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Among any of the past presidents during my 58 years Obama is the only one who indicated the slightest respect for workers.

How?

While rebuilding our economy he championed a series of projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The number of jobs is debated, but 3.5 million is often cited as the number.

Whats more, we are finally hearing about workforce development programs and renewing respect for the trades and working class.

Now what happens in 2016, if we'll elect a known corporatist job-exporter or, instead, select a union-supporting passionate progressive remains to be seen.

K/R

Pukes have a party pushing their policies and did all they could to resist Obama's efforts to create jobs -- a program he and Krugman, and the rest of the economists who said needed to be bigger, if anything.

JFK doesn't get the credit he deserves, IMO.

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich"
-- Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy, Friday, January 20, 1961



So, in the short time he had, President Kennedy did what he could to balance the interests of concentrated wealth with the interests of the average American -- necessary for the good of the country.

Professor Donald Gibson detailed the issues in his 1994 book, Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency.

From the book:

into his office and forced them to deal with worker issues. That was a great victory.

"So, in the short time he had, President Kennedy did what he could to balance the interests of concentrated wealth with the interests of the average American -- necessary for the good of the country."

Like lowering the peak income tax rate from 91% to 70%?


"Had he lived to serve a second term, I'd bet on JFK over The Fed and the repukes, wherever they may have been."

With substantial Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate, JFK's legislative success was minimal. It was only after his assassination and LBJ taking over that legislation began to move. JFK was a good speaker, but a lousy tactician in moving congress. LBJ knew how to pull together functioning majorities for all of his important bills.

By making companies more long-term sustainable and keeping a domestic market for their products.

Problem is, the reverse isn't true. Helping management doesn't automatically help labour.

So even if Dems 'want to help management', the way they should do that is by helping labour.

The same labor pool, FWIW, built the Arsenal of Democracy and then manned it, laying down their lives to keep the USA a democracy. Funny how fast management forgot that, as they've moved jobs and profits offshore.

From DU2:

Handy Guide to Bill and Hillary Clinton's Outsourcing Industry links and contributions

The Party doesn't need a purge as much as it needs reeducation -- meaning the leaders need to remember what it means to be a Democrat. If they don't see why -- money or no money -- then we need re-tooling.

... the first director of WTO: "We are no longer writing the rules of interaction among separate national economies. We are writing the constitution of a single global economy."

-- http://unctad.org/en/pages/PressReleaseArchive.aspx?ReferenceDocId=3607

It's a trend, seen as inevitable by some, but it's happening before our very eyes.

I miss the way European countries all had different monies, I'm glad I toured when I did.

As time goes on it will be one big mess of Walmarts and a Walmart employee class with a very wealthy 1% enjoying the perks provide by the rest of us.

Bill Clinton was a part of it and the Bushes, and now Hillary.

Let there be no doubt, she's in deeper than Bill.

It isn't democracy when only the rich people can participate, let alone be heard or have their votes counted.

Its popularization among conspiracy theorists can be traced to over thirty years ago when "New World Order" appeared in the 1972 book None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen, a John Birch Society writer. ... This book was widely read in right-wing conspiracy-minded circles during the 1970s and is probably the source of the hysteria that later erupted over the term.

The New World Order conspiracy started as an extension of old John Birch Society conspiracy theories about the role of the United Nations. This theory claimed that the United Nations was merely a tool of the Communists, and that the end goal was the complete subjugation of the United States to the United Nations. This would then set up a world government in which all of the freedoms that Americans hold dear would be abolished. Usually, top American officials were claimed to be in on the conspiracy.

Supporters of this theory can say to a certain degree who is part of it but nobody can determine who isn't part of the NWO. International organizations such as the World Bank, IMF, European Union, the United Nations, and NATO are often listed as core NWO organizations.

The conspiracy theory remained marginal until the 1990s, and the growth of the Internet. At that point, the theorists started to see Bill Clinton as the biggest pawn of the NWO. The events at both Ruby Ridge and Waco were considered part of the attempt to remove American liberties pursuant to an eventual takeover by either FEMA or the UN. During this era, the theory was most closely connected to certain paleoconservatives, and to the burgeoning militia movement. Pat Robertson gave a boost to belief in the theory with his 1992 book The New World Order.

In the most recent, more liberal version, instead of the UN taking sovereignty away from the US, the US (through the UN) plans to conquer the entire world. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are thus believed to be the first stages in that plan. In this version, it is the neocons who are the masters behind the NWO. An adherent to this theory is Latin-American rapper Immortal Technique. Another version of this from the left stems from the anti-globalization movement, in which transnational corporations will implement global corporate governance. This form of the conspiracy is where left and right often bleed together as right-wing populist and producerist views oppose globalization as well. This can be seen in third positionism and the political campaigns of Lyndon LaRouche.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/New_World_Order

The American far-right still wants the US out of the UN for fear of an NWO. They also see NAFTA as the first step towards a North American Union which is closely tied to the NWO, disappearance of the nation-state, fear.

We will see it when we believe it." -- Saul Alinsky

“Each of us has the hope to build a New World Order.” -– President Richard Nixon, Hangzhou, China, February 1972

“We will succeed in the Gulf. And when we do, the world community will have sent an enduring warning to any dictator or despot, present or future, who contemplates outlaw aggression. The world can therefore seize this opportunity to fufill the long-held promise of a new world order – where brutality will go unrewarded, and aggression will meet collective resistance.” -– President George HW Bush, State of the Union Address 1991

“How I Learned to Love the New World Order” -– article by Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Wall Street Journal, April 1992

“The Final Act of the Uruguay Round, marking the conclusion of the most ambitious trade negotiation of our century, will give birth – in Morocco – to the World Trade Organization, the third pillar of the New World Order, along with the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund.” -- Government of Morocco, advertisement, New York Times, April 1994

“Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.” -– Rob Walton

“The ‘affirmative task’ before us is to “create a New World Order.” -- VP Joe Biden, speech Import Export Bank, April 5, 2013

“If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.” -— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” -— Franklin D. Roosevelt, letter to Col. House, November 21, 1933

And here we are. There are many, many more examples (my personal favorite is Barbara Bush referring to a "brave new world order" thing,) but, more than the quote, the idea is what matters: Money and Power are being employed, not for democracy or the good of We the People, but for the betterment, enrichment and use by a tiny minority, the one percent of one percent. Not only is that undemocratic and un-American, it would be a crime if they didn't own the Supreme Court, too.

It's like pointing out an oncoming shark while we're in a lifeboat and being hit on the head with an oar.

WTF?

just like Republicans. They choose to ignore or make excuses for Obama's Wall Street appointments, lack of prosecution of banks, TPP support, drilling, letting BP off the hook... Hillary supporters are the same way. Socially liberal policies that their corporate masters don't care about are enacted to throw us a bone or two, but the financial sector and their profits are protected at every turn.
People like Senator Sanders are marginalized EVERYTIME he is mentioned when his policies are what the 99% and this country need. Many like to make fun of the idiots that are brainwashed by Fox, but cannot see that they themselves are being used and manipulated. Will I vote for Hillary if she is the nominee, yes. Is she still the puppet of Wall Street, MIC, and other corporate interests, yes. Having to vote for the lesser of two evils is still doing evil!

For the Clintons.

In the meantime, underreported news an idea for Justice for Rightshoring:

can keep in the US and lower their tax burden by a few % points.

These people do not care about this country.

They are money hoarders. They are scooping up money from this country and hiding it offshore.

But there is little chance of stopping this at the moment. Anyone who tries is likely to find themselves without a job.

That is a most interesting idea, yours, sabrina 1: We're talking around $32 Trillion, or at least its liquid equivalence. That's a lot of money -- not Rolexes or yachts or Ford Fiestas or meals at MickeyD's -- sitting in someone's Swiss bank account. For some reason, Bradley Birkenfield, one of the whistleblowers who told us about that had to go to jail.

Legislation informs, influence. . . creates reality. If notlegislate against reality, what the he'll is the point of law? It seems that the point of legislation is to address the problems presented by a lawless reality. That she said what she did is blowing my mind.

by Jeff Faux
www.thenation.com/, February 13, 2006/ via ThirdWorldTraveler.com

EXCERPT...

Americans are of course prominent members of this "Party of Davos," which relies on the financial and military might of the US superpower to support its agenda. In exchange, the American members of the Party of Davos get a privileged place for their projects--and themselves. Whether it's at Davos, at NATO headquarters or in the boardroom of the International Monetary Fund, heads turn and people listen more carefully when the American speaks.

"Davos Man," a term coined by nationalist scholar Samuel Huntington, is bipartisan. To be sure, Democrats tend to be more comfortable with the forum's informal seminar-style and big-think topics like global poverty, cultural diversity and executive stress. Bill Clinton goes often, and Al Gore, John Kerry, Robert Rubin, Madeleine Albright, Joe Biden and other prominent Democrats are familiar faces. Republicans generally prefer more private venues. George W. Bush, of course, doesn't do anything unscripted. But people like Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, John McCain and Condoleezza Rice have all worked the Davos circuit.

That the global economy is developing a global ruling class should come as no shock. All markets generate economic class differences. In stable, self-contained national economies, where capital and labor need each other, political bargaining produces a social contract that allows enough wealth to trickle down from the top to keep the majority loyal. "What's good for General Motors is good for America," Dwight Eisenhower's Defense Secretary famously said in the 1950s. The United Auto Workers agreed, which at the time seemed to toss the notion of class warfare into the dustbin of history.

But as domestic markets become global, investors increasingly find workers, customers and business partners almost anywhere. Not surprisingly, they have come to share more economic interests with their peers in other countries than with people who simply have the same nationality. They also share a common interest in escaping the restrictions of their domestic social contracts.

The class politics of this new world economic order is obscured by the confused language that filters the globalization debate from talk radio to Congressional hearings to university seminars. On the one hand, we are told that the flow of money and goods across borders is making nation-states obsolete. On the other, global economic competition is almost always defined as conflict among national interests. Thus, for example, the US press warns us of a dire economic threat from China. Yet much of the "Chinese" menace is a business partnership between China's commissars, who supply the cheap labor, and America's (and Japan's and Europe's) capitalists, who supply the technology and capital. "World poverty" is likewise framed as an issue of the distribution of wealth between rich and poor countries, ignoring the existence of rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

CONTINUED...

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ruling_Elites/Party_Davos.html

That was from 2006 -- before the crash and the Great Bankster Bailout. Who got made whole, 100-cents on the dollar? Who got bankrupted and tossed from their homes?

Most importantly: Thank you, Enthusiast. The things I do "for attention."

and they've done so since the mid-90s, if not earlier.

Regulating Governments, De-regulating Business; expanding personhood with a Bill of Corporate Rights...

some quarters), but his words still ring true:

Thank you for the Big Bill Haywood quote.



Wisdom shared saves much heartbreak and time.

Love the poster Octofish!

KnR

I welcome the civil war in the party btween the populists and the third-wayers.

On the top side are the Have-Mores, who'll be moving the ball downhill at full gallop. On the lower side, wearing wooden barrels and iron shackles, are the Have-Nots, who wonder why the smiling Referees came to the game on the team bus with the Have-Mores.



The reason I fear Globalists more than Terrorists and USA and Planet Earth should, too.



The worst thing a terrorist can do is kill a person. The globalists are working to kill democracy.

Greg Palast outlined the financial part of the process:

Every single Democrat already knows this,
but their bosses in Industry & Banking don't like it.
They do what their bosses want.

Grown ups know how to make the trains run on time.

They are so right! Silly me! I am a bad man. Bad. Bad. Bad.

Did you read what William K. Black had to say? The guy who should be Attorney General wrote: