chuckle8

that is one fix we could do, is to bring back our jobs to our country, at a Livable wage.

DAnneMarc

you are so right

Vegas56 -- Thank you for the blog and the links. I wish they would give the employment history of all domestic terrorists. I know the boston bombers were looking for a job for 2 years. I know the LAX shooter was looking for a job for a year.

Richard Wilkinson in this book the “Spirit Level why greater equality makes societies stronger”, and Thomas Piketty also explains in his book called “Capital the 21st Century”, the danger of inequality bring to societies can cause significant harm to the structure of countries, to be able to function at a level that does not destroy the average working family. The incident in Las Vegas this past weekend is proof of that.

This below came from Daily Kos

Thomas Jefferson was in France as Secretary of State just prior to the French Revolution. He saw the conditions that would eventually lead to that revolution and was taken: the hoarding of wealth, poor who could barely scrape up the wages for a meal, workers exploited by the rich for no good purpose.

He wrote James Madison a letter about these appalling conditions:

The property of this country is absolutely concentrated in a very few hands, having revenues of from half a million of guineas a year downwards. These employ the flower of the country as servants, some of them having as many as 200 domestics, not laboring.

They employ also a great number of manufacturers and tradesmen, and lastly the class of laboring husbandmen. But after all there comes the most numerous of all classes, that is, the poor who cannot find work.

Here is one more article from Daily Kos

Las vegas shooters leave a trail on social media

They only have to say, is that the government is coming to take your guns, the government wants to control your healthcare, the best way to return to your freedom is to privatize Social Security. All of these statements are a strawman argument. Which some of Americans do believe, and the only way to gain freedom is through a revolution, this is not the answer. The best way to return this country back to average Americans is do your own research, do not listen to the radical conservatives that's is only for the corporations of America. They will not try to promote more equality for American families, which who are the true back bone in the true job creators of this country, and not the top 1%, that only invest in the stock market and collect there dividend check setting around the pool having martinis, they will not build America back to a strong nation like we were before Pres. Ronald Reagan, but promote their own private interest instead.

This couple that did the attack in Las Vegas are America's terrorism that is created by inequality that we have in this country.

The Impact of Inequality

Why do people in more unequal societies have worse health and shorter lives than those in less unequal ones? Why do more unequal societies tend to have more violence and weaker community life? This paper discusses the research evidence on the psychosocial pathways which suggest how and why we are affected by inequality.

How big income differences are in any society seems to serve as an indicator of the scale of social differentiation and social distances within it. The evidence shows that more hierarchical societies incur a wide range of social costs reflecting the corrosive effects of inequality. But why are we so sensitive to inequality? Epidemiological research on health inequalities and the social determinants of health has demonstrated that the quality of the social environment has powerful effects on health. Particularly important are social status, friendship and early childhood experience. The indications are that poor health may share causal pathways with many other social problems associated with relative deprivation - including violence.

Richard G. Wilkinson

Here is more on how inequality affects trust, community life and violence,

Income inequality and health: pathways and mechanisms.

The relationship between income and health is well established: the higher an individual's income, the better his or her health. However, recent research suggests that health may also be affected by the distribution of income within society. We outline the potential mechanisms underlying the so-called relative income hypothesis, which predicts that an individual's health status is better in societies with a more equal distribution of incomes. The effects of income inequality on health may be mediated by underinvestment in social goods, such as public education and health care; disruption of social cohesion and the erosion of social capital; and the harmful psychosocial effects of invidious social comparisons.

The question we have before us, is how are we going to fix this, or are we going to just to pass it on to the future.

chuckle8 ~ What did Thom say? Did he agree with it or just politely say he had to look that up?

DAM -- The caller was very good. He had Thom almost believing him. One thing I forgot to mention that the caller said. He said there is only one plant that absorbs CO2 in its leaves. The plant was some tropical plant.

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chuckle8 ~ With all due respect the claim that photosynthesis occurs in the roots simply defies logic. You don't need to look that up to realize it can't be true. How can CO2 penetrate dirt to get to the roots?

If I buried your head you would suffocate quickly. Why? Because there is not enough gas inside of dirt to breath. If you can't breath, how can the roots?

I have no idea why the guy said what he did. If you could post a link to the call so I could hear it in it's entirety I might have a suggestion. Without that I can only assume he had a "hidden agenda of misinformation"; or, he himself was a victim of misinformation with an agenda. Determining what that agenda is would be very interesting. Personally I'd be more interested in hearing his point to that erroneous statement. I think that would shed a lot of light on what it was really all about.

Of course there is also the possibility that the poor guy was just clueless. He certainly wouldn't be the first such case to call Thom's show.

I need you all to define some things for me before I can reply.

What do you mean by "Working Class"? Is that manual laborers? Or anyone who makes their money selling their time? Would that include owners of businesses, who still have to work, even if it's just to do the behind-the-scenes paperwork?

I also need to know where you draw the line between employer and employee. For a chain store, the "employer" is, ultimately, the shareholders. Everyone else, from the cashiers to the store managers to the CEO, are "employees".

And, since this comes up a lot, what is a "fair share" of taxes someone should pay? Is it a percentage, or an absolute number? Is a $1,000 annual tax burden fair for some people, while a $10,000,000 annual tax burden is fair for others, as long as the percentages of their income are the same?

I just type the telephone number into Google Search...like xxx-xxx-xxxx and I will usually get a lot of hits some of which are useful to determine if the calls are scammers. Lots of other people get the same calls and post their comments about them. Some of those people have a message recorder and others try calling those numbers back. Other people have actually answered the calls and have reported who was calling. But some of those "whocalledme" web sites are scams themselves hoping that you will pay them money to get more information...but from what I've read...you usually don't get any more information than what you can get by surfing around.

One thing I've worried about is that by my typing that number into the search engine and clicking on some of those web sites, they may be collecting information about you anyway. Any time you connect to a web site they know your IP number, the kind of browser you are using, what operating system you're using, and probably your MAC address, as well as other information about you. And there are tools that they can use to snoop through your mail address list to steal your contacts. And, of course, they can do a lot more snooping than that as well.

Lots of people ranting on those web sites are hopping mad that even though they are on the "Do Not Call" list they still get calls.

Google used to have a reverse look-up service for phone numbers but they stopped because they claimed that too many people were complaining that it was a violation of their privacy and wanted to be removed from the listings. Yeah, I'll bet!..all those robo-caller owners didn't want people to know who they were. AT&T doesn't help much either...talk about partners in crime...they won't do much to stop the problem either.

I also do a search on the area code and prefix which tells me the general area from where the calls originated. And they come from all over the US and international...some aren't eve valid area codes or prefixes. Spoofed numbers most likely. And you can't rely on what the Caller ID display says as far as who the caller is. They can spoof the displayed caller name as well.

Chi Matt -- As Alice said Darwin was just saying what will happen to our species if we don't co-operate. You are saying, maybe unintentionally, is that there is little hope for our species.

Co-operation as represented by the boomers brought us computers, the internet, space exploration, the elimination of the draft and major strides in civil liberties.

Individualism introduced by raygun brought us the inventions we see on Shark Tank. One example I can remember was a piece of rubber to stop things from falling down between the seats. It made the inventor a bunch of money, I guess that is your view of a good thing. Myself, I like what the boomers brought. Other parts of the world continued to believe in co-operation. This was a major factor why the Large Hadron Collider wound up in Switzerland rather than Texas.