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President Donald J. Trump delivers his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)
President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are greeted by staff members are they arrive to the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, following the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address, Tuesday, February 7, 2023, on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Vice President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at the conclusion of his State of the Union address, Jan. 27, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, Secretary of State John Kerry, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Energy Secretary Earnest Moniz applaud as President Barack Obama enters the House Chamber prior to delivering the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2015. U.S. Supreme Court Justices are at far left. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address, Tuesday, February 7, 2023, on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address, Tuesday, February 7, 2023, on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
Jon Favreau, Director of Speechwriting, holds a draft of the State of the Union speech during a meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, Jan. 20, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Members of the Cabinet applaud President Donald J. Trump as he delivers his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address, Tuesday, February 7, 2023, on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Carlos Fyfe)
President Donald J. Trump, is applauded as he delivers his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
President Donald J. Trump delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, in the House Chamber in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)
President Joe Biden prepares for his State of the Union address, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in the Treaty Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
First Lady Michelle Obama greets U.S. Army Ranger Sergeant First Class Cory Remsburg as she arrives for President Barack Obama's State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 28, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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President Joe Biden prepares for his State of the Union address, Tuesday, February 7, 2023, in the Map Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
President Joe Biden greets Vice President Kamala Harris as he arrives to deliver his State of the Union address, Tuesday, February 7, 2023, on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address, Tuesday, February 7, 2023, on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
First Lady Michelle Obama hugs Roxanna Green as she enters the House Chamber prior the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 25, 2011. John and Roxanna Green are the parents of eleven-year-old Dallas and the late Christina Taylor, the nine-year-old girl killed when a gunman opened fire on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson earlier this month. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Speaker of the House John Boehner before delivering the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 25, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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President Joe Biden presents copies of his State of the Union address to Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi before delivering the address to a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
Normally I wouldn't fire a shutter in Union Lane - it's full of the most yawn-inducing commissioned pretend-edgy street art you'll ever see.
A big yellow rusty dumpster is worth burning a frame on though.
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address, Tuesday, February 7, 2023, on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
Saint Augustine, Florida U.S.A. - NE Corner - July 4th, 2017
Construction on the fortress was from 1672-1695. The native
coquina (soft shell) stone was quarried from a local island.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_San_Marcos
www.exploresouthernhistory.com/castillodesanmarcos1.html
History of Saint Augustine: Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain in 1513. (Christopher Columbus discovered North America in 1492 but actually landed in the Bahamas). Other Spanish explorers later found gold and silver in Mexico and Peru. The treasure was sent back to Spain in ships sailing in the Gulf Stream. Spanish settlements needed to be built in Florida to protect the Spanish Treasure fleets. King Phillip II of Spain sent Pedro Menendez to settle in Florida and drive out French garrisons recently established there. In September 1565, Pedro Menendez with 700 soldiers and colonists, landed here and founded St. Augustine, making it the oldest continually occupied European settlement in North America.
Menendez successfully destroyed the French Fort Caroline at the mouth of the Saint John's River 40 miles north of St. Augustine and ended the French incursion into Florida.
St. Augustine settlers, isolated and often near starvation, lived in constant fear of attacks by pirates who roamed the coast. Diminishing supplies and increasing hostility of the Indians made life treacherous for the early settlers.
Englishman Francis Drake burned the village and wooden fort to the ground in 1586. The town was sacked again in 1668 by pirate John Davis.
Spain's Queen Regent Mariana realized that St.Augustine was the keystone in the defense of the Florida coast, so she ordered the construction of a new fort made of stone. In 1672, the Castillo de San Marcos was begun and took 23 years to complete. Originally the fort was covered with white plaster, some of which can be seen today. The towers in the four corners were plastered red.
The fort was built of coquina, a locally quarried soft shellrock. Coquina was easily shaped by artisans and did not become brittle and crumble under cannon fire. The fort, the city gate, and many homes in St. Augustine were made of coquina which is still evident today.
In 1702, seven years after its completion, English troops from South Carolina besieged the Castillo for fifty days. Fiffteen hundred Spanish citizens fled into the security of the fort and refused to surrender. The British finally gave up the siege and burned the town. This event is why there are no buildings older than 1702 in St. Augustine today.
The Spaniards rebuilt their settlement and erected a defensive earthwork on on its northern limit, fortified the walls around the city and strengthened the walls of the Castillo.
The English attacked again in 1740, this time by General James Oglethorpe of Georgia. He bombarded the Castillo and town for twenty-seven days before he also gave up and left. The coquina walls held firm, absorbing the cannon balls without breaking apart.
England defeated Spain in the Seven Years War, and Florida was transferred to English control by the Treaty of Paris in 1763. England then divided Florida into two colonies, and St. Augustine became the capital of East Florida. During the American Revolution St. Augustine remained loyal to the crown. The entire Florida peninsula was returned to Spain as part of the negotiations ending the American Revolution in 1783.
They came back to an impossible situation. The border problems of earlier times were multiplied as runaway slaves from Georgia found welcome among the Seminole Indians, and ruffians from both land and sea made Florida their habitat.
Spain ruled for another 37 years known as the Second Spanish Period 1784-1821. During this time, the Spaniards had difficulty luring settlers from the mother country and other colonies to repopulate this area.
On July 10th, 1821, the Americans took over from the Spanish. In the 1830's, hostilities rose between Seminole Indians and the Federal Government. In October 1837 one hundred Seminole Indians, including Osceola, were captured under a white flag of truce just south of St. Augustine. The end of the Seminole War made Florida safe again for visitors who came to take advantage of the fine climate. In 1845 Florida became the 27th state of the Union.
From 1875 to 1887, Indians from the Great Plains and the Southwest were exiled to Florida and imprisoned in the fort. The government sought to educate the Indians and allowed them some freedom of movement. These activities led to more progressive Federal Indian policies.
During the winter of 1883-84 Henry M. Flagler, co-founder of Standard Oil Co., visited the city and was impressed with the charm and possibilities of the area. He later made a major impact on the architecture and economy of this historic city by building the Hotel Ponce de Leon, Hotel Alcazar, the Memorial church and more.
History, plus 43 miles of white sand beaches bring over three
million visitors a year to St. Augustine and St. Johns County.
(1565-1763 ~ 1st Spanish) - (1763-1784 ~ British Period)
(1784-1821 ~ 2nd Spanish) - (1821-Present ~ American)
British postcard by De Reszke, no. 20 of 24. Caption: On leaving school, where she was prominent in athletes, Kay Francis became a secretary. Decided upon a stage career: first role was of the "player queen" in a modernised version of 'Hamlet'. Spent a season with a stock company and finally arrived on Broadway. Her first picture was Gentlemen of the Press and the most recent Mandalay and British Agent.
American stage and film actress Kay Francis (1905-1968) was a tall, attractive, gray-eyed brunette with undeniable style and poise, known for films such as Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932). For a while, in the 1930s she ranked as one of America's most popular actresses, tagged the 'Queen of Warner Brothers'.
Kay Francis was born Katherine Edwina Gibbs in 1905 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. However, the year of her birth has been speculated about, with dates anywhere from 1899 to 1908. She was the daughter of actress Katherine Clinton and businessman Joseph Gibbs. Her father left the family when Francis was four years old. The family travelled from town to town in search of work in the theatre. During this period, Francis grew up in poverty and her mother had to work as a prostitute. After attending some Catholic schools, Francis was trained to become a secretary in 1920. She sold real estate and arranged extravagant parties for wealthy socialites. Following her marriage in 1922 to James Dwight Francis, the son of a moneyed family, Kay adopted the surname Francis. Kay returned to New York, where she tried to break into the theatre. Her first acting job was as the Player Queen in a modernised version of 'Hamlet' (1925), credited as 'Katharine Francis'. Francis acquired an image of a sexually liberated flapper: a jazz-era woman with a bob line. She played Marjorie Grey in the melodrama 'Crime' (1927) alongside Sylvia Sidney and appeared in the Ring Lardner play 'Elmer the Great' (1928), starring Walter Huston as Elmer Kane. Huston was so pleased with Francis' performance that he advised her to take a screen test for the film Gentlemen of the Press (Millard Webb, 1929) in which he starred. She was given the role of a femme fatale, making a powerful film debut. Paramount subsequently offered her a contract (1929-1931).
In Hollywood, Kay Francis achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936. First, she had a bit in the first Marx Brothers outing, The Cocoanuts (Robert Florey, Joseph Santley, 1929). Then she graduated to playing sophisticated seductresses opposite stars like Ronald Colman. In 1930, she first appeared alongside William Powell in Street of Chance (John Cromwell, 1930). Because the press was so enthusiastic about the chemistry between the two, they eventually acted together in six films. She also appeared in the Lubitsch comedy Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932), though being unhappy about being billed below Miriam Hopkins. One of her best early films was the comedy-drama One Way Passage (Tay Garnett, 1932), in which Kay portrayed a gravely-ill baroness opposite William Powell's gentleman burglar. This doomed romance, interlaced with witty dialogue, was described by a reviewer as 'spilled cocktail and love at first sight'. Paramount, at the time well-stocked with female stars but experiencing financial problems, decided to let Kay move to Warner Brothers. The studio promised her a higher salary and star status and started promoting her.
Kay Francis became the number one female star at the Warner Brothers studio, becoming the highest-paid American film actress in those years. By 1935, she earned a yearly salary of $115,000. She soon acquired a reputation as Hollywood's 'best-dressed woman', wearing the most glamorous gowns designed by great studio costumers like Orry-Kelly, Travis Banton and Adrian. Female audiences, in particular, often flocked to see Kay Francis's pictures simply to appreciate her sumptuous wardrobe. 'America's glamour girl' had major hits with I Found Stella Parish (Mervyn LeRoy, 1935) and Confession (Joe May, 1937), both excellent money-spinners for the studio. In 1938 she was declared box-office poison in an advertisement in The Hollywood Reporter by the Independent Theatre Owners Association. She was first reduced to supporting parts and eventually had to work on Poverty Row. During the mid-1940s, Kay co-produced several B-movies as vehicles for herself at Monogram, then made a brief return to stage work. Her most memorable role was in 'State of the Union', a play that became a huge success on Broadway and later toured the country. She acted in summer stock and also made several appearances on television and radio before retiring permanently in 1953. She spent the remainder of her life in New York and in her estate near Falmouth, Cape Cod. In 1961, she was diagnosed with cancer. She broke off her relationship with a younger lover because she did not want him to feel obliged to look after her. In 1967, her health deteriorated sharply and she hardly appeared in public. She died a year later, at the age of 63. She left some of her estate (in excess of one million dollars) to an organization training guide dogs for the blind, Seeing Eye Inc. She was married and divorced three times. Her husbands were James Dwight Francis (1922-1925), William Gaston (1925-1927), and actor Kenneth MacKenna (1931-1934).
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President Barack Obama waits in the Speaker's ceremonial office before he delivers the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 28, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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President Donald J. Trump welcomes State of the Union Gallery guest retired Tuskegee veteran Charles McGee of Bethesda, Md. Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, to the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
President Donald J. Trump delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
President Donald J. Trump delivers his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to a Joint Session of Congress, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
President Barack Obama waits backstage prior to delivering remarks about the retirement policies highlighted in the State of the Union address, at the United States Steel Corporation Irvin Plant in West Mifflin, Penn., Jan. 29, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Post Election Blues.
The Prime Minister clings on to power with the help of the Ulster Unionists who have links with Loyalist Paramilitaries.
Corbyn who once talked peace with the IRA lives to fight on another day
Scottish Nationalists loose many seats as a second Independence referendum looks unlikely.
Brexit looks a little less certain with a weakened and less stable government.
Boris may yet get another chance at the top job in the coming months.
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The founding of San Buenaventura Mission in what is today Ventura, California traces to the decision on Palm Sunday, March 30, 1749 by the Franciscan priest Junipero Serra to journey to the New World as a missionary to the native peoples. (Padre Serra was canonized a Saint by Pope Francis on September 23, 2015.)
Thirty-three years and one day later Saint Junipero Serra raised the Cross at "la playa de la canal de Santa Barbara" (the beach of the Santa Barbara Channel) on Easter Morning, March 31, 1782. Assisted by Padre Pedro Benito Cambon, he celebrated a High Mass, preached on the Resurrection, and dedicated a Mission to San Buenaventura (St. Bonaventure). It had been planned as the third in the chain of twenty-one Missions founded by Padre Serra but was destined to be the ninth and last founded during his lifetime, and one of six he personally dedicated.
Under the direction of Padre Cambon, whom Saint Junipero Serra left in charge of the new Mission, a system of aqueducts were built by the Native Americans, the First People of the Land, known as the Chumash between 1805â1815 to meet the needs of the Mission population and consisted of both ditches and elevated stone masonry. The watercourse ran from a point on the Ventura River about ½ mile north of the remaining ruins and carried the water to holding tanks behind the San Buenaventura Mission, a total of about 7 miles (11 km). With plentiful water the Mission was able to maintain flourishing orchards and gardens, which were described by English navigator George Vancouver as the finest he had seen. The entire water distribution system was destroyed by floods and abandoned in 1862.
The Mission's first church building was destroyed by fire. The construction of a second church was abandoned because "the door gave way." In 1792 work was in progress on the present church and the small utility buildings which (with the church) formed a quadrangle enclosing a plaza. Although half finished in 1795, the church was not completed until 1809. Dedication was held September 9 of that year and the first liturgical services took place September 10. At about that time the San Miguel Chapel (present corner of Thompson Boulevard and Palm Street) and the Santa Gertrudis Chapel (Highway 33 near Foster Park) were completed.
A series of earthquakes and an accompanying tidal wave in 1812 forced the padres and Indian neophytes to seek temporary shelter a few miles inland. Six years later the padres and their flock had to remove sacred objects from the church and flee into the hills to elude a pirate who was pillaging the Missions but fortunately was headed off after a "bargaining session" at El Refugio in Santa Barbara.
The Mexican government in 1833 issued a secularization decree divesting the padres of administrative control over the Missions. In 1845 San Buenaventura Mission was rented to Don Jose De Arnaz and Narciso Botello and was later illegally sold to Don Jose De Arnz. After California became a state of the Union, Bishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany petitioned the United States Government to return that part of the Mission holdings comprising the church, clergy residence, cemetery, orchard, and vineyard to the Catholic Church. The request was granted in the form of a Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln on May 23, 1862.
Because of severe earthquake damage in 1857 the Mission's tile roof was replaced by a shingle roof.In 1893, Father Cyprian Rubio "modernized" the interior of the church, painting over the original artwork; when he finished, little of the old church was untouched. The windows were lengthened, the beamed ceiling and tile floor were covered, and the remnants of the quadrangle were razed. The west sacristy was removed to provide room for a school, which was not actually built until 1921. During the pastorate of Father Patrick Grogan the roof of the church was once again tiled, the convent and present rectory were built, and a new fountain was placed in the garden.
The education of children at San Buenaventura Mission has flourished intermittently since 1829 (during Mexican rule) and continuously since 1922. Originally a four-classroom structure, Holy Cross School served its students and the parish admirably since its 1922 dedication. In 1925 it was expanded to accommodate growth and in 1949 a subsequent renovation brought it out to Main Street (El Camino Real) with no space left for further expansion.
In a major restoration under the supervision of Father Aubrey J. OâReilly in 1956-1957 the windows were reconstructed to their original size, and the ceiling and floor were uncovered. A long-time parishioner commissioned the casting of a bell with an automatic angelus device and donated it to the Mission; it hangs in the belltower above the four ancient hand-operated bells.
The second half of the twentieth century brought more growth, as well as wear-and-tear and obsolescence, and the school's problems far exceed spatial deficiency. In response to this situation, the San Buenaventura Mission parish, under the leadership of Monsignor Patrick J. O'Brien, formed a Planning and Development Committee comprising parishioners, faculty, parish staff, and parents, and in June 1994 hired the downtown firm of MainStreet Architects and Planners to prepare a conceptual master site plan for the Mission properties, incorporating the design of a new school and an adjoining Multi-Purpose Building which would serve both school and parish. This plan also necessitated the deconstruction of the Convent and the two remaining Holy Cross Sisters moved into the larger St. Catherine by the Sea convent, a short distance from the Mission.
The entire roof of the church was removed and replaced in 1976. In December of that year the church was solemnly consecrated by Timothy Cardinal Manning. In 1982 the Mission marked its bicentennial anniversary. A new three story school building, with pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1-8 located at the base of the hill behind the Mission was dedicated in January 2001. The school also houses the Serra Chapel for Eucharistic Adoration, adult classrooms, a parish/school kitchen, and a large assembly hall used as a school auditorium and for large parish gatherings and one Sunday Mass. The assembly room was named after Monsignor Patrick O'Brien who was the pastor of the church for 25 years until his sudden death in 2005. The Mission celebrated its 225th Anniversary with a year-long series of events and activities during 2006-07.
Today all that remains of the original Mission is the church and its garden. A small museum sits at the Mission with displays of Chumash Indian artifacts and mission-era items. The Church remains an active Catholic Parish.
Information for this caption came from the San Buenaventura Mission Website www.sanbuenaventuramission.org/
It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.
This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty. As our nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Leland Stanford was one of the “Big Four” founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, and by mid-century had amassed a fortune of many millions of dollars. When one spoke of a “Robber Baron”, Leland Stanford would be among the first names to come to mind. Yet during the final decade of his life, Leland Stanford had come to the conclusion that American society would in the future be better off if it did not create more tycoons such as himself; instead, that the division between capitalist and laborer should disappear, that the industries of American should come to be owned and managed cooperatively by their very workers. This, Stanford saw as a fulfillment of the dream of American democracy.
Beyond Capitalism:
Leland Stanford’s Forgotten Vision
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We do not need a Michael Moore's documentary to show us what Wall Street and it's religion "Capitalism" is doing to America and the world. It is clear to all working people and the millions who have lost jobs and homes all across this country the effects of this heartless greed based system. Over the last few years we see millions of families thrown into the streets without a roof over their heads; too bad you did not read the fine print that I was about to rob you of your American dream; young families, the sick and even the elderly alike are not spared. They are left to fend in a nightmare of hopelessness. We know hundreds of thousands die for lack or decent healthcare and millions more continue to live without healthcare in the world wealthiest nation. These greedy capitalist spend billions on slick television commercials, lobbyist and talking heads trying to convince the American people that having universal healthcare is an ungodly thing and bad for them. While they rob the American tax payers of trillions of dollars to save their crumbling empires of greed.
The destruction of American jobs en masse is not a mistake but a deliberate plan by the “Robber Barons” to produce more with less workers and to increase unworldly profits. Over the last 30 years workers are producing more while their salaries and security diminishes. Where is the fairness for the working man and woman that create the wealth with his labor?. When the CEO of a large corporation can make more in one year than a worker can make in a lifetime, something is terrible wrong with the picture. when a CEO can make $42 million in 4 years while millions of the world inhabitants live on less than a dollar a day, something is devilish wrong with that. Those who support this inequality think nothing is wrong with that, I say where is the human conscience in this scenario. Somethings are just plain wrong and this is one of them.
American workers have struggled and fought for a living wage, better working condition and job security over a hundred years. However, their rights have been systemically crushed and weaken; Unions have been marginalized and destroyed. This is what Capitalism loves, it loves a defenseless workforce that it can disposed of without any opposition. Millions of workers have lost Jobs and if you have notice that there has been very little mass workers protest or resistance in this country during all this. Today Wall street is enjoying a comeback they say, raking in billions in profits while the american workers see none of this. The working class and the poor struggle each day to keep their heads above water. We are told that this is the best system for the creation of wealth, but at what cost and for who? surly not for the American workers who are getting poorer while a minority gets richer. The gap between the rich and the poor is now wider than at any other time in human history.
The American working class must wake up to the lie of this system that continue to strangle them. Nowhere in the constitution of America is Capitalism mentioned. It is not synonymous with Democracy or Freedom. China's increase growth and success proves the point that Capitalism does not need Democracy or Political freedoms to survive, it flourishes even under Communist dictatorship. All the "freedom" loving capitalist are now embracing China's money making machine with much excitement. They are very elated with China's model it is what they have been working on in America for decades.
The alternative is to have a wealth creation system that is based on fairness and Democracy. A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and democratically controlled by its worker-owners. Workers who produce wealth should have a greater say and share of that wealth which they produce with their labor. Workers should not beg for crumbs that fall form the fat cats table.
The Second Bill of Rights
was a proposal made by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944 to suggest that the nation had come to recognize, and should now implement, a second bill of rights. Roosevelt did not argue for any change to the United States Constitution; he argued that the second bill of rights was to be implemented politically, not by federal judges. Roosevelt's stated justification was that the "political rights" guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights had "proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness." Roosevelt's remedy was to create an "economic bill of rights" which would guarantee:
A job with a living wage
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
A home
Medical care
Education
Recreation
This Second Bill of Rights were never implemented in America. Ironically these are also the same rights that Unions all over the world have been fighting for. However, Capitalism continue to make sure these basic guarantees never happen in America.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights
I recommend my visitors to see the Michael Moore Movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" if some are not convinced by what has happened and experienced these last 20 years. Maybe just maybe this film will change some mind.
Franklin Roosevelt -Second Bill of Rights
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative
Rochdale Principles
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Eisenhowers Farewell Address Jan. 1961