"Then tell us why we are all unemployed and underemployed?"
"Because there's no money in putting you back to work and giving those already employed a fair wage with benefits. There is more money sending your jobs overseas while waving the American flag under the pretense of the Fair Trade Act. We're all fucked, that is, unless you all get mad.
The only thing that anything is going to change is if we, the middle class change it. The only way we can change anything is to band together, get out there and vote for who have our best interests, protest what's unfair, and boycott against those who are taking advantage of us.
"So, who's with me? C'mon. Everyone get up. Let's go. Hello? Anyone? Where'd everyone go? Oh, that's right, I forgot. The Super Bowl is being televised. What the Hell? I'll protest and boycott later, after the game, actually, after American Idol too. Actually, by the time American Idol votes for their winner, the Red Sox will be playing baseball. I'll protest after the Red Sox win the World Series again. I wonder if I can afford to buy the MLB baseball package this year."
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Yes, we have to band together, but what do we do then?
Susan, great essay.
You need to look at Modern Money Theory to see what we need to do.
The understand all you have to do is --
1] Open your mind, but be careful that everything doesn't leak out.
2] google MMT with Prof. Wray.
3] Read what you find there.
4] Remember even 1 false premis in a proof makes the proof useless, and economists never copy Euclid [think plane geometry] and list all their assumptions up front for everyone to see. They do this because some of them are obviously false, so their proofs are useless.
I fled the country and live on Soc. Sec. in SE Asia. I swam up streem from 1970 to 2014 and I ended up much further down stream than when I started. Meaning I saw it happening but could not stop the crushing of the American MiddleCclass. It is up to younger people now.more...
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No it isn't all money. It is the rich buying the government and the combination using POWER generated by money to erode freedom. 9/11 is being used as a tool to hold formerly free people hostage to what is called conservatism, but is really the use of force. The latest proposed changes to the internet will make it a tool of propagandists and not free discource.
I saw 1984 in 1969 when Army Intelligence hid out in a Navy medical clinic to infiltrate peaceful demonstrators opposing a war that killed over fifty thousand Americans and millions of Vietnamese in a war that gained nothing for either side. South Vietnam was corrupt and did not warrant the support given by the US government. I saw South Vietnamese troops who were small and thin while the officers were tall and bulky.
Things have not reversed. They are worse.
I fear that if we don't stop what we are doing soon we will be on the ash heap of history just like the Romans. And our leaders ride rough shod over the rest of the world, the retaliation will make 9/11 seem insignificant.more...
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