Elizabeth Warren Says Corporations are not People

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One Month After it Took Affect, Guess How Much of Our Money the South Korea Free Trade Treaty Redistributed to the Rich

The U.S. deficit in trade with South Korea tripled in April, the first full month after their free trade agreement went into effect, the Commerce Department said Friday. That suggest a ton of jobs are being or are going to be shipped away. The difference in compensation between the old jobs here and the newly shipped away jobs there will be redistributed from the 99 percent to the 1 percent via higher corporate profits, rising dividends and soaring share prices.

The accord, called KORUS FTA, has been in effect since March 15. Officials in the both sides say that the implementation of the free trade agreement (FTA) is going smoothly. However, what they really mean is that the process of redistributing income from the 99 percent to the 1 percent is going “smoothly.”

According to the department’s April trade data, the U.S. recorded a deficit of $1.8 billion, with imports totaling about $5.5 billion and exports $3.7 billion.

In March, the U.S. goods deficit with South Korea stood at $0.6 billion and in April last year the deficit was $1 billion.

On the trade of cars and auto parts, which has drawn keen public attention, the U.S. deficit with South Korea jumped to $1.65 billion in April from $1.45 billion the previous month.

Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer and Senator Ron Wyden knowingly voted to redistribute income when they voted for the treaty.

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Video and Lyrics Below; The Group Flogging Molly Has it Right: The Times They Are a Changing

Our government has been captured by organized money, and it’s easier to organize money than people. We need to fight back by organizing people. We lost the Wisconsin recall of Scott Walker because of election fraud. That night we won, but the Diebold machines that counted the votes stole the election from us.

So we need to organize better so that we can change the times. Check out the video below. The lyrics to the song are below the video.

Lyrics to The Times They Are A-Changin’ :
(Bob Dylan)

Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who
That it’s namin’.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin’.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’.

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