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Glennfs wrote: Sun Jan 09, 2022 6:02 am FDR's new deal was a failure and did not fix or end the great depression. Just prior to WWII we still had unemployment near 20pct.
The fact that so many people believe the new deal fixed our economy proves if you repeat a lie enough people will believe it.
What made FDR one of our greatest presidents (unless you were a Japanese American) is the way he lead and guided our country through WWII.
It fixed problems for people, families and communities. The current situation has our public officials too ashamed of workers and poor people to side with them on issues of justice or fairness, or even democracy. all the solutions are weak and anemic and as if only begrudgingly they will do the very least because being poor or a worker to them is shameful and a failure for not being able to aspire to a corrupt economic political and justice system. Need some confidence in what really matters and substantive change to corrupt systems that are bringing our country the people families and communities to ruin.
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Consumer prices rose by 7 percent in December over previous year, marking third straight month of high inflation

Consumer prices rose by 7 percent in December over the previous year, its fastest increase since the early 1980s, as companies raised prices to offset pandemic-driven supply chain issues — and also took the opportunity to increase profit margins on the back of brisk consumer spending.

The latest Consumer Price Index data, released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, marks the third consecutive month in which the index, a measure of what consumers pay for goods and services, rose by more than 6 percent.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/econom ... -rcna11668
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I just cant believe that through the state, the vulnerable unemployed can have crimes openly committed against them under the guise of overprotecting property from fraud. Its the same mentality the killers of Ahmaud Arbery used in overprotecting a construction site and Kyle Rittenhouse used to overprotect some business he had no connection to. but I think worse than that is the lack of caring from the public and our public officials tasked with doing justice and defending the vulnerable from these kinds of crimes and uses of power.

That the state drags its feet and has crooked accounting firms do crooked audits to justify the unjustifiable and drag out the insecurity of the vulnerable its monsterous.

UIA director hopes to provide guidance to Michiganders who received overpayment letters

These claimants received Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits — a federal program that expanded benefits to cover freelancers and contract workers — but were later told they may have qualified for benefits under questions that were not provided or approved by the U.S. Department of Labor.

A coalition of advocates sent Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer a letter just before the holidays asking relief for these claimants, and said waivers for the overpayments have only been granted to a small subset of claimants in this situation, who have been told they have to repay as much as $50,000.

Much of what the questions from lawmakers at the nearly two-and-a-half-hour oversight committee meeting focused on fraud. A report, prepared by Deloitte & Touche LLP for the UIA and released at the end of last year, found that the agency paid an estimated $8.4 billion-$8.51 billion in potentially fraudulent claims from March 1, 2020, to Sept. 30, 2021.
SEC CHARGES DELOITTE & TOUCHE FOR ADELPHIA AUDIT

Deloitte to settle Delphi investor suit for $38 mln
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Motor City wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:51 pmIts the same mentality the killers of Ahmaud Arbery used in overprotecting a construction site and Kyle Rittenhouse used to overprotect some business he had no connection to.
No, they were out coonhunting. Rittenhouse went up there to kill the nigger-lovers. All four of these people show the violence inherent in white supremacism.
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carmenjonze wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:29 pm No, they were out coonhunting. Rittenhouse went up there to kill the nigger-lovers. All four of these people show the violence inherent in white supremacism.
yea but they were using overprotecting of some inanimate object or property to try and hide what they were doing. trying to overshadow it.
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Motor City wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 11:40 pm yea but they were using overprotecting of some inanimate object or property to try and hide what they were doing. trying to overshadow it.
Yes. As a rationalization.

Because...they can't make people into inanimate objects anymore; sux to be them, I guess.
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carmenjonze wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:29 pm No, they were out coonhunting. Rittenhouse went up there to kill the nigger-lovers. All four of these people show the violence inherent in white supremacism.
I guess you didn't hear Rittenhouse was found not guilty. I guess you and others have no use for our justice system. As you seem to declare people guilty or not guilty before we have the legal evidence. Instead you base your verdict based on their race and the nature of the crime they have been charged with.
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Glennfs wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 6:45 am\
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Glennfs wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 6:45 am I guess you didn't hear Rittenhouse was found not guilty. I guess you and others have no use for our justice system. As you seem to declare people guilty or not guilty before we have the legal evidence. Instead you base your verdict based on their race and the nature of the crime they have been charged with.
How many times have you ascribed criminality to the Clintons, even though they’ve never been indicted or convicted? Hypocrite.
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U.S. Retail Sales Slide Most in 10 Months on Inflation, Omicron

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. retail sales slumped in December by the most in 10 months, suggesting the fastest inflation in decades is taking a greater toll on consumers just as the nation confronts more coronavirus infections.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-retail ... ly%20Smith
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Shkreli ordered to return $64M, is barred from drug industry
He was convicted of lying to investors and cheating them out of millions and is serving a seven-year sentence at a federal prison in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, and is due to be released in November.
7 years in prison for lying to investors
Martin Shkreli must return $64.6 million in profits he and his former company reaped from jacking up the price and monopolizing the market for a lifesaving drug, a federal judge ruled Friday while also barring the provocative, imprisoned ex-CEO from the pharmaceutical industry for the rest of his life.

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote's ruling came several weeks after a seven-day bench trial in December that featured recordings of conversations that Cote said showed Shkreli continuing to exert control over the company, Vyera Pharmaceuticals LLC, from behind bars and discussing ways to thwart generic versions of its lucrative drug, Daraprim.

“Shkreli was no side player in, or a ‘remote, unrelated’ beneficiary of Vyera’s scheme," Cote wrote in a 135-page opinion. "He was the mastermind of its illegal conduct and the person principally responsible for it throughout the years."
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The GOPs tax hikes on the middle class, due to Trump’s tax cuts for the rich bill, should be kicking in now. Just wanted to point that out. I posted a link on the last forum about it, because the GOP is going to use this and claim it’s Biden’s fault, just like they’re doing regarding inflation.
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Motor City wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 6:07 pm Shkreli ordered to return $64M, is barred from drug industry



7 years in prison for lying to investors
Then you get the Sackler family of criminals…
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https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/statu ... 7536020480
KROGER STRIKE UPDATE: King Soopers’ president stormed out of negotiations today, claiming “there is no more money on the table,” according to
@UFCW_7
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Under Kroger’s latest proposal, workers could forfeit overtime pay and have wages cut up to $3.34/hour.
In a year of record profits CEO makes 20 million off its workers leaving many homeless and struggling and then wants to take even more from them.

Wonder why Joe Biden has no quarrel with this. Somebody's hurting our essential workers and it's gone on far too long.
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Union, King Soopers Reach Tentative Labor Agreement, Ending 10-Day Strike

More than 8,000 striking King Soopers employees will return to work as soon as today following a tentative agreement reached by the grocery chain and members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, ending a 10-day walkout in protest of unfair labor practices.

UFCW Local 7 and King Soopers announced the three-year agreement early Friday morning. The strike, which began on Jan. 12, will end immediately, but the agreement is subject to a ratification vote by union members beginning Monday. Details of the contract have not yet been publicly released.

https://patch.com/colorado/denver/union ... day-strike
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US labor board says Amazon illegally fired union organizer in New York

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has determined that Amazon illegally fired former worker Daequan Smith for trying to unionize its warehouses in Staten Island, New York. Smith, who was one of the organizers for the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), was fired in October 2021. The group filed an unfair labor practices complaint with the NLRB after his dismissal, accusing the company of illegal retaliatory firing over Smith's outspoken support for unionization. Now, according to Bloomberg, the board has found merit in the group's allegations and plans to issue a formal complaint against the e-commerce giant if the case doesn't settle.

https://www.engadget.com/nlrb-amazon-il ... YYl5dEuPjM
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This speaks for itself.

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Europe not experiencing anything like ‘The Great Resignation,’ ECB’s Lagarde says
“When I look at the labor market we are not experiencing anything like The Great Resignation, and our employment participation numbers are getting very close to the pre-pandemic level,” she told the CNBC-moderated event.

“So I think those two factors, if you look at them carefully, are clearly indicating that we’re not moving at the same speed, and we’re unlikely to experience the same kind of inflation increases that the U.S. market has faced.”
They point out a lot of the obvious differences in this thread

https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/sta ... 5949617155
Who would have thought you could avoid mass resignations with a decent minimum wage, free health care, guaranteed paid parental leave, mandated paid vacations, guaranteed paid sick leave, affordable child care, union protections and regulations on company greed
But in addition America is also being made uncomfortable to an extreme with economic and business groups uneccesary inflation. so as to sweep an authoritarian leader into power to fight the insecurity and indignation of them maybe having to give something instead of taking more.
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A home healthcare workers anguish.

CONGRESS IS LEAVING PEOPLE TO DIE
.....There are people in this country who are dying in their beds right now, but Congresspeople are going on vacation and leaving these people to die.

I have veterans who can only afford to hire me for two hours a day. I stay five hours, but I only get paid for two, because they deserve to get the care that they need.

I have worked in an $8 million dollar house down the street from Muhammad Ali’s estate, and I’ve taken a woman to dialysis on a native American reservation. One mile from a million-dollar mansion, she has no running water and no electricity. How do you fight COVID, how do you fight cancer when you live without water?

I have watched our society let “essential” workers—who are mostly women and minorities—grovel and beg for a living wage. We work much harder than what we get paid for, and for us to demand that Congress do their job, I am demanded to do my job every day that I show up.

Home healthcare is the future. Not just because of COVID. Not just because of cancer. But because we will all someday get old and need care. And I will be there for your mother or your father, your sister or your brother. I will be there for you! I will work for less than I’m worth, because I care about other people. But shouldn’t I get paid a living wage to do it? We’re worth more than what we’re getting paid now.

Congress, do your job! Raise the federal minimum wage to a living wage of at least $15 an hour, not just for home health care workers but for everyone.
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gounion wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 1:07 pm This speaks for itself.

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Since your chart is wrong your source must be either a union or liberal organization as both are known for lying.


https://www.statista.com/statistics/732 ... nnual-pay/

Average pay in Mississippi over 40,000
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:13 am Since your chart is wrong your source must be either a union or liberal organization as both are known for lying.


https://www.statista.com/statistics/732 ... nnual-pay/

Average pay in Mississippi over 40,000
So says some site you found on google?

The numbers may be out of date, but it's the truth that right-to-work states are at the bottom. Period. I remember in 2001 when they said in Oklahoma that passing right-to-work would bring all kinds of factories in and raise wages and create jobs. Well, instead, factories like GM shut down in OK, and no big ones moved in, and wages are still low.
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gounion wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:21 am So says some site you found on google?

The numbers may be out of date, but it's the truth that right-to-work states are at the bottom. Period. I remember in 2001 when they said in Oklahoma that passing right-to-work would bring all kinds of factories in and raise wages and create jobs. Well, instead, factories like GM shut down in OK, and no big ones moved in, and wages are still low.
I noticed you haven't revealed your "source "
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:22 am I noticed you haven't revealed your "source "
No, it's something I found on FB. But I've seen these for years, and I know that it's VERY true that states being right-to-work and anti-union depresses wages.
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gounion wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:24 am No, it's something I found on FB. But I've seen these for years, and I know that it's VERY true that states being right-to-work and anti-union depresses wages.
Well if it is from a left wing source on FB it must be true
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West Virginia over 48k but you just keep believing one sided undocumented charts on FB.
Especially if they come from lying labor or lying liberals

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