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Eric Sheptock
Washington, DC
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Eric commented on the article |I see that the conversation on this issue remains robust and interesting. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to weigh-in as much as I'd like to. Even so, it's good to see that people are becoming more socially conscious. I'll TRY to post an updated story tomorrow. (It might take Ben a week to get it edited though.) All I can do is try. Lately, I've only had time for short comments like this one. There's a lot going on.
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Eric commented on the article |
Jef Free, I agree with you.
Phil, the sacred cows are the dollars that go to banks and corporations. Also, in our government's budgeting practices there are "entitlement budgets" and "discretionary budgets". The former are the sacred cows that get funded every fiscal year. The latter are just what the name says -- discretionary. HUD housing is a discretionary budget. Some military spending is an entitlement.
The theft of the people's resources refers to the tax dollars that go toward bailing out the banks and corporations and the $100 billion/year given to Egypt while many in the U.S. go without.
The greatest crimes include the neglect of the poor by the government. They include the decrease in social services that leave people high and dry. They include ponzi schemes like the one pulled of by Bernie madoff and other schemes by government and corporations that adversely affect the poor or simply fail to help them. (The marriage of government and corporation is an aspect of Fascism.)
The working class (Proletariat) includes anyone whose chief resource or contribution to society is their labor. The crapitalist class (Bourgeoisie) includes those for whom money (crapital) is their primary resource.
The working class is being screwed in the sense that many jobs are going overseas where the labor laws are different. Also, robots and machines are taking many people's jobs. Furthermore, now that labor is becoming less relevant, gov and crapitalists are less willing to bargain with unions and the labor rights types. They don't care if the workers walk out; because, they have a robot in the closet that needs a job. We've lost our bargaining chips.
Have I answered your questions well enough?
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Eric commented on the article |
I'm surprised and appalled that of the almost 74,000 people who've read the post at this point, only 130 have signed the petition.
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Eric commented on the article |
Kathryn, you may very well be right on most of what you said. I don't pretend to understand the bureaucratic government. (I've recently begun my transition form dealing with DC government into dealing with the feds.) But, whether or not I have the legislative process pinned down, the main thrust of my post is accurate -- that there will soon be a lot more homeless people if this budget cut goes through as is. I think we can agree that it's gonna hurt.
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