(Written by an American expat living in the European Union)
As an American expat living in the European Union I've come to rely on the mainstream European media to provide commentary and investigative reporting, which is unavailable in America's plutocrat owned media, which strictly speaking will not bite the Corrupt hand that feeds it. The 1% is betting that their media disinformation campaign will pacify the 99%ers. This time they have made a losing
bet because now our minds are occupied with the truth from the social and global media.
As such this diary is a compilation of British Guardian articles providing links and quotes and a perspective unpublished in America's plutocrat Corrupt owned media, which preaches and prostrates itself in front of the altar of the one percenters' big money before the cathedral of the Wall Street Gods neofeudal social order, in front of whom all must bow! After all that is the American way isn't it? That is until now... Now we dare to occupy our own hearts and own minds with the truth! Which is the reason they call it the American dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.
Hunger has come back to America and therewith into the lives of the nouveau poor.
Land of the free, home of the hungry
Gary Younge
guardian.co.uk, Friday 9 December 2011
Nowhere is the chasm between America's political class and its working poor more vast than in the demand to cut food stamps
Poverty may be relative but hunger is absolute. The third world is alive and struggling in the heart of the first. No one can deny it exists. And those who claim they can't see it, either refuse to see it for what it is or simply do not want to look........
Similarly, Operation Homefront, a national organisation that feeds the families of military personnel, has seen demand for help double over the last two years. The Washington Post reported that in Fort Hood, Texas, military families stayed up after midnight to register for a free turkey online for Thanksgiving. The 450 birds were gone within an hour. Even as soldiers fight for empire abroad, their families struggle for food at home.
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Wall Streets neofeudal social order.
Here the Guardian quotes Bernie Sanders attempt to speak truth to power concerning the neofeudal social order and class warfare that has gripped the American working class. To which this writer says when someone asks you what time it is, you can tell them it's time to occupy for social justice. To occupy the minds and hearts of mainstream America versus Wall Street, because the Wall Street mantra of greed is good and greed works is an idea whose time has passed, as the quote above shows us too many Americans because of the unbridled avarice of Wall Street have become detached from the American dream, because frankly they're too hungry to fall asleep and dream about anything on an empty stomach. Because hunger has gripped the very psyche of the American working class and its noveau poor, and therein we see the American dream has become the hunger laden American nightmare. It is this fact that must occupy our minds and hearts, not just this day but everyday for we are the 99 percenters and we have the power!
Bernie Sanders
guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 October 2011
The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are shining a light on one of the most serious problems facing the United States: the greed, recklessness and power of Wall Street.
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Michael Shank
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 5 October 2011
America cannot afford such inequality
The huge costs of social deprivation make the US poorer, even as the top 1% gets richer. Fix that and you fix the budget deficit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Did you know there wouldn't even be a budget deficit if the plutocracy would allow the broken American for profit health care system to be replaced with a European style universal medical access system, which provides affordable medical care to all as a human right. As an American expat living in the European Union do you have any idea what it is like to look out from your living room window or to stand or walk to drive anywhere in the European Union which has an economy and a population that is greater than that of the United States and to know no matter where you stand, sit or look everyone that you see has from cradle to grave access to an affordable medical insurance package of some type as a human right from cradle to grave. How does that compare to an estimated 59 million Americans who are medically uninsured where a recent Harvard study cites that 45,000 Americans die annually simply because they do not have access to medical care. Yet there are no national monuments to note their tragic passing or loss to their families and to the nation. Aren't these people Americans too? Aren't they victims of the plutocrat owned class warfare brought against the masses of the great American working class. Shouldn't we remember them, shouldn't we occupy for them?
Middle incomes: the American nightmare
We are rocketing back towards inequality of the Oliver Twist era
Editorial
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 November 2011
The US economy is now almost thrice as big as in the early 1970s – and yet the typical working man finds not a dime of this transformative growth in his pay packet. At an outstanding event in London last week, the Resolution Foundation assembled experts from both sides of the Atlantic to consider the great undeclared class war which has robbed America's workforce of the fast-growing fruits of their labour for so long.
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So it is in Wall Streets neofeudal social order. the very people that is to say the American working class who built this great nation are never allowed to fully participate in the very wealth that they have created through their own hard work. Therefore America remains the only major industrialized country in the world that doesn't provide universal access to medical care to all its residents as a human right. The only nation of any major industrialized country that doesn't provide job protected paid maternity leave as a human right for all working mothers and doesn't provide paid sick leave, paid annual leave to all working people, whereas every nation in the European Union provides all of those benefits to its working people in an economy that is larger than that of the United States. Why isn't this on every one of the 200 plus TV channels that you get? Who censors this information? Why is it you have to read about this on an expat's diary from the Daily Kos? Ask yourself is this an accident or is it by design. If we are going to change it how are we going to do it? Here is the answer, occupy for change, occupy for hope, occupy to save the working class American dream.
Dominic Rushe
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 14 December 2011
Meet the new 1%: healthcare CEOs replace bankers as America's best paid
No bankers in top 10 of America's best-paid executives, but those in charge of healthcare and drugs firms are in the money
Joel Gemunder, CEO Omnicare, had a total pay package in 2010 worth $98m.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
To win in America all we have to do is to care about each other & stick together!
If we are looking for change we must look to the Occupy movement to provide that
peaceful nonviolent approach to change in helping to elect better progressive politicians to public office. The Occupy movement and the American unions are the last great hope of the American working class dream!!
August 6, 2011 –
America in Decline by Noam Chomsky
"Not even discussed is that the deficit would be eliminated if, as economist Dean Baker has shown, the dysfunctional privatized health care system in the U.S. were replaced by one similar to other industrial societies, which have half the per capita costs and health outcomes that are comparable or better."
Here's the truth the American for profit medical system is a failed model that exists no where else in the world, because no one else will buy it. In fact they can't even give it away. America manages to export fastfood restaurants all over the world in flourishing franchises, American movies and music dominate pop culture markets all over the world. American automobiles are exported all around the globe, but no one in hell wants to buy an American health care plan abroad, why is that? I think we'd do well to remember it was small business that built America and not corporate America. Another interesting fact though in the European Union small business creates more jobs than in America. One of the reasons that is so is that small business owners aren't being crippled by the government's refusal to provide affordable health care to small business owners and their employees. Ask yourself why doesn't the plutocrat owned American media report on this fact regularly? Is it by accident or by design?
I've been educated to understand what we MBA's call the assumption of risk. In America the assumption of risk is far greater than it is in the European Union for working class people, because American working class people are responsible primarily for their pensions and health care. Whereupon it should be said that secure pension plans and comprehensive medical plans of the type that exist in the European Union are unavailable in their comprehensive coverage in America to be commercially purchased at any price. That is something that I think is worth noting, particularly as the for profit American media measurably never reports on that issue.
The answer is clear to all but the most ardently comatosed. The American health care system's function is to redistribute wealth from the working class to the 1% as illustrated by the above quote. It is class warfare leveled against the great huddled masses of the American working class. We are the 99ers we have the power to occupy for change!
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