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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: 5, Touché) by aristarchus on Tuesday December 08 2015, @06:01PM
Now, if I came in here and rightly stated that Donald Trump is an out-and-out fascist with policies barely distinguishable from the Nazis in early 1930s Germany, that would be pointless contentious political debate that adds nothing to the discussion.
Well thank goodness that you did not come here and state that Donald Trump is an out-and-out fascist with unAmerican policies that were last seen in Nazi Germany or the Jim Crow South, because that would be pointless even though very true, and a clear and present danger to the continued existence of the United States of America as a Liberal Democratic country, and it would add nothing to the discussion. So thank you, ikanreed, for not bringing up that Trump is a fascist and member of the One Percent who makes money by fake bankruptcy and avoiding his fair share of taxes. This whole discussion could have gone sour. We dodged the bullet by not mentioning that Donald Trump is a fascist and the the likely winner of the Republican primaries to be the party's Presidential Candidate. It was a near thing. We are so lucky.