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Corporate Welfare Nearly

Wattree — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:27:48 +0000

Corporate Welfare Nearly Double the Cost of Social Programs

About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006.

http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/corporate-welfare/corporate-welfare-statistics-vs-social-welfare-statistics/

Demographics Are Against the GOP, So They’ve Become Dangerous

http://wattree.blogspot.com/2014/04/demographics-are-against-gop-so-theyve.html

Corporate Welfare for Wal-Mart

http://www.progress.org/tpr/corporate-welfare-scandal-hits-wal-mart/

The trust fund babies and

trkingmomoe — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 13:25:07 +0000

In reply to Raising The Minimum Wage Only Treats Symptoms

The trust fund babies and corporations thought that if they got ride of unions that the population would have no way to demand higher wages. Now the population is putting pressure on government to raise wages by law. Wages will go up because the workers need a basic standard of living and will fight for them. They have done it in the past and will do it in the future.

Wattree, I fully support the

Danny Cardwell — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:22:14 +0000

In reply to Danny,

Thanks for commenting!

Wattree, I fully support the

Danny Cardwell — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:44:19 +0000

In reply to Danny,

Wattree, I fully support the idea of some sort of legislation that not only protects workers, but also empowers them. There are adjustments to labor laws we can make to facilitate the creation of a workers bill of rights; I hope we can find enough politicians who aren't on the take to support these kinds of ideas.

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Resistance — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 04:10:49 +0000

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Resistance — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 04:09:00 +0000

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So you think it's funny; that

Resistance — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 04:08:29 +0000

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So you think it's funny; that the banker class got bailed out and got the gold, while the peasant class got the shaft?

Continued at bottom of page for those with selective memories.

When we put money in the

Resistance — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 03:59:51 +0000

In reply to Danny,

When we put money in the pockets of the poor and middle class it circulates. When we give it to the rich it goes into offshore accounts and we never see it again.

CIRCULATION ?

Immigrants Sending Money Back Home Face Fewer Options ...

www.npr.org/.../immigrants-sending-money-back-home-face-fewer-op...

NPR

Jul 9, 2014 - The giant remittances economy — which consists of folks, mainly immigrants, sending money across borders — has been expanding for years.

World Bank projects that global remittances will rise to $681 billion,

Illegal Aliens Sent $21.6 Billion in Cash Back to Mexico in ...

Fly Away: Illegal aliens taking U.S. jobs sent tens of billions out of the country, draining the U.S. economy.

Oh my my . . .

oldenGoldenDecoy — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 02:40:07 +0000

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Oh my my . . .

~OGD~

Danny,

Wattree — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:53:33 +0000

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Danny,

What we need is a workers' bill of rights in this country. If a company wants to do business the United States, they should have to pay workers a certain wage and maintain certain level of employment based on the revenue that they are pulling from the economy. If the company doesn't want to do that, they should clear out and open up the market to someone who is willing to make just a billion dollars in profit instead of 100 billion. In 1965, CEOs were paid only 20.1 times more than the average worker. Today they make 231 times the average worker (http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2012/09/redistribution-wealth-has-gone-upward-not-down-early-80s).

We need to stop buying into the proposition that if we just make people rich enough they'll take care of us. We need to take care of ourselves, and our lower and middle-class workers. Then when they spend their money on goods and services and pay their taxes we'll have a thriving economy again. When we put money in the pockets of the poor and middle class it circulates. When we give it to the rich it goes into offshore accounts and we never see it again.

We're being sold a bill of goods. Corporations are making more profits than they ever made in history. So there's no reason for unemployment to be so high. They are corporatists are purposely keeping unemployment high in order to strangle the middle class into accepting a lower standard of living that is more in keeping with the global economy. So we need to make business dance to a different drummer if they want to do business in the United States. If they don't, let 'em do business somewhere else. There are others who will happily take their place, and for far less money.