No Wonder This Country Was Founded On Discontent Over Taxes!!

Benjamin Franklin: “Two Things Certain Death and Taxes!”

 The Red Dragon; The Attack Of Asian Capital  in American CapitalMarkets   

"Business Not As Usual"

As BionicBoy mentioned, college costs continue to skyrocket, fast outpacing inflation, discouraging graduates from pursuing lower-paying careers in the education and nonprofit sectors, and dissuading many would-be college students from applying.

But there's some hope!

Watch the video and share your tips below

Strapped: Why America's 20 and 30 somethings can't get ahead.

Great book; I read it in about 3 days. And I'd recommend it to anyone, so for this blog post, it is my recommendation to you.

Read a free excerpt over at www.StrappedTheBook.com and then go buy it.

There is a great class war in our society. Globalization, capitalism and other forces have managed to further the gap between the rich and the poor.

458 Billionaires control over half the world's wealth. 3 trillion people earn less than $3 a day. The abject conditions of the working poor continue to disintegrate each day around the world and in our own country.

A man once wrote about this class struggle. His name is Karl Marx. His teachings and communism have been dragged through the dirt by many intent on making sure the current system is eternal.

Please take a minute and watch the video in this entry. Listen to the words and enjoy the cartoons :-)

In 2001, at the UN-sponsored World Conference Against Racism, African nations demanded a clear apology for slavery from the former slave-trading countries and colonialist countries, with no success. Unfortunately, I am not surprised that judges in the USA are also saying that descendants of slavery can't seek reparations, especially from banks who hid their slave trading and slave-owner supporting past.

Yesterday, an appeals court in Chicago rejected a bid to a slave reparations suit. Judges said slave descendants cannot seek reparations from some of America's largest banks, insurers, and transportation companies who profited from slavery. Companies like JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Aetna transported slaves and issued loans to slaveholders so they could buy other human beings.

All people who have been historically marginalized and victimized in this country deserve a level playing field. Reparations are not the only step toward leveling an incredibly unfair playing field, however they could help to start healing over 200 year old wounds.

Reparations can come in many forms: land, social services, government payments, and private payments. I understand the argument that the US relies on self-reported racial categories, and for this reason, I argue that instead of private payments, public payments should be made to improve communities, create programs, and promote diversity and access to services.

Japanese Americans who were placed in internment camps received reparations. As a result of this precedent, it is unjustifiable that other historically oppressed and exploited people aren't given the same rights and access to resources to build strength in their communities. Even though some Native American tribal groups have received some compensation for land taken from them in treaties, they have not been adequately compensated.

In spite of the fact that African Americans who live today didn't directly suffer under slavery, we carry the burden of this peculiar institution with us in every aspect of our lives.

How can you be expected to "pull yourself up by your own boot straps" when you still have inadequate access to health insurance and good schools?

Affirmative Action and programs of this kind are like reparations because they give us a chance to access education and careers that our ancestors who died before us dreamed about. In order to move on from a painful past, we need resources to empower us. Without this, a select portion of the population will continue to control the majority of the nation's wealth and power.