the powers that be are getting a rein in on that. The ruling class has taken back the media. Sure, they let them have their little liberal social issues, but on economics it's conservative capitalism 24/7. The little guys didn't do much revolting for over 2000 years, and got put down every time they did (didn't turn out so good for Napoleon, did it?).
The assumption you're making is that you're going to win in the good vs evil fight. Even if good doesn't win, you'll win. You won't. They'll come for you soon too. For all of us. There's nothing you have that the ruling class won't take away. Their greed knows no limits or bounds. It's what they do. They have enough wealth to buy anything. They teach us that if somebody just gives it to you you'll stop there. But that's a lie. They didn't stop. They never stop.
and I still don't see how you can prevent the haves from using what they have to get more, and repeating the cycle until they have everything. The other solutions either ignore the problem or boil down to socialism in everything but name.
replaces blades and never needs cleaning. Go look up how McDonald's French Fries are made. There will be perhaps a few parts that need maintenance, but you're talking 1 guy replacing 10.
good luck getting anyone on national TV to acknowledge that, much less do anything about it. Taking care 'o the poors costs money, and we're all Taxed to the Max (TM).
eating like that is expensive and time consuming. My wages have been falling for 20 years, so I spend the weeknights and weekends doing freelance software development to make up the difference (I rest on Fridays)....
you gotta start somewhere. the left at least has rhetoric that is in favor of the common man. For what it's worth, if you're a tech worker in America the rate of Work Visa approvals has dropped 28% since we got a Democrat in the office. That's a concrete example of a left leaning law (e.g. protectionism) being enforced as best it can.
Also, when you just give up, you tell the right that they can do whatever they want. It infuriates me to here people say "I don't bother voting, it doesn't matter". When the right wins in a landslide they take it as a sign they can push a more radical agenda. They've been doing that for 50 years, and with it you've seen a decline in the middle class.
True story, Obama had planned to run a hard campaign on the issues, but they did focus groups and found the no one believed Romney would go through with the deep cuts to medicare, social security, welfare, etc along with the huge tax cuts. So Obama abandoned an issues based campaign and focused instead on the Romney's character and 'me-too' politics (like me, only louder).
Serfs paid a their taxes to a lord who used the money to make his life better. That sounds more like the CEO of a corporation to me. You know the nice house you have? Know why you have it? Roads let us expand with cards, making land cheap enough to afford it. Roads paid for by the taxpayer. You know why it was the taxpayer? Because nothing, I mean nothing, is ever profitable enough for the kings and queens of America. Certainly not infrastructure.
Uh no, it's rather easy for them to check. They can and will contact banks directly. If you have an employer they will contact them. If you have a car they will ask to see the title, but they'll still contact the MVD. We spare no expense ferreting out imaginary welfare queens. I wish I could say the same about the very real criminals that crashed our economy in 2008.
Hell, when I was typing this I had a ready made phrase (welfare queen) to describe people who cheat on meager welfare payouts, but I can't for the life of me think of one to describe the guys who ran Countrywide Loans into the ground while holding our country hostage.
Are unemployment payouts really 4 times higher now than in 2001? Whats going on?
High paying jobs are going overseas, and we're importing massive numbers of workers on visas (H1-B et all). The media doesn't mention any of this any more than they mention the Koch Brothers letter to Boehner telling him not to vote on Sandy relief. Everything you hold dear and love is being taken away from you by the investor class.
that maybe, just maybe these people's drug problems are caused by poverty, instead of the other way around? I'm not asking you to stop judging (I'm judging you right now), I'm asking you to think reasonable about cause and affect, and ask yourself if you're really just looking for excuses to leave these people to their (rather horrible) fate.
or an Astro Turfer for a right wing blog. One of the two. People who live in the projects can't afford $1000/mo car payments. Also, the social workers track what kind of car you own. Even the drug dealers don't do that well.
my brother tried, very unsuccessfully, to get food stamps after losing his job (single father). Also, if you do manage to get on public assistance there is a) a Maximum of 5 years cash assistance, after that it's food stamps only and they average $102/mo and b) you're social worker will force you to take the first job that comes along (and yes, they can and will cut you off if you don't), which depresses your wages.
This "it could be worse" school of thought is currently being used by the Powers That Be / Monied Interests as an excuse for a large decline in overall standard of living. I guess what I'm saying is, sure, it could be worse. But why isn't it better?
which is the narrative. Their Narrative was that unless you are part of the 1%, they aren't going to take your money, because you don't have any (the 1% has all the money). Whether you agree with the narrative or not, it was an effective one.
Cricket sold me the phone for $400, and is about $15/mo cheaper than any provider (even with my work discount). Also, I don't have to worry about my kid running up a huge bandwidth bill. The service tends to be faster too, but that's just my area.
when we're told from day one as children that America is the greatest country on Earth? It was mostly young people that aren't as jaded as you and I, and You're taught to believe that we're all basically Americans and in the end we'd come together, work together and prosper together. I seriously doubt they were expecting to have counter terrorism groups hand them their asses. That's the sort of thing that happens in Syria, not America...
he's mentally ill. OWS was just the thing he latched onto. There would have been something else. Also, the FBI wasn't watching guys like him, it was watching the leaders of the movement in an obvious effort to shut it down.
OWS had one unforgivable sin: it offered a working and likable alternative narrative. Right now the only narrative in American society is that if you work hard and play by the rules you'll succeed, and if you didn't it's your own damn fault and you're a bad person. It's prosperity gospel by any other name. OWS and the 'We are the 99%' was catchy, simple and made sense. It was a movement that had a real chance, which is why we're even talking about it, and also why it was crushed relentlessly.
In short, you didn't think speech was really free, did you?
and almost everyone I've ever talked to says unless you can already pass compilers in your sleep, you're not going to make it. Start with a years worth of Discrete Math texts and if you can follow that no problem you can make it through years 1 and 2. That said, you can get all the course work from MIT, learn it, and then go get the degree as a formality. It's still hard. There's a lot to do.
this is a scary time. They just massively cut funding to chicken inspectors. If I remember right you get something like 3 seconds to decide if a chicken is fit to eat or not.
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the powers that be are getting a rein in on that. The ruling class has taken back the media. Sure, they let them have their little liberal social issues, but on economics it's conservative capitalism 24/7. The little guys didn't do much revolting for over 2000 years, and got put down every time they did (didn't turn out so good for Napoleon, did it?).
The assumption you're making is that you're going to win in the good vs evil fight. Even if good doesn't win, you'll win. You won't. They'll come for you soon too. For all of us. There's nothing you have that the ruling class won't take away. Their greed knows no limits or bounds. It's what they do. They have enough wealth to buy anything. They teach us that if somebody just gives it to you you'll stop there. But that's a lie. They didn't stop. They never stop.
but it doesn't mean it'll be any kind of life worth living. Do I have to remind you what life was like prior to the 20th century...
and I still don't see how you can prevent the haves from using what they have to get more, and repeating the cycle until they have everything. The other solutions either ignore the problem or boil down to socialism in everything but name.
replaces blades and never needs cleaning. Go look up how McDonald's French Fries are made. There will be perhaps a few parts that need maintenance, but you're talking 1 guy replacing 10.
good luck getting anyone on national TV to acknowledge that, much less do anything about it. Taking care 'o the poors costs money, and we're all Taxed to the Max (TM).
eating like that is expensive and time consuming. My wages have been falling for 20 years, so I spend the weeknights and weekends doing freelance software development to make up the difference (I rest on Fridays)....
you gotta start somewhere. the left at least has rhetoric that is in favor of the common man. For what it's worth, if you're a tech worker in America the rate of Work Visa approvals has dropped 28% since we got a Democrat in the office. That's a concrete example of a left leaning law (e.g. protectionism) being enforced as best it can.
Also, when you just give up, you tell the right that they can do whatever they want. It infuriates me to here people say "I don't bother voting, it doesn't matter". When the right wins in a landslide they take it as a sign they can push a more radical agenda. They've been doing that for 50 years, and with it you've seen a decline in the middle class.
True story, Obama had planned to run a hard campaign on the issues, but they did focus groups and found the no one believed Romney would go through with the deep cuts to medicare, social security, welfare, etc along with the huge tax cuts. So Obama abandoned an issues based campaign and focused instead on the Romney's character and 'me-too' politics (like me, only louder).
that after 20 years of rising medical costs that people can afford flu shots. $40-$50 bucks per family member is a lot of money on $8 bucks/hr.
is if an employers asks for a doctor's note for every sick day it's a low level job that doesn't have useful insurance. You just end up getting fired.
Serfs paid a their taxes to a lord who used the money to make his life better. That sounds more like the CEO of a corporation to me. You know the nice house you have? Know why you have it? Roads let us expand with cards, making land cheap enough to afford it. Roads paid for by the taxpayer. You know why it was the taxpayer? Because nothing, I mean nothing, is ever profitable enough for the kings and queens of America. Certainly not infrastructure.
better a thousand innocent men die then one guilty man go free. Or something like that, I wasn't really paying attention.
Uh no, it's rather easy for them to check. They can and will contact banks directly. If you have an employer they will contact them. If you have a car they will ask to see the title, but they'll still contact the MVD. We spare no expense ferreting out imaginary welfare queens. I wish I could say the same about the very real criminals that crashed our economy in 2008.
Hell, when I was typing this I had a ready made phrase (welfare queen) to describe people who cheat on meager welfare payouts, but I can't for the life of me think of one to describe the guys who ran Countrywide Loans into the ground while holding our country hostage.
Are unemployment payouts really 4 times higher now than in 2001? Whats going on?
High paying jobs are going overseas, and we're importing massive numbers of workers on visas (H1-B et all). The media doesn't mention any of this any more than they mention the Koch Brothers letter to Boehner telling him not to vote on Sandy relief. Everything you hold dear and love is being taken away from you by the investor class.
that maybe, just maybe these people's drug problems are caused by poverty, instead of the other way around? I'm not asking you to stop judging (I'm judging you right now), I'm asking you to think reasonable about cause and affect, and ask yourself if you're really just looking for excuses to leave these people to their (rather horrible) fate.
or an Astro Turfer for a right wing blog. One of the two. People who live in the projects can't afford $1000/mo car payments. Also, the social workers track what kind of car you own. Even the drug dealers don't do that well.
my brother tried, very unsuccessfully, to get food stamps after losing his job (single father). Also, if you do manage to get on public assistance there is a) a Maximum of 5 years cash assistance, after that it's food stamps only and they average $102/mo and b) you're social worker will force you to take the first job that comes along (and yes, they can and will cut you off if you don't), which depresses your wages.
So I say again, citation needed.
This "it could be worse" school of thought is currently being used by the Powers That Be / Monied Interests as an excuse for a large decline in overall standard of living. I guess what I'm saying is, sure, it could be worse. But why isn't it better?
The aqueduct.
which is the narrative. Their Narrative was that unless you are part of the 1%, they aren't going to take your money, because you don't have any (the 1% has all the money). Whether you agree with the narrative or not, it was an effective one.
Cricket sold me the phone for $400, and is about $15/mo cheaper than any provider (even with my work discount). Also, I don't have to worry about my kid running up a huge bandwidth bill. The service tends to be faster too, but that's just my area.
when we're told from day one as children that America is the greatest country on Earth? It was mostly young people that aren't as jaded as you and I, and You're taught to believe that we're all basically Americans and in the end we'd come together, work together and prosper together. I seriously doubt they were expecting to have counter terrorism groups hand them their asses. That's the sort of thing that happens in Syria, not America...
he's mentally ill. OWS was just the thing he latched onto. There would have been something else. Also, the FBI wasn't watching guys like him, it was watching the leaders of the movement in an obvious effort to shut it down.
OWS had one unforgivable sin: it offered a working and likable alternative narrative. Right now the only narrative in American society is that if you work hard and play by the rules you'll succeed, and if you didn't it's your own damn fault and you're a bad person. It's prosperity gospel by any other name. OWS and the 'We are the 99%' was catchy, simple and made sense. It was a movement that had a real chance, which is why we're even talking about it, and also why it was crushed relentlessly.
In short, you didn't think speech was really free, did you?
and almost everyone I've ever talked to says unless you can already pass compilers in your sleep, you're not going to make it. Start with a years worth of Discrete Math texts and if you can follow that no problem you can make it through years 1 and 2. That said, you can get all the course work from MIT, learn it, and then go get the degree as a formality. It's still hard. There's a lot to do.
this is a scary time. They just massively cut funding to chicken inspectors. If I remember right you get something like 3 seconds to decide if a chicken is fit to eat or not.