Time and Economics

In this class war, the rich are getting richer. The Republicans believe that President Barack Obama and the Democrats are waging a class war. The rich aren’t the total job creators at all. This falsehood of the super rich creating all of the jobs is propaganda shown in order to try to mislead Americans (and trying to make them reactionaries). A class war has been waged by the super rich against the people and the super rich have won many battles. There is the Gini index official data. This is the coefficient between zero and one that is a statistical measure of economic inequality. When it’s zero national income is evenly distributed among all citizens, and when it is one all the income goes to one person. Gini figures are between zero and one. Some countries have either low values or very high ones. The index has changed over the decades. There has a significant rise from about .37 to .45 proving that the rich got richer as most of rich got richer as most of the population in the middle class and below lost ground. From 1979 to 2005, the inflation adjusted income of families in the middle of the income distribution rose 21 percent. That is very slow growth, especially compared with the 100 percent rise in median income over a generation after World War II when inequality actually decreased. More importantly, over the same period, the income of the very rich, the top 100th of 1 percent of the income distribution, rose by 480 percent. Absorb that number for a few moments. In 2005 dollars, the average annual income of that group rose from $4.2 million to $24.3 million. Those numbers describe the true class war in which the rich and powerful was the clear winner. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center said that ¼ of all incomes of more than 1 million dollars a year pay income and payroll tax of 12.5 percent of their income. The tax burden is therefore placed on people in the middle class who pay twice that amount of even more. The Tax Foundation said that between 1987 and 2008, the share of income controlled by the top 1 percent grew to 20 percent from 12 percent. This was a growth of 67 percent. Their share of taxes went to 28 percent from 24 percent. This was a share growth of 17 percent. So, the top 1 percent share of income grew nearly 5 times faster than their share of taxes or 67 percent versus 17 percent. So, the rich don’t pay the nation’s taxes unfairly. The plutocracy is benefiting this war. The rich top 1 percent has the share of total pre-tax income rose from about 10 percent in 1980 to 21 percent in 2008. Low taxes now haven’t caused them or the super rich to cause new jobs. Higher taxes have existed decades after WWII has caused more job creation. So, people have the right to oppose this inequality. People have the right to adhere to economic justice. That is why people are protesting Wall Street in NYC, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, and across that nation in order to promote real economic justice.




A Harvard study says that in America, about 45,000 people die every year because they can’t afford basic medical services. This is interesting in the midst of sick Tea Party supporters yelling in a debate about wanting to kill an uninsured person if they can’t afford health care. This isn’t surprising. Showing wild applause and enthusiastic affirmation of letting a human being to die proves that some Tea Party people are nihilists and perverted. Today we have the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Ron Paul and his Tea Party allies believe that people aren’t turned away from hospitals, church charity or private groups can cure the crisis alone, and medical costs are increasing people some people lack personal responsibility. These are lies of course. The reality is that individuals have personal responsible, yet the government has responsibility to help the people with health care since the government is made by and for the people. The government is made up of individuals; therefore responsibilities are interrelated to the government. The Tea Party are hypocrites for yelling abut big government, but say nothing about some of their people in Congress getting federal government sponsored health coverage (it’s never dropped and it’s made affordable). A lack of health care and medicine has caused 45,000 people to die. Federal medical facilities are special to help members of Congress. No need to wait on hold for twenty minutes for the next available doctor’s appointment that is in six months. No need to wait in line at Walgreens to pay the uninsured price of $1,700 for a one-month prescription of Etanercept. We can’t let everyone who is uninsured to trust the market or you’re on your own.Americans are going bankrupt, because many Americans can’t pay the medical bills. Kyle Willis, a 24-year-old Ohio man, is one such casualty. An ER doctor prescribed pain medication and antibiotics to treat his tooth infection, but Willis couldn’t afford both prescriptions. The antibiotic was more expensive so he bought the pain pills. The infection spread to his brain and killed him. Americans die like this every single day – it’s just not front page news. The latest U.S. Bureau of the Census report mentions that 49.0 million uninsured is an undercount. The reason is that thousands of people lose coverage throughout the year. Many postal workers are losing their jobs and the uninsured is increasing.There are nonprofit groups like the Remote Area Medical (or RAM) promoting free health care with a clinic at Malcolm X College in Chicago. Even there, thousands are tuned away. Over 2 million people are uninsured in Illinois. Some people like the middle aged African American woman named Janice Kelly had to use Orajel and Advil since she doesn’t have the money to get her teeth removed (and use of X-Rays).Many physicians and main RAM organizers said that health care is human right and a public option should be made available to people. They want Medicare for all. Over the years, the majority of Americans want a government option in health care to help people or a single payer system. The new health care law wasn’t comprehensive enough to handle the health issues in America (some of it was written by the insurance industry for the insurance industry). It leaves 23 million uninsured, denies undocumented immigrants health coverage, and mandates that the uninsured buy expensive, high deductible, high co-pay health plans via complicated state insurance exchanges or face a financial penalty. The insurance companies have received record profits as well. America’s top five health insurance companies increased their profits by 56 per cent in 2009 for a combined profit of $12.2bn, the same year that 2.7 million people lost their private health insurance. Universal health care is better than nothing indeed.





Chuck Norris recently wrote in opposition to GMOs, etc. He is right to oppose the refusal of labeling genetically engineering foods. The LA Time reported that with no labels of such foods, few people what they are getting. The wild thing is that according to Chuck Norris, 93 percent of soy is made up genetically modified crops, 86 percent of all corn, and 93 percent of all canola seeds in America have them. About 70 percent of all American possessed food has GMOs. Over the last decade, numerous polls (from the Pew Center and the Consumers Union and Harris Interactive polls) prove that most Americans want to see genetically modified foods better regulated and labeled. The current President has approved an unprecedented amount of genetically modified crops like ethanol corn, alfalfa, and sugar beets. Internationally, there has been the CAC promoting such crops internationally. The CAC is the Codex Alimentarius Commission from 1963 was founded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization. Its mission proclaimed that it wants to protect health, and remove trade obstacles (plus establish food guidelines. The membership of the commission today represents 185 members including the European community and the U.S. There are thousands of guidelines used by the CAC in areas dealing with pesticides, additives, etc. Now, the CAC wants to deal with vitamins and mineral supplements. They are picking up the issues on whether people can label genetically altered and engineered fruits and vegetables. The ANH or the Alliance for Natural Health expressed another concern from the natural health community about the United Nation’s CAC guidelines, because its preamble, “…"essentially discounts the benefits from dietary supplements, and the fact that the scope of the Codex Guidelines includes developing minimum and maximum levels of vitamins and minerals." Regulating those maximum levels is currently prohibited by U.S. policy since dietary supplements are not categorized as drugs. Some want global governance of our foods. Our health rights have been violated. Some want a global food and drug administration to handle our food rights. Internationalists want to violate our sovereignty via food policies. No internationalists should dictate we should eat or how we eat. We should support labeling foods. We have the right to support dietary supplements and organic foods. Big business and lobbyists don’t want labeling of GMOs. The ANH cited the wisdom of the late George Wald, Nobel laureate in medicine and physiology as well as Higgins professor of biology at Harvard University, one of the first scientists to speak out about the dangers of genetically engineered foods. George Wald wrote that the new genetic engineering of recombinant DNA technology can cause new cancers and it can harm the life on Earth (harming other organisms as well). 14 states have legislation on genetically modified organism labeling. They face government gridlock though. We should keep food safe via genetically engineering labeling. Corn, cotton, etc. shouldn’t be deregulated. More people are buying organic foods and believe in the proper labeling of all foods. We don’t need global governance.





Now, some people don’t know the real Dr. Martin Luther King. He is one of the misrepresented and misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. He and other lead a fight against oppression. Dr. King developed a vision of what America could become if it abandoned the blatant racism that, he argued, “...the largest portion of white America is still poisoned by.” King further argued that racism was so endemic in America that it is “as native to our soil as pine trees, sagebrush and buffalo grass.” So, he wanted a solution to be a radical economic and political action for a just America plus world. He admitted in 1966 that he doesn’t have all of the answers, he isn’t omniscience, and that nonviolence is an experiment with the truth (and that people have the right to search for the truth). Even on pg. 27 of Where do We Go, Dr. Martin Luther King admitted that people have the right to defend themselves if they are attacked or using a gun in your own home if you’re attacked. He questioned the need to use a gun while participating in an organized demonstration. Dr. King on plenty of time admitted in April of 1967 that he would go to the military to fight against Hitler to sacrifice temporarily his personal pacifism. IN his Beyond Vietnam speech from 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King advocated armed liberation struggles in Africa and Asia. He believed that foreign nations should break down structures of governments that oppress human beings and built up a revolutionary changing system to benefit human beings. In the 1960s, Dr. King and other leaders called for the support of armed liberation struggles in Africa through two organizations, the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLCA) and the American Committee on Africa. He was a leader in ANLCA. ANLCA was created in 1962. It was created to allow African Americans to support liberation struggles in sub-Saharan Africa. In November of 1962, the group praised nations in Africa that became free like Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria that all received their independence from colonialist France via armed struggle. ANCLA in its resolution support Angola and Mozambique in their struggle for freedom plus independence. Angola fought against Portugal back in February of 1961. ANLCA documents are in the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia. They support unconditional support of liberation movements in Africa at its September 1964 conference. So, it’s easy to see that Dr. King’s nonviolent views didn’t mean that he unconditionally opposed armed struggle against oppression. He wanted liberation in Africa from imperialists as validated by Dr. King’s speeches, statements, writings, and his leading role in likeminded groups like the ANLCA.




William Cooper long before 9/11 in June 28, 2001 predicted that a terrorist attack on America was imminent and that Osama bin Laden would be used as a scapegoat in order to promote international wars and interventions in the Middle East (in essence for the West to get foreign resources to build up the globalized Utopian society that the elite envisioned for thousands of years. The elite want a one world system). Even David Shippers and Greg Palast have exposed the government connections and protection of terrorists. 9/11 Truth groups range from We Are Change to 9/11 Truth.org. These people legitimately want accountability revolving around the corruption in world society. They have the right for their voice to be heard in the world. Many of them adequately motivate people to be better human beings as well. The reason is that it makes us aware that any deceit and hypocrisy (of claiming to abhor bin Laden won’t expose the fact that Osama bin Laden once was a Western government ally). In 2011, people in 9/11 Truth don’t just protest in the streets, which is fine. They organize money to help 9/11 victims. They got out demanding justice. They work in charities and other nonprofit organizations in order to assist humanity. 9/11 Truth activists have been in the forefront to pressure the EPA to admit that they gave false information to the public about how toxic the air was. They also find a way to get more people to have a practical, skeptical opinion of the official story of 9/11.

By Timothy