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The real truth is the system is set up so people have a very difficult time moving up the economic ladder no matter how hard they are willing to work. If you are middle class, you aren't going to move ahead. If you are poor, you aren't going to magically work yourself out of being poor. Its been this way since the early 80's and it will never change. What scares the rich is that they all have the right to vote. Now we see voter ID laws coming in.... this will help limit the vote. Very smart and efficient plan.
The real truth is the system is set up so people have a very difficult time moving up the economic ladder no matter how hard they are willing to work. If you are middle class, you aren't going to move ahead. If you are poor, you aren't going to magically work yourself out of being poor. Its been this way since the early 80's and it will never change. What scares the rich is that they all have the right to vote. Now we see voter ID laws coming in.... this will help limit the vote. Very smart and efficient plan.
Not as often as I should have,Have you ever criticized Soros?
Eight of those Baltimore communities have lower life expectancies than Syria. What makes you think you would have lived long enough to make that decision?es, the baby born in the poor section of town is going to grow up as a welfare child eating shitty food and not learning anything to improve their lot in life. No surprise there. I was born poor and looked around and said to myself
If I was to tell you that it is better for a government to fear its people than the people to fear their government you would probably agree. We live in a plutocracy so why shouldn't the plutocrats fear the serfs? Fuckers need to have the fear that they might go too far and find their necks in a noose.
Chris Hedges's latest column at Truthdig argues that "(i)f you want change you can believe in, destroy the system", and he draws on examples from stories he has personally observed over a two decade long career in over fifty countries:
"When I was a foreign correspondent I covered revolts, insurgencies and revolutions, including the guerrilla conflicts in the 1980s in Central America; the civil wars in Algeria, Sudan and Yemen; and the two Palestinian uprisings or intifadas, along with the revolutions in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania and the war in the former Yugoslavia. I have seen that despotic regimes collapse internally."
Chris is also clear about how little US presidential elections matter to those who market ALL the candidates, including Bernie and Lizzy:
"It does not matter to the corporate rich who wins the presidential election. It does not matter who is elected to Congress. The rich have the power. They throw money at their favorites the way a gambler puts cash on his favorite horse.
"Money has replaced the vote.
"The wealthy can crush anyone who does not play by their rules. And the political elites—slobbering over the spoils provided by their corporate masters for selling us out—understand the game. Barack and Michelle Obama, as did the Clintons, will acquire many millions of dollars once they leave the White House."
Chris Hedges Make the Rich Panic - Chris Hedges -Truthdig
The problem is if you make the rich "panic" they tend to lash out and kill lots of people. Far better to educate people so they are able to compete and get better jobs. You guys just want to tear everything down so that everyone except the ruling elite (there always is one isn't there) is living in equal misery.
One day you might learn but I doubt it. After over 100 million murdered in pursuit of your utopia a smart person would have figured out that it doesn't work. But that would take smarts.
I agree that the government needs to fear us. But the rich own the government now. That's the problem. If you panic them they set loose the dogs. Far better for the retaking to be slow and steady. Elect people who are NOT part of the ruling elite. Get rid of the Bushes and the Clintons and the rest of the Ivy League crowd.
They don't care about the poor or the middle class. They only care about themselves.
Redlining by Baltimore banks in the 1950s and '60s played a bigger role.Baltimore, 88% Obama in 2012, is what a destroyed system looks like
Banks have never engaged in so-called "redlining."
This might be an issue conservatives and progressives should unite on. 600 corporate trade reps have been negotiating this "trade" agreement in secret for years. Obama wants it passed before 2016 election campaigning begins. Maybe corporate Republicans AND Democrats need a white hot spotlight on TPP and its non-trade related chapters (24/29) while Americans are deciding who their presidential candidates will be?If you want to hear the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the Obama administration is hoping to pass, you’ve got to be a member of Congress, and you’ve got to go to classified briefings and leave your staff and cellphone at the door.
If you’re a member who wants to read the text, you’ve got to go to a room in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center and be handed it one section at a time, watched over as you read, and forced to hand over any notes you make before leaving.
Why would you say that?Banks have never engaged in so-called "redlining."
Articles about Redlining - tribunedigital-baltimoresun
Redlining by Baltimore banks in the 1950s and '60s played a bigger role.Baltimore, 88% Obama in 2012, is what a destroyed system looks like
Banks have never engaged in so-called "redlining."
BULLSHIT.
The real truth is the system is set up so people have a very difficult time moving up the economic ladder no matter how hard they are willing to work. If you are middle class, you aren't going to move ahead. If you are poor, you aren't going to magically work yourself out of being poor. Its been this way since the early 80's and it will never change. What scares the rich is that they all have the right to vote. Now we see voter ID laws coming in.... this will help limit the vote. Very smart and efficient plan.
Don't agree with this at all.
What keeps folks poor is poor decision making.
80% of my friends are lower class from my younger days. Why are they trapped there? The number one reason is...having children too young. They couldn't save money and they couldn't get an college education.
Second is drugs...they would get busted for possession, plead to probation, then they were in the system, and once they were on paper, it was only a matter of time before they faced a revocation for another possession charge, or something else...and then they have a felony record.
Third is no drive to succeed...just make enough to pay the bills and buy beer...no going the extra mile to get a promotion, or volunteering to learn the skills necessary for the next level of responsibility.
These are all first hand observations, not something I've read or heard.
Poor people tend to die younger because they're stupid. They do drugs, commit crimes and become felons, and they're overweight. Their health issues are all totally self-inflicted."...let's look at a hypothetical case of two babies born on the same day this year in Baltimore. One is born in Roland Park, a wealthy neighborhood in the north of the city. The other is born just three miles away in Downtown/Seton Hill, one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.Bottom line: The savages in Baltimore chose to engage in violence. No one but them is to blame.
"The Roland Park baby will most likely live to the age of 84, well above the U.S. average of 79. The Seton Hill baby, on the other hand, can expect to die 19 years earlier at the age of 65. That's 14 years below the U.S. average. The average child born this year in Seton Hill will be dead before she can even begin to collect Social Security."
15 Baltimore neighborhoods have lower life expectancies than North Korea - The Washington Post
I think it is time to tariff the living shit out of all imports! The rich thought they could fuck the American people by outsourcing??? Well, think again, assholes.
If I was to tell you that it is better for a government to fear its people than the people to fear their government you would probably agree. We live in a plutocracy so why shouldn't the plutocrats fear the serfs? Fuckers need to have the fear that they might go too far and find their necks in a noose.
Chris Hedges's latest column at Truthdig argues that "(i)f you want change you can believe in, destroy the system", and he draws on examples from stories he has personally observed over a two decade long career in over fifty countries:
"When I was a foreign correspondent I covered revolts, insurgencies and revolutions, including the guerrilla conflicts in the 1980s in Central America; the civil wars in Algeria, Sudan and Yemen; and the two Palestinian uprisings or intifadas, along with the revolutions in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania and the war in the former Yugoslavia. I have seen that despotic regimes collapse internally."
Chris is also clear about how little US presidential elections matter to those who market ALL the candidates, including Bernie and Lizzy:
"It does not matter to the corporate rich who wins the presidential election. It does not matter who is elected to Congress. The rich have the power. They throw money at their favorites the way a gambler puts cash on his favorite horse.
"Money has replaced the vote.
"The wealthy can crush anyone who does not play by their rules. And the political elites—slobbering over the spoils provided by their corporate masters for selling us out—understand the game. Barack and Michelle Obama, as did the Clintons, will acquire many millions of dollars once they leave the White House."
Chris Hedges Make the Rich Panic - Chris Hedges -Truthdig
The problem is if you make the rich "panic" they tend to lash out and kill lots of people. Far better to educate people so they are able to compete and get better jobs. You guys just want to tear everything down so that everyone except the ruling elite (there always is one isn't there) is living in equal misery.
One day you might learn but I doubt it. After over 100 million murdered in pursuit of your utopia a smart person would have figured out that it doesn't work. But that would take smarts.
I agree that the government needs to fear us. But the rich own the government now. That's the problem. If you panic them they set loose the dogs. Far better for the retaking to be slow and steady. Elect people who are NOT part of the ruling elite. Get rid of the Bushes and the Clintons and the rest of the Ivy League crowd.
They don't care about the poor or the middle class. They only care about themselves.
The facts belie your opinion. Both the Clinton Administration and the Obama Administration worked to provide universal health care for the poor and the middle class - both failed. Hillary care was attacked and the attack prevailed; Obama care succeeded, but only half way as the conservative element went all in to attack the PPACA , something they continue to do, since they do nothing to aid the poor or the middle class, and do the bidding of the power elite.
Truth about Baltimore redlining:Truth.
This might be an issue conservatives and progressives should unite on. 600 corporate trade reps have been negotiating this "trade" agreement in secret for years. Obama wants it passed before 2016 election campaigning begins. Maybe corporate Republicans AND Democrats need a white hot spotlight on TPP and its non-trade related chapters (24/29) while Americans are deciding who their presidential candidates will be?If you want to hear the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the Obama administration is hoping to pass, you’ve got to be a member of Congress, and you’ve got to go to classified briefings and leave your staff and cellphone at the door.
If you’re a member who wants to read the text, you’ve got to go to a room in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center and be handed it one section at a time, watched over as you read, and forced to hand over any notes you make before leaving.
Trans-Pacific Partnership
Truth about Baltimore redlining:Truth.
"Listening to the speech that Ken Ulman made on Monday, June 3 I was struck by his passion for Columbia. It is the same passion I have felt living in Columbia for 40 years. I too have loved this planned city that treats people equally. As proud as I am seeing one of our own named to the top of the ticket I am imbued with a sense of unease. One of the reasons many people came to Columbia was to live in a well thought out and carefully planned community. Columbia was the antidote to the hodgepodge exemplified by routes 1 and 40 and to escape the insidious and unethical practice of redlining!"
Articles about Redlining - tribunedigital-baltimoresun
"redliningSimple: because it's true. The claim of "redlining" was a liberal scam intended to extort money from the banking system. The whole thing came crashing down in 2008
