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I sure hope that I'm not the only Thom Hartmann listener who sees the Class War of the mega-wealthy against the poor and so-called middle class in this ongoing situation.
If you take the opportunity to catch Jamie Johnson's film (most easily seen on YouTube when you Google, "Jamie Johnson, 'the one percent'" in 8 easy and seamless installments) you see an interesting portrait of life among the aristocratically wealthy. One clear message is that the heirs of great wealth live in fear of losing it and teach their children to believe that they must keep getting more and living with fear of losing it all. It's a little nutty when you think that these are the folks who earn millions yearly and have no understanding of what it really costs to live - that the vast majority of us make it on less than $50,000 a year. The alienation is huge, and politically and economically the impact on the rest of us is the threatened destruction of our economy.
The tax code may need to look more like it did in the 1930's. And "made in America" needs to be seen and heard louder and clearer with the Flag superimposed over lead-in and closing photos and the celebratory songs of Americans the capable underlying the message, over and over and over.
The language of our campaign has to stop sounding like our workers are klutzes waiting for somebody to make up a job to give them a paycheck. The work our blessed nation needs to be done is the work of replacing the leaky water pipes, cleaning and repairing the aged sewers, modernizing the rail bed and replacing and upgrading the tracks, lay tracks and buying the land they need to be placed over, ordering train cars, large and small, and paying to design highly efficient and solar-powered engines.
If the capital-holding top 5 % of wealth-holders and income-earners are too scared to take the risks of investing in the country they rely on for military and police protection then they shouldn't get the benefit of the payoffs of various kinds. Remember rural electrification? Well, our parents and grandparents did. How about national alternative-electrification? How about Uncle Sam makes the home loans and collects the interest? How about the U.S. Treasury (or a subsidiary) creates the credit card that is universally available, at an interest rate of 8%? It's competition with the private bank-owned cards that either forces their rates and penalties down or moves them out of the playing field back into the business of risk-taking where capitalists belong.
But all of that would require our leaders to be clear where they stand in the class war that has been being waged against everybody-but-themselves since R. Reagan was elected. Actually, in this era, that mad novelist, Ayn Rand, picked up the gospel of Calvin and made it almost seem real.
How? Massive Democratic take-over of all Three houses - get a 90% majority in Congress and the Senate and a Democratic president (And please no Obama hate mail!). And then pass laws and Amendments to the Constitution that would PROTECT the Working Middle Class in this country. Can't be done? Baloney! We, The People, once defeated the mighty British, didn't we? Created a new Government and wrote a new Constitution, all on our own. We can do it again - just project fascist corporations as if they are the modern day British enemy! Only now we'd do it with the Ballot box instead of bullets!
That is how it can be done!
Well I asked! And it appears NO ONE can come up with any NUMBER as to how many people have DIRCTLY died from a Nuclear accident or Nuclear exposure since The first one was built here in the United States 60+ Years ago!
And yet - from all the posts here it appears we are nearing Armeggeddon!
Folks, you are in more danger of getting cancer from radiation every time you take an X-Ray! You want to eliminate those?
This is Fear displacement - ignor the real stuff that can kill you quickly, while worrying yourself to death about what may be millions, if not of billions, of time less then what will!
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Please excuse me for not taking the time to research thorium mining, but, how much is there? What environmental damage will thorium mining cause? Maybe a thorium reactor is safer, but, how much less expensive would it be to build? Right now, current nuclear plants put the cost per kilowatt-hour as being the most expensive form of energy production we have (count in build, operate, disposal, AND insurance costs).
Next question: Given the billions that any nuclear plant WILL cost, why not pour those billions into renewable energy research AND production tooling? Isn't the pay-off FAR greater? I mean, you build nuke plants and you have left-over decomissioned dirty nuke plants for 100's of thousands of years. You build renewable energy sources and you get...hey...renewable energy sources for 100's of thousands of years!
Next question: Fusion. Nuclear fission is at least two orders of magnitude more inefficient than nuclear fusion. That is a factor of 100. On top of that, a deuterium / tritium fusion yields electrons! You can capture those without any neutron bombardment of the container vessel, hence, no transmutation and no nuclear waste. Yes, this is an IDEAL scenario, BUT, think about putting your BILLIONS into dirty (no matter what fission method you use) nuclear plants into FINALLY figuring out the way to fusion and you have literally unlimited fuel (sea water).
You are in the bulls-eye! I would add that the ONLY prayer that we have to change anything is to overturn the citizens united case. Unless we get money out of politics, we are completely, absolutely, totally doomed as a premier society and only the top 1% will survive with any kind of decent standard of living. . . . . . Oh! THAT's what they're up to!
And, your point is? Sorry, I am too stupid to figure out what you are trying to say from the mish-mash you put in here. You may be supporting a liberal point, but, I can't tell. Clarify?
You are entirely correct. And how could this be accomplished?
Since the GOP and some Democrats (including Obama) are slaves to the corporatocracy, the government is locked up. We can hope for a Theodore Roosevelt, but even that is not enough. What we have to do is hone in on one theme, and that may transcend political parties to a certain extent: That theme is separation of business and state.
This theme has to become a national obsession. The way this might take place would be to have a kind of populist congress of the people pulled together by social networking and any other means. We have to discuss the means by which this is to be accomplished once the people get the attention of Washington and explain the issue we have with the government we own and pay for. The means would be things like: establishing power over monopolies, going to an entirely public-funded campaign finance system, seeking to end all means by which elections are manipulated, ending bribery through lobbying, going to a system of complete transparency in government and finance, seriously limiting or eliminating derivatives trading and massive leveraging, and ending the Citizens United ruling (for starters).
This has to be a demand by the majority of Americans -- the middle class. Time for a new kind of town hall across America. We have to pull our act together.
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There are jobs that can be outsourced and there are jobs which must be done on site such as construction, factory work, service industries, vitaculture, auto repair, retail sales, etc., and in California I can tell you this work is sourced to illegal aliens. The only difference between the people overseas who do these jobs is they are taken care of by their local communities whereas the illegal workers here are taken care of by the citizens and legal immigrants from whom they've taken the jobs.
Of course the fault lies with the businesses who want to hire people on the cheap and the governments, in thrall to business, who allow it. CA statistics state that we have 12% unemployment and at least 10% of those now employed are illegal. It's believed the figure is much greater, but because they are shielded by their employers it is impossible to have accurate figures.
Why do we discuss only the former cause for job loss and not the latter? Because through funding by the US Chamber of Commerce and the general business communities, the issue of illegal aliens has been turned into an emotional whine about race or ethnicity rather a rational championing of our very reasonable immigration law.
I agree and being over 50 with your 401K tanked in 2008 and now you're unemployed really, really sucks!
Funny with the fall of Wall street they still paid out big bonuses for failure. I remember a while ago when a worker got fired for zeroxing their butt!
Did you notice the big sell off on Wall Street this past week with the disaster in Japan? That is the sound of greed when they quickly try to cash in on someone else's tragedy! Tom also state that Japenses millionares were buying up all the private planes to get out of Dodge. Sorry boys, your can run but you can't hide from radiation if the entire planet gets contaminated as a result of stupidity!
Another thing that disturbed me about this is how calus people have gotten with the advent of You Tube etc. Repeatly showing a dog not leaving his ailing friend instead of helping the dog. There is an expression that I think needs to be expanded. It goes like this: "You can judge a PLANET by the way in which it treats its elderly, disabled and animals."