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Ed O'Rourke
Former Houston resident Ed O’Rourke is a retired certified accountant now living in Medellin, Colombia. He is writing a book "World Peace – The Roadmap: You Can Get to There From Here". The articles you see on this web site are draft chapters for his book. |
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Every
president since Jimmy Carter has made decisions that help Wall Street
and hurt everyone else. People are sick and tired of being sick
and tired. We may get an ignorant incoherent narcissist for
president.
When
I was a young teenager and for a while after that, the only term
stronger than socialism was communism. Today, people has no
difficulty in accepting socialism for the rich. Rather than
recognize their benefits as welfare, we have other names: tax cuts,
bailouts, capital gains tax, carried interest and tax havens. When
others get something, they call their benefits entitlements as if
this were some gift from heaven. A better description for Social
Security and unemployment compensation is earned benefits. The
employee or the employer or both have paid for what they will receive.
I
understand that some free that university tuition is unreasonable for
our society. People who talk this way have short memories.
When I showed up at UT-Austin in September, 1966, the tuition was $50
per semester, which was close to being free.
Since
the people in West Europe’s socialist countries have a higher living
standard than Americans, I am puzzled at the difficulty to have
socialism for everybody and not just the rich.
I invite you to read two short commentaries. The first shows what tough shape many Americans are in.
Disposable Americans: The Numbers are Growing
Here is an excerpt from the second commentary:
The
real story, however, is not about the two maverick candidates, but
about the waves of ordinary people who've created and lifted their
campaigns. They embody and give voice to the millions wrecked by Wall
Street greed in the 2008 crash, who were left out of the widely
ballyhooed recovery, and who now realize they're not included in the
elite's laissez faire schemes of future American prosperity. These
voters are hurting today, distressed about tomorrow, and fed up
with the two-party indifference to "people like us."
Public Rage at Glaring Inequality and Mass Downward Mobility Are Fueling the Bernie and Trump Phenomena
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I
ask the environmental community to wake up and recognize that war and
preparation for war is the biggest threat to life on our precious
planet. All that we know and love will be gone in an afternoon
when nuclear war starts. A conflict with Russia and the US is not
necessary. A war between India and Pakistan will do.
Thank you,
Ed
THE ENVIRONMENTAL DECLARATION – WAR ABOLITION
by Ed O’Rourke June 22, 2016 |
