tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post5648948324366884408..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Labor Day in a Jobless DecadeKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-56368305353040668952013-09-03T16:03:25.508-04:002013-09-03T16:03:25.508-04:00@worker bee--
Thanks for the links to the article...@worker bee--<br /><br />Thanks for the links to the articles by Elizabeth Warren. <br /><br />I have been wondering for quite some time now exactly what should constitute a "living wage," and the information that you and Warren provided helps me along in that project.<br /><br />Zeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-87189556698424713522013-09-03T11:36:54.235-04:002013-09-03T11:36:54.235-04:00We shouldn't forget John Lennon...
As soon as...We shouldn't forget John Lennon...<br /><br />As soon as you're born they make you feel small<br />By giving you no time instead of it all<br />Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all<br />A working class hero is something to be<br /> <br />They hurt you at home and they hit you at school<br />They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool<br />Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules<br />A working class hero is something to be<br /> <br />When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years<br />Then they expect you to pick a career<br />When you can't really function you're so full of fear<br />A working class hero is something to be<br /> <br />Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV<br />And you think you're so clever and classless and free<br />But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see<br />A working class hero is something to be<br /> <br />There's room at the top they're telling you still<br />But first you must learn how to smile as you kill<br />If you want to be like the folks on the hill<br /> <br />A working class hero is something to be<br />If you want to be a hero well just follow me<br /><br /><br />Can't help bu believe this world would be a different, better place were he still around.Noodgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-15661919300198342592013-09-03T10:10:48.219-04:002013-09-03T10:10:48.219-04:00"...and thus finalize the manufactured consen..."...and thus finalize the manufactured consent of the governed."<br /><br />My favorite line in a comment overflowing with great lines. Thanks for the heads-up, Anne. :)Willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-10968248768271987422013-09-03T08:07:23.667-04:002013-09-03T08:07:23.667-04:00Karen has an excellent comment in the New York Tim...Karen has an excellent comment in the New York Times today (Tuesday) to the editorial called 'Debating the Case for Force'. <br /><br />It's rated #1. I'd post it here but she might be working on another post where she includes it. annenigmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-10981086324513650982013-09-03T05:21:33.674-04:002013-09-03T05:21:33.674-04:00Here's the latest from Chris Hedges. Last chan...Here's the latest from Chris Hedges. Last chance to stop the NDAA. Don't hold your breath. <br /><br />http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_last_chance_to_stop_the_ndaa_20130902/Willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-10901668176554623762013-09-03T01:38:22.289-04:002013-09-03T01:38:22.289-04:00In March 2013 Elisabeth Warren said the minimum wa...In March 2013 Elisabeth Warren said the minimum wage would be $22 per hour if it kept up with productivity. Sen. Warren on YouTube here http://youtu.be/GYyqUZe7OCY<br /><br />What happened to the difference, from the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour? The American worker donated the other $14.75 to the rich, the one-percent. Unfortunately not enough people will fight for their own wages. That is a problem too, in addition to everything already noted.<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/elizabeth-warren-minimum-wage_n_2900984.html<br /><br />Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) made a case for increasing the minimum wage last week during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing, in which she cited a study that suggested the federal minimum wage would have stood at nearly $22 an hour today if it had kept up with increased rates in worker productivity.<br /><br />"If we started in 1960 and we said that as productivity goes up, that is as workers are producing more, then the minimum wage is going to go up the same. And if that were the case then the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour," she said, speaking to Dr. Arindrajit Dube, a University of Massachusetts Amherst professor who has studied the economic impacts of minimum wage. "So my question is Mr. Dube, with a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, what happened to the other $14.75? It sure didn't go to the worker."<br /><br />Dube went on to note that if minimum wage incomes had grown over that period at the same pace as it had for the top 1 percent of income earners, the minimum wage would actually be closer to $33 an hour than the current $7.25....worker beenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-24883330215418500742013-09-03T00:26:15.661-04:002013-09-03T00:26:15.661-04:00I rode back and forth as a strap hanger in NY for ...I rode back and forth as a strap hanger in NY for a few years after I got out of the service, often doing night shifts. And days, during those hectic lunch breaks, ordering a quick sandwich and watching the short order cooks and waitresses hustle. Met all kinds. And yeah, Karen, the Joads were one of my favorite families. And now I watch the immigrant laborers work in the hot Florida sun for a few bucks to send home and listen as a masseuse worries about her hands. All of them, and more, two weeks away from disaster. Most with little or no med. I think that's why I hated Romney more than the others, the Democrats, who are not much better.James F Traynornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-59215743282643222882013-09-03T00:19:16.202-04:002013-09-03T00:19:16.202-04:00The Militant by Langston Hughes
Let all who will
...The Militant by Langston Hughes<br /><br />Let all who will<br />Eat quietly the bread of shame.<br />I cannot,<br />Without complaining loud and long.<br />Tasting its bitterness in my throat,<br />And feeling to my very soul<br />It's wrong.<br />For honest work<br />You proffer me poor pay,<br />for honest dreams<br />Your spit is in my face,<br />And so my fist is clenched<br />Today-<br />To strike your face.Tarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03052375488090209961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-80718302982077999632013-09-02T21:45:59.564-04:002013-09-02T21:45:59.564-04:00Thank you Pearl, Fred and 4Runner.
Regrettably, ...Thank you Pearl, Fred and 4Runner. <br /><br />Regrettably, the outrages, subterfuges and propaganda attacks are coming almost too fast to keep up with them all. Fighting back may seem futile, but giving up and shutting up are exactly what the PTB would have us do. Ergo, tempting as it may be, apathy is not an option, at least not for me. Not yet. Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-57324606244184257992013-09-02T20:53:57.497-04:002013-09-02T20:53:57.497-04:00Let's drink to the hard-working people
Let'...Let's drink to the hard-working people<br />Let's drink to the lowly of birth<br />Raise your glass to the good and the evil<br />Let's drink to the salt of the earth.<br /><br />Say a prayer for the common foot-soldier<br />Spare a thought for his back-breaking work<br />Spare a part for his wife and his children<br />Who burn the fires and still till the earth.<br /><br />(Opening stanzas of "Salt of the Earth" by the Rolling Stones)4Runnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02582762546159637023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-18965087986835930972013-09-02T20:46:03.561-04:002013-09-02T20:46:03.561-04:00On the subject of Labor Day:
http://editorialcart...On the subject of Labor Day:<br /><br />http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/125433/<br /><br /><br />And though I haven't commented here in (I think) nearly a week, I have kept up with Karen's posts and the comments, and I must say that everyone has been in fine form on some very important matters. On this Labor Day, I'll echo @Pearl's comment. I want to express many thanks to Karen and the commenters at Sardonicky for their labors throughout the year pulling back the curtain of illusion draped by the powers-that-be over our politics and economy. Your cutting critiques directed at the rivers of shit emanating from the powerful corporations, the military-security apparatus, and their lackey politicians, have been necessary, welcome, inspiring. I think that as a result of such critiques here and elsewhere, increasing numbers of Americans are moving beyond the state of undefined malaise, to beginning to understand how our political "representatives", our "institutions", and our largely-unregulated capitalist economy have failed both the people and the nation --- and that fundamental structural change that actually serves the people must take place to return to the promise that this nation once held for so many.Fred Drumlevitchhttp://www.freddrumlevitch.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-70466733118107289252013-09-02T14:47:11.618-04:002013-09-02T14:47:11.618-04:00On Labor day it saddens me to remember all the imm...On Labor day it saddens me to remember all the immigrants of my father's generation who made it to the U.S., mostly Jews from Russia, settled in New York and fought to organize and support unions, carry on meaningful conversations about politics and the future and fought for all the decent things they never had. They helped elect a President four times who truly represented the people that elected him. Where has it all gone to? The progeny of that generation who were supported in getting an education, have risen in the ranks and too many have joined the generations of money makers, living well in gated communities.<br /><br />There are those of us who have carried on those dreams but not enough of us obviously. Karen I thank you for remembering what America should be all about and reminding others of that fact. This country has thrown away the work and dreams of so many people coming from countries of oppression and now to find it blown away is heartbreaking.<br /><br />I can only think of those valiant people of the past who marched and fought for decency for working men and women which has been destroyed. I hope that spirit is still alive and beginning to stir. It is long past time.<br />Pearlnoreply@blogger.com