Yavin4
Yavin4's JournalAnyone here watching AMC's Preacher? If not, you should be.
Great show. I'm in love with Ruth Negga. She's great as Tulip.
"Dude, stop farting. That last one may have blinded me."
Dog: "I told you not to sit there."
Simple solutions to the whole Hillary email story
1. Don't allow government officials on any level to use personal devices nor personal emails to conduct official government business. They can only use government issued devices.
2. Build a robust data management system(retention, back-up, disaster recovery, archiving, data security, etc.) for all user generated data.
Problem solved. Move on.
Bulldog gets new bed
Ah, What's the vintage on this wine?
Democrats: The White Working Class Isn’t Voting for You, So Stop Pandering to Them
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/30/democrats-the-white-working-class-isn-t-voting-for-you-so-stop-pandering-to-them.html
Another point that the article misses. African Americans and Latinos are also largely working class, but they don't get lumped into the same demo. The racial implication here is that they don't work like their White counterparts do. They don't face the same economic anxiety like their White counterparts do. They get government support whereas their White counterparts do not.
It was not factory jobs that created the great American middle class
It was a combination of:
1. Government intervention into the management of companies that forced them to collectively bargain with workers.
2. Labor laws e.g.the 40 hour work week and OT pay
3. Lack of foreign competition
4. Discrimination against African Americans and Women which limited competition for White men and raised their wages
5. Fear of the spread of Soviet communism for which a large middle class would act as a buffer
None of these things would return if we brought back every factory job in the world onto American shores. If that were to happen, you would have to pay American workers the same wage as the factory workers in other nations. Otherwise, these companies would not be able to compete. For example, if Apple made every product in the U.S., they would have to pay their factory workers the same as Samsung or go out of business.
Folks, globalization is here whether you like it or not. There's nothing that a president can do.
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