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Title: The Rich Are Raking It in, So Where Are the Jobs?
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Published: Sep 5, 2011
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Post Date: 2011-09-05 13:03:44 by tom007
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The Rich Are Raking It in, So Where Are the Jobs? Monday 5 September 2011 by: Donald Kaul, OtherWords.org | Op-Ed Ah, Labor Day, the holiday when we honor Organized Labor. You know, unions and stuff like that. Yes, there'll be picnics and speeches detailing the enormous contribution unions make to our nation's prosperity. Political candidates will extol the virtues of the American worker and… Wait minute. I think I've picked up the wrong script here. This is an old one — so 20th-century. Once upon a time, Americans celebrated the labor movement on Labor Day. But that was a long while ago, B.R. (Before Reagan). Most Americans have long since ceased viewing life through the prism of the working class. Americans are consumers first and foremost. We like to buy things. Unions, with their insistence on livable wages, pension plans, and health insurance, are an impediment to that desire. They drive up prices. I don't think that there's been a time in my life that unions have had a worse public image. Public unions have been particularly under siege. They've been forced to give ground on benefits, wages, seniority rights, and pension guarantees. In Wisconsin — home of the iconic progressive Bob La Follette — the governor has fought hard to take away their bargaining rights. It's a grim joke, then, to speak of Labor Day as a celebration of labor. Fourth of July Lite is more like it. The Great Recession has sliced through American workers like a scythe, cutting them off at the knees. Unemployment is chronic and entrenched, having hovered around 9 percent for more than two years. Foreclosures continue apace and workers who do find jobs are getting them at significantly lower wages than their previous jobs paid. Many are losing their health insurance, and the public schools they send their kids to are being starved for funds by destitute cities and states. Republicans in Congress say the answer to all of these problems is to cut government to the bone and beyond. Old people, poor people, and young people all have to share the burden of debt reduction. No government function is so sacrosanct as to be spared the knife. Except… (walknboston / Flickr) (walknboston / Flickr) Except when it comes to taxing the well-to-do and filthy rich. GOP lawmakers argue that millionaires are the economy's job creators, and if they're not making money, they won't create any jobs. A reasonable argument, except for the fact that they're making money already. And where are those jobs? CEO pay at large companies soared 27 percent last year. Profits are up too. Bankers, hedge fund managers, and stock brokers are raking it in. Things are so good for the richest of the rich that sales of mansions costing $20 million or more are up in the Los Angeles area. The stock market performed well in the first half of the year too. Where are the jobs? Why aren't these sultans of finance and industry hiring people, lending money, and doing something for the economy? I don't know, maybe they're too busy shopping for $20 million mansions. I do know this. My father spent his life working in tool and die factories in and around Detroit. My mother worked, on and off, in dress shops. They were able to own their own home, send their son to a fine university, and give him a few extra bucks when he was struggling to raise a family of his own early in his career. My father even had a boat that he dragged around on a trailer. When they retired, they moved to Florida. It wasn't a lavish life, but it was a good one, made possible in part by the fact he worked in a union town and a unionized industry. It's a life, I'm afraid, that isn't going to be available to lower-middle-class kids entering a non-unionized workforce today. Certainly not if Republican lawmakers have their way. Don't worry about the people in the $20 million homes however. They'll be just fine. Happy (ha ha) Labor Day. 1
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
PCR correctly noted yesterday that it should be called Corporation Day or War Day. There is so little labor in the country that it's laughable.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson China. Wanna' make 88¢ an hour kid?
Ouch.
Businesses are the biggest consumers of our resources and unions are big business that also consume wages, as well as drive up prices while holding back wages from rising to keep up until the union's set timetable to renegotiate them. If a business refuses to compensate workers fairly for its use of a state's resources and space, the answer isn't mob-run unions but to give the business arrangement/charter to another business that will do so.
------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
i just ran across this at Joyce Rosenwald's [R.I.P.] site. ....Many of you may have lost your job, or feel your industry is so unstable you may soon lose your job. You've watched as a large percentage of the jobs in your industry left this county. You've watched your friends who have lost their jobs struggle to keep their homes. You may even have had to reduce the quality of your life due to lost income based on decreased production in the job you now have. You've listened to our politicians promise how they are going to bring new jobs, new industry to America. Yet some of us wait in vain. Why do you think industry in America is dying? Is it because we have become over regulated by government, making it impossible for employers to keep their industry alive? Is it because we no longer have a work ethic good enough to sustain industry in this nation? Are we undertrained? Are we under educated? Or, could it be by design? In 1945 The United States government signed the United Nations Participation Act. The American people were told by our government that the United Nations would serve as an organization that would work to bring peace to the world and put an end to the threat of war among the many Nations forever. In 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was issued. In Article 23 it is stated, in part: 1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. It is this statement that created the proposal for the creation of The United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Many of you may have never heard of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, otherwise known as UNIDO, or that UNIDO functions as a specialized agency within the United Nations. UNIDO was set up in 1966 as an autonomous organization within the United Nations. Its basic objective was to promote and facilitate industrialization in funding developing countries. In 1975, the United Nations endorsed a recommendation that UNIDO become a specialized agency with its own constitution and budget. Negotiations began in 1976 and were concluded on April 8 1979, when a Constitution was adopted by consensus at a U.N. Conference on the Establishment of UNIDO as a Specialized Agency. The United States signed the Constitution on January 17,1980. The President formally transmitted the Constitution to the Senate for its advice and consent on October 5, 1981. At the second-quadrennial conference (UNIDO II) in Lima, Peru, in 1975, a Lima Declaration and Plan of Action for Industrial Development and Cooperation was adopted over the objections of the United States. Four years later, UNIDO III endorsed a New Delhi Declaration and Plan of Action, again over U.S. objections. The thrust of these political documents is that industrial country governments should work toward a goal of ensuring that 25 percent of the world's industrial plant is located in the developing world by the year 2000. The documents imply that not only should developed countries provide aid to help meet these goals, but also adopt trade and internal industrial policies which insure that the goal will be reached, even if it means shutting down their own industries which are identified as being more suitably located in the Third World. The United States has often been frustrated by its inability to exert much control over budgets or personnel policies in U.N. agencies, even though it contributes 25 percent of the central budget. The United States cannot limit its contribution to UNIDO without getting out of the U.N. as a whole. Personnel policies are also to some degree dictated from the U.N. offices in New York, so that UNIDO can claim that it is unfair to look at the U.S. share of UNIDO jobs, but rather one must look at the U.S. share of all U.N. jobs. The Constitution does contain one considerable irritant to sensibilities. The preamble includes the phrase, "Bearing in mind the broad objectives in the resolutions adopted by the sixth special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations on the establishment of a New International Economic Order, in the UNIDO Second General Conference's Lima Declaration and Plan of Action for Industrial Develop and Co-operation........" The first article of the operative part of the Constitution begins by stating that "The primary objective of the organization shall be the promotion and acceleration of industrial development in the developing countries with a view to assisting in the establishment of a new international economic order. We are now living in that NEW ORDER. Our jobs are disappearing. Our quality of life is dropping. It now takes three incomes to buy what one once provided. But we can all sleep well knowing that the United Nations, under the guidance of UNIDO, is doing its part to guarantee to all the peoples of the world a job. Can our politicians effectively bring industry back to America when they are the very people who agreed to let it go? Socialism is usually defined as government ownership and/or control over the basic means of production and distribution of goods and services. This means government control over everything, including you. All controls are people controls. Socialism is government control, operation, and ownership of the Nation's business. Socialism calls for the continuous expansion and centralization of governmental power over private production, private property, private employment and private life. Under socialism, all business becomes public business; all property becomes public property; all employees become public employees; and all privacy is abolished. The idea that socialism is a share the wealth program is in reality a fraud contrived by government to get the people to surrender their freedom to an all powerful collectivist government. All collectivist systems require power in government which the Constitution did not grant. The Founding Fathers had no intention of allowing the government to steal the right of one man's labor and give it to another. This author believes that the United Nations and it=s many treaties which have been codified into United States Law is the mechanism for bringing world socialism under the control of the United Nations. In the reality of SOCIALISM you have a tiny oligarchical clique at the top usually numbering no more than three percent of the total population, controlling the total wealth, total production and the very lives of the other ninety-seven percent. SOCIALISM is not a share the wealth program. SOCIALISM is the method the United Nations will use to control and consolidate both the wealth of the world and the peoples of the world and effectively bring it under the control of a One World Government. Control of our Industries is perhaps just the beginning....... http://www.joycerosenwald.com/Wh...obs-situations_wanted.htm x-ref Last night in Virginia, over 200 desperate citizens struggled to have their voices heard by their representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) during what he claimed was an “open meeting” http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=137829 ========== The Banker's Manifesto and Sustainable Development "Capital must protect itself in every way, through combination and through legislation. Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law, applied by the central power of wealth, under control of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expand their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd. Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been generally planned and successfully accomplished." ((((((The above was printed from the "Banker's Manifest", for the private circulation among leading bankers only, taken from the "Civil Servants' Year Book, "The Organizer" of January, 1934.)))))) The Banker's Manifesto ties in with U.S. Senate Document No. 43, 73rd Congress, 1st Session (1934), to wit: "The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual so-called "ownership" is only by virtue of Government, i.e., law, amounting to mere "user" and use must be in acceptance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State." Remember, it's not a question of "if" the economy will collapse, but "when"..... http://www.afn.org/~govern/safe.html Sounds like good enough reason for the American people to declare a JUBILEE [ bible.cc/isaiah/61-2.htm / after all, we didn't KILL them when they began to overrun our land bible.cc/2_chronicles/20-11.htm ] to REPUDIATE the ODIOUS DEBT [ http://www.jubileeusa.org/truth-...ncept-of-odious-debt.html ] to the banksters and their cronies in THEIR Congress, because THEIR CONgress sure doesn't represent the people's interests. Just think if people stopped VOLUNTEERING to pay taxes they don't owe [ http://www.truthattack.org/jml/ ] and put their money into banks created by and for the people. There would be plenty of money to get our economy rolling again. ====================== ODIOUS DEBT - "Odious debt is an established legal principle. Legally, debt is to be considered odious if the government used the money for personal purposes or to oppress the people. Moreover, in cases where borrowed money was used in ways contrary to the people’s interest, with the knowledge of the creditors, the creditors may be said to have committed a hostile act against the people. Creditors cannot legitimately expect repayment of such debts. ..." ==================== The Founding Fathers had no intention of allowing the government to steal the right of one man's labor and give it to another. That's debatable : The Constitution: The God That Failed (To Liberate Us From Big Government) http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=5636 [good read] final note....God will catch them in their craftiness, and this will all work to God's ultimate plan....He has other things planned for this [ www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55421 ] nation .... bible.cc/micah/4-13.htm / bible.cc/revelation/5-10.htm / bible.cc/isaiah/60-10.htm / bible.cc/revelation/21-24.htm , the Banksters in their counting houses be damned.
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
Sounds like good enough reason for the American people to declare a JUBILEE [ bible.cc/isaiah/61-2.htm / after all, we didn't KILL them when they began to overrun our land bible.cc/2_chronicles/20-11.htm ] to REPUDIATE the ODIOUS DEBT [ http://www.jubileeusa.org/truth-...ncept-of-odious-debt.html ] to the banksters and their cronies in THEIR Congress, because THEIR CONgress sure doesn't represent the people's interests. note to self http://niv.scripturetext.com/leviticus/25-9.htm studying Christians are "Levites", [priests] bible.cc/isaiah/66-21.htm , and Israelites Galatians 3, 4, Romans 9. Leviticus 25:23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine [ http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55421 ]; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. bible.cc/leviticus/25-23.htm [ see psalm 83:4,12 , Banksters and CONgress are antiChrist http://www.america-betrayed-1787.com/eschatology.html ]
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
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