Category: Economics / Economy / Income / Financial
Thom Hartmann: Republicans Plan to Suppress the Vote in 2024
Seriously important news on republicans past efforts that swung elections to them by cheating and the ones they plan for this 2024 election. Read, get angry, prepare to do what it takes to vote. This is simply batshit minority rule over the majoity so they can ignore the will / wishes of the people. They want to rule, not serve the public. Hugs. Scottie
Oklahoma: EPIC Theft of Public Dollars by For-Profit Online Charter School
Thank you to politicians are poody heads at https://poodyheads.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/oklahoma-epic-theft-of-public-dollars-by-for-profit-online-charter-school/ for the link.
Charter schools have long been a scam, a way to get either Christian theocracy into the classroom or for right wing profiteers to get tax dollars. Remember these schools take dollars from public schools while being exempt from all the same rules. Including test score rules. Like church schools, they get to pick and choice which students they take, leaving the most difficult and disadvantaged to the public schools that lost money to the choosy charter schools. Now it is coming out that most charter schools have horrible results. In fact, one I read about was a tennis charter school that just had the students play tennis and never did school work. Yup, those students will get into advanced education easily. Hugs. Scottie
What Could Go Wrong?
Hi. I don’t think I could add anything more worthwhile than has been in the post and the comments. Please read this. We have to stop this hard push to turn the US into a theocracy. Christian religious sects are terrified at the decline in asses in the pews. It cuts into their profit, and churches are closing due to lack of people to attend services. They are desperate to indoctrinate kids as they know a bunch of them will stay in the church and give the church money. Hugs. Scottie
Is TikTok a threat to US national security?
This is about profit and which company gets it. The data of every one of us is all over the internet. I run several programs that block the invasive cookies and website to website movement I make across the internet. Why? No I am not doing anything wrong, I just feel if the businesses that build these huge databases about all of us should pay me for that information as they sell it to other companies at a huge profit to gain access to me for their adverts. If you doubt that check your emails or ads on sites you visit and think how closely they compare to your web history. It is incredible how much companies know about us … by my dogs that love gravy I recently went to a website and my ad blocker did not catch the advert for therapist for people abused as children, on a website totally not about that. They could only have gotten my information on me being an abused child by combing my blog with WordPress’s permission, or from violating the policies of the survivor site I have shared my abuse on. Either way it is not their right to have this information on me or use it to push me to a paid sponsor. Face it people today we, each are the product, keeping us on each web page, the more clicks to the next story the better, that drives their advertisement dollars and the clicks add to what they can tell their bosses to keep them or to generate new shareholders to join. The likes drive their income. It is a sad place we are in. I use two different anti tracker programs and one really good ad blocker program because I am not a number / cog for their sales divisions. But still they somehow sometimes get through. Hugs Scottie
Liberal Redneck – Is Trump Really Broke? Is Biden Really Off the Hook?
I fast forward through the advert which seems to be longer with every one of his videos … could become a problem where I will have to post them in two parts. But again he has the right view on things. Sorry earlier while I was busy I was listening to his interview with the freedom from religion folk. If I can find it I will post it. It was grand. Hugs. Scottie
Liberal Redneck – Congress vs TikTok
So this is the second time I am writing this as the first time I lost everything due to … A sudden loss of internet and a dropping out of my entire comment on the video, which was against the government. Ron asked me if I thought it was deliberate and I am not such a conspiracy theorist yet … but it was weird timing.
The point I was making is he is correct that all our data is already collected by every social media, every news sites … if I don’t want to give a news site permission to all data on my computer or every other website I visit they block me. It is why I don’t post from them. And the same with one of my favorite news sources for in depth information, they demand others to register or pay with them, so I have stopped sharing them. Any way I won’t retype all I wrote, my hands are sore and I have so much more to get to. The video is here. If you want to see through the political attempt to hold down the progressive youth vote watch the video. Time moves on and societies progress. Hugs. Scottie
Why Another Trump Victory Will Be A NIGHTMARE
This very quickly went to being a right vs left talk about abortion and even teaching girls on how not to become pregnant. Again I ask why it is so vitally important for the fundamentalist Christian maga right to prevent young girls learning how to keep from getting pregnant or learning sexual educations about their bodies !!!! Hugs. Scottie
Why the political worldviews of young men and women are increasingly diverging | DW Analysis
To me as I listened to the video it became clear that the real issue is how a lot of this is driven on the male side from the era where men look at it as their entitlement to the best looking most attractive women they are attracted to, but can not have. So they feel women are the real enemy, rather than the system that is denying each gender of equality. Why do incels feel entitled to a female, a woman that is to please them as they demand / wish? Because for far too much of history that was how men were taught to look at women, taught that females were to be used, subjected to their whim, to keep them happy but not really a person like they are. They don’t see women as full humans like them. The day that men and women see each other as equal will be the day all this conflict dies. Hugs. Scottie
In the video we talk to Richard Reeves, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the book “Of Boys and Men” where he explores all the ways in which the modern male is struggling. Alice Evans, visiting scholar at Stanford University, who is travelling around the world to study this divide and makes the point that lagging economies, corporate algorhythms, and patriarchal mentality can explain this backlash. And Neil Shyminsky, Professor at Cambrian College and famous on TikTok as @professorneil, who sees in Influencers like Andrew Tate as a main threat.
Video by Christian Caurla
Why it’s hard for Americans to retire
This video starts out talking to people with higher incomes than most of the working public. Most make less than a living wage, are paid barely over the minimum allowed by law, some have short or weird day shifts requiring the hold of multiple jobs. Millions of people can not work to gain retirement. I was lucky, I worked a high paying job in my mid 20s to early 30s. That meant I get the same as my husband, who worked in low paying jobs and then as a CNAA in a hospital. Retiring at 67 and 3 months a man who after a 12 hour shift could barely walk and was worn out. Retirement shrank our income drastically but it saved his life I think. Only the high paid people can save, as the video says towards the end the rest of us need everything and more to survive. Life shouldn’t be a drudgery for most until death, and a grand time for the few, but in the US profit is king. Those companies need that retirement money for higher dividends and more profit for the wealthy. What the video doesn’t mention is those other countries pay more, have better social services, and much less costly medical systems for the public. Hugs. Scottie
Vox sat down with people in our New York City studio to talk to them about the state of their retirement savings. By the standards of most financial experts, Americans are woefully behind on saving for retirement. The reason why is rooted in changes in policy to our retirement system with today’s result being a flawed design in how people set aside money so they can one day stop working. In this video, we interviewed four people about their level of retirement preparedness and two experts about the state of retirement readiness more broadly in the US. One culprit lies in changes to the country’s pension system, which sets the US apart from countries like Australia and the UK; these places have systems which help more people save more money for retirement.
