“More than a decade after George W Bush launched it, the “war on terror” was supposed to be winding down. US military occupation of Iraq has ended and Nato is looking for a way out of Afghanistan, even as the carnage continues. But another war – the undeclared drone war that has already killed thousands [...]
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It’s a First! Most unemployed Americans attended at least some college, for the first time ever
Posted in corruption, Economics, Economics, recession, education, income redistribution, Occupy, taxes, trade, trade deficit, Uncategorized, wealth redistribution, tagged college, free trade treaties, high school, income redistribution, Ron Wyden, unemployment on Jpm5000000pmSun, 27 May 2012 20:22:15 +000012 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What will you achieve if you take out student loans, go to college, improve your skills and get ahead of your competition? For the first time in US history, you’ll most likely get a ton of student loan debt and join your competition in a place on a very long unemployment line. But the affluent [...]
America’s Middle Class Tax Morality
Posted in Economics, income redistribution, taxes, the Rigged Game, tagged middle class, morality, Taxes, United States on Jam5000000amFri, 25 May 2012 09:03:18 +000012 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Taxes! Taxes! Taxes! Guess what? Taxes are a way of paying government services, but they’re also a way of voicing group solidarity. A study shows the truth of this. Click on the link below. America's middle-class tax morality
Citizen’s United Under Legal Attack
Posted in Economics, goldman sachs, Mitt Romney, Occupy, the Rigged Game, Uncategorized, wealth redistribution, tagged Attack, Citizen's United, corruption, income redistribution, supreme court on Jpm5000000pmSun, 20 May 2012 21:46:20 +000012 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The corrupt corporate wing of the supreme court ruled that coporations were people and that they could raise bazillions of dollars to bribe politicians without disclosing who their contributors were. The founding fathers would’ve been aghast at these easily bribed justices, bribed either with money, or access to economic royality, or other reasons. However, now [...]
How the poor are made to pay for their poverty in the USA
Posted in corruption, Economics, immigration, the Rigged Game, tagged government, poor, Private, rob on Jpm5000000pmFri, 18 May 2012 12:20:12 +000012 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s well known that private businesses soak the poor. What’s less well known is that the government does it as well. “The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal, and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators. Employers, for example, can simply program their computers to shave a few dollars off [...]
