botching this notion anti american is quite an interesting one fascist to tell tarion notion it is used in free societies so if someone and say italy is criticizing berlusconi or the corruption of the italian state and so on then a cold area $106.00 they were called anti italian people would collapse and laughter in the streets of rome or milan. in totalitarian states the notion to use so in the old soviet union dissidents were cold and he said that was the worst condemnation. of the brazilian military dictatorship they were gold in every brazilian. no it's true that in just about every society the critics are

maligned. are mistreated different ways depending on the nature of the society like them so it unions they will be imprisoned. in a us dependency like el salvador at the same time as careful as it other brains blown out by a us run state terrorist worse. than others is it just condemned their villa from the zone and in the united states or one of the terms of abuse is anti american the couple of others like you know more because there's an array of terms of abuse. of in the united states in a very high degree of freedom and so if you're vilified by some commas or who cares to go on to your work anyway these concepts only arise in a culture where if you criticize state power and when i state i mean. we're generally not just government state corporate power if you can. concentrated power

you're against this you're against the b. it's quite strange in that it's used in the united states and it's for another the only democratic society where the concept isn't just ridicule it's a sign of the elements of the elite culture which are the great the glee.

the american dream my many ideals was partly symbolic but partly real so in the 1950 s. and sixty's there was a the biggest growth period in that american economic history. gold made. it was pretty kalak area and growth so the lowest 5th of the population was improving about as much as the upper 5th. and there were some welfare state measures which improve life for much of the population it was for example possible for a. black worker to get a decent job in an auto plant. get a core of children go to school and so on and the same across the board. when. the u.s.

was. primarily a manufacturing center and it had to be concerned with its own consumers here famously henry ford raised the salary of his workers who would be able to buy cars . when you're moving into an international plutonic me as the banks like to call it the live small percentage of the world's population that's a gathering increasing wealth what happens to american consumers that have much less concern because most of them aren't going to be consuming your products anyway at least on a major basis. your goals or profit in next quarter or even it if it's based on financial manipulation. high salary high bonuses produced overseas if you have to and produce for the a wealthy classes here and their counterparts abroad what about the rest well there's a term coming in to use for them to as they're called the precariat. precarious

proletariat the working people of the world who live increasingly precarious lives . and it's related to the attitude toward the country altogether. during the period of great growth of the economy fifty's and sixty's but in fact earlier taxes on the wealthy were far higher corporate taxes were much higher taxes on dividends are much higher that simply taxes on wealthier much higher the tax system has been redesigned so that the taxes that are paid by the very wealthy are reduced and curse ponderingly the tax burden on the rest of the populations increased.

now the shift is towards trying to keep taxes just done and wages are not consumption which everyone has to do not say and dividends which i go to the rich. the numbers are pretty striking. now there's a pretext of course there's always a pretext the pretext in this case is well that increases investment and increases jobs but there isn't any evidence for that if you want to increase investment give money to the poor and the working people they have to keep alive so they spend their incomes that stimulates production and stimulates investment that leads to job growth and so. if you're an ideologist for the masters you have a different line and in fact right now it's almost absurd the corporations have money

coming out of their pocket. so in fact general electric they're paying 0 taxes and they have enormous profits let's take the profits somewhere else or the for it but not pay taxes and this is common. the major american corporations shift the burden of sustaining the society on to the rest of the population. solidarity is quite dangerous from the point of view of the masters you're only supposed to care about yourself and not about other people this is quite different from the people they claim are their heroes like adam smith who based is whole

approach to the economy on the principle that sympathy is a fundamental human trait but that has to be driven out of people's heads gotta be for yourself father while maxon don't care about others which is ok for the rich and powerful but is devastating for everyone else. going to take a whole lot of effort to try to drive these basic human emotions out of people's heads. and we see it today in policy for measure for example in the attack on social security. social security is based on a principle it's based on a principle of solidarity saw bury it in caring for others. a social security means i pay payroll taxes so that the widow across town

can get something to live on. much of the population that's what they survive and. it's of no use to the very rich so therefore there's a concerted attempt to destroy it. one of the ways is defunding it you want to destroy some system 1st the fund. then it will work people be angry they want something else that's a standard technique for. privatizing some system. we see it in the attack on public schools and public schools are based on the principle of solidarity. i no longer have children in school or grown up but the principle of solidarity says i happily pay taxes so that the kid across the street can go to school that's normal human emotion and it drives it out of people's heads i don't have kids in school why should i pay taxes privatized it so on.

the public education system all the way from kindergarten to higher education is under severe attack i mean that's one of the jewels of americans say. go back to the golden age again the great chris period fifty's and sixty's a lot of that is based on free public education. one of the results of the 2nd world war was the g.i. bill right which enabled veterans remember that's a large part of the population and to go to college they would have been able to otherwise the century got free education where it communities day or nation regularly invest substantial share of it resources in education the investment invariably it returned and better business and a higher standard of living u.s.

was way in the lead in developing. extensive mess public education and every live but i now more than half the states most of the funding for the colleges come from to wish not from the state that's are radical change that's a terrible burden on student it means that students if they don't come from very wealthy families they're going to leave college with big debt and if you of think dead you're trapped i mean maybe you want and to become a look interest lawyer but you going after going to a corporate law firm a to pay off those dead soon by the time you're part of the culture you know in are going to get out of it again and that's true of cross the border

well you know the fires they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in the small boats next to the hard pool of ships and it's scary. sometimes. the little self the big cold fish already 90 percent of the dot and it won't be calmer. concept 15 scoops 75 tons they do it several times a day with a big fleet oh you get an idea why. we have to understand we can all stay still and just. be within this oh the deal going to go. i'm doing this because i want the future

world to future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. ever since the arrival of boris johnson to 10 downing street there's a growing sense of inevitability that brags it will be executed on october 31st with or without a deal i mean we get to this point what lessons have been learned and nothing. says she stressed to us take this or that to buy gas as it at the bill of budget at that must have. half the show so i go see a dentist to taste it is easy so i pushed what i shall. give it's got i

thought at which the death happened oh look what you've seen in a restaurant to check or a woman in there for shit. or to talk to you sort of realize your bonus for syria. at the midst of all sorts of work are still for them to spit over for they seem to be like you both these that it's a stupid surely if we're supposed to be vocal or should step up and spit it. expressed. in the 1950 s. it was a much poorer society in the news today but no the us could easily handle centrally free mass higher education today a much richer society claims doesn't have the resources for. that just what's going on right before our eyes and it's the general attack on the principles

that i mean not only are they schumi they're the basis of the prosperity and health of this society. if you look over the history of regulation say a railroad regulation financial regulation and so on and you find that quite commonly it's it's either initiated by the economic. concentrations that are being regulated or it's supported by them and the reason is

because they know that sooner or later they can take over the regulators. and it ends up with what's called regulatory capture. the business being regulated is in fact running the regulators. bank lobbyists are actually writing the laws of financial regulation gets to that extreme. and that's been happening through history and again it's a pretty natural tendency when you just look at the distribution of power. one of the things that expanded enormously in the 1970 s. is lobbying as the business world moved sharply to try to control legislation. business where it was pretty upset by the advances in a public welfare in the sixty's and in particular by richard nixon and it's not to

will understand that but he was the last new deal president and they regarded that as class treachery. and nixon's administration you get the consumer safety legislation safety and health regulations in the workplace the e.p.a. the environmental protection agency. business didn't like it of course they didn't like that taxes. they didn't like the regulation and they began a coordinated effort to try to overcome it. lobbying sharply increase the regulation and begin with the rule ferocity. there were no financial crashes in the fifty's and the sixty's because the regulatory apparatus of the new deal was still in place. as a pm to be dismantled under business pressure and political pressure. to get more and more pressures.

and it goes on right through the years of. the seventy's sort of starts begin. eighty's really takes off congress was asked to approve federal loan guarantees to the auto companies about the want and want to have a $1000000000.00 and all of this is quite safe as long as you know the government's going to come to your rescue so takes a break and instead of letting them pay the cost break and build out the banks like continental the biggest bail out of american history at the time that she ended his term with so the huge financial crisis the savings and loan crisis and the government moved in and build it out for a family that he handed it in a diary saving a fair lady and 999 regulation words dismantled to separate commercial banks from investment banks. then come see bush and obama bill and bear

stearns is running to the feds to stay afloat president bush today defended the decision to bail out citi group that in may and freddie macin asked for a total f. green $1000000000.00 more to sail out could get much bigger billing even in troubles for the u.s. economy. and they're building up the next term. a b. each time the taxpayer is called on to bail out those who created the crisis increasingly the major financial institutions. in a capitalist economy you would do that in a capitalist system that would were the investors who made risky investments but the rich and powerful they don't want a capitalist system they want to be able to run to the nanny state as soon as

they're in trouble and get billed a taxpayer it's called the too big to fail. i mean there are no will or it's an economics who significantly disagree with the course that we're following people looked at stiglitz paul krugman others and none of them were even approached the people picked to fix the crisis were those who created the robert rubin crowd the goldman sachs croak they created the crisis are no more powerful than before is that accident well not when you pick those people to create an economic plan and then what do you expect to happen. meanwhile for the poor let market principles prevail don't expect any help from the government the government the problem not the solution and so on that's essentially neo liberalism and it's has this dual character which goes right back in economic history one set

of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for the poor. and nothing surprising about this exactly the dynamics you expect if the population allows it to proceed just going to go on and on like this until the next crash which is so much expected that credit agencies which kind of evaluate the. status of firms are now counting into their calculations the taxpayer bailout that they expect to come in after the next crash which means that the beneficiaries of these credit ratings like the big banks they can borrow money more cheaply they can push out smaller competitors and you get more and more concentration everywhere you look policies are done this way which should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that's what happens when you put power into the hands of a narrow sector of will which will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just

as you'd expect. be. a. concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the political parties into the pockets of major corporations. the citizens united this was january 2009 i guess that's a very important decisions prim court decision but it has a history and you got to think about the history. of 14th amendment has a provision that says no person's rights can be infringed without due process of

law. and the intent clearly was to protect freed slaves said ok they've got the protection of the law i don't think it's ever been used for freed slaves if ever marginally almost immediately it was used for businesses corporations their rights can't be infringed without due process of law so they gradually became persons under the law. corporations or state created legal fictions. maybe they're good maybe they're bed but to call them persons is kind of rages so they get got personal rights back about a century ago and that extended through the 20th century. as they give corporations rights way beyond what persons have so if say general motors invests in mexico they get national rights the rights of the mexican business well the

notion of person was expanded to include corporations it was also restricted if you take the 14th amendment literally that no undocumented alien can be deprived of rights if they're persons. undocumented aliens who are living here and building their buildings clear lawns and so on they're not persons . but general electric is a person. an immortal super powerful person this perversion of the young elementary morality and the obvious meaning of the law is quite incredible. in the 1970 s. the courts decided that money is a form of speech. but the 1st value and then you one through the years to citizens united which says that the right of free speech of corporations namely spend as

much money they want can't be curtailed. take a look what that means it means that corporations which anyway have been pretty much buying elections are now free to do it with virtually no constraint as tremendous attack on the residue of democracy. interesting to read the rulings like justice kennedy's swing vote his ruling said we'll look after all the c.b.s. is given freedom of speech there are corp why shouldn't general electric be free to spend as much wendy's they want. i mean it's true that c.b.s. is given freedom of speech but they're supposed to be performing a public service that's why that's what the press is supposed to be a general electorate is trying to make money for the chief executive some of the shareholders. city critical decisions and it puts the country in

a position where business power is greatly extended beyond what it always was this is part of that issue cycle the supreme court justices are put in by reactionary presidents who get in there because they're funded by business and that's the way the cycle works ready ready ready ready ready. i am sure they need to stop it for continuing to grow. i just never felt very good about the idea of bringing children into the world because i didn't

feel like things were in very good shape that a life was just going to be a lot of software programs. there's no reason why more kids world 10 things that are going with. there's more use a minute something else than you do with a loaf of everybody's scared to tackle that. it is true. and if we can even talk about it and have a conversation about it ready . i'm as kaiser or more of my guide to financial survival this is. a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these are not accountable and we're just adding more and more to the. global economy you

need to protect yourself and get in for a while because. this is the. phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is sponsor of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad ones there are the litter bugs are throwing us away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has promised to reuse the plastic. on. the mountains of waste only grow.

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