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In reply to the discussion: Email from Keith Ellison re: the TPP and the Democratic Platform Committee. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)by many times over the strongest nation in the TPP, and we are a voting republic. If workers were "exterminated" it would be with the voters' collusion and cooperation. It could not happen otherwise.
BUT if we were going to collude on our own extermination, membership in the TPP would not matter one way or the other. We don't need New Zealand's help to destroy ourselves.
But of course we're not, not even close. To date we've essentially MERELY colluded, many of us wholeheartedly and abysmally ignorantly, in eliminating our share of the increase in national wealth from increased productivity (including to those now underemployed, not just underpaid), and just look at how pissed off that has made us.
So, maybe straighten the shoulders, gird the loins, and prepare to vote knowledgeably?
Greenspan was appointed by Ronald Reagan, who was elected by a landslide in a national rejection of the previous 40 years of progressive government. Reagan would have lost in a landslide if more people had the slightest clue to what they were actually voting for. It would have taken, what, at most maybe 20% more voters reading maybe 5 good, objective, unbiased articles to realize what "getting off the backs of business" was likely to really mean?
Btw, sure today's dominant business philosophy is almost completely morally bankrupt, the mentality of locusts, but it's terribly dishonest to blame business for our own failure to retrain for new jobs as our old ones were coming to an end. Sure, business knew many of their employees were literally refusing to change, were too improvident and even feckless to take proper care of themselves, and in this laissez-faire era declined the role of babysitter.
We can be mad at them for not taking care of us, but we really shouldn't be. That is and always was our job, and many did are are making good incomes. As for those who waste long hours hanging around by their fingernails, they really should finally be hitting the books. The economy will never be "fixed" enough to pay good wages to workers whose skills are obsolete.
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