Detroit Information

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/detroit-government-chooses-big-banks-over-the-american-people-once-again.html

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/detroit-government-chooses-big-banks-over-the-american-people-once-again.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/detroit-the-conspirators-behind-the-largest-municipal-bankruptcy-proceeding-in-us-history/5359649

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-detroit-bankruptcy-case/5357465


This country found it’s greatest economic success and ironically, it’s greatest economic equality between the wealthiest and the workers, from the start of the New Deal to around the late 70s early 80s. It wasn’t socialism or capitalism alone that made it, it was a combination. One thing Tarpley gets right these days (and it is rare in my opinion) is what he calls the American System of economics, and for the most part it worked. The first middle class in the history of the world came out of it. Children did better than their parents. Families could grow together because only one income was needed. Wages increased, standards of living increased, children went to school and workers retired in homes they OWNED in a level of comfort parents today don’t expect for themselves or their children.

The “collectivists” didn’t destroy that, nor did they create it. It took a great deal of fighting to get these things to pass. Just remember where we (as workers) were in the 1890s during the last Gilded Age. Equal pay for women, the 5 day work-week, over-time, safety regulations which keep workers from being killed and otherwise exploited, paid holidays, paid sick-leave, vacation time, maternity leave for your wife, child labor laws keeping corporations from exploiting your children, a minimum wage law keeping us from being a 3rd world free trade zone nation… these things are not the ONLY thing that “the collectivists” helped bring to fruition in this country (and others who followed our lead in some cases) but they certainly are things that we can, on a daily basis, see as helping to make our lives better. I don’t know what you do for a living, but I can almost guarantee that these are just SOME of the things you negotiate when you sign a new contract with your employer… some of the things you EXPECT as a respected worker. They are not evil nor somehow an attempt to make us weaker or dependent on government. They are designed to make us stronger and make our families stronger. They are designed to help build a financially secure and influential MIDDLE CLASS… and that is exactly why the billionaires and their Vichy press do everything they can to undermine the policies and ignore the fact that they have been undermining them for decades.

Ross Perot tried to warn us long ago as to what this neoliberal shift was going to do to this country. He was right, wasn’t he? And here we are so many decades later and even Paul Craig Roberts is saying pretty much the same thing (just not as clearly). Even Di$info Jone$ has to pretend to be a bit “left” these days because believe it or not, this country is not as divided as they would have us believe. When people like PCR start talking about the dangerous future that awaits us in the fully privatized land of the free, it’s time to step back a bit and look around you. There is another system that works and in it both the workers and the owners can thrive without either becoming slave or serf to the other. I know it because I know our history. The blue-print is right there in front of us. It produced the lowest levels of unemployment and the world’s first middle class. You can’t argue with it. It’s not capitalism alone, nor socialism, but something fought for and in some cases, died for, but it worked.

For the record, I don’t consider myself any one kind of political animal. I am what Rahm Emanuel calls “the retarded left” and that means I do not support the neoliberal New Dems approach to our “shift to the center” (read as “far right fascist democrats”) and I do not support fake dems like Clinton, Obama, Pelosi (I called for her removal in a online petition back in 2007? 2008?), Reid, Albright, Johnson, etc. etc. etc.
And for the record, I too look forward to our next discussion.