This article explores the topic. Since conservatives are also harping on lazy people getting benefits, then how about the government guarantees them a good paying job? More progressives are running on this plank in their overall platform, like Senators Gillibrand and Warren. Plus it provides competition for the private sector: "By making living-wage work available to anyone who wants it, the program would also establish a de facto wage
floor, forcing private sector employers to match the kinds of wages,
working conditions, and benefits available to workers through the public
sector."
Oh, I forgot, contrary to all their free enterprise, free market spin the corporations don't want that at all. You see, if the fed provides good jobs then the corps can't maintain their race to the bottom, forcing wages down and cutting benefits so that they can control workers with the only other choice, death by starvation.
Monday, April 2, 2018
Liberal protesters paid?
This Comedy Central "in the field" report lampoons the insidious conservative claim that liberal protesters are paid actors.
OK teachers walk out
A growing trend in the US: Teachers walking out of their jobs for better pay and conditions. Oklahoma teachers are walking out today. Yes, they want better pay, but also educational investment to buy updated text books and supplies, like chairs and desks, and bring back foreign language and art classes. You know, stuff that makes kids grow up to be better people and citizens. If we claim to value our kids then we have to value those who teach them.
Sunday, April 1, 2018
Response to coward Ted Nugent
I guess he needs all those guns to hide his cowardice. He admitted as much in this '77 High Times interview:
"I got my physical notice 30 days prior to. Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started gettin’ kinky, matted up. Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value. I just had chips, Pepsi, beer-stuff I never touched-buttered poop, little jars of Polish sausages, and I’d drink the syrup, I was this side of death, Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up."
"I got my physical notice 30 days prior to. Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started gettin’ kinky, matted up. Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value. I just had chips, Pepsi, beer-stuff I never touched-buttered poop, little jars of Polish sausages, and I’d drink the syrup, I was this side of death, Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up."
Progressive policies win swing districts
So says this polling. Dems need to dump that centrist corporate shit if they want to win.
"Almost three-quarters of the voters surveyed, for instance, supported “Medicare for All.” Policies dealing with cheaper prescription drugs, infrastructure, protecting Social Security and Medicare, and cracking down on Wall Street, are exceedingly popular with swing and surge voters alike, the survey found. [...] The results show enthusiastic support for progressive policies in 30 swing districts, mostly held by Republican incumbents."
"Another takeaway from the memo,
"Almost three-quarters of the voters surveyed, for instance, supported “Medicare for All.” Policies dealing with cheaper prescription drugs, infrastructure, protecting Social Security and Medicare, and cracking down on Wall Street, are exceedingly popular with swing and surge voters alike, the survey found. [...] The results show enthusiastic support for progressive policies in 30 swing districts, mostly held by Republican incumbents."
"Another takeaway from the memo,
Viking Economics
Review of the book here. Some edited excerpts:
"Scandinavia has delivered a notably high quality of life [because it ...] "invest in the individual person as the primary resource for delivering economic growth. [...] At its core this idea, he observes, rejects the classical view of work – that it is a struggle to win the means of existence – and puts in its place a positive framework of incentives for economic participation."
"As a result of these states having largely rejected the core assumptions of classical economics, profit is seen as a consequence of work and not as its goal. Banking is seen as a service and not as the focus of economic growth. Education is viewed as vital to personal growth, which just also happens to be the perfect countercyclical investment that secures long-term prosperity. And underpinning all this is an expectation that each person will work to contribute to the overall well-being of the society of which they are part: this is a perception of work as a participatory activity. The result appears to be a Keynesian, social democratic nirvana where education, healthcare and pensions are free, the social safety net is still strong and cooperatives supply 40 per cent of housing in Norway."
"Scandinavia has delivered a notably high quality of life [because it ...] "invest in the individual person as the primary resource for delivering economic growth. [...] At its core this idea, he observes, rejects the classical view of work – that it is a struggle to win the means of existence – and puts in its place a positive framework of incentives for economic participation."
"As a result of these states having largely rejected the core assumptions of classical economics, profit is seen as a consequence of work and not as its goal. Banking is seen as a service and not as the focus of economic growth. Education is viewed as vital to personal growth, which just also happens to be the perfect countercyclical investment that secures long-term prosperity. And underpinning all this is an expectation that each person will work to contribute to the overall well-being of the society of which they are part: this is a perception of work as a participatory activity. The result appears to be a Keynesian, social democratic nirvana where education, healthcare and pensions are free, the social safety net is still strong and cooperatives supply 40 per cent of housing in Norway."
Why we need a post-capitalist Commons transition today
Article at the P2P Foundation. From the abstract:
"Our main hypothesis is that in the current conjuncture, we are again moving towards a ‘dominance’ of the commons format [...] that indicate and bring forth a new organizational logic. [...] So what then is the nature of these seed forms for a post-capitalist commons transition? We see the rapid emergence of many different knowledge sharing movements (free software, open design, etc..) and an exponential rise in knowledge commons; infrastructural commoning is also emerging rapidly, and not just in the southern European countries where state and market failure is the most obvious. The way forward is through a dynamic interweaving of strategic categories of commoning activity, the city state, productive communities, both local and transnational categories of solidarity and action, and the enactment of deep solidarity and value exchange systems, protocols and logics that can coherence and strengthen these seed forms into torrents of wise and regenerative change."
"Our main hypothesis is that in the current conjuncture, we are again moving towards a ‘dominance’ of the commons format [...] that indicate and bring forth a new organizational logic. [...] So what then is the nature of these seed forms for a post-capitalist commons transition? We see the rapid emergence of many different knowledge sharing movements (free software, open design, etc..) and an exponential rise in knowledge commons; infrastructural commoning is also emerging rapidly, and not just in the southern European countries where state and market failure is the most obvious. The way forward is through a dynamic interweaving of strategic categories of commoning activity, the city state, productive communities, both local and transnational categories of solidarity and action, and the enactment of deep solidarity and value exchange systems, protocols and logics that can coherence and strengthen these seed forms into torrents of wise and regenerative change."
The People's agenda
This is from the Democratic Socialists of America. Note that every one of their policy items has majority support in US polls. We the people are DemSoc and don't even know it.
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