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Student Debt Not National Debt is Crushing The Recovery
For all the talk from the GOP about their fear that our national debt will crush the younger generation under the weight of our American “credit card” debt, the truth is–and has been since the crash during the waning George W. Bush’s disastrous Presidency– the lack of a vibrant economy and the jobs that come with it is the larger looming disaster for our children, not the national debt. Everything I’ve written for the last two and a half years has borne this fact out. What has also been evident is the success of distractions and misdirection that the GOP has relentlessly used to keep the voting public from focusing on the real slight-of-hand they’ve been attempting to keep their “audience” mesmerized. Student Debt not National Debt is the Silent Killer Youth unemployment has reached crisis levels around the world, with almost 13 per cent of the global youth labor force out of work this year, according to the International Labor Organization. But the problem has a distinctive characteristic in the US, where the weak job market has collided with record levels of educational debt – about $25,000 per graduate on AVERAGE. Together, they pose a hazard of enormous proportions [...]
Vendor That Pulled ‘Obama’ Target At NRA Convention Also Sells ‘The Ex’ Target
In addition to making a mannequin target that looks like President Barack Obama, Zombie Industries sells a mannequin called simply “The Ex” — a large-breasted dummy that “bleeds” when shot. At the National Rifle Association convention in Houston over the weekend, Zombie Industries, the maker of “life-sized tactical mannequin” targets, was asked to take down its “Bleeding Rocky Zombie” from its booth. A company worker told Buzzfeed the mannequin was pulled for looking too much like Obama. Other mannequins made by Zombie Industries include a clown, a terrorist, and a Nazi. The only female target appears to be “The Ex,” which sells for $99.95. “In addition to the Ex Girlfriend Zombie, we currently sell 15 male zombies, 5 animal zombies & 2 aliens… to discriminate against Women by not having them represented in our product selection would be just plain sexist,” the company states on its website. ### Source: TPM Read more
The Reason You Feel Like You’re Making Less Income? You Are
If you’re like me and it feels like you’re working harder and making less these days, there’s a very good reason for that. You are. Wages of working Americans– just like the overall effect of government cuts during an extremely fragile recovery–are being wrung out like an old wash rag; and it’s accommodating our economy’s dying a slow death while poli-tricksters squeeze every drop of blood and every dollar of our wages they can from every working person in our country. Since Americans like visual aids so much, take a gander at the chart below. It shows total US wages as a proportion of total US GDP — a number which continues to hit all-time lows. On the other hand, corporate profits as a percentage of GDP are hitting new all-time highs. In case you are wondering, this is why the stock market seems so erratically out-of-touch with what the average American is feeling. Income Trends Show Destructive and Financial Trouble for Your Children— NOT the National Debt It’s astounding how Americans get wrapped up in the day-to-day distractions offered up by profit-motivated network pundits, bought-off politicians while we sit back and obsess about new smartphones for the kids and [...]
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