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Paul Buchheit reports via AlterNet
While Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and John Kiriakou are vilified for revealing vital information about spying and bombing and torture, a man who conspired with Goldman Sachs to make billions of dollars on the planned failure of subprime mortgages was honored by New York University for his "Outstanding Contributions to Society".
This is one example of the distorted thinking leading to the demise of a once-vibrant American society. There are other signs of decay:
- A House Bill Would View Corporate Crimes as "Honest Mistakes"
- Almost 2/3 of American Families Couldn't Afford a Single Pill of a Life-Saving Drug
- Violent Crime Down; Prison Population Doubles
- One in Four Americans Suffer Mental Illness; Mental Health Facilities Cut by 90 Percent
- The Unpaid Taxes of 500 Companies Could Pay for a Job for Every Unemployed American ...for two years ...at the nation's median salary of $36,000 ...for all 8 million unemployed.
Citizens for Tax Justice reports that Fortune 500 companies are holding over $2 trillion in profits offshore to avoid taxes that would amount to over $600 billion. Our society desperately needs infrastructure repair, but 8 million potential jobs are being held hostage beyond our borders.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by inertnet on Tuesday December 08 2015, @04:00PM
It's not just America, Europe is on a very similar slope, and I'm not so sure about the others.
I believe that a lot of young people must be disgruntled with how society is working for them. Add the lack of control they're feeling, and many can be reeled in by any ideology that promises them a better world. Some will take the flower power or the occupy route, but others will join some terrorist group. It's not just the ideology that attracts them, it's also the society we have created that pushes them away.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 08 2015, @04:40PM
this will persist.
it is the realization in the young mind that she or he will be responsible for the world / infrastructure / government that the forfathers have build.
even though they might be gone they are still around urging us to polish and clean their monuments ... its like being born on a huge ship ark only to realize later on that it is a prison that one has to mend from the inside else it sinks.
or sumething.