In America The Smallest Minority “Rules the Roost”
We are a country of approximately 332,000,000 people. That’s three hundred and thirty two million. Yet, as Americans, we are controlled by the absolutely smallest minority in our country! The top one tenth of one percent!
(1/10 of 1%) They control almost everything that happens in this country.
Money, one of humanity’s worst inventions, has really thrown our country into a state of corruption from the top down. I believe that the American people are fed up and sick of it!
The FPOTUS, one of the rich and powerful, made it much worse with his nearly two TRILLION dollar tax cuts for the rich and reducing the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. His administration added well over 7 trillion to the deficit in just 4 years!!
And to all our Military Veterans, who I have the deepest respect for. Thank you for your service. As for those veterans who voted for Trump, doesn’t it mean anything to you that he has publicly stated that you are all Suckers and Losers? And he has defamed John McCain and General Milley! He has NO respect for our Military or our Veterans! You all took an oath to the Constitution.
In remarks at a farewell ceremony in his honor, outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Mark Milley speaks about the chain of command and the military's oath to the Constitution. "We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant, or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator...We take an oath to the Constitution...and we're willing to die to protect it”.
The Republican Party’s only objective, at the behest of Trump, is to impeach President Biden!
They have done nothing to help the American people!
Average working Americans are making their voices heard. Most recently the United Auto Workers’ strike. And President Biden has their back!
Now that Kevin McCarthy has been removed as Speaker of the House there are rumors that the Republicans will try to replace McCarthy with Trump! Supposedly you don’t have to be a member of the House to be Speaker.
If and when the ADULTS take back control of the country’s leadership in the House of Representatives they, the Senators and the President need to make some serious amendments to the constitution.
I’m disappointed that even Joe Biden joining a picket line for labor did not generate any in-depth coverage in the prime time news cycle. Moneyed interests owning the media?
The media will not cover such things because 1) they are owned by many of the same corporations or include the same Board members who believe they will be negatively impacted if we reduce the absurd extent to which their wealth is derived from wage suppression, regulatory capture, the elimination of protections against monopolies, and tax policies that were purchased, and 2) part of them fears if we start challenging consolidated power in America, surely the media itself will become a target.
Biden and Dems are chipping away at things, but it's the people who need to get back out there and Occupy the streets, parks and everywhere else to demand an end to the lie behind the immense wealth in this country. At the heart of all of this is the now indisputable fact that America's true engine of wealth creation is dressing up exploitation as innovation.
If we want to level the economic disparity in our current class system, Labor Unions are key.
Biden’s work to rejuvenate legal protections for working and middle class people that improve wages and working conditions is fundamental to restoring equality in our country. But too many Americans don’t understand their economic self interest, having bought into the concept that self reliance is proof of independence , believing Unions rob people of their liberty. A crucial reset in attitudes is unified effort is necessary to effect change when confronted with the divide and conquer strategy employed by corporations .
The"news"is mostly gossip,junk reporting and protecting multi billionaire idiots with no care or concern about how their reporting harms people or community.
Of course the news system is dominated by a handful of insanely wealthy people,whose only objective is to protect their interests above all else.
We don't hear enough about all the good that President Biden has done,because Trump is buddy- buddy with the wealthy people who own the newspapers,tv stations and cable stations,and they know he will let them continue to lie about what's really going on.So they return the favor, covering his antics, conspiracy theories,and boldface lies and suppressing the actual truth of what's really going on.
And people like Reagan took away the rules that used to govern what our news was,and this is what we have now,wall to wall coverage of a fascist wannabe lying as naturally as breathing and getting a free pass to destroy our democracy.And guess who benefits?Newsflash:it ain't us.
Without people like Prof.Stack we would likely not have any idea what we're up against.I also find that if you watch outlets like BBC News and PBS News you're more likely to find out things that our national news leaves out on purpose.
Be picky about what you read and listen to,and read between the lines.And don't let these billionaires make you believe that only they can be right.
Once more for the Dems in the back, why are you so pitifully slow and unable to hire marketing whizzes who can shout and tout your achievements and address media bias with their own? I mean it's ridiculously sophomoric at this stage. If it was unconscionable for the Church authorities at the time of Galileo to refuse to look thru his 30 power telescope to see the phases of Venus( and thus overturn the Ptolemaic dogma that beyond the moon the heavenly realms were immutable), today it is unconscionable for the Dems' authorities to be unable to see how to create even an eye catching sandwich board! This is not even Galilean astronomical science, let alone rocket science! Will someone explain to me please why the Dems seem unable to toot their own horns.?
The Corporate DNC shut Bernie down. He was winning the primaries and corporate Democrats in including corporate media feared Bernie because he was going after the status quo: Corporate interest controlling government. Bernie was beating Hillary in the polls against Trump. The DNC preferred a President Trump to a President Sanders. Biden would not have won without Bernie's supporters, and he won't win in 2024 without them. To get Bernie's support Biden signed an agreement to go after monopolies. Yes, Biden has made inroads, but he had little history or inclination to move in this direction before Bernie. Imagine how much more could have been accomplished if the only candidate that was not backed by corporate interests had won.
These actions by the Biden Administration needs to be highlighted by Biden administration. They can get him re-elected instead of the Saudi-Israeli deal and the push by Dermer for the Defense Pact.
Our Capitalistic system is totally immoral and we need to put Morality in it. The system should work for the betterment of Humanity and not just multiplying dollars.
Probably best to keep the Biden’s successes under wraps until the labor movement is strong enough to really make a difference. Why? So that the Republicans don’t pay attention to it until it is too late to screw it up. Frankly, I doubt tRump has a clue what any of the labor portions of government do or who rubs them. But his henchmen do. Fortunately they are a little busy right now trying to buy tRump some wins in the courts and wreaking havoc in Congress.
Mainstream media is part of this evil. They do not want Biden to win. Don’t be fooled. Vote for someone who is working for you and making your life better. You don’t have to like him. He’s not going to invite you over for dinner and he may be old, but he knows what he is doing. The other guy is a maniac.
The voice of Corporate America dollar for dollar out spends human citizens on a gigantic scale no wonder such crazy repressive laws are past that are only in the best interest of large corporations, and
I got this from the Guardian British news source “
Rightwing group behind regressive US state laws to face protest at DC gala
Rights groups to rally outside event, calling on corporations to cut ties with American Legislative Exchange Council
Nina Lakhani
@ninalakhani
Wed 4 Oct 2023 17.05 EDT
A broad coalition of opponents to the rightwing corporate agenda of the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) will hold a rally on Wednesday night outside a glitzy gala event to celebrate the secretive group’s 50th anniversary.
US President Biden speaks on cancelling student debt<br>epa10900015 US President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks on his administration's efforts to cancel student debt and support students and borrowers, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 04 October 2023. President Biden has approved an additional $9 billion in debt relief for an additional 125,000 student loan borrowers. EPA/SHAWN THEW
Biden cancels additional $9bn in student loan debt
Read more
Environmentalists, gun reform campaigners, union leaders and voting rights activists will protest outside the $750-a-ticket event at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, calling on corporations to cut ties with Alec – a tax-exempt group behind a slew of regressive state laws including the stand your ground gun legislation, right-to-work labor policies and so-called critical infrastructure protections that criminalize protest against fossil fuel polluters.
At least now we have an idea of the organization and funding operation being used Legally to keep us down ...
The link between wealth and power over policy is America’s biggest challenge. Reasonable wealth is OK but not power!!
The disappearance of a middle economic class has been the demise of every nation- even Persia. All nations need their resources for schools, child health and health care in general, infrastructure, policy/equality enforcement (FAA,FTC, FCC, etc, ), public safety, and civic education to maintain election involvement and validity. Freedom of press requires Fact Checking!!!!!
And how about the Constitutional update every ten years that was suggested by our founding fathers. Not once yet.
Thanks Bob Reich for keeping it before our ears and eyes!
In America The Smallest Minority “Rules the Roost”
We are a country of approximately 332,000,000 people. That’s three hundred and thirty two million. Yet, as Americans, we are controlled by the absolutely smallest minority in our country! The top one tenth of one percent!
(1/10 of 1%) They control almost everything that happens in this country.
Money, one of humanity’s worst inventions, has really thrown our country into a state of corruption from the top down. I believe that the American people are fed up and sick of it!
The FPOTUS, one of the rich and powerful, made it much worse with his nearly two TRILLION dollar tax cuts for the rich and reducing the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. His administration added well over 7 trillion to the deficit in just 4 years!!
And to all our Military Veterans, who I have the deepest respect for. Thank you for your service. As for those veterans who voted for Trump, doesn’t it mean anything to you that he has publicly stated that you are all Suckers and Losers? And he has defamed John McCain and General Milley! He has NO respect for our Military or our Veterans! You all took an oath to the Constitution.
In remarks at a farewell ceremony in his honor, outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Mark Milley speaks about the chain of command and the military's oath to the Constitution. "We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant, or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator...We take an oath to the Constitution...and we're willing to die to protect it”.
The Republican Party’s only objective, at the behest of Trump, is to impeach President Biden!
They have done nothing to help the American people!
Average working Americans are making their voices heard. Most recently the United Auto Workers’ strike. And President Biden has their back!
Now that Kevin McCarthy has been removed as Speaker of the House there are rumors that the Republicans will try to replace McCarthy with Trump! Supposedly you don’t have to be a member of the House to be Speaker.
If and when the ADULTS take back control of the country’s leadership in the House of Representatives they, the Senators and the President need to make some serious amendments to the constitution.
I’m disappointed that even Joe Biden joining a picket line for labor did not generate any in-depth coverage in the prime time news cycle. Moneyed interests owning the media?
Why don't we hear much from the MSM about Biden's war on monopolistic big business?
Answer: Look who owns them.
In 2024, vote blue across the board; give Biden a second term and two houses of Congress to carry out his policies.
The media will not cover such things because 1) they are owned by many of the same corporations or include the same Board members who believe they will be negatively impacted if we reduce the absurd extent to which their wealth is derived from wage suppression, regulatory capture, the elimination of protections against monopolies, and tax policies that were purchased, and 2) part of them fears if we start challenging consolidated power in America, surely the media itself will become a target.
Biden and Dems are chipping away at things, but it's the people who need to get back out there and Occupy the streets, parks and everywhere else to demand an end to the lie behind the immense wealth in this country. At the heart of all of this is the now indisputable fact that America's true engine of wealth creation is dressing up exploitation as innovation.
If we want to level the economic disparity in our current class system, Labor Unions are key.
Biden’s work to rejuvenate legal protections for working and middle class people that improve wages and working conditions is fundamental to restoring equality in our country. But too many Americans don’t understand their economic self interest, having bought into the concept that self reliance is proof of independence , believing Unions rob people of their liberty. A crucial reset in attitudes is unified effort is necessary to effect change when confronted with the divide and conquer strategy employed by corporations .
The"news"is mostly gossip,junk reporting and protecting multi billionaire idiots with no care or concern about how their reporting harms people or community.
Of course the news system is dominated by a handful of insanely wealthy people,whose only objective is to protect their interests above all else.
We don't hear enough about all the good that President Biden has done,because Trump is buddy- buddy with the wealthy people who own the newspapers,tv stations and cable stations,and they know he will let them continue to lie about what's really going on.So they return the favor, covering his antics, conspiracy theories,and boldface lies and suppressing the actual truth of what's really going on.
And people like Reagan took away the rules that used to govern what our news was,and this is what we have now,wall to wall coverage of a fascist wannabe lying as naturally as breathing and getting a free pass to destroy our democracy.And guess who benefits?Newsflash:it ain't us.
Without people like Prof.Stack we would likely not have any idea what we're up against.I also find that if you watch outlets like BBC News and PBS News you're more likely to find out things that our national news leaves out on purpose.
Be picky about what you read and listen to,and read between the lines.And don't let these billionaires make you believe that only they can be right.
Once more for the Dems in the back, why are you so pitifully slow and unable to hire marketing whizzes who can shout and tout your achievements and address media bias with their own? I mean it's ridiculously sophomoric at this stage. If it was unconscionable for the Church authorities at the time of Galileo to refuse to look thru his 30 power telescope to see the phases of Venus( and thus overturn the Ptolemaic dogma that beyond the moon the heavenly realms were immutable), today it is unconscionable for the Dems' authorities to be unable to see how to create even an eye catching sandwich board! This is not even Galilean astronomical science, let alone rocket science! Will someone explain to me please why the Dems seem unable to toot their own horns.?
The Corporate DNC shut Bernie down. He was winning the primaries and corporate Democrats in including corporate media feared Bernie because he was going after the status quo: Corporate interest controlling government. Bernie was beating Hillary in the polls against Trump. The DNC preferred a President Trump to a President Sanders. Biden would not have won without Bernie's supporters, and he won't win in 2024 without them. To get Bernie's support Biden signed an agreement to go after monopolies. Yes, Biden has made inroads, but he had little history or inclination to move in this direction before Bernie. Imagine how much more could have been accomplished if the only candidate that was not backed by corporate interests had won.
Again, Mr. Reich speaks truth to power!
In addition, breaking up
monopolies helps small businesses which make up 50% of the private sector employment.
These actions by the Biden Administration needs to be highlighted by Biden administration. They can get him re-elected instead of the Saudi-Israeli deal and the push by Dermer for the Defense Pact.
Our Capitalistic system is totally immoral and we need to put Morality in it. The system should work for the betterment of Humanity and not just multiplying dollars.
Probably best to keep the Biden’s successes under wraps until the labor movement is strong enough to really make a difference. Why? So that the Republicans don’t pay attention to it until it is too late to screw it up. Frankly, I doubt tRump has a clue what any of the labor portions of government do or who rubs them. But his henchmen do. Fortunately they are a little busy right now trying to buy tRump some wins in the courts and wreaking havoc in Congress.
Mainstream media is part of this evil. They do not want Biden to win. Don’t be fooled. Vote for someone who is working for you and making your life better. You don’t have to like him. He’s not going to invite you over for dinner and he may be old, but he knows what he is doing. The other guy is a maniac.
VOTE!
DUMP TREASONOUS, TERRORIST, AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE, AND JAIL CRIMINAL RTRUMP AND CRONIES
American Legislative Exchange Council
The voice of Corporate America dollar for dollar out spends human citizens on a gigantic scale no wonder such crazy repressive laws are past that are only in the best interest of large corporations, and
The RICH..Owners VS The Human Beings
I got this from the Guardian British news source “
Rightwing group behind regressive US state laws to face protest at DC gala
Rights groups to rally outside event, calling on corporations to cut ties with American Legislative Exchange Council
Nina Lakhani
@ninalakhani
Wed 4 Oct 2023 17.05 EDT
A broad coalition of opponents to the rightwing corporate agenda of the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) will hold a rally on Wednesday night outside a glitzy gala event to celebrate the secretive group’s 50th anniversary.
US President Biden speaks on cancelling student debt<br>epa10900015 US President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks on his administration's efforts to cancel student debt and support students and borrowers, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 04 October 2023. President Biden has approved an additional $9 billion in debt relief for an additional 125,000 student loan borrowers. EPA/SHAWN THEW
Biden cancels additional $9bn in student loan debt
Read more
Environmentalists, gun reform campaigners, union leaders and voting rights activists will protest outside the $750-a-ticket event at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, calling on corporations to cut ties with Alec – a tax-exempt group behind a slew of regressive state laws including the stand your ground gun legislation, right-to-work labor policies and so-called critical infrastructure protections that criminalize protest against fossil fuel polluters.
At least now we have an idea of the organization and funding operation being used Legally to keep us down ...
The link between wealth and power over policy is America’s biggest challenge. Reasonable wealth is OK but not power!!
The disappearance of a middle economic class has been the demise of every nation- even Persia. All nations need their resources for schools, child health and health care in general, infrastructure, policy/equality enforcement (FAA,FTC, FCC, etc, ), public safety, and civic education to maintain election involvement and validity. Freedom of press requires Fact Checking!!!!!
And how about the Constitutional update every ten years that was suggested by our founding fathers. Not once yet.
Thanks Bob Reich for keeping it before our ears and eyes!
John Livingstone