Moyers & Company: Surviving the New American Economy

[limpyhobbler]

Bill Moyers has followed the stories of two Milwaukee families since 1991. Like thousands of others, they were caught in the powerful undertow of a merciless economy and a changing city, constantly faced with devastating challenges and difficult choices. Bill revisits his reports on these families, and also explores the human price of inequality with journalists Barbara Miner and Barbara Garson.

[Tonzi]

1. The American Dream, 99% was left out of.

Look taxes are collected to promote the general welfare. It was thought since Reaganomics of 1980's that the Job Creators deserve public policies implemented to receive public money, so they can invest and more easily disperse the money and wealth locally, so 30+ years later we have an equality problem because it didn't work, and they failed us with our own money. Power and money is at the top 1%. We can take our brain power, collective funds, and productivity of a skilled, highly educated workforce and invest into ourselves!

The Republicans have made the laws so that the taxpayers pay for their own training, education and even THEIR OWN WAGES through business tax credits, so business not only gets the rewards of high productivity but they receive the labor for free, and tax credits and deductions to build these businesses in our communities with taxpayer incentives of public funds for amenities such as public water, sewer, and road construction along with no taxes on earnings for years until they find a greener pasture full of tax incentives in the town next door. WAKE UP, WE ARE THE JOB CREATORS, and we've been working to FUND these businesses.

We need to build a financial community where we take our investment portfolios and everything we have left, and invest into a democratic socialistic financial institution and investment firm that is willing to use these same laws to create business we want, with our money and create jobs with living wages, instead of relying on the policies(politics) and the rich to change. We are fighting defensively, but we need an offensive strategy. Investing in and with our people would be a good start. After a couple of decades of progressive investing and buying or creating what we've lost, we can create an economy world wide with a focus on the pursuit of happiness over the pursuit of stability.

We are worth OUR effort.

[limpyhobbler]

3. Sounds good to me. Welcome to DU.

[ctsnowman]

2. K & R