What do wages, workers, unions, the Middle Class, revenue, and American corporations all share?

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Sunday March 06, 2011 · 11:26 AM PST

2011/03/06 · 11:26

The average American worker has been besieged on so many fronts: governors' attacks on unions, corporate down-sizing, out-sourcing, tax-breaks for corporations that invest overseas, American "Brand Names" creating jobs outside the USA and not at home, low-wage jobs replacing high-wage jobs. Is it any wonder why our economy is in decline? Our jobs have vanished in this assault on the Middle Class while corporate profits are up astronomically. Our personal and public debt are up astronomically while REVENUES are vanishing! Our economic picture is topsy-turvy. Lost jobs mean lost income and lost REVENUE. As Robert Reich argues, until we right the wrong of our 30-year assault on UNIONS, WAGES, REVENUE, and THE MIDDLE CLASS--since the presidency that brought us the disastrous "trickle down" Reagan Revolution--nothing will change. The only thing that has trickled down to WORKERS, UNIONS, and MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS is poison. Economic death. The creme and the froth have ascended to the very top. Our debt is a function of Corporate Greed. We used to say, "What's good for General Motors is good for America." We saved GM. It's time to save America.

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What do wages, workers, unions, the Middle Class, revenue, and American corporations all share?

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What do wages, workers, unions, the Middle Class, revenue, and American corporations all share?

30 years of the Reagan Revolution

2 votes

massive de-reguation of American businesses

0 votes

the immense growth of multinational corporations

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the decline in union membership

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the decline in Revenue

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the growth in personal and public debt to maintain a standard of living that could not be supported by STAGNANT Middle Class wages

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Corporate greed

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placing corporate profit above civic responsibility

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amnesia that UNIONS built THE MIDDLE CLASS

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Reagan Democrats ignoring that without UNIONS, there'd be no Levitowns, no suburban America

1 vote

Since this could go on forever, let's just say, ALL OF THE ABOVE

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Bring Back Union America: Level up, not down.

Domenic

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Thursday February 17, 2011 · 8:11 PM PST

2011/02/17 · 20:11

Bring back unions! Yes! Until we do so, conservative, Republican corporatism will continue to undermine our democracy. Let’s level up, not down. Talk about Toyota autoworkers down south who work for less than GM workers in the North makes me say LEVEL UP, NOT DOWN.

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Raising Revenue, Rather Than Raising Hell

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Sunday January 23, 2011 · 7:04 PM PST

2011/01/23 · 19:04

Nobody talks about RAISING REVENUE. Why? Bank robber Willie Sutton, when asked why he robbed banks, famously--or apocraphyly--said, because that’s where the money is. I ask you: WHERE IS THE MONEY TODAY? If you say, in the BANK ACCOUNTS of the top one- or two- or three-percent of AMERICANS, then you’ve got your answer.

Domenic

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Friday January 21, 2011 · 10:05 PM PST

2011/01/21 · 22:05

MSNBC: You blew it.

Keith Olbermann was the cornerstone of everything that made MSNBC great. If executives at MSNBC felt threatened by Keith, they should have. He has more on the ball than they do. I hope that MSNBC does not fail or collapse as the only voice for Reason vs. the non-news Fox News Network. Somebody has screwed up big-time in terminating Keith. The decision was dumb, short-sighted, and repugnant.

Yet, I hope it does not bring down the network. Unless there's no place in Cable TV for an intelligent voice in the face of Fox non-News. If others in your prime time lineup begin to leave, you will have given us your answer, and we will turn to other venues for news.

MSNBC will have died.

Domenic

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Monday January 10, 2011 · 12:44 PM PST

2011/01/10 · 12:44

On 15th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, Bill Clinton said,

"There’s this vast echo chamber and they go across space and they fall on the serious and delirious alike, they fall on the connected and the unhinged alike."

Domenic

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Wednesday December 29, 2010 · 9:39 PM PST

2010/12/29 · 21:39

Only idiots and ignoramuses are opposed to "clean air" and the EPA. Am I mistaken, or did a Republican president, Richard M. Nixon, create the EPA by Executive Order?

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Monday October 08, 2007 · 5:25 PM PDT

2007/10/08 · 17:25

Dear Guys,

"Hate government; love power. That ought to be the New Republican motto. At least, it'd be honest." --Domenic

I like that Paul Krugman finishes his New York Times article saying,

"So once again, if you're poor or you're sick or you don't have health insurance, remember this: these people think your problems are funny."

Conservatives Are such Jokers

Paul Krugman
Op-Ed
New York Times
Oct. 5, 2007

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Tuesday April 24, 2007 · 5:36 PM PDT

2007/04/24 · 17:36

If the president thinks he can talk to Charlie Rose, I say let him. Jon Stewart's The Early Show is next, I guess. Or Leno. They'd do a better job.

Charlie's not popular because he makes his guests feel uncomfortable, or because he challenges them when they are criminal bozos. So don't expect a smidgen of news to emanate from this interview.

Will Karl Rove be in the wings, under the table, or stuck in Dubya's ear by wireless telepathy?

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Saturday December 09, 2006 · 12:33 PM PST

2006/12/09 · 12:33

R. M. Nixon, arguably our most-DISGRACED president, happened to be a Republican. Just happened to be, I'm sure. G.W. Bush, arguably our DUMBEST "cowboy"-inspired president, also happens to be a Republican? Is it a coincidence of SUPERLATIVES? Or is it a sign of something else? Is there a dark pattern lurking here?

That is very in-ter-rest-ing, Herr Schicklgruber. Now, tell me something I don’t know. Apparently, Republican Orthodoxy places an inordinately high value on SUPERLATIVE presidents. No? To the contrary, Thomas. Yes.

Yes, W. may be our WORST president (no pun intended), and, while that distinction may be debatable, it is NOT debatable that he is our DUMBEST "cowboy"-inspired president. No?

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Friday November 24, 2006 · 3:44 AM PST

2006/11/24 · 03:44

Take a look at G.W. Bush in View Nam last week. Has that man learned nothing about our miserable history there? Does nothing make political sense to him? Hell! We lost the war, George, but we won the peace. Is China our enemy? Japan was, no? Germany? Where are these nations today on our political spectrum?

Out of Iraq TODAY does not mean we've lost TOMORROW.

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Sunday November 19, 2006 · 8:51 AM PST

2006/11/19 · 08:51

ABSTRACT

August 16, 2006

Let us first understand that Iraq is a FAILED geo-political construct of Great Britain.

To effect a division of iraq into three independent states, we should propose that every nation in the Middle East convene to create and support a NATO-like alliance, a Middle-Eastern Treaty Alliance (META), one which does indeed go "beyond" anything previously imagined.

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Sunday November 12, 2006 · 6:07 PM PST

2006/11/12 · 18:07

Once we stop to think of the enormity of Bush's decision TO TAKE US TO WAR (no small decision), once we THINK of just how much FOUR BILLION DOLLARS PER MONTH ($4,000,000,000.00) can buy, we just might begin to say: ENOUGH! Roughly, it comes to about $13.33 per month for each and every U.S. citizen. Or $160.00 per year for each and every man, woman, and child in the United States of America (300,000,000). When we multiply this by the average U.S. family size, 3.86 persons, the dollars begin to add up. How does $617.60 per family per year sound to you? THAT'S THE COST OF THE WAR? Yes! That's what four billion dollars [$4 Billion] per month comes to for each and every American family. Has the Iraq war been going on, say, for at least 3 years AND have we spent that much every year? I don't know, but if we have, then 3 years adds up to a tidy sum of $1,852.80 per family. Read More

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What's $4 Billion spent in Iraq every month come to per family? Only $617.60 per year.