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re: 36th anniversary of Ronald Reagan firing all the air traffic controllers
Posted on 8/7/17 at 8:27 am to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 8/7/17 at 8:27 am to RogerTheShrubber
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is simply amazing how many people are willing to work against their own best interests.
Its amazing how you think you know what's everyone's best interest.
The earning power of American workers has been stagnant since 1980. Who won the presidency in 1980?
Reagan was a bum. Besides hooking up all his elitist buddies, he never made a tough decision. He always lied and prevaricated and avoided tough action. Despite the lies people bought off on the time he was fully briefed on what became Iran-Contra. In fact it was his idea to disobey the Arms Export Control Act.
"At least three laws--the Arms Export Control Act, the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act and the 1947 National Security Act--govern U.S. arms sales abroad. The committee said all three may have been violated.
The first two of those laws require that recipients of U.S. weapons may not transfer them to other countries without prior approval of the U.S. government and notification of Congress. The Iran-Contra committees found that President Reagan signed a "finding" authorizing two 1985 shipments of weapons from Israel to Iran only after the fact, in December, 1985.
The Arms Export Control Act was amended in 1977 to forbid arms sales to terrorist nations--a category that included Iran during the 1985 and 1986 arms sales. The act permits the President to waive that requirement if he signs a finding and notifies Congress; the committees said he did neither.
The National Security Act requires a presidential finding and congressional notification when the United States sells arms abroad. Reagan signed a finding in January, 1986, before a series of direct U.S. arms sales to Iran, the committees found, but he did not notify Congress."
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Five of Reagan's operatives including the Secretary of Defense were pardoned by Bush 41 in 1992 to keep them from coming to trial.
This post was edited on 8/7/17 at 8:30 am
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Posted on 8/7/17 at 8:34 am to WhiskeyPapa
OCTOBER 9, 2014
For most workers, real wages have barely budged for decades
Following the better-than-expected September jobs report, several economic analyses have pointed out the continuing lack of meaningful wage growth, even as tens of thousands of people head back to work. Economic theory, after all, predicts that as labor markets tighten, employers will offer higher wages to entice workers their way.
But a look at five decades’ worth of government wage data suggests that the better question might be, why should now be any different? For most U.S. workers, real wages — that is, after inflation is taken into account — have been flat or even falling for decades, regardless of whether the economy has been adding or subtracting jobs.
Cash money isn’t the only way workers are compensated, of course — health insurance, retirement-account contributions, education and transit subsidies and other benefits all can be part of the package. But wages and salaries are the biggest (about 70%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics) and most visible component of employee compensation.
According to the BLS, the average hourly wage for non-management private-sector workers last month was $20.67, unchanged from August and 2.3% above the average wage a year earlier. That’s not much, especially when compared with the pre-Great Recession years of 2006 and 2007, when the average hourly wage often increased by around 4% year-over-year. (During the high-inflation years of the 1970s and early 1980s, average wages commonly jumped 8%, 9% or even more year-over-year.)
But after adjusting for inflation, today’s average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power as it did in 1979, following a long slide in the 1980s and early 1990s and bumpy, inconsistent growth since then. In fact, in real terms the average wage peaked more than 40 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 has the same purchasing power as $22.41 would today."
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Reagan might be the -worst- president in U.S. History, not one of the best.
Now I get that many, many of the people who post here have little or no personal recollection of Reagan. But the record is very clear. He started this nation on the road to decline.
For most workers, real wages have barely budged for decades
Following the better-than-expected September jobs report, several economic analyses have pointed out the continuing lack of meaningful wage growth, even as tens of thousands of people head back to work. Economic theory, after all, predicts that as labor markets tighten, employers will offer higher wages to entice workers their way.
But a look at five decades’ worth of government wage data suggests that the better question might be, why should now be any different? For most U.S. workers, real wages — that is, after inflation is taken into account — have been flat or even falling for decades, regardless of whether the economy has been adding or subtracting jobs.
Cash money isn’t the only way workers are compensated, of course — health insurance, retirement-account contributions, education and transit subsidies and other benefits all can be part of the package. But wages and salaries are the biggest (about 70%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics) and most visible component of employee compensation.
According to the BLS, the average hourly wage for non-management private-sector workers last month was $20.67, unchanged from August and 2.3% above the average wage a year earlier. That’s not much, especially when compared with the pre-Great Recession years of 2006 and 2007, when the average hourly wage often increased by around 4% year-over-year. (During the high-inflation years of the 1970s and early 1980s, average wages commonly jumped 8%, 9% or even more year-over-year.)
But after adjusting for inflation, today’s average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power as it did in 1979, following a long slide in the 1980s and early 1990s and bumpy, inconsistent growth since then. In fact, in real terms the average wage peaked more than 40 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 has the same purchasing power as $22.41 would today."
LINK
Reagan might be the -worst- president in U.S. History, not one of the best.
Now I get that many, many of the people who post here have little or no personal recollection of Reagan. But the record is very clear. He started this nation on the road to decline.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 8:45 am to WhiskeyPapa
That cartoon is bogus. Iran..before peanut Carter helped the Islamists take control, was very pro West. Check out some of the pictures pre Islamic revolution. The people, their dress, their activities could easily fit into any western lifestyle.
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