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Scuba
(53,475 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)okieinpain
(9,397 posts)that don't give a shit about people.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)In fact, if it were possible to implement a worldwide minimum wage, can you imagine how many problems that would solve? Clearly, it would probably be next to impossible to do, but one can always dream...
bvar22
(39,909 posts)We have no control over the WORLD,
but we should have some control over the rules, regulations, and legislation that govern International, interstate, and local "trade" in our own damn country.
*We should be able to implement regulations that allow Mom & Pop (locally owned businesses) to compete with Walmart (Big Boxes) on a level playing field in our own damn country.
*We should be able to have minimum living wages and benefits in our own damned country.
*We should be able to have regulations against predatory pricing, profits, and gouging in our own country.
*We should be able to set the standard for the World to match instead of racing to the bottom to match the standards of 3rd World Slave labor countries.
*We should be able to have a Tax Structure that discourages extreme personal profits, and encourages re-investment in payrolls and benefits for employees in our own damn country. (70% -90% top bracket, Capital gains taxed as income)
If we had a political party that represented America's Working Class
we could have all that ....AGAIN
SEE: The 1960s
You will know them by their [font size=3]WORKS.[/font]
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)But of course first you'd have to get enough power together to re-write the TPP.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)...who will be more than happy to have their people work in Slave Labor Sweat Shops for the "rewards & riches" paid by Global Corporations to allow them to exploit the labor and resources of their countries.
ALWAYS.
As long as the Global Corporations, the Global Banks, and the IMF are allowed to BUY these corrupt 3rd World Countries and use NATO as their Enforcement Arm (SEE: Iraq, Libya), they WILL continue to do so.
We can not control The World.
We are trying to control just a little piece of it now,
and THAT has bankrupted us,
and destroyed OUR Working Class which has been reduced to begging minimum wage McJobs,
which was predicted by Ross Perot in 1992 to a smiling Bill Clinton who could "feel our pain".
Our only hope is to use our HUGE Working Class & Poor Majorities (95%) to control OUR country,
and set a WORLD example of HIGH wages and GOOD benefits (like we had in the 60s).
Then let the 3rd World take care of itself by revolting against and killing the 1% parasites in their countries.
Latin America is showing us HOW to do this with their near bloodless Ballot Box Revolutions. They have successfully taken their countries back from the hands of the parasitic 1%, and given the Blue Print to us.
(But you won't hear about THAT from our MSM,
OR either dominant Political Party.)
When the American Working Class and The Poor realize WE have more in common with each other than we have in common with the 1% Ruling Elite and their Mouth Pieces in Washington, THEN we can have "change".
As long as "they" can keep us divided with the Kabuki Theater on "Social" Issues, the Economic Status Quo will prevail with Window Dressing advancements on the "Social" Issues Showcased as "Progress".
The RICH could give a fuck about it either way as long as it doesn't cost them a nickle, and are more than happy to let the debate & divide in America be about "Social Issues" or who gets to have a gun.
The BIGGEST Social Issue IS Economic Injustice.
Every Social Issue is a subset of THIS Over Riding issue that will NEVER be addressed until we MAKE them.
Please do NOT buy in to the fantasy that One Great BIG "Free Trade" Extravaganza (the Ring that will Bind Them) will make everything OK.
You KNOW who is designing this shit,
and you KNOW in your heart exactly WHAT is will do.
You have NO reason to trust these people,
and the fact that the "negotiations" are TOP SECRET, and advocates For the People are Locked OUT should be enough to make you run and hide.
We NEED to stop this!
Sadly, I believe that this (and the Keystone Pipeline) are already a Done Deal. The only thing left is for the Kabuki Theater to play out to foster the illusion that "we" ever had a choice.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)And, in general, you're delineating the circumstances I was referring to when I commented,
"But of course first you'd have to get enough power together to re-write the TPP."
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Big corporations are taking wealth from America, but they are not contributing.
k&r
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calimary
(80,700 posts)And Bookmarked, too, while I'm at it.
Michigan-Arizona
(762 posts)-p
bluedeathray
(511 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(8,998 posts)Charlie maneuvered him into saying Romney (as head of Bain Capital) would be able to help business more and therefore the economy. I sense another run from him and a strong counter to what Bernie Sanders is saying. I'm still unsure of why we are being held hostage, but think this exchange helps explain it. They may truly believe they are the good guys and we should be thankful to their giving us any jobs at all.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)NealK
(1,791 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)The Wal-mart mentality just pushes the cost of survival of the workers, off onto the government, while the profits for the company pile up.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)Of destroying the environemnt, of funding climate change deniers, of eroding the last vestiges of our Constitution.
Not even voting Republican causes as much damage as a Wall St investment to our country and our world.
Why there is no such thing as a liberal investor. Anything that touches it is corrupted.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Go Bernie! I watch your segment every Friday on Thom Hartmann. You're awesome! If we could get a Senate full of Bernies and a Liz Warrens and the House too, things could turn around.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)Sanders/Warren, 2016!
midnight
(26,624 posts)tokenlib
(4,186 posts)..makes a lot more sense than some of the targets they send drones to.
samplegirl
(11,415 posts)IkeRepublican
(406 posts)Sanders rocks. But, we all know that.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)HelenWheels
(2,284 posts)If every one on DU would give Bernie $5--10 it would probably insure his reelection. If he saw this level of support it would encourage him to run in his next election.