The Chinese dragon eating its own tail, symbolizing our current world wide Economic design, will completely devour itself without an upgrade of energy definitions, applications, and a return to Wisdom (i.e., ability to survive)............. The Zeitgeist assessment of current affairs are widely accurate, but choke the range of future possibilities with our contemporary narrow energy definition. http://freedomtimes.blogspot.com/2011/02/zeitgeist-movement-extremely-limited.html The Promise of Energy for Everyone
Wisconsin: The First Stop in An American Uprising? It took a while, but Wisconsin shows that the poor and middle class of the U.S. may be ready to push back. Madison may be only the beginning. “We demand that before the hard-working, tax-paying families of this country are once again forced to sacrifice, the corporations who have so richly profited from our labor, our patronage, and our bailouts be compelled to pay their taxes and contribute their fair share to the continued prosperity of our nation. We will organize, we will mobilize, and we will NOT be quiet!”
The goal, according to a statement on the US Uncut website, is “to draw attention to the fact that Bank of America received $45 billion in government bailout funds while funneling its tax dollars into 115 offshore tax havens [...] And to highlight the fact that the poor and middle class are now paying for this largess through drastic government cuts.”
The Politics of Class Warfare
Across the country, the poor and middle class have suffered from the economic collapse: jobs disappeared, mortgages sank underneath debt, and opportunities for a college education evaporated. Much of the bailout that was supposed to fix the economy went to the very institutions that caused the collapse. Many of these institutions are now using tax loopholes and offshore tax shelters to avoid paying taxes.
The tide may now be turning. Inspired by people-power movements around the world, people in the United States are beginning push back. The poor and middle class, those who didn't cause the collapse but have felt the most pain from the poor economy, are now being asked to sacrifice again..............
Can't get blood from a turnip retired workers are told regarding pension cutoff
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/20/sunday/main20034120.shtml?tag=cbsContent;cbsCarousel
The Pension Crisis: Promises unkept
After decades of working for Prichard, Ala., retirees receive no pension payments, are told "You can't draw blood from a turnip"
Begining to look like the so-called terrorists whose goal we are told is to destroy America and constitutional freedoms, have become insignificant WANABES, in contrast to the "Doers" who are indirectly accomplishing this task, the ones flush with obscene CASH and Profits (no not the bought and paid for national, state, local governments who are also moving toward bankruptcy). Who are these "Doers", these non-tax paying, non living entities who have sucked up all (98%) of the CASH and continue to create Al Capone's casino joint hedge fund atmosphere on Wall Street?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/governors-slashing-spending-cash-strapped-states/story?id=12897157
Cash-Strapped States Facing Budget Crises Governors Facing Tough Decisions
Republican, Democratic Govs Vow Spending Cuts, No New Taxes in Order to Balance Budget
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41781471/ns/business-bloomberg_businessweek U.S. recovery that is built on low-paying jobs AThe economy is not creating opportunities
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/borderless-economy-jobless-prosperity/?hp Why has the economic recovery left workers behind?
But however significant the benefits of globalization , the other side of the ledger reveals significant costs arising from political realignment and efforts to escape regulation and taxes.
Jobless growth is only one symptom of increased social conflict, intensified economic inequality and weakened democracy. The prosperity in jobless prosperity exists only for the rich.
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