With a fountain pen

"Yes, as through this world I've wandered,
I've seen lots of funny men.
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen."

Woody Guthrie, "Pretty Boy Floyd"

It'd been years since I heard this song, but when I heard it today (Bob Dylan on the Folkways:  A Vision Shared tribute) for some odd reason this factoid from Think Progess that I'd read a short while ago popped into my head--since 2008, coroporate profits have risen 20% faster than workers' incomes.

I've heard tell there was a time when average workers shared in the prosperity of their companies, but those days disappeared after the Reagan Devolution.  Record corporate profits don't happen without dedicated workers, and you have to wonder how long that dedication will last without some financial reciprocity.

It only takes the removal of one card for the house of cards to come tumbling down.

Peace,
emaycee

All apologists

I wasn't surprised, when reading this piece by Robert Scheer, that American corporations don't pay their taxes.  Pissed off, yes, but surprised, no.  But what is surprising is the number of apologists for worthless U.S. corporations in the comments section.  But when I thought about it, rank and file republicans are a lot like corporations--corporations want our military to protect them, our public schools to educate their workers, our roads to get their workers to and from work, their products across America...but unlike the rest of us, they think they're entitled to these and shouldn't have to pay for it.  Rank and file republicans want Medicare and to collect Social Security, and they, too, make use of our roads and our military...and they, too, want the rest of us (but heaven forbid themselves) to pay for their public services.

Welfare queens, indeed.

Peace,
emaycee