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So why should workers strike and is it fair to ask for reasonable wages that can support your family?
"Well, workers produce the goods, build the houses, build the roads, transport the goods, heal the sick, repair what's broken, provide the services, work out the balance sheets, fight the wars, manage, clean and protect society. We provide the dual roles in the economy of worker and taxpayer, producer and consumer, service provider and service user. We are collateral, taxpayers, cannon fodder and consumers. Why do we live in poverty while the rich siphon our taxes to their offshore accounts and provide little use to society other than investing their inherited wealth for their own profits?"
We are the backbone of industry and the golden goose that lays the golden eggs, our lives get steadily worse as corporations make bumper profits. I stand with the workers!
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Good Luck, Power to the people! Workers produce the goods, build the houses, build the roads, transport the goods, heal the sick, repair what's broken, provide the services, work out the balance sheets, fight the wars, manage, clean and protect society. We provide the dual roles in the economy of worker/taxpayer, producer and consumer, service provider and service user. We are collateral, cannon fodder and consumers. Why do we live in poverty while the rich siphon our taxes and provide little use to society?
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Capitalism: I'm all about a free market and democracy.
Also Capitalism: Bailouts, Lobbyists, Tax havens, Sanctions, Embargoes, Subsidies, Ecological catastrophes, Famine, Monopolies, Burying patents, Resource stockpiling, Built-in obsolescence...
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@mootedtols4865 Definitely! Ivan's terrible. Nothing at all to do with 3 decades of neoliberal policy, greedy shareholders, privatisation, huge national debts, stagnant economy, dodgy bankers, non-doms, tax gap, kleptocrats, lobbyists, poverty gap expansion, loss of trading and procedures when trading with our closest neighbours.
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"What feckless leadership the Tories provideth, as they strive with lies and thus divide us.
What food and energy can a working wage buy, when Tory profiteering bleeds our Country dry?
With hungered belly and empty wallet, houses like ice with frozen toilets.
The workers who provide the hands, that toil so hard across this land,
Are left alone to fend unprotected, while corporate taxes remain uncollected.
As cruelty reigns and poverty encircles the vulnerable and impoverished workers,
'Help' we cry in desperation, inept Tory policy inspires inflation.
We drown in debt, they drown in champagne, their lives are shallow, self-serving and vain.
With unity and action direct, the people can stop this inhumane neglect.
It's time to stand, as one and shout "Get those fecking Tories out!"" Steven Parker...
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@tommiko8313 Historically the Labour party rebuilt Britain after the ww2, replaced slums with social housing, gave us medical care, legal aid, worker's rights, nationalised the BOE, Water, Communications, Energy, Coal. Transport etc (Much of which has now been privatised at the cost of £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies and taxpayer bailouts). They gave us public transport, public libraries, public parks. But since Blair dropped clause 4 we haven't had a Labour party. Centrist neoliberals now run the left in the UK and the US ensuring a corporate-friendly party in power whoever wins. The left are now called extreme and we have the choice between red or blue flavoured neoliberalism...
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James Burton George Orwell's first paragraph of his letter regarding why he wrote 1984.
"I must say I believe, or fear, that taking the world as a whole these things are on the increase. Hitler, no doubt, will soon disappear, but only at the expense of strengthening (a) Stalin, (b) the Anglo-American millionaires and (c) all sorts of petty fuhrers of the type of de Gaulle. All the national movements everywhere, even those that originate in resistance to German domination, seem to take non-democratic forms, to group themselves round some superhuman fuhrer (Hitler, Stalin, Salazar, Franco, Gandhi, De Valera are all varying examples) and to adopt the theory that the end justifies the means."
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Art, Music, Films, Books, Mathematics, Astronomy, Sports, Architecture, Engineering, Industry, Civilisation (or a close approximation of it at times)... The list is endless. My first reply was more comprehensive and for some reason filtered out...
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Hilary (Cloven hoofed spawn of Satan) Clinton is almost as bad as Trump.
When it comes to foreign policy, public perception vs reality is often very different, take Iraq and the lies used as justification for the war, the supposed WMDs or Let's take the public perception of Libya vs the actual reality. We were told he was a vicious dictator abusing his people, we needed to "defend, liberate" them.
While we may (via our misunderstanding of the green system) assume Gaddafi was a dictator, under him: Education and medical treatment were free, Newlyweds received U.S $50,000 from the government, Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, Libya had no external debt and had reserves of $150 billion most of which were frozen globally at the time of the war, The price of petrol was $0,14 per litre, Having a home was considered a human right, Gender equality actually a reality, The Human Development Index of Libya was better than two-thirds of the countries reported on it, Privatization of all Libyan oil to every citizen, People had enough food - no food banks or starvation.
Yet we went in toppled his government and avoided him setting up an African currency, the Dinar, which backed by 143 tonnes of gold would have threatened the petrodollar.
The public believed we were attacking a threat or freeing a people, but in essence, Libya may, even under a so-called dictator, have had a better standard of living than us in the West.
The reality is that Libya dropped the petrodollar for oil sales and was going to create a rival currency the African Dinar backed by 143 tonnes of gold, to be used for African and some Middle East oil sales. That would have threatened the petrodollar and hence devalued US currency.
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