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POPS$22 Million Dollar Bonus for Half-Year Work At least Apple is a successful company; plus it's stock price rose during that time. Plus the top sports and music starts make as much -- but it seems out of touch with reality to get so much money in a year (or, half-year, in this case). Maybe some relationship to 'the common man,' should be established, something reasonable like a limit on personal income is no more than 1,000-times the minimum wage. Then if the SuperRich wanted to get richer they would have to raise the minimum wage. The gap between the SuperRich and average is growing in the USA. It's the largest ever. Almost all the wealth is owned by 1% of the population. This ain't a minor issue though it gets burried by issues of war, social values, etc. -- maybe even dilberately -- but the SuperRich vs. the Middle Class & Poor is THE issue throughout time and throughout the world. When it get too unfair, bad things happen.
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POPSWe stormed the administration building & found the documents—the letters from wealthy benefactors & alumni 
Karen, agreed. I think the Vietnam War protests just brought the suppression/repression out in the open. They actually fired professors on my campus, not because they were radical or speaking out against the war, but because they were cutting back departments that had anything to do with the Humanities " even the social sciences, religious studies!!!…anything that involved encouraging students to be independent thinkers or to learn anything different from the elementary and secondary school propaganda we’d been taught before. We stormed the administration building and found the documents " the letters from wealthy benefactors and alumni insisting on this change or they would stop their funding. This was a concerted effort by the wealthy elite that hit all the liberal arts institutions/universities in America. We demanded the Dean appear on the steps of the Administration building and answer to the charges and respond about the documents, as a condition of us leaving the buildin
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POPSIs not drugging with antidepressants, brainwashing, financial distress, imprisonment..enuf to stifle protest? What, it's not enough for the corporations to have harnessed the Third World for cheap labor, now they want to enslave American youth? What's next, reversing child labor laws so that we can have 8-year-olds working for pennies a day breaking rocks till their hands bleed? (That'll keep them from street protests!) It's been 50 years since we've had the youth protesting in the streets. Is there no end to "the Establishment's" (it's been about 50 years, too, since I've actually found it imperative to use that term!) efforts to suppress the outcries of pain from the burdened masses? Is not drugging with antidepressants, brainwashing, financial distress, threats, imprisonment on a scale larger than any other Western country, wiretapping, electronic monitoring, etc., enough to seal the coffin of complaint? Does every nail need to be hammered home before they will feel safe to plunder openly? I can only wonder what they have planned for us next that they feel the need to do this "p
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POPSThe Lost Wages Of Youth The story is even worse for black teens, who often have lower than average education levels or live in areas with fewer job prospects: Their jobless rate climbed from 38.5 percent before the third wage hike to 49.8 percent in November 2009, before falling back to 43.8 percent in January. For black male teens, the rate climbed to 52.2 percent in December 2009 from 39.2 percent in July. The difference between the jobless rates for black teens and the entire population widened by 6 percentage points from June 2007 to January 2010. A Congress that has spent $862 billion to create jobs thus managed with its wage increase to harm tens of thousands of entry-level job seekers. And it did so in the name of "compassion" and a "living wage." In many cases that wage has since become zero, says the Journal.
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POPSHey, Waiter! Just How Much Extra Do You Really Expect? Lol, if servers are so upset about their pay, then perhaps they should get a better-paying job or offer a skill or service that, you know, people will actually pay more for. The pay is so low because there is a never-ending supply of people who either can’t or won’t do better, or who accept the low pay in exchange for flexible hours while they are attempting to do better by going to school or pursue their real dream elsewhere. And if raising the minimum wage is the always the answer, then why not raise it to $20 or $30 per hour? Perhaps that would mean that fewer people would be hired, or that small restaurants would go out of business, or that the scone and latte would cost far more than $5.75? Duh.
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POPS"I'm OK, You're OK" or "I Such, You Suck" --- 6 of one; half dozen of the other, I say. I think I already read that book...when it first came out in the 70s, I believe. Was called "I Suck, You Suck," right? I believe it was in the same series, published by Esso (now Exxon, of course) if I'm not mistaken, as the infamous, "So, You Think You Deserve a Union, Eh?" as well as the classic, "Living on the Minimum Wage: The How, and THE WHY you should do it." Now, that I think of it. There were more in those classics: "The Second Income: Not Just a Necessity. It's Women"s Chance to Shine" "Turning Recession Lemons Into Recession Lemonades." "Starting at The Bottom, At ANY Age." Seriously, though... as I responded to Jen Consalvo: "Re: http://bit.ly/cmzsTy @noreaster I didn’t realize that self-flagellation was back. Boy, the filthy rich can convince anybody of ANYthing with their massive media matrix manipulation and misinformation. I’m old enough to have seen just about every generation including mine being whipped with claims of “selfishness” each time
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POPSThe Secret Punter System the secret punter system images http://nbcreviews09.vox.com/library/post/the-secret-punter-system.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/36265475@N08/4373146128/
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POPSThe Secret Punter System The Secret Punter System http://nbcreviews.com/the-secret-punter-system Discover The Secret Betting Loophole Betfair And All The Bookies Have Been Keeping From You!… http://www.slideshare.net/nbcreviews09/the-secret-punter-system-3208544 http://www.jamespot.com/a/768844-The-Secret-Punter-System.html
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POPSThe Cure for Unemployment The author is comfortable with the idea that no man need be over paid and if paid wages low enough to support the desired profits of business, all men would be employed. The premise that a multimillion dollar corporation will negotiate the wages with individuals is ludicrous. Only in the face of Unionization has business ever negotiated wages with the ordinary working force. The suggested Free Competition for jobs is intended to support the idea than no minimum wage is too low. Let the market set the value. The market is naturally business administrators that get bonuses for increasing profits. I have a hard time reading a commentary founded in ignorance by people educated beyond their intelligence.
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POPSPossible Mafia ties to violence against African immigrants in Italy much more @ clip source. Anti-immigration sentiment spurred by Silvio Berlusconi and his interior minister (a member of the separatist Norther League), is also responsible for this violence. Italy is a beautiful country and despite the racism and xenophobia I enjoyed my time and I want to return this summer. Recently I met a very nice Italian couple. One of them said that she loves to visit Italy, but doesn't want to live there anymore. She is happier in Egypt.
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POPSBringing Overpaid Executives To Heel "The remedy for the rule of power is the rule of law. We need new laws to check the unfair distribution of the fruits of our labor. One such law could set a maximum ratio at any given company between the highest executive compensation and the lowest worker's wage. Another could set a minimum ratio for the division of income between labor and shareholders. Still another could raise the minimum wage and tie it to the median wage, which would make the minimum wage a consistent living wage. Overpaid executives take more than their fair share and leave too little for the rest of us, threatening our health -- and that of society."
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POPSMichael Jordan If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 500 years, he’ll still have less than Bill Gates has at this very moment. Game over. Nerd wins.
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POPSBMW to Cap Executive Pay - wundervoll! Now let me get this straight. GM, Ford, and Chrysler have all lost market share in the US and complain that worker wages and benefits made them uncompetitive. Germans assembly line workers average $60,000 a year and BMW sales have not plummeted as US car makers have. And now, BMW says they are capping executive pay by establishing the current ration of difference 25-1 as THE ratio. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average U.S. worker earned $29,544. The ratio of CEO pay to average pay is 364:1 and to minimum wage is 885:1. So... Why is it that US car companies have trouble competing?
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POPSMeet Rick Berman-Misinformation's Top Gun For Hire Who is Richard Berman? Richard Berman is a Washington, D.C.-based hired gun who uses front groups to defend his corporate clients against the public interest. Using his lobbying and consulting firm, Berman and Company, as a revenue vehicle for his activities, Berman runs at least 15 industry-funded projects, such as the Center for Union Facts, and holds 16 "positions" within these various entities.
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POPSChapter 13 Wage Earner Bankruptcy Basics Queens New York NYC This chapter allows an individual to repay all or part of his/her debts under a repayment plan to their creditors. An individual or a sole proprietor can file chapter 13 bankruptcy. Depending on individual’s state’s median income, the repayment plan can be of minimum three or maximum five years.
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POPSMinimum Wages vs Welfare Incredibly: Welfare provides the equivalent of an hourly pretax wage of $14.75 in New York City, $12.45 in Philadelphia, $11.35 in Baltimore, and $10.90 in Detroit. For the hard-core welfare recipient, the value of the full range of welfare benefits substantially exceeds the amount the recipient could earn in an entry-level job. As a result, recipients are likely to choose welfare over work, thus increasing long-term dependence.
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