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GLOBAL TOO BIG TO JAIL BANKS CONTROL THE WORLD-including American government and military.

WE MUST DESTROY THE TOO BIG TO JAIL BANKS. They are the puppet masters that control... more

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Bridgewater new HQ Funded by Connecticut!

Bridgewater Associates, the world’s biggest hedge fund, intends to build a $750... more

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When the Upper Class Becomes Victim to Class Warfare

Many Americans don’t have jobs because the upper class is so greedily... more

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So, rich stay-at-home moms are working but poor moms who need a little government assistance aren't working if they stay home to raise the kids?

Ashamed to say I missed this bit of GOP having it both ways; usually better at... more

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Paying your state taxes to your state? Maybe, maybe not. Some companies get to keep the money

It's always annoyed me when states and counties give special property tax breaks to big businesses as a way of enticing them to set up shop. Yeah, job creation, I get it. But too often it's a scam. And it is not fair to the local businesses who have to pay regular property tax rates.

I know a company that wanted to come to AZ and it went on about 'average wage' and how many people it would have on the payroll. They got a sweetheart deal on property taxes. Then they brought in their own people from their home base of operations (another nation, by the way) for the really good jobs and hired 'locals' at very, very low wages, but when all the wages were put together and an average taken, yeah, the 'average wage' looked great on paper. Oh, this particular company produces food, grown in hothouses where the laborers did not have access to drinking water nor have bathroom facilities or a place to wash their hands for some time before people got wind of the sanitation situation and complained LOUDLY. Here, have a tomato.

The companies have communities and states compete for them. Who will give us the best 'enticements' to locate in their area? Sometimes the businesses take the money, err, enticements and then bug out just before any limited time deals are about to end. No point actually letting a state or county eventually make good from bending over and grabbing their ankles for corporations. It's all just business. Gotta look out for the shareholders. If you don't shut up and take the con, you must hate capitalism....

But some companies get to keep the monies from state income taxes withheld from workers' paychecks? WTF? Just another under the table corporate welfare scam the taxpayers don't know about.

One more reason states are struggling and cutting services that the people need. People are paying taxes directly to some companies.

No wonder Wall Street wants Social Security privatized. They want in on the payroll deduction diversion other companies get in some states.

Just how would the tea bagger fools react if they knew part of the taxes they begrudge paying at all were actually going to their bosses?It's always annoyed me when states and counties give special property tax breaks... more

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The Class War Paradigm

One of the few things garnering any bipartisan support these days is that America is... more

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Need to get out this weekend? Here a two “Rich and Tasty” spots to visit

80,000 Addis Ababa residents eat trash to survive (video) Big Boys Toys opens in Dubai

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Pass the Butter Mr. Gorbachev: The Uselessness of Corporate Personhood

The concept of corporate personhood was created more than 100 years ago and ever since... more

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Shock and Awe: Class Warfare Isn’t About the Money

The new conservative battle cry is that the upper classes are under attack by a mob of... more

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Government Nuisance Abatement Teams forcing residents to destroy their homes and vacate land

The plight of the Valley's desert dwellers made regional headlines when county... more

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Bob Rae, “I am Super Elite”: Thank you, Bob Rae, for stealing my plane seat

WWH – Where is my pie? KENNETH HARVEY,theglobeandmail.com – My flight... more

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The National Debt, A Phony Crisis ! ! !

"Using trumped up crisis to raid the public purse" "This is naked... more

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"I've Already Got Your Money, Dude" By Bill Maher

Check out Bill Maher's great analogy between Charlie Sheen and Wall Street on... more

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New Michigan bill gives governor power to fire mayors, dissolve city councils, and appoint corporate managers in their place

"This is a Class War": Michael Moore Calls for Renewed Pro-Democracy... more

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Banker Bonuses: Not Such a Wonderful Life?

Bankers may have surpassed lawyers and child pornographers as the country's most... more

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Epic Battle Engaged! The Super Rich VS The Unwashed Masses!

Super-person power needed to infuse the poor, weak, downtrodden masses while they... more

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G20 Protests Seoul | Demotix.com

G20 Protests Seoul. The Korean People's G20 Response Action Rally and March... more

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Rich Also Do Better Under A Democrat Than A Republican

The poor do better economically when a Democrat is President. Not much of a surprise.... more

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Wealthy Reap Rewards While Workers Lose

A new report by the Boston Consulting Group finds that the riches of the wealthiest... more

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The Effects of Neoliberal Globalization on the US

This paper argues that we simply cannot understand what is happening unless we put developments within a global context: the United States effects, and is affected by, global processes. Thus, while some of the impacts can be understood on a national level, we cannot ask related questions as to causes—or future consequences—by confining our examination to a national level: we absolutely must approach this from a global perspective (see Nederveen Pieterse, 2004, 2008).

This also must be put in historical perspective as well, although the focus in this piece will be limited to the post-World War II world. Inequality within what is now the United States today did not—obviously—arise overnight. Unquestionably, it began at least 400 years ago in Jamestown—with the terribly unequal and socially stratified society of England’s colonial Virginia before Africans were brought to North America (see Fischer, 1989), much less after their arrival in 1619, before the Pilgrims. Yet, to understand the roots of development of contemporary social inequality in the US, we must understand the rise of “Europe” in relation to the rest of the world (see, among others, Rodney, 1972; Nederveen Pieterse, 1989). In short, again, we have to understand that the development of the United States has been and will always be a global project and, without recognizing that, we simply cannot begin to understand developments within the United States.

We also have to understand the multiple and changing forms of social stratification and resulting inequalities in this country. This paper prioritizes economic stratification, although is not limited to just the resulting inequalities. Nonetheless, it does not focus on racial, gender or any other type of social stratification. However, this paper is not written from the perspective that economic stratification is always the most important form of stratification, nor from the perspective that we can only understand other forms of stratification by understanding economic stratification: all that is being claimed herein is that economic stratification is one type of social stratification, arguably one of the most important types yet only one of several, and investigates the issue of economic stratification in the context of contemporary globalization and the neoliberal economic policies that have developed to address this phenomenon as it affects the United States.

Once this global-historical perspective is understood and after quickly suggesting in the “prologue” why the connection between neoliberal economic policies and the affects on working people in the United States has not been made usually, this paper focuses on several interrelated issues: (1) it reports the current economic situation for workers in the United States; (2) it provides a historical overview of US society since World War II; (3) it analyzes the results of US Government economic policies; and (4) it ties these issues together. From that, it comes to a conclusion about the affects of neoliberal economic policies on working people in the United States.

http://links.org.au/node/1056This paper argues that we simply cannot understand what is happening unless we put... more

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