Tuesday Afternoon
Tuesday Afternoon's Journal
The radio was playing but, I do remember the song I that was playing when
I smoked my first joint and, oddly enough, it was ...
The Billion Dollar a Month Club: A Runaway Transfer of Wealth to the Super-Rich
Our national wealth has grown by an astonishing $30 trillion since the recession, but most of it has gone to people who were already wealthy.
We are living through a massive redistribution of America's net worth to the beneficiaries of a financial industry that has used cunning and money and power to impose their version of economic "freedom" while deregulating any policies that might have stopped the incessant transfer of wealth.
It's getting worse, by the year and by the month. President Obama's claim that "We've recovered faster and come farther than almost any other advanced country on Earth" applies largely to the people whose wealth accumulation has dramatically pulled up the averages. The evidence is staring us in the face, but the super-rich are only watching their portfolios.
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The rest of us own a smaller and smaller share of a nation that we, and our ancestors before us, all helped to build. Unprincipled members of business and government have taken away the financial regulations and progressive taxes that once protected the majority of Americans. It has been argued that a Financial Speculation Tax might be the best approach to stop the wealth transfer carnage. We have to do something. The splitting of our society is nearly beyond repair.
more at link:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/10/billion-dollar-month-club-runaway-transfer-wealth-super-rich
Military healthcare (TriCare) is supported by Tax Dollars. If we are not healthy enough to
work and make enough money to support our Military then the House Of Cards will cave in on itself.
We all need to support each other.
We all need the same HealthCare.
How hard is this to understand?
Our candidates did not have the courage of their convinctions. And they suck at
campaigning. Honestly, we should consider hiring Campaign Managers away from Repubs.
What Shakespeare Character Are You?
You are Luciana“That love I begg'd for you he begg'd of me.”
You are a textbook idealist. When you fall in love, it is head over heels...and usually, it's love at first sight! No matter, since you are all heedless optimism and idealism. As a result, you can be a bit sensitive and your heart (and ego!) has been bruised more than once. Your friends value you for your good nature and positive outlook on life. You can be sneaky and crafty when you go after what you want, and it doesn't always turn out how you expect - but it does always ends up for the best!
- See more at: http://www.americanshakespearecenter.com/quiz/#sthash.oSFAPhIT.MFmbzPB0.dpuf
Courage of Their Convictions.
would be the phrase.
When one has it, they sound strong, brave, fearless.
Granted The TeaParty Repubs sound Crazy with what they have chosen to be convinced in but, the courage of it comes through and that is what is attractive to people.
Irony.
Today my window for changing my insurance opened and, I was able to compare plans.
I qualify for ObamaCare.
ObamaCare will be half the price and includes Dental.
HALF.THE.PRICE.AND.INCLUDES DENTAL
and I have to watch this mid-term election?
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