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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 1494124" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>pardon me maybe i was wrong about the defense spending. but yes its 50% of the federal budge is on military empire / defense. i cant remember if the 650 billion number included classified spending or not.</p><p></p><p>yea i agree unions drove the real wage up; they did their job in that respect. driving the real wage up is a good thing. productivity has increased alot since the 1970s which is when the real wage stopped rising, so its been easier every year for corporations to hire. i agree unions are far from perfect and are in bed with the corporations and the leaders make way too much money. i dont think many american citizens were riding a "gravy train" coming to work every day working until retirement. honest work under capitalism is not easy, especially when alot of the value u produce goes to making a capitalist rich.</p><p></p><p>[media=twitter]553215840557203456[/media]</p><p></p><p>i agree its capitalist with heavy state intervention. chomsky (who is an anarchist and thinks the state should be abolished) says that if the state wasnt involved, capitalism would collapse. i agree i think its an unstable system which devolves into facism which is what u have a mild version of in america now anyways</p><p></p><p></p><p>corporate privatization of schools is happening for the same reasons corporations want to privatize any other public asset: because theres alot of money to be made. the pubic education system in the states is not that great. on top of that the corporate schools could push their own agenda of capitalism, markets, and other illusions which will only last 50 - 100 years tops before the environmental catastrophe forces systemic change. corporations could give 2 <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />s whether public education is working or not. the USPS works very well, but its also being privatized. college education did not become more expensive because of inflation. america currently has the most expensive public college in the developed world. government used to pay 80% of the costs of college , now they only pay 50% and the individual makes up the difference. mexico has free college. so does brazil. so does germany, and many EU countries. tuition was very affordable in america up until the 1980s.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://stevedenning.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834256bce53ef013487706fe2970c-pi" target="_blank">http://stevedenning.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834256bce53ef013487706fe2970c-pi</a></p><p></p><p>from the BLS adj for inflation...</p><p></p><p>9/11 happened because the US government is debatably the #1 terror state in the world. so over 100 years of terrorism on the US government's part and the chickens came home to roost. thats basically it, 9/11 has more specific reasons but that sums it up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 1494124, member: 56035"] pardon me maybe i was wrong about the defense spending. but yes its 50% of the federal budge is on military empire / defense. i cant remember if the 650 billion number included classified spending or not. yea i agree unions drove the real wage up; they did their job in that respect. driving the real wage up is a good thing. productivity has increased alot since the 1970s which is when the real wage stopped rising, so its been easier every year for corporations to hire. i agree unions are far from perfect and are in bed with the corporations and the leaders make way too much money. i dont think many american citizens were riding a "gravy train" coming to work every day working until retirement. honest work under capitalism is not easy, especially when alot of the value u produce goes to making a capitalist rich. [media=twitter]553215840557203456[/media] i agree its capitalist with heavy state intervention. chomsky (who is an anarchist and thinks the state should be abolished) says that if the state wasnt involved, capitalism would collapse. i agree i think its an unstable system which devolves into facism which is what u have a mild version of in america now anyways corporate privatization of schools is happening for the same reasons corporations want to privatize any other public asset: because theres alot of money to be made. the pubic education system in the states is not that great. on top of that the corporate schools could push their own agenda of capitalism, markets, and other illusions which will only last 50 - 100 years tops before the environmental catastrophe forces systemic change. corporations could give 2 :censored:s whether public education is working or not. the USPS works very well, but its also being privatized. college education did not become more expensive because of inflation. america currently has the most expensive public college in the developed world. government used to pay 80% of the costs of college , now they only pay 50% and the individual makes up the difference. mexico has free college. so does brazil. so does germany, and many EU countries. tuition was very affordable in america up until the 1980s. [url]http://stevedenning.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834256bce53ef013487706fe2970c-pi[/url] from the BLS adj for inflation... 9/11 happened because the US government is debatably the #1 terror state in the world. so over 100 years of terrorism on the US government's part and the chickens came home to roost. thats basically it, 9/11 has more specific reasons but that sums it up. [/QUOTE]
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