Tapsearch Com EditorPhilosopy and Religion fail workers
July 3rd 2008 20:19
[SIZE=3][COLOR=Black][B]Many people who live with complicity in the destruction of other human beings " do not know it and do not want to know it."[B] - James Baldwin
As we previously noted, we concluded that labor and workers are the stepchildren of philosophy and religion. Christians and people of good will have been wearing blinders now for years relating to Free Trade and Globalization. There is a line of communication of the educated ruling the process. The gap between the rich and the poor is not only an economic one. One percent of the nation richest households has 40 percent of the country's wealth and the language of the educated and the communicated messages by the media lock out the voice of the working poor class. It took Hurrican Katrina to expose and exploited underclass in the USA living in a silent depression. It took a radical storm to reveal the realities of the streets. However after the storm passed not much changed. As Lech Walesa, the leader of the Solidarity movement in Poland who rose from the ranks of labor to the highest position in his nation, says - I am only a consumer and I know very little about business and economics, but I do know that something is very wrong when 10 percent of the population controls 100 percent of the wealth. And Aristotle said making money on mone is unnatural. We know how Jesus reacted to the money changers in the temple too.
Yet the Christian community and people of good will hide from these facts. James Baldwin once wrote, that many people who live with the complicity in the destruction ot other human beings "do not know it and do not want to know it.
Since 1973, the yearly wages of those without a high school degree have declined 23.3 and in the poverty stricken areas of cities, about 50 percent of the young can not find jobs. High school graduate wages are down 17 percent. As we reported before government policies played a large role in the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history. It was the US Government that sponsored and funded the moving of factories outside the USA.
Tthe mass media fails to cover the inequities that mean great profits for some and great misery for many others. Mainstream media hide how investors and faceless corporations keep feeding their bottom lines at the expense of a vast working poor class and millions of other missing in action from any kind of real reporting of the situation. The unemployment rate reporting is a sham compared to the past.
The worst part related to this commentary is the fact it could be dated 1988. 1998 or 2008. The years pass by but the degradation remains the same snaking its way into more and more lives .
James Baldwin, added to the above refrain " But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.
As we previously noted, we concluded that labor and workers are the stepchildren of philosophy and religion. Christians and people of good will have been wearing blinders now for years relating to Free Trade and Globalization. There is a line of communication of the educated ruling the process. The gap between the rich and the poor is not only an economic one. One percent of the nation richest households has 40 percent of the country's wealth and the language of the educated and the communicated messages by the media lock out the voice of the working poor class. It took Hurrican Katrina to expose and exploited underclass in the USA living in a silent depression. It took a radical storm to reveal the realities of the streets. However after the storm passed not much changed. As Lech Walesa, the leader of the Solidarity movement in Poland who rose from the ranks of labor to the highest position in his nation, says - I am only a consumer and I know very little about business and economics, but I do know that something is very wrong when 10 percent of the population controls 100 percent of the wealth. And Aristotle said making money on mone is unnatural. We know how Jesus reacted to the money changers in the temple too.
Yet the Christian community and people of good will hide from these facts. James Baldwin once wrote, that many people who live with the complicity in the destruction ot other human beings "do not know it and do not want to know it.
Since 1973, the yearly wages of those without a high school degree have declined 23.3 and in the poverty stricken areas of cities, about 50 percent of the young can not find jobs. High school graduate wages are down 17 percent. As we reported before government policies played a large role in the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history. It was the US Government that sponsored and funded the moving of factories outside the USA.
Tthe mass media fails to cover the inequities that mean great profits for some and great misery for many others. Mainstream media hide how investors and faceless corporations keep feeding their bottom lines at the expense of a vast working poor class and millions of other missing in action from any kind of real reporting of the situation. The unemployment rate reporting is a sham compared to the past.
The worst part related to this commentary is the fact it could be dated 1988. 1998 or 2008. The years pass by but the degradation remains the same snaking its way into more and more lives .
James Baldwin, added to the above refrain " But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.
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