Elizabeth Warren "Nobody get rich on his own"

This is a fantastic link from a speech by Elizabeth Warren on "The Myth of Class Warfare."
Nobody get rich on his own! Click here to view clip.

What Organized Labor Has Accomplished

Let's take a look at what organized labor has accomplished.

• 10 hour day
• 8 hour day
• unemployment compensation
• paid vacations
• sick leave
• minimum wages
• workmen's compensation
• workplace safety
• health insurance
• end to child labor
• right to organize
• equal pay for equal work
• competency standards

If you don't like these things, you are free to move to some Third World country like Botswana, Bangladesh, South Carolina, etc.

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Some Cartoons to think about

These are just a few of my favorites.

John’s Glossary of the Far Right

John’s Glossary of the Far Right

Christian                                Republican, conservative (no relation to Jesus’ teachings)

Communist                            anyone who doesn’t agree 100% with us

Compassionate                     one who replaces hanging with lethal injection.

Death panel                           health insurance company adjuster

Death tax                               inheritance tax, estate tax

Fair tax                                   a tax paid by low income people

Founding Fathers                  King George III

Free enterprise                     letting the poor die, child labor

Free trade                              shipping US jobs overseas

Government regulation       meat inspection, traffic lights, medical licensing, building codes

Government waste               any non-military spending that takes place outside my district

Health Care                           Don’t get sick

Illegal alien                           Mexican

Job-creators                          billionaires

Middle class                         those who have inherited wealth, minimum income of $250,000

Minority                                Black Republicans

Muslim                                   terrorist

Obamacare                 A plan where poor people don’t necessarily die of curable diseases

Patriot                                   One who favors unlimited spending on the military

Person                                    Corporation

Progressive Republican      obs. an extinct breed who believed in helping others (see T. Roosevelt)

Pro-life                                   one who favors war and execution

Republican                            Tea Party member, anyone who really believes “W” won the 2000 election

Socialism                    having public roads, police, fire, schools, lighthouses, air traffic control

Socialist                                 anyone to the left of Mussolini; Democrat, African-American, liberal, progressive

Terrorist                                anyone with dark skin

Unemployment                     an opportunity to hire servants on the cheap

War                                        the real test of a macho country

Worthy                                  wealthy white man, big trust fund

Occupy Wall Street

The public is getting raped.
Wall Street's replies "Lie back and enjoy it."

We didn't cause the problem. The big banks, insurance oligopolies and brokers did, and now they want us to pay for it!

Here are the stupid quotes of the day by NY Mayor Bloomberg:

"Everyone's got a thing they want to protest, some of which is not realistic," Bloomberg said. "And if you focus for example on driving the banks out of New York City, you know those are our jobs ... You can't have it both ways: If you want jobs you have to assist companies and give them confidence to go and hire people."

"The protests that are trying to destroy the jobs of working people in this city aren't productive," Bloomberg said in his weekly radio appearance with John Gambling. Taking a swipe at "some of the labor unions participating," Bloomberg added that "their salaries come from — are paid by — some of the people they're trying to vilify."

Occupy Wall Street