A recent report from The Wall Street Journal shows that going to the movies is more and more beyond the means of America's middle class.
You have to wonder just how long our economic system will hold when something as simple as going to the movies becomes economically unattainable for the vast majority of Americans.
In other words, shit meet fan. Fan meet shit.
Peace,
emaycee
Thursday, December 11, 2014
The choice is Warren-ted
The House passed another bad spending bill tonight, full of giveaways to Wall Street and Corporate America and the usual fuck-all for the rest of us. Unsurprisingly, the White House supported the bill (hell of a week for Jeckyll and Hyde Obama--torture bad, greed good); Elizabeth Warren argued vehemently against it.
All of which got me to thinking...that in all likelihood, President Hillary would have supported the bill, too--and is that really what I want from now until 2024? Will the middle class last that long?
I've pretty much been a Hillary supporter of the, "oh well, at least our economic travails won't get any worse under her leadership" but maybe it's time to look at who will make our economic travails better.
Move.On started an online campaign this week to draft Elizabeth Warren for the Democratic nomination in 2016:
In lieu of replacing one Wall Street-centric Democrat with another, it might be the most important online campaign of our time for those of us fighting the losing battle of trying to stay afloat economically.
Peace,
emaycee
All of which got me to thinking...that in all likelihood, President Hillary would have supported the bill, too--and is that really what I want from now until 2024? Will the middle class last that long?
I've pretty much been a Hillary supporter of the, "oh well, at least our economic travails won't get any worse under her leadership" but maybe it's time to look at who will make our economic travails better.
Move.On started an online campaign this week to draft Elizabeth Warren for the Democratic nomination in 2016:
In lieu of replacing one Wall Street-centric Democrat with another, it might be the most important online campaign of our time for those of us fighting the losing battle of trying to stay afloat economically.
Peace,
emaycee
Monday, December 8, 2014
Don't dream it's over...
R.I.P....the American Dream?
Economist Gregory Clark of UC-Davis says he's done the research and Americans have no more chance of social mobility than did those folks who lived in ye olde Medieval England--and that our rate of social mobility has worsened over the past 100 years.
Clark also notes that where you end up financially has mostly to do with where your lineage is at financially, i.e., if you weren't born rich you aren't going to be rich.
He also says that his students have a tough time accepting this--which could go a long way toward explaining why we don't see a lot more progressive politicians in office.
Because the first step toward changing problem behavior is admitting there's a problem in the first place.
Peace,
emaycee
Economist Gregory Clark of UC-Davis says he's done the research and Americans have no more chance of social mobility than did those folks who lived in ye olde Medieval England--and that our rate of social mobility has worsened over the past 100 years.
Clark also notes that where you end up financially has mostly to do with where your lineage is at financially, i.e., if you weren't born rich you aren't going to be rich.
He also says that his students have a tough time accepting this--which could go a long way toward explaining why we don't see a lot more progressive politicians in office.
Because the first step toward changing problem behavior is admitting there's a problem in the first place.
Peace,
emaycee
How?
I know there are a lot of good and decent police men and women across the country, but after watching the events of the last few weeks, the decisions not to prosecute the killers of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, the lame ass defenses of murderers by local police unions and spokesmen, how the hell does anybody trust any police officer anywhere?
How?
Peace,
emaycee
How?
Peace,
emaycee
Monday, December 1, 2014
Letting lying dogs sleep
As you may or may not have heard, the republican led Michigan legislature is considering a plan to change the way our electoral votes are allotted--it's a somewhat convoluted plan, but suffice it to say that the idea is to allow the republican Presidential candidate to get at least a few electoral votes in Michigan even though he or she has as much chance of winning the states electoral votes based on the way the U.S. Constitution intended it to be as I do of farting $100 bills. (Aside: Funny how that whole disregarding the U.S. Consitution seems to get...um, disregarded when it comes to republican wants, isn't it?)
I, though, am one of the few Liberals who wholeheartedly endorse this plan--it's one thing (though it still isn't right) when you disenfranchise 10% of the voters in some podunk state in the South, and completely another when you disenfranchise 60% of the voters across the entire United States (figuring that approximately 40% of voters are Democrats or lean Democratic and 20% are more or less independent).
Pissing off that many Americans would be a final breath for a party already in its death throes.
Wouldn't bother attending the funeral, either.
Peace,
emaycee
I, though, am one of the few Liberals who wholeheartedly endorse this plan--it's one thing (though it still isn't right) when you disenfranchise 10% of the voters in some podunk state in the South, and completely another when you disenfranchise 60% of the voters across the entire United States (figuring that approximately 40% of voters are Democrats or lean Democratic and 20% are more or less independent).
Pissing off that many Americans would be a final breath for a party already in its death throes.
Wouldn't bother attending the funeral, either.
Peace,
emaycee
Ram tough
In a show of solidarity with the folks in Ferguson, MO, five St. Louis Rams did this yesterday:
Which caused the St. Louis Police Officers Association to go apoplectic and demand the players be disciplined (the NFL said no, thanks) and that the Rams and the NFL issue an apology, because, you know, it wasn't enough that a piss poor and rigged grand jury proceeding let murderer Darren Wilson go free.
Here's hoping that next week the Rams' players give the St. Louis Police Officers Association a one finger salute.
Peace,
emaycee
Which caused the St. Louis Police Officers Association to go apoplectic and demand the players be disciplined (the NFL said no, thanks) and that the Rams and the NFL issue an apology, because, you know, it wasn't enough that a piss poor and rigged grand jury proceeding let murderer Darren Wilson go free.
Here's hoping that next week the Rams' players give the St. Louis Police Officers Association a one finger salute.
Peace,
emaycee
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