$22-An-Hour Minimum Wage

EQUITY: the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality.

$22.00 Minimum:
Johann Wagener 3-19-13

Back in the 60’s the minimum wage for Americans was $33.00 an hour in today’s dollars.

And, to quote Elizabeth Warren;  

"If we started in 1960 and we said that as productivity goes up, that is as workers are producing more, then the minimum wage is going to go up the same. And if that were the case then the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour," she said, speaking to Dr. Arindrajit Dube, a University of Massachusetts Amherst professor who has studied the economic impacts of minimum wage. "So my question is Mr. Dube, with a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, what happened to the other $14.75? It sure didn't go to the worker." Elizabeth Warren Talks $22-An-Hour Minimum Wage

Dube went on to note that if minimum wage incomes had grown over that period at the same pace as it had for the top 1 percent of income earners, the minimum wage would actually be closer to $33 an hour than the current $7.25.

A ROTTEN BUSHEL OF APPLES

RED LIGHT DISTRICT; a section of town usually devoted to illegal/immoral behavior.  

A ROTTING BUSHEL
Johann Wagener 3-18-13

They say that all it takes is one rotten apple to contaminate the bushel. When it comes to the U.S Government it's the bushel that's rotting.    

 If one works in a corrupt system how could they not be corrupt? The problem is not with our politicians; they are just pawns in a system created to serve the real power brokers in this country who hide in the shadows and run the show we call government.

Here’s how the political system we live under works;

Imagine for a moment that Washington D.C. is a “Red Light District” (a section of town usually devoted to illegal/immoral behavior).

Then consider the Congress, Senate, and now-a-days the Supreme Court, are the houses of ill repute, or “brothels” (technically, a place where people may come to engage in illegal/immoral behavior) with;

Politician who engage in a form of “prostitution” (the practice or business of providing services to many other persons in return for payment)

The lobbyist act as “pimps” (an agent who collects part of the earnings for performing services referred to as procuring or pandering. They may receive this money in return for advertising services, or for providing, and possibly monopolizing, a location where they may engage the clients or;

“John’s” (the slang term used for persons who solicit prostitutes) that are mainly representatives of “special interest” groups (e.g. corporations, the rich, and other organizations that want to exert influence on the government.

So, ask yourself, how could anyone survive in this environment with being corrupted?

Senator Menendez, For Robert Menendez, a senator set apart, closeness to rich donor draws scrutiny  like many others before him, are just distractions to make it appear as if corruption was being addressed; when we all know that “self-policing” is just a charade. 

Ridding this government of corruption is going to take much more than throwing out a few apples from office. It requires replacing the bushel, maybe with one that looks more like the one we started with when this Union was founded? 

DIMWITS REACT

THE ASYLUM: For the care of people, especially those with physical or mental impairments, who require organized supervision or assistance.

 Dimwits React!
Johann Wagener 3-18-13

Twitter Reacts to Obama-Resembling Satan on the History Channel

The idiom "the devil is in the detail" refers to a catch or mysterious element hidden in the details.

In this case that would apply to these “Beckies” that just can’t tell the difference between reality and their hallucinations.

LEGALIZED RAPE

HALL OF SHAME: a failure to meet your own standards of behavior

LEGALIZED RAPE
Johann Wagener 3-18-13

No. Not sexual – financial.

Does anyone ever wonder where all that money these “money-mongers” are hoarding is coming from? It’s not the bankers. All they do is shuffle it and take some of it in process. It’s not investors. All they do is shuffle money around and also take some for themselves in the process. Wealth, which generates money, comes from those who actually do something to produce it. The rank and file workers who put in 100% of themselves and receive a pittance in return.

JPMorgan Chief Jamie Dimon Is Sitting Pretty Despite Fallout From 'London Whale' Scandal

Despite all the rigmarole about the risky trading by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) that led to a $6.2 billion trading loss last year, what will save Jamie Dimon from any major career repercussion is the fact that if you own stock in JPMorgan, you’ve made money under the chairman and chief executive's leadership. And above all the din and arguments concerning risky banking practices is the voice of money -- if you’re making it, then you’re fine with how it's being made.  

Poor Jamie D had to take a pay cut and bring home a pay check for $12 million rather than the $23 million he ripped off last year.

I say “ripped off” because it wasn’t Jamie who made the money. It wasn’t JP Morgan who made the money. 

It wasn’t the investors who made the money. Here’s where the money came from:

JPMorgan’s $12 Billion Bailout

JPMorgan Chase Gets $14 Billion Per Year In Government Subsidy

U.S. taxpayers are the victims and, as those who are sexually assaulted, they are in shock and shamed by being told they are losers and takers by rapists like Jamie D.

Twitter Reacts to Obama-Resembling Satan on the History Channel

THE ASYLUM: For the care of people, especially those with physical or mental impairments, who require organized supervision or assistance.

 Dimwits React!
Johann Wagener 3-18-13

Twitter Reacts to Obama-Resembling Satan on the History Channel

The idiom "the devil is in the detail" refers to a catch or mysterious element hidden in the details.

In this case that would apply to these “Beckies” that just can’t tell the difference between reality and their hallucinations.

STUPIDVILLE OHIO

THE ASYLUM: For the care of people, especially those with physical or mental impairments, who require organized supervision or assistance.

A BLESSING FROM GOD?
Johann Wagener 3-17-13

I wonder if those crazies in the GOP believe this one was also a blessing from God? 

Or maybe there are those NRA fans who would say that if everyone had a gun this would not have happened. Instead we would have at least 2 dead teens and maybe more depending on how drunk the party-goers were. 

I’m hoping that this might help these misguided and confused people understand that enlisting their children into playing violent  “brain scrambling” games which is a “rights of passage” in this  violence crazed culture produces the kind of “social” environment they live in. Anonymous Blows The Whistle

The Steubenville case began to get national attention after the hacking group Anonymous publicized a photograph of two men carrying the girl as well as incriminating video. The group proceeded to plan protests in the town, accusing officials of trying to minimize the incident because of the popularity of its “Big Red” football team.

As the New York Times explained in a lengthy December piece, what made this accusation of sexual assault so different from others in the past is that it took place “in the age of social media, when teenagers are capturing much of their lives on their camera phones—even repugnant, possibly criminal behavior, as they did in Steubenville in August—and then posting it on the Web, like a graphic, public diary.”

THE DUMBER THE BETTER

EQUITY: the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality.

DUMB & DUMBER
Johann Wagener 3-16-13

Which is the way the GOP and the 1% they pander to would like to keep you. The less we know the better for them because, besides money, “information is power”

The following piece Why Are Americans So Ignorant? by STEVEN MAZIE MARCH 15, 2013, 12:00 AM attempts to get some of us off the hook but also clarifies what the problem is.

I’m no Jay Leno fan, but one of his most popular bits, the “Jay Walking” segment, reveals the embarrassingly limited grasp some Americans have on reality. In the highlight reel below, when asked to name the number of stars on an American flag waving overhead, one woman responds “it’s moving too fast to count them”; another insists she had heard of the Gettysburg Address but isn’t sure exactly what street it’s on:

The best of jaywalking with Jay Leno