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What most corporations demand and the struggling to survive workers must do. That is why the wealthy fight so hard against the government doing anything to help the public.
Workers / the people / the public are the real economic engine. The real economy is not the stock market or the wealthy, it is the flow of money. Money only flows when people have it to spend and to buy. That gives others the need to produce and sell. The US has been made to accept the myth that the best things happen when all the money is concentrated in the hands of a few very wealthy people. Ever wonder who is behind that lie and why? Scottie
https://twitter.com/LeftJaddi/status/1471194283919265807?s=20
https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1467259656615522305?s=20
I love this Krampus dress up. So much for religious freedom to worship or not as we choose. Some people still want to tell other they must do as we do, follow the tradition we demand, because only we and are feelings are important.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
It is a choice by the unvaxed but it is not a choice on the part of their victims they pass the coronavirus to. If you want to go to parties get vaccinated. This is an attempt to have your cake and eat it also. The unvaxers want the same benefits of having the vaccine without getting it. Really selfish I think.
Incorrect and misleading framing. It is not free stuff. It is getting a return for your tax money. It is a myth that the wealthy push that for some reason they are entitled to taxpayers money by the government serving their wants and needs, but lower incomes are lazy wanting free stuff they don’t deserve to have the government use taxpayer money to work for the public. Every time the Republicans want to give a tax cut they claim it is our money, it is better in your pocket than the governments. When it comes to getting anything for the money we are taxed the Republicans scream it is a moral failing of wanting free stuff. Don’t buy it. The funny thing is you would think that US taxes would be very low or non-existant since the country doesn’t provide for education and healthcare, but they’re quite high actually, and with none of the benefits. Scottie
Here is some fun facts about Sweden, Michael. We have both the above named wishes (but we do not live with the delusion you so happily slap on it – that it is free) and it works. We even reduced our national debt year by year up until the pandemic. This is mainly true for all Scandinavian countries so why do you keep trying to sell the image of tax financed education and health care as not possible to be successful? Merry Christmas to You and everyone on this forum /Mats
He does it because Ramirez, and all his ilk, fear that workers who actually have mandated vacations and retirement and medical care with low cost or free training for new jobs, will actually feel free and move around to the BEST jobs.
Just a clue, save on the very lowest rungs of the wage ladder, people in the USA usually check out the benefits package before they check out wages.
Meaningful medical care is NOT a given. Most companies now provide several “options”, and if you take the cheapest you’ve got no medical at all as far as “usual” medical care goes.
Paid vacation when you want to take it is NOT a given. Carryover of unused vacation time is NOT a given. Being paid for time not used is NOT a given. Vacation over two weeks in a year is a monster benefit.
Actual job retraining paid for by the company and done on company time is absolutely not a given, and nearly nonexistent.
Company pensions are a thing of the past, it’s all about “matching funds in 401K’s” – often just a means to force employees to buy company stock.
Company contributions are VASTLY important, you may pay half the cost of medical insurance, you may pay 2/3, you may pay it all. Same goes for anything and everything.
My “contribution” for my “benefits package” sucks up about a thousand bucks a month. Maybe a bit more. I hate to look at it, because it makes me mad every time.
If anyone over there is wondering why American workers all sound disgruntled, copy this and send it to them. Doubtless the trolls will be whining, they won’t manage to claim any of it is not accurate, but they’ll whine. It’s what trolls do.
Oh, and please take note that I’m talking about what Americans laughingly call “high quality jobs”. Many jobs in the USA come with a caveat called “32 hours” meaning you work for 32 hours a week and get no benefits at all. None. Nothing. The law doesn’t require it so you get nothing whatsoever.
Fauci said that Omicron is spreading much faster but appears to be less virulent than Delta, and exhibits more of a degree of immune escape necessitating a booster. All of which is accurate, none of which is in the least apocalyptic.
Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, the American right is still consumed with hatred for White House adviser Anthony S. Fauci. So much so that not only do they scheme to destroy Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, but their obsession sometimes devolves into violent fantasies.
You might find the right’s venom for Fauci to be inexplicable. He’s not some kind of partisan going around telling people to vote for Democrats. What did he do to make them so angry? He did what any public health official would have done, which is to explain what we know and don’t know about the virus and encourage people to take precautions.
If liberals loved him, that meant conservatives had to hate him. At this moment the Republican Party’s policy agenda is a desiccated husk to which no one in their party pays more than the most perfunctory attention. What animates them is hatred of the left and the ongoing, endlessly renewable need to Own the Libs. Bashing Fauci became one more way to accomplish that goal.
The second source of rage at Fauci is that conservative media needed a villain for the pandemic story. And not just a villain, but a domestic villain, a target for all the loathing they could muster in order to turn the pandemic into another weapon in the endless war against liberals and liberalism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/21/why-the-right-hates-fauci/
Only if you listen too / watch / read misleading right wing media. The rest of us live in reality but those who want to disbelieve science and evidence then … there is a group waiting in Dallas waiting for the return of JFK and his son while drinking bleach. Good luck, your going to need it. This cartoonist rarely has any good cartoons to post as he is always posting about how bad and hard the right has it in the world today. it is always the left making life bad and the right wing conservatives have to bare with it and fix it all. Get real. Scottie
Here are some points that came to me about these smash and grab thefts. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk each make more money off the Trump tax breaks than all the smash and grab robbers put together made last year. And the Sessions-Barr DOJ tried to give more to the despicable Sacklers. While Republicans seek to smash democracy and protect the ultra-rich who are grabbing ever-greater wealth. Republicans sing in harmony, “The election was stolen from us!” Just because the majority did not vote for them.
So Kelley is saying that a few incidents of Smash and Grab by gang bangers in California is worse than Billions in subsidies and Trillions in tax breaks gifted to the oligarchs and mega corporations? Oh that’s right. They are the trickle-down “makers” that (only coincidentally) just happen to be Republican donors. That robbery is just fine. Those at the bottom are wanting the same entitlements that those at the top have enjoyed for years.. unfortunately they can only afford hammers and don’t have access to lobbyists. Smash and grab is old as the hills. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NEW HERE!
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Here is some fun facts about Sweden, Michael. We have both the above named wishes (but we do not live with the delusion you so happily slap on it – that it is free) and it works. We even reduced our national debt year by year up until the pandemic. This is mainly true for all Scandinavian countries so why do you keep trying to sell the image of tax financed education and health care as not possible to be successful? Merry Christmas to You and everyone on this forum /Mats