for credit, you're looking at $300+ per book, that's ridiculous. Then, tuition is absurd when so often courses are 1. listen to lecture 2. do homework 3. take three exams 4. labs
Labs are the most useful and probably should really cost and so should TA, help, the people helping, teaching. Yet the lectures, the books, the tests, all of it can be and should be done on one's own.
At this point I think there should be online something that allows one to just prove their mastery of a topic with a "you have mastered this topic" only "grade" that has a lot of security integrated so we know the person who mastered topic x, really is person y and they really did work z and did not lift it from others (very common in technical tests including interviews!)
As in award a degree, give credibility to such a system and let it replace or be equal to traditional college degrees.
Higher education at this point is diverging from mastery and knowledge of the subject at hand.
BTW: Many libraries pay licenses to various Academic Journals and so on so one can often get copies of research that way. But paying $10/$20/$30 for each paper is obscene! If one is doing a literature review, one might read over 50 articles and papers. That's absurd.
This anonymous hacker group is fascinating. I disagree 100% with them that DDoS is a form of protest, that's a cybersecurity major threat in my view. That said, I am most amused when they hack up sites and put up "protest signs" on them and change corporate sites and so on to say what they are really about, go grab other stuff to expose x.
A hell of lot of it has been pretty effective and frankly am kind of glad they picked up on the arrest and "crime" and said something for when I first read the news, I just stared at that one sentence about his arrest, history and paused for a very long time, in a kind of knowing way that was probably the thing which pushed him over the edge. Corporate tech culture is so soul numbing, really kill the spirit of someone, their creativity, ability to innovate.
Oh, there's something special about schools that just can never seem to find the money they need and now look to the plutocrats for even more $. I know people enjoy the phone calls for cash for years (apparently until a grad dies of old age) after graduation. Seriously, the $40,000 - $60,000 these bastards demand in tuition and endless fees just aren't enough? Some professors are pulling in $200,000, in addition to BS lucrative "consulting" gigs they get. Administrators often pull in much, much more. Isn't one of these "non-profits" Presidents from Columbia now sitting on the Board of the NY Fed? Do many of these clowns serve in our govt. then return to "academia" or work in finance? They know all about raking in big cash, teaching maybe a few hours per week (recycling the same materials), exploiting PhD students to do the bulk of the teaching, and go off like they came up with the theory of relativity. Charlatans getting rich for jacksh*t.
But apparently that's not enough nowadays. Nope, the beast demands even more $. So they are willing to sell what little integrity these schools have and name everything possible after donors and submit the actual curriculum to corporate (some private corporations based out of Kansas, hint hint)approval. Do you think they will be teaching critical thought? Issues about kleptocracy in Russia and here? Why do you think they hate liberal arts so much (even though they are so thickheaded they don't realize they are also bashing math and science because those are also classic "liberal arts). Because they want non-thinking, non-questioning drones. And if those drones are heavily in debt getting the "education" the plutocratic masters demand they get to line up jobs, and those jobs are only good for Job [fill-in-the-blank] with Plutocratic Corporation #1, those drones will certainly not cause problems for the corporation because their livelihood and future welfare depends on them getting that one job and keeping it. And if the plutocrats decide that drone is too expensive working for $2/hr., oh well, they'll replace him anyway with a robot or a Chinese prisoner. And what does the heavily in debt drone that has no other education other than cog work do? Well, our government, "non-profit" schools, and plutocrats don't care, so don't ask them. Again, Jefferson knew all about this and thought long and hard about not just setting up UVA, but about the need and importance of all public education. The irony is his views on public education won't be taught in public schools. Again, how far these scoundrels have taken us. We haven't fallen, because I know most of us did everything right. Nope, we were taken here.
And as for other news, watch US involvement in Mali. This is yet another foreign adventure that we will sink money into while fellow Americans are dying from homelessness and joblessness here and our recent foreign interventions haven't gone cheaply or according to plan. 28 million unemployed, many many long-term, politicians everywhere talking about the debt and making our lives even tougher, but both sides of the political aisle can't seem to stop spending money on foreign interventions. It's a big world with tens of thousands of issues and problems. Billions of people hate each other. So watch as our govt. and lobbyists constantly find another conflict to spend our money on (that we borrow from China to spend and we never benefit from). Eisenhower, a man who knew plenty about the govt. and military, knew what he was talking about. Mali is twice the size of Texas and about twice the size of Afghanistan. Yet watch the MSM and listen to politicians as they discuss sending support to the French there and supporting ECOWAS troops (who are reluctant to send even hundreds of troops to a country that size that borders them).
Whenever the govt. and lobbyists through the media want our $, they always mention Al-Qaeda. Islamists are also in Nigeria, the Philippines, Indonesia, Somalia (and operate in Kenya), Uganda, Chechnya, Yemen, places we are in or recently left, etc., etc. Where does it end for us and intervening? Why again don't the banksters that launder money for terrorists sit in prison in the US again after admitting their crimes? Why don't the MSM and politicians criticize the banksters that help arm terrorists? Oh, they are above the law and work with the govt. too, I forgot. Yes, Al-Qaeda has a presence in Mali. But there was a coup originally from a minority in the North. That coup was supplanted by more powerful Islamists. And that's where we are now. Toss in the usual corruption and ethnic hatred in many countries and of course civil wars will become inevitable and might even spread across regional borders - do we need to get involved in every single one? Really, at this time, do we need to spend more money overseas anywhere? So predictable, so predictable. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, now Mali? Really, Mali? It's endless. Well, more money we'll never see. Any time they want to spend our money that we borrow, they will and do it right quick. As far as keeping American jobs here and helping Americans financially and creating JOBS, nope, no help there and it's endless talk for decades. So tell me, who does this govt. serve?
for non performance?
You'd think that the people should have some recourse for removing a politician who lied to get elected and then didn't perform as promised.
Ran into some major snags over the weekend, but hopefully this can be done and over with soon. In the final stages. What I get for trying to cut corners. ;)
If you had to hunt the nation high and low to find a worse person than Turbo-tax Timmy, you’d eventually turn over a rock and find Lew peeping up at you.
The Treasury and Federal Reserve just announced they will not mint and accept a $1 trillion coin, or platinum coin to deal with the debt ceiling. Basically they are saying to the GOP, go ahead and default.
its just more of the venetian/medici republic finance structure and agenda, WAKE UP folks and see this for what is really happening, ,.... nothing will happen to change it untill someone comes looking to collect on their debts, ...... and that's going to be a very BAD thing !!!! right now,it doesn't think anyone can do anything about it,which is why it keeps doing it, it believes 100 % that there is no one who can do anything about it, only to find suddenly,it OWE'S someone else,........ who can !!!!!$$$$$$??? !!!!!
And since there are already 3 or more people for every opening, should they just "try"?
That's about 26 million without a purpose other than to eat and go to the bathroom.
We can't have what we have now, much less anything new, no security as a nation if this continuing erosion of income and jobs continues.
Yet we are going further in the hole for every low-wage job that we are stuffing the recovery with, and no plan to do anything else.
We can't survive selling insurance and serving coffee to each other.
The middle of this crazy place is being eaten by the wealthy, those below are just kept alive to pay fees, most will never have an opportunity to get out of their hole.
And a relatively few wealthy tyrants, bankers, pimps, vermin - whatever one wishes to use - are taking, in large part, most of the income from everyone else and sticking it in their pocket.
"I saved a thousand slaves. I could have saved a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves". H. Tubman
A couple hundred million people today are doing their dead level best to feed most of their income to a few at the top, like the Kanamits on the old Twilight Zone Episode "To Serve Man".
So the job, perhaps, is to get folks to realize they are on the menu...and figuring out how we compete and own the assets in the world of machines might be key.
Due to election 2012, plus the absolute pure insanity coming from so many in the GOP, people one again were hoodwinked into thinking Obama is for the people, or even a real Democrat, defined by helping U.S. labor and middle class. Not so, we're simply back to the same terrible agenda started by the Clinton administration, expanded by Bush. It's corporate lobbyists, financial sector demands and not even a global economic meltdown or massive sovereign debt will stop lobbyists and multinational corporations from controlling government.
To wit, I don't think the U.S. trade representative has been announced but you can bet that will be a corporate position, all to push TPP, the mother of disaster NAFTA style trade deals. I just wrote up this month's trade deficit overview and you can bet TPP will make the situation much worse. Beyond the dismantling of Glass-Stegall, I'd say trade agreements really show who is in charge for it anyone with half a brain was basing policy on statistics, they would be horrified at the never ending ballooning trade deficit and do something to stop it all.
Obama has been very good to corporations, passing bad trade deals which are starting to add to the trade deficit.
Actual policies to turn America around and become strong again aren't even mentioned anymore! We get these false choices in the pundit press, real solutions are buried because corporations, lobbyists do not want them.
Only brainwashed folks that need to spout the same lies for their salaries can say Glass-Steagall didn't prevent catastrophe. Investment banking/hedge funds/casinos/dice games in the back of a warehouse shouldn't be backstopped by taxpayers and share the same office space as my savings and checking accounts (ignoring the nonsense about "Chinese Walls" and compliance and "due diligence" that they still parrot but groupthink and bankster conformity + incentives make toothless). Betting trillions on derivatives they created but didn't even understand - how's that for sheer stupidity? And it still goes on. It's like kids stealing small pox samples to win a high school science competition but not knowing what it is or how to control it, collecting the prize, and then unleashing the disease without ever taking responsibility or being punished. These are the same people that claim NAFTA and "free trade" didn't send tens of millions of jobs overseas and is helping hollow out the country and endanger our national security. In fact, they are still creating and promoting even more country-destroying free trade agreements (like TPP). They can say whatever they want, doesn't make it true or make them any less culpable or more intelligent.
Lol - I was at OWS in NY. I am a 45 year old procedures analyst and I was accompanied by a 40-year-old Special Ed teacher from Danien, CT. I guess I'm a terrorist. I admit I can look pretty scary when i first wake up before showering and brushing my teethe, I fear we are going to get hit by REAL terrorists while we have our collective head up our butt in the United States.
Watch this unfold. It's going to be a nightmare for Boeing and many for the flying public, but hopefully no one gets seriously injured or killed here or abroad. See if outsourcing or corporate irresponsibility ever get mentioned by those in the govt. or the private sectors. If anyone doubted who the govt. serves in matters of safety, it was pretty obvious when LaHood came out, at the same time an investigation was being announced, that he would fly on 787s and didn't have problems with them. Hey, Ray, that's called prejudging an investigation and kind of stupid and unprofessional. Why announce an investigation if everything is going along according to plan? Massive outsourcing and labor saving moves do have serious consequences, and do endanger not only the economic security of individuals, families, and communities, but do cost real lives. Like I said, let the bigwigs work in one of their factories making products for pennies in Bangladesh on the 6th floor of a locked firetrap and face angry security if they try to leave too early or don't work their 80 hour week. Let them insist on continuing flying on a 787 on a plane in which only execs are aboard and HR that aids outsourcing while smoke fills the compartment (somehow without endangering the pilots trying to save the plane and everyone on board). What's to worry about - 36,000-40,000 feet above the ocean, acrid smoke filling the cabin and cockpit, but all is well.
Yup, outsourcing and treating good people like dirt does have very real and very dangerous consequences, and until the people that cause these issues are forced to personally live them, they will continue to not care and blame everything else (e.g., just couldn't "find skilled Americans," "Americans are lazy," etc.).
Can you tell me what OS and browser you are using? i.e. XP, Internet Explorer 8 or dare I say Windows 2000? (no way!) This site has ads and I suspect they are blocking ads from the layout description, but those blocks should collapse.
It's probable the site is messed up and we like screen shots, just email.
Known issue, working on a fix:
the comments so they stay open after replying and when linking from another area in the site. TBD.
I like the new site. I don't know if it's my outdated IRS computer or if the site is messed up but the first box has not data in it and a box to the side.
to repost your comments lost in the upgrade? I'm hoping you can give some feedback to see if I can tweak the new comment loader.
Hopefully today we'll have new articles.
Yuck, seems our automatic spam deletion isn't working after the upgrade. Temporarily, anonymous comments have been disabled until I figure out why automatic spam delete isn't working.
Thanks Kurtz!
Nice, very nice work! But spam has already shown up and is dominating "Recent comments." It's all spam crap in that section.
Plenty of folks can teach themselves, and teach themselves many things far better than any school could. Colleges are now offering free courses which should definitely be exploited - it won't get a job or recognition, but it does bring free knowledge. Schools are about conformity for the most part, beat down the student so he can work in a cubicle and is used to being beaten down. "Thinking outside the box"? Oh, sure, Microsoft and LinkedIn and politicians spout that, but reflecting on it, really, aren't schools about sitting there in a box or else getting thrown out, colleges force people to sit in boxes with 500+ students to check off boxes during exams (and check of boxes to get into those colleges), and the prize is a box/cubicle at a company where you can drive a box to work and if you dare speak your mind at work, you will be fired for non-conformity, look at a box with ads at home, and then be buried in a box. Nope, it's all about fitting into a box and schools play their role very well.
Especially now with the Internet, if you're motivated and want to learn specific things, it's amazing the amount of knowledge one can gain. Also, as we leave school, college, etc., it's always amazing the way learning becomes truly enjoyable and many fields + areas we never knew about suddenly appear. It's tragic the way businesses, schools, colleges, etc. want people to pigeonhole themselves and if you didn't study such-and-such field for a BA or BS or MA, then you can never learn or excel in that field - what utter crap! It's also part of the way they want to discriminate against people beyond a certain age, they want to force people into high amounts of debt for certain degrees that may or not pay off. Can you imagine these clowns forcing someone with IQs 50% higher than their own dictating whether or not someone can explore or excel in new fields or even make new discoveries at 40 or 50 or 80? Who are they? Leeches and tyrants that do nothing to unleash human potential but merely look for the next dollar or look for ways to crush their fellow Americans. How's that for noble?
Wouldn't that be nice, to ability to sue a representative for fraud when they break an explicit campaign promise?
These days one can self-teach so extensively and university costs are through the roof. Take textbooks. One can find earlier edition textbooks for as low as a $1 (this site links extensively to Abe Books for that reason!) yet to take a course for credit, you're looking at $300+ per book, that's ridiculous. Then, tuition is absurd when so often courses are 1. listen to lecture 2. do homework 3. take three exams 4. labs
Labs are the most useful and probably should really cost and so should TA, help, the people helping, teaching. Yet the lectures, the books, the tests, all of it can be and should be done on one's own.
At this point I think there should be online something that allows one to just prove their mastery of a topic with a "you have mastered this topic" only "grade" that has a lot of security integrated so we know the person who mastered topic x, really is person y and they really did work z and did not lift it from others (very common in technical tests including interviews!)
As in award a degree, give credibility to such a system and let it replace or be equal to traditional college degrees.
Higher education at this point is diverging from mastery and knowledge of the subject at hand.
BTW: Many libraries pay licenses to various Academic Journals and so on so one can often get copies of research that way. But paying $10/$20/$30 for each paper is obscene! If one is doing a literature review, one might read over 50 articles and papers. That's absurd.
This anonymous hacker group is fascinating. I disagree 100% with them that DDoS is a form of protest, that's a cybersecurity major threat in my view. That said, I am most amused when they hack up sites and put up "protest signs" on them and change corporate sites and so on to say what they are really about, go grab other stuff to expose x.
A hell of lot of it has been pretty effective and frankly am kind of glad they picked up on the arrest and "crime" and said something for when I first read the news, I just stared at that one sentence about his arrest, history and paused for a very long time, in a kind of knowing way that was probably the thing which pushed him over the edge. Corporate tech culture is so soul numbing, really kill the spirit of someone, their creativity, ability to innovate.
Oh, there's something special about schools that just can never seem to find the money they need and now look to the plutocrats for even more $. I know people enjoy the phone calls for cash for years (apparently until a grad dies of old age) after graduation. Seriously, the $40,000 - $60,000 these bastards demand in tuition and endless fees just aren't enough? Some professors are pulling in $200,000, in addition to BS lucrative "consulting" gigs they get. Administrators often pull in much, much more. Isn't one of these "non-profits" Presidents from Columbia now sitting on the Board of the NY Fed? Do many of these clowns serve in our govt. then return to "academia" or work in finance? They know all about raking in big cash, teaching maybe a few hours per week (recycling the same materials), exploiting PhD students to do the bulk of the teaching, and go off like they came up with the theory of relativity. Charlatans getting rich for jacksh*t.
But apparently that's not enough nowadays. Nope, the beast demands even more $. So they are willing to sell what little integrity these schools have and name everything possible after donors and submit the actual curriculum to corporate (some private corporations based out of Kansas, hint hint)approval. Do you think they will be teaching critical thought? Issues about kleptocracy in Russia and here? Why do you think they hate liberal arts so much (even though they are so thickheaded they don't realize they are also bashing math and science because those are also classic "liberal arts). Because they want non-thinking, non-questioning drones. And if those drones are heavily in debt getting the "education" the plutocratic masters demand they get to line up jobs, and those jobs are only good for Job [fill-in-the-blank] with Plutocratic Corporation #1, those drones will certainly not cause problems for the corporation because their livelihood and future welfare depends on them getting that one job and keeping it. And if the plutocrats decide that drone is too expensive working for $2/hr., oh well, they'll replace him anyway with a robot or a Chinese prisoner. And what does the heavily in debt drone that has no other education other than cog work do? Well, our government, "non-profit" schools, and plutocrats don't care, so don't ask them. Again, Jefferson knew all about this and thought long and hard about not just setting up UVA, but about the need and importance of all public education. The irony is his views on public education won't be taught in public schools. Again, how far these scoundrels have taken us. We haven't fallen, because I know most of us did everything right. Nope, we were taken here.
And as for other news, watch US involvement in Mali. This is yet another foreign adventure that we will sink money into while fellow Americans are dying from homelessness and joblessness here and our recent foreign interventions haven't gone cheaply or according to plan. 28 million unemployed, many many long-term, politicians everywhere talking about the debt and making our lives even tougher, but both sides of the political aisle can't seem to stop spending money on foreign interventions. It's a big world with tens of thousands of issues and problems. Billions of people hate each other. So watch as our govt. and lobbyists constantly find another conflict to spend our money on (that we borrow from China to spend and we never benefit from). Eisenhower, a man who knew plenty about the govt. and military, knew what he was talking about. Mali is twice the size of Texas and about twice the size of Afghanistan. Yet watch the MSM and listen to politicians as they discuss sending support to the French there and supporting ECOWAS troops (who are reluctant to send even hundreds of troops to a country that size that borders them).
Whenever the govt. and lobbyists through the media want our $, they always mention Al-Qaeda. Islamists are also in Nigeria, the Philippines, Indonesia, Somalia (and operate in Kenya), Uganda, Chechnya, Yemen, places we are in or recently left, etc., etc. Where does it end for us and intervening? Why again don't the banksters that launder money for terrorists sit in prison in the US again after admitting their crimes? Why don't the MSM and politicians criticize the banksters that help arm terrorists? Oh, they are above the law and work with the govt. too, I forgot. Yes, Al-Qaeda has a presence in Mali. But there was a coup originally from a minority in the North. That coup was supplanted by more powerful Islamists. And that's where we are now. Toss in the usual corruption and ethnic hatred in many countries and of course civil wars will become inevitable and might even spread across regional borders - do we need to get involved in every single one? Really, at this time, do we need to spend more money overseas anywhere? So predictable, so predictable. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, now Mali? Really, Mali? It's endless. Well, more money we'll never see. Any time they want to spend our money that we borrow, they will and do it right quick. As far as keeping American jobs here and helping Americans financially and creating JOBS, nope, no help there and it's endless talk for decades. So tell me, who does this govt. serve?
for non performance?
You'd think that the people should have some recourse for removing a politician who lied to get elected and then didn't perform as promised.
Like this DINO in the White House!
Ran into some major snags over the weekend, but hopefully this can be done and over with soon. In the final stages. What I get for trying to cut corners. ;)
If you had to hunt the nation high and low to find a worse person than Turbo-tax Timmy, you’d eventually turn over a rock and find Lew peeping up at you.
The Treasury and Federal Reserve just announced they will not mint and accept a $1 trillion coin, or platinum coin to deal with the debt ceiling. Basically they are saying to the GOP, go ahead and default.
its just more of the venetian/medici republic finance structure and agenda, WAKE UP folks and see this for what is really happening, ,.... nothing will happen to change it untill someone comes looking to collect on their debts, ...... and that's going to be a very BAD thing !!!! right now,it doesn't think anyone can do anything about it,which is why it keeps doing it, it believes 100 % that there is no one who can do anything about it, only to find suddenly,it OWE'S someone else,........ who can !!!!!$$$$$$??? !!!!!
And since there are already 3 or more people for every opening, should they just "try"?
That's about 26 million without a purpose other than to eat and go to the bathroom.
We can't have what we have now, much less anything new, no security as a nation if this continuing erosion of income and jobs continues.
Yet we are going further in the hole for every low-wage job that we are stuffing the recovery with, and no plan to do anything else.
We can't survive selling insurance and serving coffee to each other.
The middle of this crazy place is being eaten by the wealthy, those below are just kept alive to pay fees, most will never have an opportunity to get out of their hole.
And a relatively few wealthy tyrants, bankers, pimps, vermin - whatever one wishes to use - are taking, in large part, most of the income from everyone else and sticking it in their pocket.
http://www.nelp.org/page/-/Job_Creation/LowWageRecovery2012.pdf?nocdn=1
"I saved a thousand slaves. I could have saved a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves". H. Tubman
A couple hundred million people today are doing their dead level best to feed most of their income to a few at the top, like the Kanamits on the old Twilight Zone Episode "To Serve Man".
So the job, perhaps, is to get folks to realize they are on the menu...and figuring out how we compete and own the assets in the world of machines might be key.
thank you for that
Due to election 2012, plus the absolute pure insanity coming from so many in the GOP, people one again were hoodwinked into thinking Obama is for the people, or even a real Democrat, defined by helping U.S. labor and middle class. Not so, we're simply back to the same terrible agenda started by the Clinton administration, expanded by Bush. It's corporate lobbyists, financial sector demands and not even a global economic meltdown or massive sovereign debt will stop lobbyists and multinational corporations from controlling government.
To wit, I don't think the U.S. trade representative has been announced but you can bet that will be a corporate position, all to push TPP, the mother of disaster NAFTA style trade deals. I just wrote up this month's trade deficit overview and you can bet TPP will make the situation much worse. Beyond the dismantling of Glass-Stegall, I'd say trade agreements really show who is in charge for it anyone with half a brain was basing policy on statistics, they would be horrified at the never ending ballooning trade deficit and do something to stop it all.
Obama has been very good to corporations, passing bad trade deals which are starting to add to the trade deficit.
Actual policies to turn America around and become strong again aren't even mentioned anymore! We get these false choices in the pundit press, real solutions are buried because corporations, lobbyists do not want them.
Only brainwashed folks that need to spout the same lies for their salaries can say Glass-Steagall didn't prevent catastrophe. Investment banking/hedge funds/casinos/dice games in the back of a warehouse shouldn't be backstopped by taxpayers and share the same office space as my savings and checking accounts (ignoring the nonsense about "Chinese Walls" and compliance and "due diligence" that they still parrot but groupthink and bankster conformity + incentives make toothless). Betting trillions on derivatives they created but didn't even understand - how's that for sheer stupidity? And it still goes on. It's like kids stealing small pox samples to win a high school science competition but not knowing what it is or how to control it, collecting the prize, and then unleashing the disease without ever taking responsibility or being punished. These are the same people that claim NAFTA and "free trade" didn't send tens of millions of jobs overseas and is helping hollow out the country and endanger our national security. In fact, they are still creating and promoting even more country-destroying free trade agreements (like TPP). They can say whatever they want, doesn't make it true or make them any less culpable or more intelligent.
tells us he did not think deregulation caused the financial crisis, which is false.
I did not mention the trillion dollar coin, but that would be under the Treasury.
Bottom line, Obama is not a Progressive or Populist by any stretch so no surprise the Treasury secretary isn't either.
Lol - I was at OWS in NY. I am a 45 year old procedures analyst and I was accompanied by a 40-year-old Special Ed teacher from Danien, CT. I guess I'm a terrorist. I admit I can look pretty scary when i first wake up before showering and brushing my teethe, I fear we are going to get hit by REAL terrorists while we have our collective head up our butt in the United States.
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