Jobs Report Biden must highlight. Trump tougher-on-Russia called out. Inflation? Who sacrifices?
Biden had a great jobs report to highlight. Pundit called out for a false Trump-tougher-on-Russia narrative. Inflation is our sacrifice for a failed, greedy, & exploitative corporate, private sector.
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February Jobs Report shows Biden & Progressives’ economic competence. Win the message!
BAM! Right-Wing ‘Trump tougher on Russia’ narrative blown up in pundits face on show in real-time.
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Expose them now! Put inflation blame where it really belongs before it is too late
We sacrifice for America as corporations rob us like parasites using inflation & low wages.
BONUS: Michael Kubosh, Houston City Council Member, discusses bail bonds, criminals, and solutions.
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February Jobs Report shows Biden & Progressives’ economic competence. Win the message!
The February Jobs Report shows we are on the right track. The accompanying inflation is not caused by shortages. It is caused mostly by parasitic corporations with pricing power.
We have another great jobs report. The following is from yahoo/finance.
The U.S. economy added back the most jobs since July 2021 in February, with job growth accelerating even in the already-tight labor market as new Omicron cases from earlier this year came down.
The Labor Department released its February jobs report Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main metrics from the print, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg:
Non-farm payrolls: +678,000 vs. +423,000 expected and an upwardly revised +481,000 in January
Unemployment rate: 3.8% vs. 3.9% expected, 4.0% in January
Average hourly earnings, month-over-month: 0.0% vs. 0.5% expected and a downwardly revised 0.6% in January
Average hourly earnings, year-over-year: 5.1% vs. 5.8% expected and a downwardly revised 5.5% in January
February’s jobs report presented yet another upside surprise to investors, and marked a fourteenth consecutive month of payroll growth. Last month, January’s jobs report also showed many more jobs returned than expected, with payrolls rising by 400,000 versus the 125,000 expected at the time. In Friday’s report, January’s job gains were also upwardly revised even further to show 481,000, compared to the 467,000 previously reported. And December’s payrolls were upwardly revised again to 588,000, compared to the 510,000 posted in last month’s revision.
We must promote the job’s message. Most importantly, it is essential to justifiably point out that the parasitic corporations continue to suck up the gains of the average American just because they have pricing power.
I repeat ad nauseam, our inflation, for the most part, is not caused by shortages. Yes, we have spot shortages caused by the failure of the private sector because of offshoring and just-in-time inventory. But that is a failure of the private sector, not the government.
So let us keep a strong, aggressive, and assertive message going. We built back the economy. Now we must fight the corporatocracy from taking it away with their monopolistic and parasitic pricing power.
BAM! Right-Wing ‘Trump tougher on Russia’ narrative blown up in pundits face on show in real-time.
The false narrative that Trump was tougher on Russia than Biden or Obama was turned on its head by this analyst.
Melinda Haring, Atlantic Council Eurasia Center Deputy Director, a supposedly nonpartisan organization now supported by Right-Winger Charles Koch, appeared on MSNBC. Ayman Mohyeldin asked her a simple question.
How did the GOP evolve from the party of Reagan’s Cold War mentality?” Mohyeldin asked. “To where they are now or where they were just prior to the Russian invasion?”
Instead of answering the question, Haring attempted to make the case that the program was speculative. More importantly, she tried to promote the Right-Wing narrative that Donald Trump was tougher on Russia than Biden or past administrations.”
Ayman Mohyeldin pushed back. He asked if Trump’s attempt to weaken NATO was not tantamount to doing the will of Putin. She grudgingly had to accept that reality. That alone completely blew her argument of a tougher-on-Russia Trump.
But it was Tom Nichols, The Atlantic Contributing Writer, who schooled her on the reality about Trump’s impeachable offense and weakness towards Putin, Russia.
“I can’t let it stand to say that Trump was somehow tough on Russia here,” Tom Nichols said. “There has to be a correction involved because the policies of the US government were tough on Russia put in place under Bush and Obama. Trump was impeached specifically because he was trying to get other people to break the law to undermine those existing policies because he didn’t want to be perceived as rolling back those policies. He was literally trying to undermine the policies of his own government by getting other people to break the law and to weaken Ukraine. And that’s why he was impeached. So it’s not correct to say that Trump was tough. The existing policies were tough. Trump had left them in place and then broke the law and reached the point of impeachment by trying to undermine those policies. I have to make that correction.”
It is not often one sees a total rebuke of a statement made by one panelist against another in such factual detail on these panels. We need this in these difficult times of rampant fake news.
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Expose them now! Put inflation blame where it really belongs before it is too late
Biden must blame inflation on the corporations parasitically redistributing our income to themselves via record profits.
I wish Biden had called out the corporations for their parasitic behavior during the State Of The Union Speech. Instead, he got defensive by pointing out the obvious. He said he was a capitalist. We all know that. He then said something to the effect that Capitalism without competition is tantamount to extortion.
That’s not what he should have said. He is giving the greedy capitalists a break. These guys are pilfering American citizens, and then they blame. They blame Biden. He allows them to keep blaming him. The culprit, the ones who are causing inflation, all around. the ones responsible for inflation are the private sector.
First of all, their increases in prices are much faster than any price increase they have. The reasons for the price increases are their failures. Whatever happened to accountability? Whatever happened to being accountable for Just-In-Time inventory failing? Whatever happened to being accountable for offshoring failing? And how did those two fail? The supply line failure for certain products means we have a shortage of those products.
And then who pays for that failure? You do. Here’s the interesting thing. The rip-off that this type of Capitalism represents is quantifiable.
There was a time when we made a lot of products in America. The furthest these products had to travel was 3000 miles from one coast to the other. Or maybe we made some in Alaska and Hawaii, so they traveled a bit more. But we used to make things here. So transportation costs were minimal, and delivery was not a problem.
If you manufacture in North Carolina, South Carolina, California, Oregon, all these places, if there’s a hurricane in North Carolina, you can bring products in from your store in California, etc. That’s perfect, right? It works.
But in America, we also have a good standard of living. We want to pay good wages. Well, what do the capitalists say? The capitalists say, ‘Our sole purpose in life is to maximize profits for the shareholders and bonuses for the executives. That’s it. And the fairly recent god of unfettered capitalism Milton Friedman, the king, said, you don’t have to worry about society. You don’t have to worry about doing what is morally right. He said that that’s the definition of Capitalism.
They discovered offshore, and then they manufactured all of these products overseas. What does that mean? Whereas it took a few days to get a product. Now it takes a few months. You must preplan much more competently for products manufactured overseas. You have to preplan going through customs. You have to preplan the shipping charges. But the slave labor overseas is so much less than the slave labor in the United States that they recovered more than all other costs combined.
But there’s a catch. If there is a war, hurricane, or other problem, the corporation cannot get the product to market.
So they offshored manufacturing to stiff the American worker. Then they used Just-In-Time-Inventory to rake in even more profits. And when their shortsighted incompetence is exposed, they blame the government and try to recover lost income from their incompetence from Americans using inflation as the tactic.
Here is what hurts the most. Their price increases mean that they profit even more from shortages because they use less material and charge more. They sell fewer cars at a much higher individual price. So their expenses fall as their profits explode. And this is reflected in their stock prices. So what can one learn from this?
This form of Capitalism is a system that allows you to profit off of your failure. And who pays for the failure of these capitalists. We do as they attempt to assign blame elsewhere.
Biden, Progressives, and Democrats specify that we have inflation because of the failure of the corporate, private sector. You’re paying higher prices because the same private sector wants to monopolize on their failures. They fail. You pay.
We sacrifice for America as corporations rob us like parasites using inflation & low wages.
While Americans are always asked to sacrifice during crises, corporations parasitically continue to exploit us all.
Our Ukrainian brothers and sisters, they’re at war. But in reality, war has come to them. We have Russia that’s blowing the holy crap out of apartment buildings, blowing things up, killing innocent civilians. Right. That’s a fact.
But in the process, because of the sanctions on Russia and the volatility in the markets, the price of oil is going through the roof. That is our economic system at work. Our economic system says the following. If there is a war, the risk is on you. If there are good times, the risk is on you people. If there are bad times, the risk is on you.
Why do we have troops all over the world? Why do we have bases all over the world? Why do we have several fleets in every single one of the oceans on this planet to protect the interests of Americans? Whose interests are we really protecting?
If we were an insular community, the average American citizen would be farming, manufacturing primarily within America for self-sufficiency, as the Natives did. With our current economic system, we can abstract things. We were able to go ahead and manufacture items here and there and elsewhere.
The spoils from that efficiency, which is real, will never spread to all of those who created it. In other words, it’s more efficient to build certain things overseas. But price savings of those things made overseas, while we got slightly lower prices, we never partook of the vast profits. It went just to the corporate executives and shareholders.
It wasn’t the billionaires who made the ships. It was not the billionaires who created the intellect for all these different things we design, develop, and produce. It was all of us collectively. We all did it.
Even as we need a strong military to make sure commerce continues around this globe, the only ones who pay the price when there are disruptions, the only ones who pay the price when there are problems, are we the people.
The corporate structure never pays. Inflation is always their savior. They always make it. They are always ahead. They ask us to be patriotic. Remember they used to tell us, ‘Go buy war bonds?’ Do the big patriotic thing. When will corporations do the patriotic thing? When will they refrain from raising prices to extend record profits at the expense of a suffering population?
Stop raising the prices on the average American citizen. They are going through hell. They went through the pandemic. They kept your corporations alive. Some people even died keeping your corporations alive.
Who do you ask to carry the weight of the war — The weight of the speculations in the oil market? You are asking us to do it. No, you’re not asking us to do it. You are forcing us to do it because we must drive to work. After all, we must heat our homes.
So you, the corporations, as we look at the stock market, you have profited from the pandemic. We have had to pay much more for things under the pandemic. You profited. You profited from the technology that created the cures for the pandemic that we all paid for and then paid again as you sold our collective creation back to us at extortion prices.
When are you going to make the sacrifice for America, for the blood of the people, for the blood of the kids who went to Iraq on false pretenses, for the blood of the kids who went to Afghanistan on false premises, for the blood of the kids who went to Grenada, Panama, Haiti, and all these places on your behalf to make sure you could get cheap bananas?
The average American citizen has always paid the price for corporate profits, for your success, and your failures. When do you, as a corporation, sacrifice? When do you as a corporation pay the price for what capitalism has rendered not only on America but throughout the world? You beg you demand, and then you take.
I remember when Mitt Romney said that 47% of us are takers. No, 47% of us don’t even make enough money to pay income taxes. We pay every other tax. Many of us cannot afford income taxes. Why? Because you don’t pay the people enough so that they can contribute. However, the biggest problem I see is the indoctrination into having us believe that there is something special about you capitalists. There’s nothing special about you. You are just parasites. There is absolutely nothing special about a capitalist other than they are the biggest parasites on the planet.
You suck the blood out of everybody else. We bleed for you. When the prices go up, we pay. We then watch you brag daily around the stock market about the record profits you extorted from us. Why? You claim you had to raise our prices because of a supply chain problem you created; how the hell is there a supply chain problem when your prices before the price hike already resulted in record profits.
People, we have to start learning the reality about our economic system independently. We have to stop having these people lie to us about the reasons for price hikes, poor wages, unsafe work environments, pollution, and so many other things. Until then, they look at us and say, ‘Those stupid people will do whatever we ask.’
BONUS: Michael Kubosh, Houston City Council Member, discusses bail bonds, criminals, and solutions.
Houston Texas At-Large Position 3 City Council member Michael Kubosh discusses bail bonds, criminal releases, and solutions. Before I get into the bulk of the article, I want to make a few absolute statements. I hope those who demagogued the bail bonds issue will state not only in their rebuttals but in a frontal and assertive offensive.
Judges do not make laws. They adjudicate. It is the responsibility of lawmakers to make laws that protect citizens. Do not allow politicians to offload said responsibility to judges.
The bail-bond laws are created by the state legislature and thus any mishaps with it are the responsibility of those in control of the state legislature.
The wild-wild-west in Texas with road rage shootings and other irresponsible gun behaviors that cause many deaths in Texas are a direct result of irresponsible gun laws passed by the state legislature.
The crime increase must be directly attributable to bad laws and policies.
Every year political parties try to find an issue that they can coalesce around that puts the voters into a false panic to earn their vote. It is not only disingenuous, and it fractures society. Crime has increased from being at all-time lows to being a bit worse than it was. Crime is nowhere close to what it was in the 90s. But the rise is national irrespective of state or party control.
Here is the perspective as reported by the Houston Chronicle. Note that even as the crime rate in 2021 was one of the worst in the last 30 years, we are talking from a relatively low base. According to the Houston Chronicle, it is clear that the hysteria many want to attribute is not warranted.
Houston saw another increase in homicides in 2021, with police investigators having responded to 469 deaths of that nature in the city over 12 months.
The rate of deaths — about 20 per 100,000 people — accounts for Houston’s population boom over three decades, capping the year as one of the worst rates in three decades. A Chronicle review of homicide statistics shows that the rate remains well below the 1990 peak when 617 people were killed, resulting then in a rate of about 36 people per 100,000 people.
Criminal justice experts offered some perspective: Houston’s homicide rate is lower than what other U.S. cities are facing.
Activists know, and it is incumbent on politicians to see, that crime is a socio-economic problem our lawmakers must solve with sensible fact-based policies. Their failure for theatrics instead of seeking real solutions shows a deviancy and a disregard for humanity that we must call out.
If politicians attempting to make judges’ use of bail bonds an issue would stop their hypocritical parasitic attachment to the bail bond industry, they would pass better laws. Moreover, they would stop the crime problem before it started by creating socio-economic policies that make the allure of criminal behavior moot.
Later in our worthy conversation, Michael Kubosh agreed that many policies like education, healthcare, and alimentation would solve the problem. If politicians want to be responsible, get off the false, divisive narrative and do your job.
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