tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post4288087444847696695..comments2024-03-06T04:35:38.806-06:00Comments on Disaffected and it Feels So Good: Allow me to be Blunt, Roy; Republicans want you to Work until you DieGrung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-13567836782682922702014-02-13T16:10:50.599-06:002014-02-13T16:10:50.599-06:00Dervish, don't pay any mind to Andrew he comes...Dervish, don't pay any mind to Andrew he comes by occasionally to fling feces and crap all over poor people. But, Republicans are lowering the retirement age by hoping to undercut American life expectancy and hoping more people work until they die.<br /><br />And Philo V is spot on about Nations with "strong unions and social democratic traditions" it's why Germany is an economic powerhouse after being devastated economically in WWI and physically in WWII.Grung_e_Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-78303364559155169362014-02-13T15:17:35.831-06:002014-02-13T15:17:35.831-06:00"Nations with strong unions and strong social...<i>"Nations with strong unions and strong social democratic traditions provide ordinary people a bigger slice of the pie throughout their lives"</i><br /><br />I am in agreement as well. As for the "bullshit" comment above, people can't save for retirement when they're barely making enough to get by. Unions ensure workers get their fair share. But the plutocrats want this money for themselves, and oppose unionization for that reason.<br /><br />If the plutocrats paid workers more they'd spend that money into the economy... and the economy would grow (and everyone would benefit). But their sickness (love of money) prevents them from seeing this.<br /><br />We should be talking about <a href="http://billmoyers.com/2013/11/11/dont-cut-lower-the-retirement-age-and-open-up-more-jobs/" rel="nofollow">lowering the retirement age</a>, not raising it.Dervish Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13671865801885224353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-78562567145980596542014-02-12T13:32:50.871-06:002014-02-12T13:32:50.871-06:00"Nations with strong unions and strong social..."Nations with strong unions and strong social democratic traditions provide ordinary people a bigger slice of the pie throughout their lives"<br /><br />Exactly Philo! Nicely stated, this is why Tennessee Republicans and the odious Grover Norquist are tearing their hair out and threatening Workers and Volkswagen over the UAW unionizing the auto workers in Tenn.<br /><br />When workers unionize their increase their standard of living and pass on a chance for their children to escape Corporate Bondage and that is something Conservatives hate. <br /><br />Conservatives love Wage Slavery.Grung_e_Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-49434186522481556402014-02-12T10:49:01.732-06:002014-02-12T10:49:01.732-06:00Nations with strong unions and strong social democ...Nations with strong unions and strong social democratic traditions provide ordinary people a bigger slice of the pie throughout their lives, during which they work fewer hours and retire earlier and better off than Americans.<br /><br />Oh, and either the government sets the minimum wage with a view to protecting the most vulnerable or the employers set the minimum with a view to exploiting the most vulnerable as much as possible.<br /><br />I prefer option 1.Philo Vaihingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150326435392881297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-44750597343421261562014-02-12T01:04:51.573-06:002014-02-12T01:04:51.573-06:00Bullshit. Put together a retirement plan and reti...Bullshit. Put together a retirement plan and retire like you planned.<br /><br />If on the other hand you banked your retirement on a local municipality that bankrupted itself hiring overpaid administrators you done fucked up. Now you've got to deal with it so quit your bitching.Andrew Acistahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18033321821557878384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-69858165681848155102014-02-12T00:57:22.374-06:002014-02-12T00:57:22.374-06:00Lots of people are willing to work for minimum wag...Lots of people are willing to work for minimum wages. Many more people will not work for the minimum wage. That is the line that separates the earners from the moochers. If you can make wages above the minimum wage why care about the minimum wage. <br /><br />Minimum wage jobs are the jobs we get when we can't go any lower adn should just give up and go on welfare.Andrew Acistahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18033321821557878384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-24660039090162005002014-02-11T12:39:36.780-06:002014-02-11T12:39:36.780-06:00yellow fringe, Kulkuri, Philo V
Over 30 years ago...yellow fringe, Kulkuri, Philo V<br /><br />Over 30 years ago Capitalists decided that American Workers were too costly so they began the Long March to demolish the Middle Class and the Rising Standard of Living Americans had enjoyed throughout the Nations history.<br /><br />At times they employ various tactics, but throughout it all they've tasked their hired Toadies, the Republican Party and "Pro-Business" Democrats, to undermine labor and accelerate wealth inequality.<br /><br />For years many Americans ignored this because brutal Capitalism was something that happened to Third World Nations.<br /><br />Well, the Koch Brothers, BP, Boeing and UBS have no allegiance to the US, they treat Americans the same way they treat Nigerians, Central Africans, Indonesians, Iraqis, Filipinos, Australians, Mexicans et al, as a disposable asset to be used up, ground down and discarded when ever the worker gets to strong a voice or gets sick, old, or injured.Grung_e_Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-30165832761976700302014-02-11T12:11:23.674-06:002014-02-11T12:11:23.674-06:00Hence their attack on unemployment and their rejec...Hence their attack on unemployment and their rejection of any Keynesian or other approach to stimulating the economy.<br /><br />Increased demand would push up wage rates to and possibly beyond the point at which an unemployed worker could return to work with an income equal to the one he lost when he got forced out of his job.<br /><br />They want everybody to return to work for much, much less.<br /><br />For them, an economy of dropping wage levels, rising productivity, and rising employment = rising profits, wealth, and income for the fewer than 1%.<br /><br />We work more to produce more for them, and less for us, in other words.<br /><br />Got it?Philo Vaihingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150326435392881297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-12210624060873218552014-02-11T09:03:04.600-06:002014-02-11T09:03:04.600-06:00They don't care about people, just property if...They don't care about people, just property if that property is owned by the right people.Kulkurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09198195648066700925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-76277889848286617002014-02-11T08:30:43.018-06:002014-02-11T08:30:43.018-06:00Wages have been flat for so long, you've all s...Wages have been flat for so long, you've all seen the numbers, the actual buying power of earnings has gone down. Very few families are able to get by on one income without some aid from family members or other sources. In fact when two incomes are required you have a greater chance of financial failure. Two times the chance for the family income to be cut short due to the employer, economy, health or ability of wage earner, any number of reasons. This often leads to taking a job less than perfect in order to have what ever income can be had. This of course is to the benefit of the job creator. the yellow fringehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00003652058436636394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-78036952757178515712014-02-10T22:24:02.923-06:002014-02-10T22:24:02.923-06:00People are now free "to accept jobs at whatev...People are now free "to accept jobs at whatever pay they were able to get."Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-80246732984748129082014-02-10T20:08:56.517-06:002014-02-10T20:08:56.517-06:00"Eliminate the minimum wage law, then individ..."Eliminate the minimum wage law, then individuals would be free to accept jobs at whatever pay they were able to get." Peter SchiffGrung_e_Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-12355403309587472452014-02-10T19:39:41.655-06:002014-02-10T19:39:41.655-06:00Absolutely, G_e_G. Employees are an expense, some...Absolutely, G_e_G. Employees are an expense, something to be minimized, marginalized, and neutralized. They would make them work for free if they could.Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-53428888613717168742014-02-10T18:55:02.081-06:002014-02-10T18:55:02.081-06:00Sure, Jerry that's the other half of the equat...Sure, Jerry that's the other half of the equation.<br /><br />The Koch Brothers, Papa Johns, Tim Armstrong of AOL and other CEOs don't see workers as valued employees but as an unnecessary expense. Thus they've been using the political power they've bought to drive wages to the bottom.Grung_e_Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-1648931598427055612014-02-10T18:21:57.714-06:002014-02-10T18:21:57.714-06:00They want you to work for poverty level wages so t...They want you to work for poverty level wages so that they can retire on money that should have gone to you.Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.com