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Maligned. Are mistreated different ways depending on the nature of the society like them so it unions they will be imprisoned. In a us dependency like el salvador at the same time as careful as it other brains blown out by a us run state terrorist worse. Than others is it just condemned their villa from the zone and in the United States or one of the terms of abuse is anti american the couple of others like you know more because theres an array of terms of abuse. Of in the United States in a very high degree of freedom and so if youre vilified by some commas or who cares to go on to your work anyway these concepts only arise in a culture where if you criticize state power and when i state i mean. Were generally not just government state Corporate Power if you can. Concentrated power youre against this youre against the b. Its quite strange in that its used in the United States and its for another the only Democratic Society where the concept isnt just ridicule its a sign of the elements of the elite culture which are the great the glee. The American Dream my many ideals was partly symbolic but partly real so in the 1950 s. And sixtys there was a the biggest growth period in that American Economic history. Gold made. It was pretty kalak area and 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 and 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 me as the banks like to call it the live 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 or 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 altogether. 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 that simply taxes on wealthier much higher the tax system has been redesigned so that the taxes that are paid by the very wealthy are reduced and curse ponderingly the tax burden on the rest of the populations increased. Now the shift is towards trying to keep taxes just done and wages are not 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 and 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 that stimulates production and 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 the corporations have money coming out of their pocket. So in fact General Electric theyre paying 0 taxes and they have enormous profits lets take the profits somewhere else or the 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 for measure 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. Much of the population thats what they survive and. Its of no use to the very rich so therefore theres a concerted attempt to destroy it. One of the ways is defunding it you want to destroy some system 1st the fund. Then it will work people be angry they want Something Else thats a standard technique for. Privatizing some system. We see it in the attack on Public Schools and 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 and it drives 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. 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 it communities day or nation regularly invest substantial share of it resources in education the investment invariably it returned and Better Business and a higher standard of living u. S. Was way in the lead in developing. Extensive mess Public Education and every live but i now more than half the states most of the funding for the colleges come from to wish not from the state thats are radical change thats a terrible burden on student it means that students if they dont come from very wealthy families theyre going to leave college with big debt and if you of think dead youre trapped i mean maybe you want and to become a look interest lawyer but you going after going to a Corporate Law firm a to pay off those dead soon by the time youre part of the culture you know in are going to get out of it again and thats true of cross the border well you know the fires they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. I mean theyre in the small boats next to the hard pool of ships and its scary. Sometimes. The little self the big cold fish already 90 percent of the dot and it wont be calmer. Concept 15 scoops 75 tons they do it several times a day with a big fleet oh you get an idea why. We have to understand we can all stay still and just. Be within this oh the deal going to go. Im doing this because i want the future world to future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. Ever since the arrival of Boris Johnson to 10 downing street theres a growing sense of inevitability that brags it will be executed on october 31st with or without a deal i mean we get to this point what lessons have been learned and nothing. Says she stressed to us take this or that to buy gas as it at the bill of budget at that must have. Half the show so i go see a dentist to taste it is easy so i pushed what i shall. Give its got i thought at which the death happened oh look what youve seen in a restaurant to check or a woman in there for shit. Or to talk to you sort of realize your bonus for syria. At the midst of all sorts of work are still for them to spit over for they seem to be like you both these that its a stupid surely if were supposed to be vocal or should step up and spit it. Expressed. 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 doesnt have the resources for. That just whats going on right before our eyes and its the general attack on the principles that i mean not only are they schumi theyre the basis of the prosperity and health of this society. If you look over the history of regulation say a 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 where it 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 they didnt like that taxes. They didnt like the regulation and they began a coordinated effort to try to overcome it. Lobbying sharply increase the regulation and begin 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 right through the years of. The seventys sort of starts begin. Eightys really takes off congress was asked to approve federal loan guarantees to the Auto Companies about the want and want to have a 1000000000. 00 and all of this is quite safe as long as you know the governments going to come to your rescue so takes a break and instead of letting them pay the cost break and build out the banks like continental the biggest bail out 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 that he handed it in a diary saving a fair lady and 999 regulation words dismantled to separate commercial banks from investment banks. Then come see bush and 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 f. Green 1000000000. 00 more to sail out could get much bigger billing even in troubles for the u. S. Economy. And theyre building up the next term. A b. Each time the taxpayer is called on to bail out those who created the crisis increasingly the major financial institutions. In a capitalist economy you would do that in a capitalist system that would were the investors who made risky investments but the rich and powerful they dont want a 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 looked at Stiglitz Paul Krugman others and 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 government the problem not the solution and so on thats essentially neo liberalism and its has this dual character which goes 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 if the population allows it to proceed just 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. A. 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 you 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 theyve 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 their buildings clear lawns and so on theyre not persons. But General Electric is a person. An immortal 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 one through the years to Citizens United which says that the right of free speech of corporations namely 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. 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 wendys they want. I mean its true that c. B. S. Is given freedom of speech but theyre supposed to be performing a Public Service thats why thats what the press is supposed to be a general electorate is trying to make money for the chief executive some of the shareholders. City 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 issue 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 ready ready ready ready ready. I am sure they need to stop it for continuing to grow. I just never felt very good about the idea of bringing children into the world because i didnt feel like things were in very good shape that a life was just going to be a lot of software programs. Theres no reason why more kids world 10 things that are going with. Theres more use a minute Something Else than you do with a loaf of everybodys scared to tackle that. It is true. And if we can even talk about it and have a conversation about it ready. Im as kaiser or more of my guide to financial survival this is. A device used by professional scallywags to earn money. Thats right these are not accountable and were just adding more and more to the. Global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for a while because. This is the. Phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is sponsor of the Cocacola Company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that lets tell consumers there are the bad ones there are the litter bugs are throwing us away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has promised to reuse the plastic. On. The mountains of waste only grow. Today there are good and bad the bad news in the United States. The good. Lord in syria. And the u. S. Military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. Where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military funding an army. Theres no any more because theres always a small income for a really good. Profit. In the. Military