tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post3684816134114490252..comments2024-03-19T15:24:48.864-07:00Comments on Green Eagle: A Platform for the Democratic PartyGreen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-91340463709712016252017-09-13T11:09:21.567-07:002017-09-13T11:09:21.567-07:00A little note from a week or so later:
I am reserv...A little note from a week or so later:<br />I am reserving the right to add things to my platform as I think of them. I know it is long past the time when anyone will see the original post, but this is one thing I have written that I hope to improve upon and use again. I hope that doesn't offend anyone.<br /><br />I made my first addition today, committing the government to refuse subsidies or tax breaks to any religion.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-81748184604384876752017-09-06T01:25:02.674-07:002017-09-06T01:25:02.674-07:00Carol's right. OTOH,your "jobs" and ...Carol's right. OTOH,your "jobs" and "wages" contradict each other. Productivity has at least doubled since 1980 while wages have stayed the same, meaning, I produce twice as much and my wages should be double what they are. If I get $10/hr it means the 1% is stealing $10/hr from me, <i>and I want it back!</i><br /><br />I'm fine with a 20% cut in hours if it's combined with doubled wages--and I won't shed a tear over the complete social breakdown of the investor class.shkwiverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095158918542585543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-82265924793358368832017-08-30T10:37:10.976-07:002017-08-30T10:37:10.976-07:00Someone working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, ...Someone working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, at minimum wage, with no vacation, is earning just $15080 per year. A 10% cut knocks it down to $13572. Yeah, they'll accept that (Sarcasm). Even at $10 bucks an hour, they're currently getting $20800 per year, and will end up with $18720.<br /><br />Right now, a lot of employers have 29-hour weeks just to avoid paying the benefits required with 30-hour weeks. If you work TWO such jobs at minimum wage, it's just $21,866 a year. With your adjustments, they're STILL working 46.4 hours each week, and just getting $19679.40. At that income, losing 10% per year is a catastrophe.<br /><br />Let's say you're in that bracket. All of your co-workers are in that bracket, too. Mobility between social classes is low, and neighborhoods are increasingly segregated by income, so it's likely that most, if not all, of your friends and family are earning somewhere around $20,000 per year, too.<br /><br />Here some party comes along, and says it'll not only reduce your pay by 10%, but it'll reduce the pay of all of those other people by 10%, too, even though they're barely scraping by already. How would you be likely to react?<br /><br />If you want to drive all those low-income people to the Republican party, there's no better way than for the Democrats to propose a 10% pay cut for the poor. I guarantee you every Republican will be running on "We don't want you and your family and friends to lose all that money."<br /><br />Not all of us are Hollywood types.<br /><br />As for complete social breakdown? In rural Appalachia and rust belt cities, they're already living in complete social breakdown. At about $20,000 per year, society has already broken down for you. You're going to fight for to keep that $2,000.<br /><br />"Workers will accept a 10% cut in pay." Like hell they will.<br /><br />Carolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-81597106951196807022017-08-30T10:29:46.838-07:002017-08-30T10:29:46.838-07:00And again, Jerry, may I point out that I am not ta...And again, Jerry, may I point out that I am not talking about paychecks here, I am talking about the survival of our society as anything resembling civilization as we have come to know it. Our economic system as it now exists is primed to disenfranchise more and more people as time goes on, until the majority of the country is essentially without hope of employment, or is offered nothing but slave-like working conditions. This is a guaranteed recipe for violence on a scale that will make France in the 1790's or Russia in 1917 look like minor incidents. Reversing our course toward this inevitable future is one of the two most colossal issues facing us; the other being global warming, which, unchecked, will also destroy the civilized world. But addressing either of these problems will require some minor diminution of the wealth of the top thousandth of one percent of us, and is therefore apparently politically impossible.<br /><br />To be brief, our choice is not between living in a six bedroom 4500 square foot mini-mansion or living like a Brooklyn hipster; it is between living like a Brooklyn hipster and living like someone in Somalia or Syria. Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-38121122840762569402017-08-30T08:06:08.805-07:002017-08-30T08:06:08.805-07:00Your proposed 10% pay cut is actually an increase ...Your proposed 10% pay cut is actually an increase in pay in terms of $/hr since hours is being cut by 20%. Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-51381830640464970302017-08-29T11:11:58.130-07:002017-08-29T11:11:58.130-07:00Sorry, Carol, when the alternative is complete soc...Sorry, Carol, when the alternative is complete social breakdown and a massive, violent revolution, they will. And that is what is going to happen if the growing disparity between rich and poor is not addressed.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-90198774620680656012017-08-29T06:39:41.302-07:002017-08-29T06:39:41.302-07:00Pie in the sky indeed lol. If the Democrats just u...Pie in the sky indeed lol. If the Democrats just used some of these proposals <br />I think they could take over all 3 branches of government with ease<br /><br />Glad you're still hereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-42085611767378663912017-08-28T22:58:11.814-07:002017-08-28T22:58:11.814-07:00"workers will accept a 10% cut in pay"
..."workers will accept a 10% cut in pay"<br /><br />Like hell they will.Carolnoreply@blogger.com