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you mean not starving and having basic needs taken care of is now middle class?? Well guess so, or do you just mean that meme that is always going around of seeing someone with an ebt card getting lobster and steaks while your on line with mac n cheese and your luxury item is a piece of cod fish?
Kind of like Reagan..."ketchup is a vegetable" how pathetic and out of touch the GOP is.
The have and the have mores, nation and human life be damned.
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get rid of corrupt media and lobbyists.
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Prof Richard Wolff on Why the middle class is decimated, and billionaires who wants this to happen:
Richard Wolff’s latest book Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalismaddresses the transition from now to an alternative non-capitalistic society, with the primary focus on the now. Wolff has written the book for an American audience and specifically U.S. institutional change. However, its general principles are applicable to all capitalistic societies. Essentially, Wolff argues capitalistic workplaces should begin to be democratized by means of creating and instituting Worker Self-Directed Enterprises (WSDEs). The current moment is ripe for such an effort, first, because citizens are eager and receptive for alternatives to the worker unfriendly, low pay, benefit impoverished, and undemocratic workplaces most of us are currently enduring. Second, there are still millions of American workers cyclically unemployed from the financial collapse of 2007-8. Third, citizens remain angry about the lack of ‘main-street’ level ‘bailouts’ and there is a sense that the system is rigged against the workers and rigged in favor of a narrow elite (also see 169-79).
[LEFT] Wolff’s book is divided into three parts and eleven chapters, an introduction, and very brief conclusion. Part One explains the instability of capitalist societies, uneven development, and tendency for crisis and financial collapse, with the collapse of 2007-8 merely the most recent. Part Two explains that state-form capitalisms (e.g. Soviet, China, etc.) are partial alternatives at best. They successfully changed the macro-political management of economic production. However, Wolff argues in addition to changing macro-political management, the micro internal organization and management of individual productive enterprises need democratization. Part Three is the heart, and lengthiest section, of the book. Part Three presents in great detail the possibility for, and the how-to of, creating and instituting “Worker Self-Directed Enterprises” (WSDEs) within a capitalistic society and the impact and consequences they would have on the systemic dynamic of a capitalistic political economy, the change of behavior and incentives for workers and managers, and the transformation of cognition with respect to the conception of real-world alternatives to the undemocratic totalitarian capitalist workplaces and the political empowerment of citizens, community, and workers.
Wolff is under no illusion that WSDEs will end workers’ struggles. Analogous to the end of slavery, ex-slaves still had economic and political problems. Ex-slaves no longer struggled over being the property of a slave-master, but other forms of exploitation, oppression, and racism persisted (182). The nineteenth century emancipation proclamation shifted the grounds of the struggles; institutions transformed and power-relations shifted. Similarly, Wolff believes that WSDEs will transform the political and economic grounds of worker struggles. WSDEs will be an extension of democracy and a shift of the power-relations that govern society.[/LEFT]
will he add unions to the list? if not, he is a hypocrite ...
Kind of like Reagan..."ketchup is a vegetable" how pathetic and out of touch the GOP is.
The have and the have mores, nation and human life be damned.
DISGUSTING.
Only because you choose to see it that way. The other way to look at it is that you are disgusting for creating multigenerational poverty. You've doomed thousands upon thousands of children to a life of degradation and poor self esteem with constantly drilling victimhood into their heads. Instead of growing up with a can-do attitude, studying hard, and wanting the best out of life they grow up with liberals telling them that rampant racism is going to prevent them from accomplishing anything life, that everyone around them thinks they are subhuman, the the world is full of rich selfish people trying to exploit them. In your quest for more votes for the Democrat party you're causing untold amounts of suffering. And to top it all off, you have the unmitigated nerve to think of yourself as compassionate and valuing equality. You want to talk about digusting? That's what's disgusting.
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Karma may bring out the truth.
You better hope it doesn't. After Benghazi, the IRS, the recess appointments, the changing of the Senate rules, the stimulus, Obamacare, etc the last thing any liberal should ever want is karma. Liberals have built up a store of bad karma the size of Mount Everest.
Only a maniacal tyrant would want to replace the corporate oligarchy with a fair and just society!
Really! Are people totally blind? Eric Cantor walks out of Congress right into an investment bank where he will make a ton of money and be able to hook up his employers with everyone in Washington DC. It is disgusting and reprehensible that it is legal for anyone to do this.
These guys are virtually turning this country into an oligarchy and yet people are calling Bernie Sanders a "maniacal tyrant?" Odd that they are totally silent about Cantor and his ilk being allowed to collaborate with Wall Street. Unbelievable. They don't even see they are being had.
"A New York Times exposé reveals more than a dozen prominent Washington research groups have received tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments in recent years while pushing United States government officials. Some scholars funded by the think tanks say they faced pressure to reach conclusions friendly to the government financing their work. The groups named in the report include the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Atlantic Council, and most of the money comes from countries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, including the oil-producing nations of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Norway. Few of them have registered with the Justice Department as "foreign agents" that aim to shape policy, as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act. We are joined by Brooke Williams, a contributing reporter at The New York Times who co-wrote the new article, "Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks."
They use a blender, but discard the pulp, which they regard as impurity.
They kill their mitochondria.
They believe that Jesus drank wine for its purity.
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