Monday, January 14, 2013

Our current economic system

Just in case you were wondering why nobody has any money or pensions anymore, read this:

http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17745-the-five-step-process-to-cheat-the-middle-class-worker

If you think this system is just peachy-keen, read it again, then ask yourself why you continue working for someone else's profit (taxed at a lower rate than your meager wages) while the government continues to give the country's natural resource wealth, sans frais, to corporations who don't ever clean up their own detritus, and use bankruptcy laws as a means of evading pension and contract responsibilities.

Servitude! - the modern way of life!

And if  you've read this far, here's another illuminating article about our loss of control over the business beast:

http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/what-watchdog-how-financial-press-has-failed-american-public?akid=9920.1084699.8spl8b&rd=1&src=newsletter775831&t=5&paging=off

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