President Carter’s administration witnessed the maximum levels of real personal income seen in the country.

The toad Reagan saw to the undermining and economic extinction of labor as a viable force able to withstand the whim of management and removed government as a impartial balance to the economic strength of management. Labor’s lot has fallen to record lows since Reagan’s perfidious assasination of the Air Controllers early on.

Koyaanisqatsi is the result that has literally gutted the middle classes, put the numbers of poor to all time records, created a whole new “criminal underclass” not bound by law or feality to an oppressing society. Even the upper middle class of professionals is being seriously effected economically by the result; such is the economic imbalance that has come to pass.

The usurption of the American Economic Dream has been brought to pass by those having the greatest wealth the world has ever witnessed, aided and abetted by a fraudulent idiology passing as “Free Enterprise”, given “intellectual” legitimatcy under stool-pidgeon institutions as “Chicago School of Economics”, “AEI”, Heritage Foundation, and the ilk, all promulgating “greed is good economics” and, there being no alternate voice to counter their specious idiology, have usurped the treasury, the government, the courts, the law, and every repository or either wealth or power there is for their profit and gain. And they convinced about a third of the population to be their enablers.

All this needs to be completely undone before the country can be safe from these connivers and it will not be easy. These great masses of wealth must be put under PUBLIC control and never be allowed into private hands at all. The economic resources held by this wealth must be returned to PUBLIC ownership for the PUBLIC good. Taxes should be restored on massive income that accrues disportionately among those creating that income, a 400 times average income is obscene economically. Tax breaks for corporations should be given for keeping well paid jobs, not eliminating those jobs. And the very heart of the corporation must be altered in a way that the fiction of the law that it is, is never again allowed to exercise the function of an actual human being, it is way too dangerous, as we are presently seeing.

All the best…..

We’re in the middle of what I think is one of the most exciting campaigns now to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. If we don’t have a strong labor movement, we’re not going to be able to have the kind of country we want, the kind of world we want. There’s no other organization I know of that can stand up for the rights of working people not just on the job but stand up for the kind of issues that we care about. That’s why the Employee Free Choice Act is so important. Labor is in crisis for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the kind of employer intimidation that workers go through when they try to form a union.

In Vermont, the state House of Reps voted 80-60 two weeks ago to allow card-check (simple majority garners recognition) balloting for public sector employees.

Our GOP Governor has, predictably, promised a veto; and this bill, were it to go into effect, still won’t apply to private sector employees. Still it is a start. I hope that small steps like this one will help eventually lead to passage of the employee free choice act. Intimidation of workers/organizers during an organizing campaign is a serious problem that has become much worse over the past six years.

Thanks again for the diary and interview.

slainte,
cl

Negroponte = “black bridge” … over troubled Blackwater?

you can’t make this stuff up

Eureka Springs @ 25

With Negropnte in the shoe horn of Africa no doubt..)

I say he should be given the boot.

yeah, he is an arch-nemesis

With Negropnte in the shoe horn of Africa no doubt..)

I say he should be given the boot.

With Negropnte in the shoe horn of Africa no doubt..)

hehe

Punaise………looks like a challenge to me.

yeah, I’m doing some sole-searching on that one.

The sincerity and stubborn persistence of Bayh and the others notwithstanding, this is a questionable proposition. No one knows what the abandonment of a federal principle — voting by state for the highest officer in the land — would mean for American politics and government.

Broder doesn’t like it. Somehow the principle of one man one vote which the electoral college subverts doesn’t occur to him. I suppose it’s not important to him. And besides who knows what would be next? What the consequences might be? An end to indentured servants? Giving women the right to vote? I mean this could lead anywhere.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..v=hcmodule

Hello, Tula, from the birthplace of the UAW in 1936.