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What has happened to this country…
You’ve all seen them. Various bumper stickers denigrating socialism, health care reform, anything supposedly Liberal.
There does not seem to be a whole lot of ones out there of the other ilk. How about coming up with a few?
I’ll start it off.
Capitalism: Where 10% of the people have 65% of the wealth.
Capitalism: Have you checked your 401k lately.
I love how Korporations manage MY health care.
Canada could teach US about citizen centered government
Some of us get to the fork in the road, see the sign that advises that the bridge is out ahead, and take that fork anyway. All of us make some bad choices or decisions. Some of us make more than others.
My brother has probably made more than many. One of those was to continue smoking in the face of all the evidence of its harmfulness. Another was choosing to work jobs that did not require urinalysis as part of the employment screening process.
Don’t get me wrong, my brother is a hard worker. He is a conscientious worker, and he prides himself in doing a good job. He does not partake of substances illegal or otherwise during working hours. Continue reading “Health Care System Forces Bad Decisions”
Here is the link to the article in the Wall Street Journal Saving Mexico
I’m not a big fan of drugs. I’ve seen them ruin too many lives. I’m also not a big fan of keeping drugs illegal. That is also wrecking too many lives. Add to that the amount of energy and resources being wasted enforcing the criminalization and it equals crazy. The energy/resources could be better used elsewhere.
We tried alcohol prohibition and that did not work. It created vast criminal enterprises. It is the same with drugs. I appreciate that there is a moral argument here. Continue reading “Objective should be to make the U.S. self-sufficient in marijuana”
Here is another reason I worry about this country. These folks are dangerous and harmful to this country. If they believe what they say, they have serious mental problems. My belief is that they do for the ratings which is really for the money that ends up in their pockets, or to put it succinctly GREED. And it is greed is what has driven this country to the brink of economic depression.
This not sane, considered debate about policies and the direction this country needs to take. It is rabble rousing and propaganda for profit. And if that is love of country I am a 3 eyed Martian.
Have you been in a truck stop or Interstate travel center lately? Anymore these places have TVs all over the place, and they are almost always tuned to FOX News. I worry deeply for this country.
I have taken a more circuitous educational path than most folks. My career road has perhaps been even more tortured. Now factor in that I have lived in ten states and one foreign country. One of the advantages of such meanderings is that I have studied in several different fields, seen many types of jobs and industries, and I have been exposed to a wide range of people.
I do not see myself as atypical, but sometimes I wonder. I work in a technical field, computer programming. Most of the folks I work with are college educated, and many are very smart. What does surprise me is the narrowness of their knowledge and world view. The folks discussed below are smart and successful in their fields, but the following anecdotes do illustrate my point.
I have an Indian co-worker that related to me a story about his birthday which is on the same day as Mohandas Gandhi. Continue reading “Undereducated / Uneducated Americans”
I don’t like this man. And at the same time I sometimes feel like we see racism where it ain’t.
Howard Cosell (not old enough to remember who this is?) lost his job over a “monkey” remark.
I can see this clip as racist, or given my opionion of Washington in general I can see it as a statement of the reality of the place.
What do you think?
This man can dissemble with the best of them. I could make some more comments, but watch the video. He pretty much makes an idiot of himself. It is so sad to think that FOX is the number 1 cable news outlet, and this jerk has the most popular show on that propaganda machine.
I pledge allegiance to the registered trade mark
Of the United Corporations of America
And to the greed for which it stands
One conglomerate under Adam Smith
Outsourced, with excessive profit
And power for an chosen few
Just in case you cannot read the graph which is data on wealth distribution in the USA from 2003.
The top 1% have 25% of the wealth in the USA
The top 5% have 50.7%
The top 10% have 62.9%.
That leaves 90% of us fighting over 37.1% of the pie.
The only country with a worse mal-distribution of wealth is Mexico.
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“Wealth is a person’s net worth, expressed as:
wealth = assets – liabilities
The word “wealth” is often confused with “income”. These two terms describe different but related things.”
“A study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research at United Nations University reports that the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000, and that the richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world total. The bottom half of the world adult population owned barely 1% of global wealth… Moreover, another study found that the richest 2% own more than half of global household assets.”
Source for above – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth
As Shakespeare so nicely put it, “There is something rotten in Denmark.”
Since you landed on this page this is an issue that probably concerns you. Question is now what are you going to do about it?