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Growth so the lowest 5th of the population was improving about as much as the upper 5th. And there were some welfare state measures which improve life for much of the population it was for example possible for a. Black worker to get a decent job in an auto plant. Get a core of children go to school and so on and the same across the board. When the u. S. Was. Primarily a Manufacturing Center it had to be concerned with its own consumers here famously henry ford raised the salary of his workers who would be able to buy cars. When youre moving into an international plutonic a is the max like to call. Believe small percentage of the worlds population thats a gathering increasing wealth what happens to American Consumers that have much less concern because most of them arent going to be consuming your products anyway at least on a major basis. Your goals or profit in next quarter even it if its based on financial manipulation. High salary high bonuses produced overseas if you have to and produce for the a wealthy classes here and their counterparts abroad what about the rest well theres a term coming in to use for them to as theyre called the precariat. Precarious proletariat the working people of the world who live increasingly precarious lives. And its related to the attitude toward the country all together. During the period of great growth of the economy fiftys and sixtys but in fact earlier taxes on the wealthy were far higher corporate taxes were much higher taxes on dividends are much higher simply taxes on wealthier much rare the tax system has been redesigned a so that the taxes that are paid by the very wealthy are reduced and cursed ponderingly the tax burden on the rest of the populations increased. No the shift is towards trying to keep taxes adjust done and wages and on consumption which everyone has to do not say and dividends which i go to the rich. The numbers are pretty striking. Now theres a pretext of course theres always a pretext the pretext in this case is well that increases investment in increases jobs but there isnt any evidence for that if you want to increase investment give money to the poor and the working people they have to keep alive so they spend their incomes and that stimulates production stimulates investment that leads to job growth and so. If youre an ideologist for the masters you have a different line and in fact right now its almost absurd and corporations have money coming out of their pocket so in fact General Electric are paying 0 taxes and they have enormous profits lets take the profit somewhere else or go for it but not pay taxes and this is common. The major american corporations shift the burden of sustaining the society on to the rest of the population. Solidarity is quite dangerous from the point of view of the masters youre only supposed to care about yourself and not about other people this is quite different from the people they claim are their heroes like adam smith who based is whole approach to the economy on the principle that sympathy is a fundamental human trait but that has to be driven out of peoples heads gotta be for yourself father while maxon dont care about others which is ok for the rich and powerful but is devastating for everyone else. Going to take a whole lot of effort to try to drive these basic Human Emotions out of peoples heads. And we see it today in policy formation for example in the attack on Social Security. Social security is based on a principle its based on a principle of solidarity saw bury it in caring for others. A Social Security means i pay payroll taxes so that the widow across town can get something to live on. With fred much of the population thats with this of iowa. Its of no use to the very rich a so therefore theres a concerted attempt to destroy it. And one of the ways is defunding it you want to destroy some system 1st defund it. Then it will work people be angry they want Something Else thats a standard technique for. Private eyes exam system. We see it in the attack on public schools. Public schools are based on the principle of solidarity. I no longer have children in school or grown up but the principle of solidarity says i happily pay taxes so that the kid across the street can go to school thats normal Human Emotion that it dries it out of peoples heads i dont have kids in school why should i pay taxes privatized it so on. The Public Education system all the way from kindergarten to Higher Education is under severe attack i mean thats one of the jewels of americans say. Go back to the golden age again the great chris period fiftys and sixtys a lot of that is based on free Public Education and one of the results of the 2nd world war was the g. I. Bill right which enabled veterans remember thats a large part of the population and to go to college they would have been able to otherwise the century got Free Education where a communitys date or nation regularly invest a substantial share of that resource in education the investment invariably it returned in Better Business and a higher standard of living u. S. Was way in the lead in developing extensive mass Public Education at every level. But now more than half the states most of the funding for the colleges comes from tuitions not from the state thats a radical change and thats a terrible burden on students and it means that students if they dont come from very wealthy families theyre going to leave college with big debts and few of the dead youre trapped i mean maybe you wanted to become a Public Interest lawyer but youre going to have to go into a Corporate Law firm a tip. You know if those dead by the time youre part of the culture you know youre not going to get out of it if you truly cross the border. With this manufactured consent to step into the public will. When the right wing closest to protect themselves. With the flaming. Lips and be the one percent. To ignore middle routes to. The real news is. Happy countries for thats part of its a poor while the country a sum of all that youve got. Stock markets that are owned by just call time percent of the population most of us. And there are what ill say is more and its a condition that poor americans dont want to cop to targeted for but the fact is now youve got 150000000 more people america. This is a storm. About what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. What happens to her family and daughters in florida you know the mother daughter is. Very it is meaningless is it with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the Police Needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on him and what happens in court be. Shocked shocked as far as i feel. We dont know children just brutal. And in this trial unfortunately due to the will still love no chill just. A few will not obey the voice of the lord your god will be careful to do all these commandments and. In all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. And then the white people the stolen property and therefore it must be returned to black people if they get rid of whites only problems will go away. The final to do with and the. President of the free the whole. Wide fall is in. Every single day. People being tortured to death expression the elderly people in the dome. But he. And his wife also find themselves. In. Point of one defect teens and preteens out all sweats and a lot of. What are you going to have for dinner. Through the feeling if anything im asking from him i mean bad bill for civil war in south africa is inevitable. On good friday fish fry one day why are there any chung not be in the pelt of your hand to. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to yes of all the politics thats less im show business ill see that. In the 1950 s. It was a much poorer society in the news today but no the us could easily handle centrally free mass Higher Education today a much Richer Society claims dozen of the resources for. That just whats going on right before our eyes and its the a general attack on the principles that mean that i mean not only are they humane theyre the basis of the prosperity and health of this society. If you look over the history of regulation say the Railroad Regulation Financial Regulation and so on and you find that quite commonly its its either initiated by the economic. Concentrations that are being regulated or its supported by them and the reason is because they know that sooner or later they can take over the regulators. And it ends up with whats called regulatory capture. The business being regulated is in fact running the regulators. Bank lobbyists are actually writing the laws of Financial Regulation gets to that extreme. And thats been happening through history and again its a pretty natural tendency when you just look at the distribution of power. One of the things that expanded enormously in the 1970 s. Is lobbying as the Business World moved sharply to try to control legislation. Business world was pretty upset by the advances in a Public Welfare in the sixtys and in particular by Richard Nixon and its not to will understand that but he was the last new deal president and they regarded that as class treachery. And nixons administration you get the consumer safety legislation safety and Health Regulations in the workplace the e. P. A. The Environmental Protection agency. Business didnt like it of course theyd been like that taxes. They didnt like the regulation and they began a coordinated effort to try to overcome it. Lobbying sharply increase deregulation began with the rule ferocity. There were no financial crashes in the fiftys and the sixtys because the regulatory apparatus of the new deal was still in place. As a pm to be dismantled under business pressure and political pressure. To get more and more pressures. And it goes on through the years. Seventys sort of starts begin. Eightys really takes off congress was asked to approve federal loan guarantees to the Auto Companies about the wand and one half 1000000000. 00 all of this is quite safe as long as you know the governments going to come to rescue so it takes a break and instead of letting them pay the cost break and build out the banks like continental the biggest bailout of American History at the time that she ended his term with so the huge financial crisis the savings and loan crisis and the government moved in and build it out for a family to remember it in a diary for a very fair lady and 199 regulation was dismantled to separate commercial banks from investment banks. And then come see bush and then obama bill and bear stearns is running to the feds to stay afloat president bush today defended the decision to bail out citi group that in may and freddie macin asked for a total i mean 1000000. 00 more to sail out could get much bigger than billing even in troubles for the u. S. Economy. And theyre building up the next term. B. Each time the taxpayer is called on to bail out of those who created the crisis increasingly the major financial institutions. In a capitalist economy you would do that in a capitalist system that would worry about the investors who made risky investments but the rich and powerful they dont want to capitalist system they want to be able to run to the nanny state as soon as theyre in trouble and get billed a taxpayer its called the too big to fail. I mean there are no will or its an economics who significantly disagree with the course that were following people like just Stiglitz Paul Krugman others none of them were even approached the people picked to fix the crisis were those who created the robert rubin crowd the Goldman Sachs croak they created the crisis are no more powerful than before is that accident well not when you pick those people to create an economic plan and then what do you expect to happen. Meanwhile for the poor let market principles prevail dont expect any help from the government the governments the problem not the solution and so on thats essentially neo liberalism at its has this dual character which goes were right back in economic history one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for the poor. And nothing surprising about this exactly the dynamics you expect and if the population allows it to proceed shes going to go on and on like this until the next crash which is so much expected that credit agencies which kind of evaluate the. Status of firms are now counting into their calculations the taxpayer bailout that they expect to come in after the next crash which means that the beneficiaries of these Credit Ratings like the big banks they can borrow money more cheaply they can push out smaller competitors and you get more and more concentration everywhere you look policies are done this way which should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone thats what happens when you put power into the hands of a narrow sector of will which will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as youd expect. Be. Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. Particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the Political Parties into the pockets of major corporations. The Citizens United this was january 2009 i guess thats a very important decisions prim Court Decision but it has a history and youve got to think about the history. Of 14th amendment has a provision that says no persons rights can be infringed without due process of law. And the intent clearly was to protect freed slaves said ok they have got the protection of the law i dont think its ever been used for freed slaves if ever marginally almost immediately it was used for businesses corporations their rights cant be infringed without due process of law so they gradually became persons under the law. Corporations or state created legal fictions. Maybe theyre good maybe theyre bed but to call them persons is kind of rages so they get got personal rights back about a century ago and that extended through the 20th century. As they give corporations rights way beyond what persons have so if say General Motors invests in mexico they get National Rights the rights of the mexican business well the notion of person was expanded to include corporations it was also restricted if you take the 14th amendment literally that no undocumented alien can be deprived of rights if theyre persons. Undocumented aliens who are living here and building your buildings clear lawns and so on theyre not persons. But General Electric is a person. An immortal a super powerful person this perversion of the young elementary morality and the obvious meaning of the law is quite incredible. In the 1970 s. The courts decided that money is a form of speech. But the 1st value and then you won through the years to Citizens United which says that the right of free speech of corporations members spend as much money they want cant be curtailed. Take a look what that means it means that corporations which anyway have been pretty much buying elections are now free to do it with virtually no constraint as tremendous attack on the residue of democracy. Very interesting to read the rulings like Justice Kennedys swing vote his ruling said well look after all the c. B. S. Is given freedom of speech there are corp why shouldnt General Electric be free to spend as much when is that what. I mean its true that c. B. S. Has given treat of speech but theyre supposed to be performing a Public Service thats why and thats what the press is supposed to be a general electorate is trying to make money for the chief executive some of the shareholders. Sitting critical decisions and it puts the country in a position where business power is greatly extended beyond what it always was this is part of that vicious cycle the Supreme Court justices are put in by reactionary president s who get in there because theyre funded by business and thats the way the cycle works. But politicians do listen. And put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Some of them want to be. Its are going to be for us its like im up for 3 in the morning cant be good. Im interested always in the aisles in the house. You know world of big partisan new things a lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. And shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. This is a pretty young boy no one wants to get in your circles want to. Get him to fall into much for that was a little trip and theyre going to do it when theyre. Going to. Have. The white and good sort of produce here already you know this incident never you know made it seem to try. To be. That bad. Why is it when you hear the word diversity its at the expense of unity when there is inclusion but only inclusion when you agree with a certain political thought and world view and of course we can forget about identity politics if you just agree when youre called a dog whistle how did he get here. And you try and be professional you try and leave it outside the door you try and put in the comma compartments in the eyes its in the brain and so you can forget about it but little by little these. 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What are you going to have for dinner today we dont have anything im asking for a nice meat bad schools full fledged civil war in south africa is even if its. More of the federal. Reserve and each ill not be in the total viewer and to begin to. Eat. Meat. Team comes under fire from u. S. Democrats for links to billionaire Jeffrey Epstein whos accused of multiple cases of child sexual abuse. Is close ties to both washingtons political only. Culture coming up on the program this hour on this terrorists involved in a 2015 terror attacks receive a 500 euro compensation for legal terms all the tension is prison cell was permanent surveillance. Sentences dozens of people involved in a campaign of coordinated terror the nations car a dog bite u. S. Dictatorships in. The 1970 s. And eightys tens of thousands of politico