With the attempt on Christmas Day to blow up an airliner in Detroit, Americans are now facing another question. Early reports are that the attempted bomber was trained and equipped in Yemen to carry out the attacks. This has led some "hawks" to immediately call for military action in Yemen, but is this the best course?? If America has learned anything in the past decade it should be that immediate, knee-jerk reactions most likely will fail.
Apparently many workers in China would -- for how much longer though is not entirely clear. You see the Chinese, want to make more, improve the Standard of Living for their families -- just like Americans and Europeans do.
8-12% Raises in Minimum Wages across China, in 2005!?
Apparently, Workers around the World, AREN'T Working just for the Fun of it!
This new trend toward leveling the the Global playing field, doesn't bode well for the Wal-Marts of the world, who rely on such "captured cheap labor markets" --
to remain quiet, dutiful, and
happy with a pittance.
Afterall Billions of Dollars (and Euros) are at stake -- those Foreign Workers must not upset that Apple cart.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities economists just confirmed the trends of the last 8 years -- Most of the the Economic Gains went to the very Wealthy, while the rest of us struggled to just get by
Two-thirds of the nation's total income gains from 2002 to 2007 flowed to the top 1 percent of U.S. households, and that top 1 percent held a larger share of income in 2007 than at any time since 1928, according to an analysis of newly released IRS data by economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez.
During those years, the Piketty-Saez data also show, the inflation adjusted income of the top 1 percent of households grew more than ten times faster than the income of the bottom 90 percent of households.
I'm just back from seeing Michael Moore's new movie, "Capitalism - A Love Story".
It was moving, funny, and educational, all rolled into one. It made me feel both, proud and sad, to be an American. ... but it's recommended viewing if you still want to take OUR Country back, from the Powers that Be.
There are many lessons to be learned from the film -- But the one that struck me, the one I'm motivated to write about now --
How to save $1.3 trillion a year, get healthcare reform, and lose weight doing it Michael Lemke, Special Interests Examiner - Sept 3, 2009
Ending the Bush tax cut for the top 1%would save $132 billion next year alone.
While the rich have been getting richer at a staggering rate both under Clinton and under Bush, the lower 80% of US households have been stagnating or getting poorer. We have reach the highest level of income inequality in US history, surpassing even the obscene levels of the late 1920s.
Well, that's one sure fire way to help pay for Health Care --
Repeal the Bush Give-Away to the Top 1%, or just let them sunset, as the legislation requires!
January 1, 2011, is one Sunset, that can't come soon enough!
Doctor Linda Peeno, a renown expert in the field of "Managed Care", explains to Congress the dirty little secrets behind the Business of Health Care Denial:
THE REAL DEATH PANELS: Insurance Companies That Deny Care
In the spring of 1987, as a Physician, I denied a man a necessary operation, that would have saved his life. And thus caused his death. And I'm haunted by the thousands of pieces of paper, on which I have written that deadly word: Denied.
When Jesus heard that, he said to them, "Healthy people don't need a doctor; those who are sick do. I've come to call sinners, not people who think they have God's approval."
(emphasis added)
GOP Health Care Obstructionists, are you Listening???
The Pharisees, thought they were doing God's work too.
Imagine their surprise when this upstart Carpenter, from the old neighborhood, dared to stand up to their blatant self-righteousness ... and dish back to them some cold, hard truth ...
Left to their own devices, Private Interests will UNDERCUT the Public Interest, most every time!
That's what the Profit Motive is all about -- it cares more about the interests of ME, instead of the well-being of the WE, from which Societies are built.
Way back in March of 2009, Rachel explained the "Highway Robbery" which happened on Wall Street, using a few simple word-pictures. (ie. simple Frames). These perhaps deserve a quick review ...
