Labour Pains

Read these articles about the FDA

https://www.salon.com/2015/04/12/the_fdas_phony_nutrition_science_how_big_food_and_agriculture_trumps_real_science_and_why_the_government_allows_it/

 

https://fee.org/articles/the-government-has-been-meddling-in-food-and-nutrition-for-a-long-time/

 

https://www.healthline.com/health/sugar/big-fat-lies-sugar-propaganda#1

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jun/11/why-our-food-is-making-us-fat

 

This is a fascinating study paralleling the Tobacco and Food industries

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2879177/

 

Does your Representative Represent YOU?

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/04/majority-of-lawmakers-millionaires/

https://ballotpedia.org/Net_worth_of_United_States_Senators_and_Representatives

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/10/25/richest-members-of-congress-by-net-worth/40290533/

https://www.rollcall.com/2018/03/02/every-member-of-congress-wealth-in-one-chart/

https://www.rollcall.com/wealth-of-congress/

https://fortune.com/2019/12/31/richest-members-of-congress-2019-net-worth/

 

Before and After is fun, too

https://ballotpedia.org/Changes_in_Net_Worth_of_U.S._Senators_and_Representatives_(Personal_Gain_Index)

 

And you think your BOSS gets paid more than you?  Check out what their boss’ boss’ boss’ boss makes!

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/

 

And what the Hell is THIS?  Who voted for THIS?

https://americansfortaxfairness.org/tax-fairness-briefing-booklet/fact-sheet-tax-subsidies-for-ceo-pay/

 

Capitalism hard at work!

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-05-15/ceos-cut-millions-of-jobs-keep-big-bonuses

 

Child Labour in America?

https://laborcenter.uiowa.edu/special-projects/child-labor-public-education-project/about-child-labor/child-labor-us-history

https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/child-labor

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2017/article/history-of-child-labor-in-the-united-states-part-1.htm

 

But STILL?

https://www.aft.org/community/child-labor-united-states

 

Learn more about the Electoral College

https://www.history.com/news/electoral-college-founding-fathers-constitutional-convention

https://history.house.gov/Institution/Electoral-College/Electoral-College/

 

Spoilers:  It’s about race…

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/democracy-governance/history-electoral-college-and-our-national

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/electoral-college-has-been-divisive-day-one-180961171/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/electoral-college-racist-origins/601918/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/electoral-college-slavery-constitution

 

A fun point and counterpoint

https://teachingsocialstudies.org/2019/07/28/historians-debate-was-the-electoral-college-designed-to-protect-slavery/

 

Democratic Socialists have their own party…

https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/what-is-democratic-socialism/

 

And, America has a history with Socialism, didjaknow?

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/03/07/what-is-socialism-socialist

https://spartacus-educational.com/USAsocialist.htm

https://dailyhistory.org/What_is_the_history_of_socialism_in_the_United_States%3F

 

Communism as compared between Russia and China

https://www.e-ir.info/2010/11/17/why-did-communism-survive-in-china-but-not-in-the-ussr/

 

The collapse of Russia’s economy

https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/sovietcollapse.htm

 

Remember the New Deal?

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/new-deal

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/16/democrats-socialism-fdr-roosevelt-227622

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-socialism-20190213-story.html

 

And then there’s this one…

https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-12-04/new-deal-starting-socialism-or-saving-capitalism

 

Corporate Greed is such a big deal it’s got it’s own page with the AFL/CIO

https://aflcio.org/issues/corporate-greed

https://www.rd.com/article/corporate-greed/

http://laborpress.org/corporate-greed-killing-middle-class-america/

https://mises.org/library/problem-corporate-greed

 

You don’t think you’re being mind-controlled?

https://www.disruptiveadvertising.com/marketing/marketing-tips/

https://www.gaia.com/article/neuroscience-in-advertising-when-does-it-become-mind-control

https://www.apa.org/monitor/dec02/mindcontrol

https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-conservative-social-psychologist/202004/us-government-mind-control-experiments

 

You may just be a number…but you’re worth a LOT of numbers to Corporate America…

https://retailwire.com/discussion/should-companies-have-to-pay-you-to-use-your-personal-data/

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information/

 

And here are an abundance of resources on Healthcare in America.  If you want to know why you pay SO much for healthcare in America – it’s to buy someone ELSE a boat!  

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/080615/6-reasons-healthcare-so-expensive-us.asp

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-the-us-has-employer-sponsored-health-insurance.html

https://www.ahpcare.com/a-brief-history-of-private-insurance-in-the-united-states/

https://www.griffinbenefits.com/blog/history-of-healthcare

https://www.futurity.org/health-care-insurance-employment-covid-19-2322532/

https://ballotpedia.org/History_of_healthcare_policy_in_the_United_States

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v37n3/v37n3p35.pdf

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/healthcare-profit-1973-hmo-act/ese