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Great Book: "Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right" by Arlie Russell Hochschild - and - WHAT IS BUBBLE UP ECONOMICS AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

an anthropological study of White people in the South... The author is a professor at UC Berkeley who went to Louisiana and interviewed "Tea Party" members in order to understand their ideas, minds, outlook on life...

https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Their-Own-Land-Mourning/dp/1536684937
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets, among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident - people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children.

#BubbleUP Economics Works! Raise the Minimum Wage to 15 Dollars an Hour - Raise All Social Security Checks 15% - WE PROMISE TO SPEND THE EXTRA MONEY. Increasing Sales, Increasing Profits... EVERYBODY WINS!

What IS Bubble UP Economics and How Does it Work? Simply Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour and Raise all Social Security Checks 15%. Then all Those people will spend the extra money in their paychecks at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Making Stockholders Happy! Then those businesses will have to hire more people to handle the extra Customers. Decreasing Unemployment Insurance Payments. Everybody WINS! With EMPLOYMENT AT A JOB becoming a Viable Alternative to Selling Drugs for a Street Gang, Some teenagers will choose Employment... Reducing CRIME... Reducing Costs for Prisons... Reducing Costs for Law Enforcement... People will buy more food for their Children. Causing Better Health and Smarter Kids... Starvation is Not Good for Children's Brains... Farmers will sell More. Truckers will move more merchandise to stores. Increased Competition for Workers will cause Everybody's Wages to Go Up. All those Workers will pay more in Income Taxes... That would make the Government happy... Right NOW, we are having a National Debt Ceiling Crisis because the Government is Spending More that it Takes in with Taxes... Bubble UP Economics would reverse that trend... The Money Bubbles UP Through Every Layer of Society... With a rising tide, every boat floats! We Tried Ronald Reagan's "Voodoo" Economics and It Has Failed... "People" Say That Bubble UP! Economics WILL MAKE Employers LAY OFF Workers... However... Employers HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF EVERYONE THEY POSSIBLY CAN... Have you Ever Seen a Business where People Work There but Have Nothing To DO? Never!

Who Could Possibly be Opposed to the JOY of Bubble UP! Economics? Well, there are people in this world that have COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME. It's a Mental Health Disease just Like The Crazy Cat Lady...

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Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA. Not Even Once. Ever Since Victory over Japan, Every War Has Been a BOGUS Marketing Trick Designed to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/great-book-americas-bogus-wars-since.html

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Trump-0-Nomics FAILED the 99% Embroidered Baseball Cap FOR SALE!

Awaken Americans! The Talking Heads on TV Keep on Saying that the Economy is "Booming" - BUT - That's only true for the SUPER RICH... We the People are Hurting BAD!

Trump-0-Nomics FAILED the 99% Embroidered Baseball Cap for sale...
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#TrumpHasFailed The U.S. economy suffered its worst period ever in the second quarter, with GDP falling 32.9%. Gross Domestic Product. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/07/trumphasfailed-us-economy-suffered-its.html

tRUMP Fired the Entire Pandemic Response Team in 2018... INSANE! #TrumpVirus Has Killed 150,000* Americans SO FAR... More than World War One, 9/11 and Charles Manson Combined! (Death Total as of 7/29/2020) https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/true-trump-fired-entire-pandemic.html

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We had a lot of Optimism growing up in the Sixties. There was Hope for the Future. President Kennedy Challenged us to Land a Man on the Moon and the school systems started training us all to become engineers, rocket scientists.

In the late sixties Millions of people ate LSD and that opened up an entirely new way to look at life. Maybe we could build a better world... Sadly, some people did not "Drink the Kool Aid."

Corporate Greed Freaks took over most businesses in the USA and used their Wealth to Buy Politicians who would do what they were told to do. Bribery became Totally Legal... Laws were passed to help the Super Rich Get More Money. More, More, More... More, More, More... More, More, More... Insanity... It's Called the Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome.

Peace and Love:

Not Just a Good Idea but

a Practical Way of Life...

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I see that the rate of Americans having Children has gone down recently. I understand. Why would anyone want to curse a child with the type of world we are going to experience in the coming years. It's pretty obvious that we will have MORE forest fires, MORE Hurricanes, MORE Tornadoes and MORE FLOODS and DROUGHTS... More plastics Polluting the Ocean, More Toxic Waste in our water and air... More Poverty, Starvation and more Billionaires... There will come a point when JUST TURNING UP THE AIR CONDITIONER WILL NOT SOLVE GLOBAL WARMING. Sure, everyone can Move to Canada, Alaska and Siberia but... that plan only works for about twenty years.

Currently New York City is building DIKES all around Lower Manhattan to prevent the Ocean from Flooding Wall Street... The Big "U" goes from Harlem to Battery Park... But that does nothing for Queens, The Bronx or Brooklyn... Or New Jersey... Even the Super Rich were "Inconvenienced" when Hurricane Sandy flooded the Subways and the Underground Telephone lines... Computers could not communicate and that REALLY screwed up the Stock Market. You can't be "Limo Man" on a Flooded Street...

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Plenty of room to write a Slogan, Poem, Joke, Mantra or Manifesto! GO WILD!

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New Orleans is Flooded again... 5/17/2019 It's Underwater because it rained really hard in the Middle of the USA. The Mississippi drains land a Thousand Miles Wide and Two thousand Miles Tall.

Yep, it looks pretty bleak for people living in the future. Thankfully, I'm 65 years old and will be dead soon. There is NO real effort to stop driving cars all over everywhere polluting the air. What will life be like after a few billion people starve to death? We already see thousands of People fleeing Central America and Walking North... and Boat people crossing the Mediterranian... and Migration North from Iran and Syria...

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and then a friend posted this rant on Facebook.

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I’m sorry but the following has turned into a rant (and was a reply I made to another post from a Facebook friend), “but hey, this is America”.....
I remember in high school and coming of age in the 60’s and 70’s, the feeling that the United States was progressively overcoming inherit problems like the lack of equal rights, the rights of all minorities, the rights of workers, the rights of women, the rights of all Americans and the hard working middle class realizing the dream of economic freedom. The rising of the American middle class was the awakening of free people everywhere.
There were no handouts!
We Americans earned this freedom and progressed, through our taxes, the retirement benefits of Social Security and Medicare and, through a joint commitment of our whole society, realized the benefits of these and other programs that inspired other free democratic peoples to enact similar programs & in many cases surpass them in their own countries. The problem in this country was we didn’t keep going, we didn’t keep working on problems that still existed, that we can always keep improving.
I am so disillusioned at our present state in this country. I have grandkids that will soon have to learn how to handle shootings in their own schools, a place of refuge & hope and learning for Christ’s sake!
Our Founding Fathers created a system that would enable future members of our society to always progress further to take on future problems and to become even more free while maintaining a strong vibrant country. Who the hell wants to return to some imaginary paradise time span? What would that be the 50’s, the 60’s, 1812, 1920, 1944 ad nauseum....
I’m sorry, but Newt Gingrich FU, Mitch McConnell FU, Paul Ryan FU, Donald Trump FU, people like you FU....
The American people are inherently good people, the polls on almost every issue show that Americans want to keep progressing to more equality, that we value diversity, that we want the best for each and every one of us, that we are compassionate towards our fellow Americans and people of other countries, that we value the natural beauty and wonder of the world we live in. It’s time we got back to the dreams of our Founders and continue to realize our potential!

Whew, sorry for the rant, “but hey, this is America”!!

OUTLAW GUNS! Collect 'em and Melt 'em - A free Source of American Metal... No Need to Import Metal from China, we have Plenty Here at Home.

29 Dead at Mass Shootings... Insane Gunmen Shoot Up crowds... again... and again... and again... NOTICE A TREND?

The Solution is Simple. Outlaw Guns, Have the Police do a House by House search and Confiscate them all... Then Melt them in a Giant Blast Furnace and Use the Metal to build Cars, Trucks, Washing Machines and Lawnmowers...

GEE, THAT WAS EASY!

NRA = EVIL

El Paso Shooting Suspect Reportedly a Trump Supporter Who Wrote Racist, Anti-Immigrant Manifesto.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/el-paso-suspect-shooter-trump-racist-manifesto.html

At least 9 people killed and 16 injured after shooting in Dayton, Ohio; suspect also dead.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-investigate-active-shooter-incident-dayton-ohio-n1039046

MELT GUNS MEME

Go to College! - It Helps prevent Suicide and Opioid Overdoses. Uneducated Middle Aged White Males are killing themselves in record numbers....

WHY? Because "Hope for the Future" is at an all time low. Many Jobs that do not require a college degree have moved to China. Many Jobs that do not require a college degree wear out your body and leave men unemployable and in constant pain. When I worked at the Welfare Office interviewing people I often met men that had worked in the Lumber Mills, Driving a Truck, Fishermen, Soldiers and Carpenters. They were about 40-50 years old and had experienced an accident that made them unemployable yet too young to retire. Like my brother in law said... "Sooner or later the scaffold will collapse and that's the end of work for a bricklayer." Then you go to the Doctor and get Pain Pills...

A better career is to become an office worker. Sit in an air conditioned cubicle and type on a computer. You can do work like that into your 70's or 80's. HOW? Get a Degree... Be a Nerd...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/death-rates-rising-for-middle-aged-white-americans-study-finds.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/03/the-collapse-of-the-white-working-class/520815/

and they Voted for Trump... and Trump has been very disappointing for his "BASE". The Tax Cut for the Rich Law didn't do anything to help Uneducated Middle Aged White Males. Health Care COSTS have gone up... wages are stagnant... no GOOD jobs... no CHANCE of Getting a GOOD JOB... all those factories are going to STAY in China...

So, GET Student Loans from FAFSA and get a degree in Computer Science and then GET a Good Job... I did that and so can you.
https://fafsa.ed.gov/

One of my favorite Classes at College was CRITICAL THINKING. It helps students tell the difference between truth and fiction. VERY handy when avoiding Fake News... In general, you can assume that TV News broadcast by RT (Russian Times) is propaganda... Fox News is obviously Trump's Bogus Channel... It's the ultimate result of the CIA MKULTRA Brainwashing program. They just repeat lies until the viewer believes them. The "TRICK" is to poke the FEAR gland in the viewer's brain. A person becomes compelled to watch continuously because a million years of biology has trained us to be acutely aware of DANGER. People ten thousand years ago had to avoid being eaten by lions, tigers and bears... People that had acute awareness of danger survived and had children. Our Grandparents.

That's why they say... DANGER, DANGER ALIENS APPROACHING... Notice the hysteria about Mexicans crossing the border... even though actual crossings by Mexicans is at the LOWEST number in 46 years... PURE Propaganda designed to make Americans AFRAID of Aliens! Build a WALL!

I'm impressed by High School Students Today. The March for our Lives movement gives me hope.

We have had a few generations of "Slackers" but this generation has the ability to be disobedient!
Good for them!