Why We March June 2012: Corporations Define What's Important

The foundation on which society rests has been changed forever. Visionaries from all sectors of working society must now caucus and take those necessary steps to ensure that the planet lives despite this vicious corporate assault that knows no end.

From where should advice come to help guide our steps? When you want to learn about domestic abuse, don’t go to the partner who rules with violence – the solution offered will be skewed. The remedy for slaves will not be found at the dinner table of the Master’s house.  All the Master can suggest are ways to protect and continue the system of slavery.

Why do we allow the water carriers for these corporations to define what is important to us? 

Your arms held up the debt ceiling and as soon as President Obama signed the joint agreement the stock market plunged. All this drama was supposed to avoid a bond-rating decline but the country’s rating was lowered anyway.

You and your colleagues get laid off and the stock market goes up because that means your former “company” is now leaner and meaner.  How is that logic working out for you and your family, especially since unemployment pays so close to what you were earning – RIGHT?  

Exxon/Mobile earned 41% more in profit over this last quarter than the quarter before. We are talking billions in profit yet the employee roster shows a consistently steady decline in Exxon workers over the last six years. If they keep more money, they will trickle it down to new workers, remember? 

The “haves” are sitting on $1 trillion dollars of ours in bank accounts/cash/under the mattress money and they won’t hire workers because they can’t see what will happen five years from now?  HOGWASH!!  If you take direction and advice from these sick people you will need psychotropic drugs to manage your schizophrenia and bi-polar manifestations. 

ASSEMBLY TO END POVERTY has called for a MARCH ON WASHINGTON, June 30^th, 2012 to raise this poverty question for the final time.  Get involved in some way – endpoverty2012@gmail.com, or call: (313) 964-0618.  You have 328 days left to get busy. 

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Why We March June 2012: Trickle Down Theories Don't Work

The foundation on which society rests has changed forever.

You do the math.  President Bush and others concocted a deal that awarded $900 billion dollars to Wall Street, to hedge fund operators, and to lending institutions because they were "too big to fail."  This was supposed to jump-start the economy again as these mega-companies were going to take our tax dollars, and "trickle down" our money to us in the form of loans and jobs. We are still waiting. At that time there were 5.1 million people receiving unemployment benefits.

You do the math.  Give each person on unemployment $50,000 with conditions. You must deposit this sum in one of these identified banks, not in 24 hr-check-cashing spots. No taxes would be paid from this amount, and the family would immediately stop receiving State unemployment benefits.  This check would cover one year.

Another condition would be that the check must be negotiated within 30 days or it reverts back to the Treasury Dept.  The American worker would have jump-started the economy over night by making  "mom and pop" expenditures...cars, house payments, clothes, healthcare, restaurants, dry cleaners, beautyshops, vacations, etc. Many of us would have found jobs with spending up, and we would have been in even better shape. You secure a job, you keep that $50,000 so you can keep going and keep the economy going.

The following year, those same families would receive a check for $35,000 each with the same conditions but taxes would be paid from total annual incomes.  In the third year, that same group would receive $15,000 each -- with the tax clause included. In total, some 5,100,000 individuals with families that might add up to more than 20,000,000 people would receive $510B over three years which is what should have happened.

A handful of greedy corporate dogs shared $900B of our money but nothing trickled down. Our way would trickle up and over a grateful nation as we would have created conditions of survival and people could see a way to thrive and keep going and growing the country!

The ASSEMBLY TO END POVERTY is calling for a Workers March on Washington, June 30th, 2012.  We March on D.C. because we want to eliminate poverty and not the poor.  We can and we will do this great thing.  Get involved - (313) 964-0618. endpoverty2012@gmail.com.  You have 331 days left.  

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Dear Pachyderm Friends!

By Maureen D. Taylor, MWRO State Chair

President Obama is correct. We voted you out of office in groves, trying to make it clear that your political point of view was contrary to the direction most of us wanted. I have seen and heard bad things said and done by mean-spirited elected officials, but the fight against helping Native Americans with upgrades on houses standing on reservations astounds even me.

How low-down is a person or group of persons that thought such a move was not critical and primary toward proving jobs and improving the lot of those who had so much stolen from them? The $3 billion recommended could never make-up for the resources taken from them, so I think we should pass that section first and make those dollars available immediately.

Still, President Obama should apply the "trickle up" theory, meaning that he should test in the ten poorest states this concept. Make dollars available to those already receiving unemployment benefits, about $30,000 this year, and $20,000 the following year and watch how quickly we are able to turn this economy around!

We lift all ships if resources are applied first to those at the bottom. Trickle down NEVER works, Mr. President!

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