Our last – and best ever – Mayor is busy on Facebook today and found this. Thanks, Ed!
And that has nothing at all to do with why so many working people in the US get food and health care assistance. Nothing at all.
Our last – and best ever – Mayor is busy on Facebook today and found this. Thanks, Ed!
And that has nothing at all to do with why so many working people in the US get food and health care assistance. Nothing at all.
Posted in economy, labor, Politics, the poor
Tagged income inequality, labor, Minimum wage, Politics, working poor
I just picked this up from Bartcop, where someone else picked it up from a facebook post. There was no link.
I’d add that it took street marches, protests and violence for over 30 years until women got the right to vote in 1920. Later, mountains of anti-discrimination legislation resulted from the feminist protest movement of the 70’s.
That’s the way stuff happens. That’s the way we were born as a nation.
Posted in Civics, corporate power, Current Events, economy, feminism, History, Occupy Wall Street, Plutocrats, Politics, the future, the nation
Tagged history, income inequality, OWS, political reform, protest movements
I go back and forth with New York Times columnist David Brooks – he’s occasionally witty or even wise, but is more often the master of pretending that things that do matter, don’t.
Today Brooks is at his absolutely most dishonest as he pretends to answer a question that’s never asked. Ever.
Foreign tourists are coming up to me on the streets and asking, “David, you have so many different kinds of inequality in your country. How can I tell which are socially acceptable and which are not?”
Huh?
Who the Elvis asks such a question? We all know the question that’s really being asked, but that would be inconvenient to answer. So we have column committing the sin of fakery, and full of meaningless nonsense. I do miss Anthony Lewis.
Posted in economy, Media, Occupy Wall Street, the nation
Tagged income inequality, Media, op eds, OWS