Weak Economic Recovery is Because of the Mal-Distribution of Income and Wealth

The US unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent in April as the economy created a modest 115,000 jobs, official figures showed Friday, the eve of President Barack Obama’s maiden reelection rally. Despite the meager job creation, the Labor Department data showed unemployment at the lowest level in over three years. But the report will do [...]

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Why Are Teacher Cut Backs Coming? Blame Free Trade Agreements

The Oregonian writer Steve Duin wrote a nice piece about teacher cutbacks at Franklin High School coming in the next few months. He only told the effects, and I asked him to write about what has caused these cutbacks. Below is a link to his well written column, and below that is my response. At [...]

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How badly has wealth and income been redistributed by the US government over the last thirty years

How unequal is the redistribution of income and wealth in US? The Guardian of the United Kingdom has posted the story and animated the key data – see what it says. But before you begin, let it be stated unequivocally; income and wealth distribution is primarily brought about by the golden rule of politics. He [...]

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U.S. set for fourth year in a row of $1 trillion-plus deficit According to the Congressional Budget Office

The United States isn’t heading for a economic disaster, not yet anyway since were still in one, but it is heading toward another trillion dollar deficit. You’d think the folks in Washington would figure out that redistributing income and wealth from productive working people to the unproductive parasites of the affluent class reduces the demand [...]

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Globalization is the Ultimate Income Redistribution Scam

By now it’s obvious globalization has just been a way to redistribute income from those who work for a living to the rich. The corporations of the rich send jobs from higher wage nations to the lowest wage countries, and the difference between the old wages and the new is pocketed by the rich. It’s [...]

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Obama Announces A New, Leaner, US Corporate Welfare Program for the Rich via the Military

The US has the most bloated, corruption inspired military in the world. It’s a massive welfare and income redistribution program for rich people. Every missile built represents profit for the one percent. Likewise, every soldier killed represents profit for the one percent. When that soldier dies, or is maimed and unable to kill effectively anymore, [...]

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Hey Rich Dummies! The Middle Class Grows the Economy While the Affluent Weaken It

The demand for goods and services creates jobs and nothing else matters, more or less. That’s why the middle and lower classes, or as we like to say, the 99 percent, are the jobs creators. The rich are the job destroyers. That’s why thirty years of trickle down economics has gotten us into another Republican [...]

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The Best Master’s (Graduate) Degrees With Which to Get a Job

By John Hively Here are the ten best master’s degrees to have if you want to get a job, at least according to Forbes magazine. However, there are things Forbes never mentioned, most likely because they didn’t want to offend the sensibilities of their corporate advertisers or the magazine’s libertarian CEO, Steve Forbes. Take computer [...]

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Economic Lies of the Republican: Tax Cuts for the Rich Don’t Create Jobs, They Destroy Jobs and Redistribute Income From Working People to the Rich: Here’s How

By John Hively Republicans have long championed the idea that tax cuts for the rich create jobs. We know that’s a lie. The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy created negative private sector job growth for the last ten years. They also helped to send us spiraling into the current slow motion 2nd Great Depression. [...]

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Thousands of College Students March In London Against Cuts In University Funding Brought About by Offsourcing Jobs for the Rich

Note from John Hively–England’s economic problems are similar to the United States. Jobs have been shipped overseas and the difference between the old wages in England and the new wages elsewhere is pocketed by the rich in the form of dividends and higher stock prices. Think about this. The rich person receives the income from [...]

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