More pieces of democracy go into the wastebasket
While we were away on winter recess, some more pieces of democracy have been trashed or made ready for disposal.
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While we were away on winter recess, some more pieces of democracy have been trashed or made ready for disposal.
Don’t you think it’s curious that while the rest of the developed world has created significant social safety nets, policy makers in the U.S. are still mired down in old-fashioned ideas that those who are poor or ill or old bring their misfortune on themselves?
The Republicans are really steamed now, because a recent Congressional Budget Office report on the U.S. fiscal and economic outlook contained two pieces of great news on the economic effects of the Affordable Care Act.
If you’re working your way through Eastern Michigan University and think your boss should raise your salary, you’re right. There are sound economic reasons why you should be earning a minimum of $22 an hour right now. Want to look closer?
Have you noticed how often simplistic solutions are offered, and generally accepted by the public, for even the most complex problems? “Cap ‘n Trade” for climate change, “austerity” for economic depression or “tests” for troubled schools, for example.
Great possibilities lie ahead this year. We need this to be a year of social innovation – overcoming the ill effects of the corporate world’s focus on technological innovation over the last two centuries.
Looking to the year ahead, wouldn’t it be great if we could take significant strides toward economic sustainability, peace and real justice for the people of our world?
Upward social and economic mobility used to be a hallmark of America’s working classes.
Are you not amazed at the Black Friday mobs of anxious, competitive, occasionally even violent shoppers rushing to crowd into the discount stores the day after Thanksgiving? It seems to me they’ve got more anger than cash, more vulnerability than good sense. Maybe we should take a closer look.
We can now see capitalism’s last crash, and indications are that it will be a spectacular disaster.
In September 2001 Osama bin Laden launched a terrorist attack on the heart of capitalism, when al-Qaida operatives flew passenger airliners into the World Trade Center. That horrendous disaster stunned Americans with more than 3,000 deaths, allowing George W. Bush to grab his chance to start the “War on Terror.”
Ever notice how difficult it is now to do good? Many do what’s politically expedient, or what they calculate is in their own self-interest. But doing good, especially working with others to stop the effects of economic violence on our citizens, can earn a pretty sharp rap on the knuckles from the boss, the police and the media.
What can we do in a democracy with the “1 percent,” or aristocracy? How can we preserve the values of freedom and equality when those with power and money are insensitive to others’ needs and bent on reducing everyone else to poverty?
Everybody talks about the need for higher education, especially how it’s supposed to bring graduates higher paying jobs. But is this just a come-on designed to redistribute wealth from the middle class to the banks?
Does the U.S. pursue a moral purpose in the world any longer, or are we just another schoolyard bully?
Caution: We’re being invaded by aliens from inner space. Yes, it’s something we’re doing to ourselves. But don’t panic; let me explain.