Year: 2015

The Republican Plan To Sabotage Food Stamps

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“It’s not a sincere attempt to give power to the states. It’s a smokescreen to find … way to protect tax breaks for the rich,” … the mechanism GOP lawmakers used to effect … cuts in early 2014 relied on taking program control away from state officials.
“They’re for more Washington control when it takes money away from poor people, and they’re for more state control when it takes money away from poor people. That’s the only …

Employer Was Robbing Them Blind

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On net, employers steal more from their workers each year than what actual robbers take from every heist and hold-up in the country combined.
Workers Say While They Were Serving The Rich Their Employer Was Robbing Them Blind
A company that makes high-end airline food is being accused of wage theft at Los Angeles International…
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Minimum Wage

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Business is about making a profit.  To be successful, i.e. to make a profit, a business must receive more for the product or service provided  than it cost to produce it.  That cost includes every expense that must be incurred to produce the product or service.  If the price doesn’t cover the cost AND provide a sufficient excess, the business will die.

Bernie Sanders on Economics

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The six largest banks now have assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product, over $9.8 trillion. They underwrite more than half the mortgages in the country and issue more than two-thirds of all credit cards.
To Counter Rise of Oligarchy, Sanders Pitches Progressive Economic Vision
In a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday morning, Sen.

Income Distribution

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For the life of me I can not understand why people keep supporting politicians who have been bought and paid for by the likes of the Koch brothers and the oil and gas industry.
“$100 from 2 million people … a total of $200 million … is 20 percent of what the Koch brothers themselves are prepared to spend. … Maybe the game is over. Maybe they have bought the United States government. Maybe there is no turning back. Maybe we’ve gone over the edge. I don’t know. I surely hope not.

Trans Pacific Partnership

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Global deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership will boost the profits of Wall Street and big corporations, and make the richest 1 percent even richer.
But they’ll bust the rest of America
How Trade Deals Boost the Top 1% and Bust the Rest
Suppose that by enacting a particular law we’d increase the U.S.Gross Domestic Product. But almost all that growth would go to the richest 1 percent. The rest of us could buy some products cheaper than before.

Progress and an Explanation

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If you went to PerryFamilyRoots.com and ended up here it’s because that site is being redirected until I can get everything back up and working there.  Everything here is working (I think) but not everything has been added yet.  I should be able to spend some time on it now that the crises we’ve been struggling with has ended.Let me know if you need any help.