With a net worth of negative $60 trillion, US citizens are just following dutifully in the government’s footsteps.
As a nation we are flat broke and most of us are living paycheck to paycheck. It has been estimated that it takes approximately $50,000 a year to support a middle class lifestyle for a family of four in the U.S. today, and so the fact that 71 percent of all workers make less than that amount shows how difficult it is for families that try to get by with just a single breadwinner.
Needless to say, a tremendous squeeze has been put on the middle class. In many families, both the husband and the wife are working as hard as they can, but it is still not enough. With each passing day, more Americans are losing their spots in the middle class and this has pushed government dependence to an all-time high. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 49 percent of all Americans now live in a home that receives money from the government each month.
Sadly, the trends that are destroying the middle class in America just continue to accelerate. With a huge assist from the Republican leadership in Congress, Barack Obama recently completed negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Also known as Obamatrade, this insidious new treaty is going to cover nations that collectively account for 40 percent of global GDP. Just like NAFTA, this treaty will result in the loss of thousands of businesses and millions of good paying American jobs. Let us hope and pray that Congress somehow votes it down.
Another thing that is working against the middle class is the fact that technology is increasingly taking over our jobs. With each passing year, it becomes cheaper and more efficient to have computers, robots and machines do things that humans once did.
Eventually, there will be very few things that humans will be able to do more cheaply and more efficiently than computers, robots and machines. How will most of us make a living when that happens?
The robopocalypse for workers may be inevitable. In this vision of the future, super-smart machines will best humans in pretty much every task. A few of us will own the machines, a few will work a bit… while the rest will live off a government-provided income… the most common job in most U.S. states probably will no longer be truck driver.
For decades, we have been training our young people to have the goal of “getting a job” once they get out into the real world. But in America today there are not nearly enough good jobs to go around, and this crisis is only going to accelerate as we move into the future.
I do not believe that it is wise to pin your future on a corporation that could replace you with a foreign worker or a machine the moment that it becomes expedient to do so. We need to start thinking differently, because the paradigms that worked in the past are fundamentally breaking down.
So what advice would you give to a young adult today that is looking toward the future?
Copyright © 2015 End Of The American Dream
As a nation we are flat broke and most of us are living paycheck to paycheck. It has been estimated that it takes approximately $50,000 a year to support a middle class lifestyle for a family of four in the U.S. today, and so the fact that 71 percent of all workers make less than that amount shows how difficult it is for families that try to get by with just a single breadwinner.
Needless to say, a tremendous squeeze has been put on the middle class. In many families, both the husband and the wife are working as hard as they can, but it is still not enough. With each passing day, more Americans are losing their spots in the middle class and this has pushed government dependence to an all-time high. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 49 percent of all Americans now live in a home that receives money from the government each month.
Sadly, the trends that are destroying the middle class in America just continue to accelerate. With a huge assist from the Republican leadership in Congress, Barack Obama recently completed negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Also known as Obamatrade, this insidious new treaty is going to cover nations that collectively account for 40 percent of global GDP. Just like NAFTA, this treaty will result in the loss of thousands of businesses and millions of good paying American jobs. Let us hope and pray that Congress somehow votes it down.
Another thing that is working against the middle class is the fact that technology is increasingly taking over our jobs. With each passing year, it becomes cheaper and more efficient to have computers, robots and machines do things that humans once did.
Eventually, there will be very few things that humans will be able to do more cheaply and more efficiently than computers, robots and machines. How will most of us make a living when that happens?
The robopocalypse for workers may be inevitable. In this vision of the future, super-smart machines will best humans in pretty much every task. A few of us will own the machines, a few will work a bit… while the rest will live off a government-provided income… the most common job in most U.S. states probably will no longer be truck driver.
For decades, we have been training our young people to have the goal of “getting a job” once they get out into the real world. But in America today there are not nearly enough good jobs to go around, and this crisis is only going to accelerate as we move into the future.
I do not believe that it is wise to pin your future on a corporation that could replace you with a foreign worker or a machine the moment that it becomes expedient to do so. We need to start thinking differently, because the paradigms that worked in the past are fundamentally breaking down.
So what advice would you give to a young adult today that is looking toward the future?
Copyright © 2015 End Of The American Dream
Я богаче половины американцев. Заебись.
мимо-$30,000-в-год
мимо-$30,000-в-год
Только ты рвешь свой анус за эти гроши, а пиндосы не напрягаясь метут себе улицу.
Да нихуя. Яжпрограммист. Работаю по 3-6 часов в день в комфортных условиях.
А после налогов и страховки сколько? 15к? Это уровень российской Мухосрани на старый курс бакса, лол, Firts world
Эти 30000 в год - без учёта налогов и долгов.
25% американцев живут вообще в минус.
Написано, что если у тебя нет долгов и ты имеешь $10 в кармане - ты уже богаче 25% американцев.
ЛОООООЛ, блять, где дрочеры на ЖОПАД
Эта статистика полная хуйня, и я сейчас объясню почему:
она учитывает негров и латиносов. Которые де-факто не являются гражданами Америки, они в реальности тупо чужаки, которые НИКАК не участвуют в культурной жизни, а в экономике они выполняют роль паразитов. Это по сути невидимый класс, их можно узреть своими глазами, только заехав на машине в закрытое гетто (а этого никто и никогда не делает).
Если мы берем только реальных граждан страны, т.е. белых, то там цифры намного веселее, и средний класс - подавляющее большинство.
Чтобы было понятнее, я приведу такую аналогию: представьте, что в России из 140млн населения 80млн - цыгане. И живут они в Сибири, в тайге. В палатках. Их никто никогда не видит, они ничего не делают, их не показывают в новостях, они не участвуют в экономике. Но при этом в СТАТИСТИКЕ они учитываются.
она учитывает негров и латиносов. Которые де-факто не являются гражданами Америки, они в реальности тупо чужаки, которые НИКАК не участвуют в культурной жизни, а в экономике они выполняют роль паразитов. Это по сути невидимый класс, их можно узреть своими глазами, только заехав на машине в закрытое гетто (а этого никто и никогда не делает).
Если мы берем только реальных граждан страны, т.е. белых, то там цифры намного веселее, и средний класс - подавляющее большинство.
Чтобы было понятнее, я приведу такую аналогию: представьте, что в России из 140млн населения 80млн - цыгане. И живут они в Сибири, в тайге. В палатках. Их никто никогда не видит, они ничего не делают, их не показывают в новостях, они не участвуют в экономике. Но при этом в СТАТИСТИКЕ они учитываются.
Ну и рожа.
И сразу врёти
Это самое сочное ВРЕЕЕЕТЕ этого года. Вы просто обосрались, либерахи, вам не привыкать, ну зачем оправдываться
Так он дед старый. Он ещё при Рональде Рейгане в правительстве работал.
В ЮАР негры когда-то тоже не были де-факто гражданами и их в города не пускали. Если число этих негро-латиносов превысит 80-85%, то будут пиздарики.
даже нищие пидорашки богаче 25% мурриканцев, т.к. нищим пидорашкам кредит не выдадут, а значит и долгов у них нет, лул.
вообще, если эти цифры действительно верны, то в муррике живут такие же пидорашки, как и в рашке. такие же нищие, такие же ура патриоты, такие же мудаки без перспектив.
мир не удался. возможно капитализм всему виной, но и коммунизм не взлетел. человеки не те, другие нужны
нет
ЮАР отказался от сегрегации только под давлением всего ебаного мира, поголовных санкций.
Если в США будет 90% негров, то сегрегация не будет отменена, 100% власти и капитала все равно будет в руках белых, а негры будут жить в "тайге", и их никто никогда не будет видеть. Они никак не будут влиять на жизнь людей.
Бедняги, хорошо, что я живу в великой стране и получаю 5-6к$ в год.
Лол. Эталон сверхманевренности и врете
>она учитывает негров и латиносов. Которые де-факто не являются гражданами Америки, они в реальности тупо чужаки
Брейвик, тебе в камеру интернет провели?
мудачек, а мудачек.
тебе написали в статье, что рыночек порешал.
треть населения не нужна и демпингует оплату труда, т.к. рабочих мест попросту нет, все остальные счастливы, что есть хоть какая работа и вкалывают за копейки.
просто ты мудак и не можешь сложить два простых тезиса.
мурриканскому бизнесу не нужны рабочие, он "оптимизирован".
Бампуэ
ну так это же хорошо, это значит, что Америка уже постиндустриальное общество будущего, там рулят технологии, не за горами ИИ и бессмертие, виртуальная реальности и президент-алгоритм
Из южных штатов сюда пишешь, хиллбилли?
Америка стронг?
>там рулят технологии
Для начала пусть интернет нормальный сделают. а не 8мегабитный адсл за 60баксов за всю страну.
Эльдар, почему ты такой еблан?
Забавно наблюдать как про средний класс америки кукарекает пидорашка с 500уе средней зарплаты.
Просто это не он, он на этого клоуна из Мурманска дико агрился
Забавно наблюдать как про пидорашек с средней зарплатой 500уе кукарекает няша с 150уе средней зарплаты.
>Если число этих негро-латиносов превысит 80-85%, то будут пиздарики.
>если
Вопрос не в если, а когда, потому что это неизбежность.
а вот и фрс подъехал
в муррике уже менее 50% населения белые это если не считать латиносов белыми
среди молодежи, насколько я помню, уже около 80% не белые.
не когда, а уже.
До рублездеца я дедал примерно 60 килобаксов в год чистыми!! Кек.
Щас соответственно примерно чуть более 30. Я пидораг и я богаче половины америки!! Юхууу!!
пидораха бомбанул.
свинопетух бомбанул.
И что ты такое пишешь, мне, вот просто, интересно?
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/10/22/the-fate-of-children-in-the-amerian-police-state/
The Fate of Children in the Amerian Police State
John Whitehead in the article below points out that American public schools are like prisons. The wardens of the schools focus on punishment and ruining the lives of children, not on education.
Parents who can afford it put their children in private schools, and those who can’t homeschool their children if they have the capability and do not have to work several part time jobs in order to make ends meet.
The situation that John Whitehead describes is real. The schools today bear no resemblance whatsoever to the schools I experienced. The horrors inflicted on children and parents by the public schools tell us a lot about ourselves. While Americans waved the flag and mouthed plattitudes about “freedom and democracy,” they were rounded up and confined to a police state.
The United States today has every characteristic of the gestapo police state, except that the US is more corrupt than was Nazi Germany.
The ugly reality of America today is beginning to dawn on some Americans. Those who have come into contact with the American police state and have been brutalized by it are forced by reality out of their Matrix-like belief that America is the best and most free country on earth.
Foreigners remain deluded by American propaganda and believe the US is where freedom and opportunity reside. This is especially the case with youth in former communist countries.
The propaganda image of America and the reality of American could not be more different.
We have lost our country. It is not here anymore.
Public School Students Are the New Inmates in the American Police State — John W. Whitehead
“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased policing to all-seeing electronic surveillance, the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society that has become fixated on crime, security and violence.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes
In the American police state, you’re either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, monitored, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, your life not your own) or a prison bureaucrat (police officer, judge, jailer, spy, profiteer, etc.).
Indeed, at a time when we are all viewed as suspects, there are so many ways in which a person can be branded a criminal for violating any number of laws, regulations or policies. Even if you haven’t knowingly violated any laws, there is still a myriad of ways in which you can run afoul of the police state and end up on the wrong side of a jail cell.
Unfortunately, when you’re a child in the American police state, life is that much worse.
Microcosms of the police state, America’s public schools contain almost every aspect of the militarized, intolerant, senseless, overcriminalized, legalistic, surveillance-riddled, totalitarian landscape that plagues those of us on the “outside.”
The Fate of Children in the Amerian Police State
John Whitehead in the article below points out that American public schools are like prisons. The wardens of the schools focus on punishment and ruining the lives of children, not on education.
Parents who can afford it put their children in private schools, and those who can’t homeschool their children if they have the capability and do not have to work several part time jobs in order to make ends meet.
The situation that John Whitehead describes is real. The schools today bear no resemblance whatsoever to the schools I experienced. The horrors inflicted on children and parents by the public schools tell us a lot about ourselves. While Americans waved the flag and mouthed plattitudes about “freedom and democracy,” they were rounded up and confined to a police state.
The United States today has every characteristic of the gestapo police state, except that the US is more corrupt than was Nazi Germany.
The ugly reality of America today is beginning to dawn on some Americans. Those who have come into contact with the American police state and have been brutalized by it are forced by reality out of their Matrix-like belief that America is the best and most free country on earth.
Foreigners remain deluded by American propaganda and believe the US is where freedom and opportunity reside. This is especially the case with youth in former communist countries.
The propaganda image of America and the reality of American could not be more different.
We have lost our country. It is not here anymore.
Public School Students Are the New Inmates in the American Police State — John W. Whitehead
“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased policing to all-seeing electronic surveillance, the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society that has become fixated on crime, security and violence.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes
In the American police state, you’re either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, monitored, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, your life not your own) or a prison bureaucrat (police officer, judge, jailer, spy, profiteer, etc.).
Indeed, at a time when we are all viewed as suspects, there are so many ways in which a person can be branded a criminal for violating any number of laws, regulations or policies. Even if you haven’t knowingly violated any laws, there is still a myriad of ways in which you can run afoul of the police state and end up on the wrong side of a jail cell.
Unfortunately, when you’re a child in the American police state, life is that much worse.
Microcosms of the police state, America’s public schools contain almost every aspect of the militarized, intolerant, senseless, overcriminalized, legalistic, surveillance-riddled, totalitarian landscape that plagues those of us on the “outside.”
From the moment a child enters one of the nation’s 98,000 public schools to the moment she graduates, she will be exposed to a steady diet of draconian zero tolerance policies that criminalize childish behavior, overreaching anti-bullying statutes that criminalize speech, school resource officers (police) tasked with disciplining and/or arresting so-called “disorderly” students, standardized testing that emphasizes rote answers over critical thinking, politically correct mindsets that teach young people to censor themselves and those around them, and extensive biometric and surveillance systems that, coupled with the rest, acclimate young people to a world in which they have no freedom of thought, speech or movement.
If your child is fortunate enough to survive his encounter with the public schools, you should count yourself fortunate.
Most students are not so lucky.
By the time the average young person in America finishes their public school education, nearly one out of every three of them will have been arrested.
More than 3 million students are suspended or expelled from schools every year, often for minor misbehavior, such as “disruptive behavior” or “insubordination.” Black students are three times more likely than white students to face suspension and expulsion.
For instance, a Virginia sixth grader, the son of two school teachers and a member of the school’s gifted program, was suspended for a year after school officials found a leaf (likely a maple leaf) in his backpack that they suspected was marijuana. Despite the fact that the leaf in question was not marijuana (a fact that officials knew almost immediately), the 11-year-old was still kicked out of school, charged with marijuana possession in juvenile court, enrolled in an alternative school away from his friends, subjected to twice-daily searches for drugs, and forced to be evaluated for substance abuse problems.
As the Washington Post warns: “It doesn’t matter if your son or daughter brings a real pot leaf to school, or if he brings something that looks like a pot leaf—okra, tomato, maple, buckeye, etc. If your kid calls it marijuana as a joke, or if another kid thinks it might be marijuana, that’s grounds for expulsion.”
Many state laws require that schools notify law enforcement whenever a student is found with an “imitation controlled substance,” basically anything that look likes a drug but isn’t actually illegal. As a result, students have been suspended for bringing to school household spices such as oregano, breath mints, birth control pills and powdered sugar.
It’s not just look-alike drugs that can get a student in trouble under school zero tolerance policies. Look-alike weapons (toy guns—even Lego-sized ones, hand-drawn pictures of guns, pencils twirled in a “threatening” manner, imaginary bows and arrows, even fingers positioned like guns) can also land a student in detention.
Acts of kindness, concern or basic manners can also result in suspensions. One 13-year-old was given detention for exposing the school to “liability” by sharing his lunch with a hungry friend. A third grader was suspended for shaving her head in sympathy for a friend who had lost her hair to chemotherapy. And then there was the high school senior who was suspended for saying “bless you” after a fellow classmate sneezed.
Unfortunately, while these may appear to be isolated incidents, they are indicative of a nationwide phenomenon in which children are treated like suspects and criminals, especially within the public schools.
The schools have become a microcosm of the American police state, right down to the host of surveillance technologies, including video cameras, finger and palm scanners, iris scanners, as well as RFID and GPS tracking devices, employed to keep constant watch over their student bodies.
Making matters worse are the police.
Students accused of being disorderly or noncompliant have a difficult enough time navigating the bureaucracy of school boards, but when you bring the police into the picture, after-school detention and visits to the principal’s office are transformed into punishments such as misdemeanor tickets, juvenile court, handcuffs, tasers and even prison terms.
If your child is fortunate enough to survive his encounter with the public schools, you should count yourself fortunate.
Most students are not so lucky.
By the time the average young person in America finishes their public school education, nearly one out of every three of them will have been arrested.
More than 3 million students are suspended or expelled from schools every year, often for minor misbehavior, such as “disruptive behavior” or “insubordination.” Black students are three times more likely than white students to face suspension and expulsion.
For instance, a Virginia sixth grader, the son of two school teachers and a member of the school’s gifted program, was suspended for a year after school officials found a leaf (likely a maple leaf) in his backpack that they suspected was marijuana. Despite the fact that the leaf in question was not marijuana (a fact that officials knew almost immediately), the 11-year-old was still kicked out of school, charged with marijuana possession in juvenile court, enrolled in an alternative school away from his friends, subjected to twice-daily searches for drugs, and forced to be evaluated for substance abuse problems.
As the Washington Post warns: “It doesn’t matter if your son or daughter brings a real pot leaf to school, or if he brings something that looks like a pot leaf—okra, tomato, maple, buckeye, etc. If your kid calls it marijuana as a joke, or if another kid thinks it might be marijuana, that’s grounds for expulsion.”
Many state laws require that schools notify law enforcement whenever a student is found with an “imitation controlled substance,” basically anything that look likes a drug but isn’t actually illegal. As a result, students have been suspended for bringing to school household spices such as oregano, breath mints, birth control pills and powdered sugar.
It’s not just look-alike drugs that can get a student in trouble under school zero tolerance policies. Look-alike weapons (toy guns—even Lego-sized ones, hand-drawn pictures of guns, pencils twirled in a “threatening” manner, imaginary bows and arrows, even fingers positioned like guns) can also land a student in detention.
Acts of kindness, concern or basic manners can also result in suspensions. One 13-year-old was given detention for exposing the school to “liability” by sharing his lunch with a hungry friend. A third grader was suspended for shaving her head in sympathy for a friend who had lost her hair to chemotherapy. And then there was the high school senior who was suspended for saying “bless you” after a fellow classmate sneezed.
Unfortunately, while these may appear to be isolated incidents, they are indicative of a nationwide phenomenon in which children are treated like suspects and criminals, especially within the public schools.
The schools have become a microcosm of the American police state, right down to the host of surveillance technologies, including video cameras, finger and palm scanners, iris scanners, as well as RFID and GPS tracking devices, employed to keep constant watch over their student bodies.
Making matters worse are the police.
Students accused of being disorderly or noncompliant have a difficult enough time navigating the bureaucracy of school boards, but when you bring the police into the picture, after-school detention and visits to the principal’s office are transformed into punishments such as misdemeanor tickets, juvenile court, handcuffs, tasers and even prison terms.
In the absence of school-appropriate guidelines, police are more and more “stepping in to deal with minor rulebreaking—sagging pants, disrespectful comments, brief physical skirmishes. What previously might have resulted in a detention or a visit to the principal’s office was replaced with excruciating pain and temporary blindness, often followed by a trip to the courthouse.”
Thanks to a combination of media hype, political pandering and financial incentives, the use of armed police officers to patrol school hallways has risen dramatically in the years since the Columbine school shooting (nearly 20,000 by 2003). Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, these school resource officers (SROs) have become de facto wardens in the elementary, middle and high schools, doling out their own brand of justice to the so-called “criminals” in their midst with the help of tasers, pepperspray, batons and brute force.
The horror stories are legion.
One SRO is accused of punching a 13-year-old student in the face for cutting the cafeteria line. That same cop put another student in a chokehold a week later, allegedly knocking the student unconscious and causing a brain injury. In Pennsylvania, a student was tased after ignoring an order to put his cell phone away.
Defending the use of handcuffs and pepper spray to subdue students, one Alabama police department reasoned that if they can employ such tactics on young people away from school, they should also be permitted to do so on campus.
Now advocates for such harsh police tactics and weaponry will tell you that school safety should be our first priority lest we find ourselves with another Sandy Hook. What they will not tell you is that such shootings are rare. As one congressional report found, the schools are, generally speaking, safe places for children.
In their zeal to crack down on guns and lock down the schools, these cheerleaders for police state tactics in the schools might also fail to mention the lucrative, multi-million dollar deals being cut with military contractors such as Taser International to equip these school cops with tasers, tanks, rifles and $100,000 shooting detection systems.
Indeed, the transformation of hometown police departments into extensions of the military has been mirrored in the public schools, where school police have been gifted with high-powered M16 rifles, MRAP armored vehicles, grenade launchers, and other military gear. One Texas school district even boasts its own 12-member SWAT team.
According to one law review article on the school-to-prison pipeline, “Many school districts have formed their own police departments, some so large they rival the forces of major United States cities in size. For example, the safety division in New York City’s public schools is so large that if it were a local police department, it would be the fifth-largest police force in the country.”
The ramifications are far-reaching.
Thanks to a combination of media hype, political pandering and financial incentives, the use of armed police officers to patrol school hallways has risen dramatically in the years since the Columbine school shooting (nearly 20,000 by 2003). Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, these school resource officers (SROs) have become de facto wardens in the elementary, middle and high schools, doling out their own brand of justice to the so-called “criminals” in their midst with the help of tasers, pepperspray, batons and brute force.
The horror stories are legion.
One SRO is accused of punching a 13-year-old student in the face for cutting the cafeteria line. That same cop put another student in a chokehold a week later, allegedly knocking the student unconscious and causing a brain injury. In Pennsylvania, a student was tased after ignoring an order to put his cell phone away.
Defending the use of handcuffs and pepper spray to subdue students, one Alabama police department reasoned that if they can employ such tactics on young people away from school, they should also be permitted to do so on campus.
Now advocates for such harsh police tactics and weaponry will tell you that school safety should be our first priority lest we find ourselves with another Sandy Hook. What they will not tell you is that such shootings are rare. As one congressional report found, the schools are, generally speaking, safe places for children.
In their zeal to crack down on guns and lock down the schools, these cheerleaders for police state tactics in the schools might also fail to mention the lucrative, multi-million dollar deals being cut with military contractors such as Taser International to equip these school cops with tasers, tanks, rifles and $100,000 shooting detection systems.
Indeed, the transformation of hometown police departments into extensions of the military has been mirrored in the public schools, where school police have been gifted with high-powered M16 rifles, MRAP armored vehicles, grenade launchers, and other military gear. One Texas school district even boasts its own 12-member SWAT team.
According to one law review article on the school-to-prison pipeline, “Many school districts have formed their own police departments, some so large they rival the forces of major United States cities in size. For example, the safety division in New York City’s public schools is so large that if it were a local police department, it would be the fifth-largest police force in the country.”
The ramifications are far-reaching.
The term “school-to-prison pipeline” refers to a phenomenon in which children who are suspended or expelled from school have a greater likelihood of ending up in jail. One study found that “being suspended or expelled made a student nearly three times more likely to come into contact with the juvenile justice system within the next year.”
Not content to add police to their employee rosters, the schools have also come to resemble prisons, complete with surveillance cameras, metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, random locker searches and active shooter drills. The Detroit public schools boast a “‘$5.6 million 23,000-sq ft. state of the art Command Center’ and ‘$41.7 million district-wide security initiative’ including metal detectors and ID system where visitors’ names are checked against the sex offender registry.”
As if it weren’t bad enough that the nation’s schools have come to resemble prisons, the government is also contracting with private prisons to lock up our young people for behavior that once would have merited a stern lecture. Nearly 40 percent of those young people who are arrested will serve time in a private prison, where the emphasis is on making profits for large megacorporations above all else.
Private prisons, the largest among them being GEO and the Corrections Corporation of America, profit by taking over a state’s prison population for a fee. Many states, under contract with these private prisons, agree to keep the prisons full, which in turn results in more Americans being arrested, found guilty and jailed for nonviolent “crimes” such as holding Bible studies in their back yard. As the Washington Post points out, “With the growing influence of the prison lobby, the nation is, in effect, commoditizing human bodies for an industry in militant pursuit of profit… The influence of private prisons creates a system that trades money for human freedom, often at the expense of the nation’s most vulnerable populations: children, immigrants and the poor.”
This profit-driven system of incarceration has also given rise to a growth in juvenile prisons and financial incentives for jailing young people. Indeed, young people have become easy targets for the private prison industry, which profits from criminalizing childish behavior and jailing young people. For instance, two Pennsylvania judges made headlines when it was revealed that they had been conspiring with two businessmen in a $2.6 million “kids for cash” scandal that resulted in more than 2500 children being found guilty and jailed in for-profit private prisons.
It has been said that America’s schools are the training ground for future generations. Instead of raising up a generation of freedom fighters, however, we seem to be busy churning out newly minted citizens of the American police state who are being taught the hard way what it means to comply, fear and march in lockstep with the government’s dictates.
As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, with every school police raid and overzealous punishment that is carried out in the name of school safety, the lesson being imparted is that Americans—especially young people—have no rights at all against the state or the police.
I’ll conclude with one hopeful anecdote about a Philadelphia school dubbed the “Jones Jail” because of its bad reputation for violence among the student body. Situated in a desperately poor and dangerous part of the city, the John Paul Jones Middle School’s student body had grown up among drug users, drug peddlers, prostitutes and gun violence. “By middle school,” reports The Atlantic, most of these students “have witnessed more violence than most Americans who didn’t serve in a war ever will.”
According to investigative reporters Jeff Deeney, “School police officers patrolled the building at John Paul Jones, and children were routinely submitted to scans with metal detecting wands. All the windows were covered in metal grating and one room that held computers even had thick iron prison bars on its exterior… Every day… [police] would set up a perimeter of police officers on the blocks around the school, and those police were there to protect neighbors from the children, not to protect the children from the neighborhood.”
In other words, John Paul Jones, one of the city’s most dangerous schools, was a perfect example of the school-to-prison, police state apparatus at work among the nation’s youngest and most impressionable citizens.
When management of John Paul Jones was taken over by a charter school that opted to de-escalate the police state presence, stripping away the metal detectors and barred windows, local police protested. In fact, they showed up wearing Kevlar vests. Nevertheless, school officials remained determined to do away with institutional control and surveillance, as well as aggressive security guards, and focus on noncoercive, nonviolent conflict resolution with an emphasis on student empowerment, relationship building and anger management.
The result: a 90% drop in serious incidents—drug sales, weapons, assaults, rapes—in one year alone. As one fifth-grader remarked on the changes, “There are no more fights. There are no more police. That’s better for the community.”
The lesson for the rest of us is this: you not only get what you pay for, but you reap what you sow.
If you want a nation of criminals, treat the citizenry like criminals.
If you want young people who grow up seeing themselves as prisoners, run the schools like prisons.
But if you want to raise up a generation of freedom fighters, who will actually operate with justice, fairness, accountability and equality towards each other and their government, then run the schools like freedom forums. Remove the metal detectors and surveillance cameras, re-assign the cops elsewhere, and start treating our nation’s young people like citizens of a republic and not inmates in a police state.
Not content to add police to their employee rosters, the schools have also come to resemble prisons, complete with surveillance cameras, metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, random locker searches and active shooter drills. The Detroit public schools boast a “‘$5.6 million 23,000-sq ft. state of the art Command Center’ and ‘$41.7 million district-wide security initiative’ including metal detectors and ID system where visitors’ names are checked against the sex offender registry.”
As if it weren’t bad enough that the nation’s schools have come to resemble prisons, the government is also contracting with private prisons to lock up our young people for behavior that once would have merited a stern lecture. Nearly 40 percent of those young people who are arrested will serve time in a private prison, where the emphasis is on making profits for large megacorporations above all else.
Private prisons, the largest among them being GEO and the Corrections Corporation of America, profit by taking over a state’s prison population for a fee. Many states, under contract with these private prisons, agree to keep the prisons full, which in turn results in more Americans being arrested, found guilty and jailed for nonviolent “crimes” such as holding Bible studies in their back yard. As the Washington Post points out, “With the growing influence of the prison lobby, the nation is, in effect, commoditizing human bodies for an industry in militant pursuit of profit… The influence of private prisons creates a system that trades money for human freedom, often at the expense of the nation’s most vulnerable populations: children, immigrants and the poor.”
This profit-driven system of incarceration has also given rise to a growth in juvenile prisons and financial incentives for jailing young people. Indeed, young people have become easy targets for the private prison industry, which profits from criminalizing childish behavior and jailing young people. For instance, two Pennsylvania judges made headlines when it was revealed that they had been conspiring with two businessmen in a $2.6 million “kids for cash” scandal that resulted in more than 2500 children being found guilty and jailed in for-profit private prisons.
It has been said that America’s schools are the training ground for future generations. Instead of raising up a generation of freedom fighters, however, we seem to be busy churning out newly minted citizens of the American police state who are being taught the hard way what it means to comply, fear and march in lockstep with the government’s dictates.
As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, with every school police raid and overzealous punishment that is carried out in the name of school safety, the lesson being imparted is that Americans—especially young people—have no rights at all against the state or the police.
I’ll conclude with one hopeful anecdote about a Philadelphia school dubbed the “Jones Jail” because of its bad reputation for violence among the student body. Situated in a desperately poor and dangerous part of the city, the John Paul Jones Middle School’s student body had grown up among drug users, drug peddlers, prostitutes and gun violence. “By middle school,” reports The Atlantic, most of these students “have witnessed more violence than most Americans who didn’t serve in a war ever will.”
According to investigative reporters Jeff Deeney, “School police officers patrolled the building at John Paul Jones, and children were routinely submitted to scans with metal detecting wands. All the windows were covered in metal grating and one room that held computers even had thick iron prison bars on its exterior… Every day… [police] would set up a perimeter of police officers on the blocks around the school, and those police were there to protect neighbors from the children, not to protect the children from the neighborhood.”
In other words, John Paul Jones, one of the city’s most dangerous schools, was a perfect example of the school-to-prison, police state apparatus at work among the nation’s youngest and most impressionable citizens.
When management of John Paul Jones was taken over by a charter school that opted to de-escalate the police state presence, stripping away the metal detectors and barred windows, local police protested. In fact, they showed up wearing Kevlar vests. Nevertheless, school officials remained determined to do away with institutional control and surveillance, as well as aggressive security guards, and focus on noncoercive, nonviolent conflict resolution with an emphasis on student empowerment, relationship building and anger management.
The result: a 90% drop in serious incidents—drug sales, weapons, assaults, rapes—in one year alone. As one fifth-grader remarked on the changes, “There are no more fights. There are no more police. That’s better for the community.”
The lesson for the rest of us is this: you not only get what you pay for, but you reap what you sow.
If you want a nation of criminals, treat the citizenry like criminals.
If you want young people who grow up seeing themselves as prisoners, run the schools like prisons.
But if you want to raise up a generation of freedom fighters, who will actually operate with justice, fairness, accountability and equality towards each other and their government, then run the schools like freedom forums. Remove the metal detectors and surveillance cameras, re-assign the cops elsewhere, and start treating our nation’s young people like citizens of a republic and not inmates in a police state.
Мы, вроде, белые и хохлы тоже белые, а тем не менее, и мы и они в жопе.
ТРАМП ПРИДЕТ - ПОРЯДОК НАВЕДЕТ
Что ты тут рассказываешь очевидные вещи как будто Америку открыл. Любой кто разбирается в экономике - догадывался об этом с самого начала открытия ФРС и прочих интервенционистских веселух.
А остальным похуй - им лишь бы говном покидаться.
белые - это не только некоторый морфологический набор, свойственный европейской расе, это еще и социокультурное восприятие реальности, где люди руководствуются разумом, а не эмоциональным фоном.
тащимта мурриканская масс антикультура и совки - вина тому, что белый человек вымирает. мы скатили свои страны в говно и затянули туда же и европку.
> Швятая мурика
Америку открыл Колумб.
Америка - страна залуп.
Америка - томатный сок.
Америка - пизды кусок.
Припев:
She's got it, yeah baby, she's got it.
I'm your Venus, I'm your fire at your desire.
Америку открыл Колумб.
Америка - страна залуп.
Америка - томатный сок.
Америка - пизды кусок.
Припев:
She's got it, yeah baby, she's got it.
I'm your Venus, I'm your fire at your desire.
>Половина американцев работает меньше чем за 15 баксов в час
Это называется фёст-ворлд проблем. Поссал на них. Пусть мне что-нибудь подкинут. Я северо-африканский голодающий.
Свои маняфантазии на двощах.
(30 000 / 12)*62 = 155 000руб в месяц, пусть там хавка в 2 раза дороже, остальное все так же
Дваждую тебя, братик.
>трамп
Трамп будет высылать цветных их страны на родные конитенты? Возродит НАСТОЯЩУЮ англо-саксонскую культуру?
Ответ - нет.
Почему тогда там столько народа в долгах как в шелках?
Может быть потому что кредиты под 5%, а не под 5000%?
Если они выплачивают долгити в состоянии их обслуживать, вот не похуй.
Относительно недавно там был ипотечный и вообще долговой кризис, когда они обслуживать ничего не смогли.
не совсем так.
раздача сомнительных кредитов наложилось на обвал раздутого рынка жилья, где люди остались должны банку за дом гораздо больше денег, чем этот дом, сопсна, стал стоить и где они принимали вполне закономерное решение отказываться выплачивать ипотеку, даже если могли это делать.
сам посуди, нахуя, например, выплачивать 100к баксов за коробку ценой в 50к? легче эту коробку отдать банку и объявить себя банкротом
Я тоже, блджад, получаю меньше чем 30к баксов в год. Около 12. И это все еще больше, чем большинство россиян, такие дела. Оп, мы получаем меньше китайцев. Вот что-что, а тему зарплат на твоем месте я б не стал поднимать.
Это просто потому что ты ленивый уебок. И большинство твоего окружения тоже.
Пост месяца просто. Эталонный маневр либерахи. Берем такую Землю, и вычеркиваем Индию там Китай, сравниваем РФ только с Мурикой, Германией и Великобританией.
Германию и Великобританю например с Люксембургом не сравниваем, это же плохое сравнение.
Затем берем такую Мурику и вычеркиваем всех НЕУДОБНЫХ для нас граждан. Нахуй они нужны? Только белое население.
И вся Россия, да? Или у нас просто с экономикой жопа по какой-то причине(неправильное управление?)
Большая часть России ленивые уебки. В России толком не умеют работать.
Это что-то новое? Я тебя удивил?
Только 12к в России это гораздо больше, чем 20к, тем более гроссом, в СШП.
Не ленивые, а не обученные.
После распада СССР профессиональное и научное образование оказалось в полной жопэ. Закономерно, уровень среднего россиянина начал падать и скатываться до уровня реднеков и хиллбилли.
Официальное образование нужно только для ленивых уебков не могущих в самообразование.
12к РФ это 36к США.
формулу расчета укажи плс
Бамп
>НЕТ НЕПРАВДА ВЕЛИКОЙ ДЕПРЕССИИ НЕТ КЛЯТЫЙ КОММУНИСТ
Стоит отметить, что сам Paul Craig Roberts не любит коммунистов, в 70-х годах издавал антикоммунистические книжки, человек он правых христианских взглядов, у него объект дроча - это белый законопослушный христианский налогоплательщик из среднего класса. Самое же смешное в том, что сейчас Робертса часто цитируют в левых кругах и сам Робертс часто цитирует левых активистов. Хотя иногда у старого деда Робертса и прорывается наружу шовинизм, расизм, гомофобия и даже слова о белой христианской солидарности. Вот такой непонятный союз на оппозиционном западном поле.
Бамп
Бамп. Ну где же вы, дрочеры на великую Америку?
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Америка превращается в Россию, топ кек.
Теорема хиллбилли.
Лел, Америга не становится Разией. Это разия становится амерегой, а в амереге начинаются темные века.
> в муррике живут такие же пидорашки, как и в рашке. такие же нищие, такие же ура патриоты, такие же мудаки без перспектив.
Так и есть.
Один ты красивый в белом пальто.
Не, ну а чё ты отрицаешь? В США как и у нас очень распространён ура патриотизм, целования флага. И основная часть народа - white trash, который ещё при этом смеет гнать на ниггеров, хотя сам ничем не лучше нигги, такой же точно.
Типичные американские граждане.
Типичный американский гражданин
Типичные американские граждане
Типичные американские граждане
Че за штат, кстати? Когда показывают американских бомжей и унтерков - на фоне постоянно этот пейзаж.
Я хз какой штат, собрал небольшой пак в /b/, когда там был тред глумления над тупыми американцами.
А вот и типичный хиллбилли с флагом конфедератов.
Ничего не понял, я же не знаю английского.
Ольгоблядок соснул.
Ольгоблядок соснул.
Этот рагуль гордится тем, что не знает иностранных языков. Как мило.
Покаялся, уверовал в путина и пошел зарабатывать 3к далларов в год.
>51 Percent of Americans Make Less than $30,000 per year
50 Percent of Russians Make Less than ₽17,000 per year
> 204,000 per year
Блять обосрался с умножением на 12.
← Алсо ИТТ.
Пиндосы (не все конечно, но большинство консервативно настроенных, то есть белое большинство), уважают русских.
Пиндосы (не все конечно, но большинство консервативно настроенных, то есть белое большинство), уважают русских.
Бамп
Бамп
В связи с последними событиями, я бы сказал, что не уважает русских только левацкий скам, который сдает позиции стремительнее, чем хохол поедает шмат сала.
И 300 лямов человек, у половины из которых отсутствует мозг как таковой и они даже на на родном языке писать не умеют, ага.
> 8мегабитный адсл за 60баксов за всю страну.
Тоже всегда проигрываю.
Уже. 100мегабит за 35 долларов в месяц.
Ну ок, давай посчитаем. У нас батон стоит $1. Обрати внимание на первый пикрелейтед. Итого, средний американец на среднюю заплату может купить 51939 батонов.
Считаем дальше. Средняя цена на батон по России - 31 рубль (http://tsenomer.ru/produkti/hleb/). Теперь посмотри на второй пикрелейтед. Делим. Итого получается: 31200 / 31 = 1006 батонов может купить средний россиянин на среднюю зарплату. Разница в 51 раз.
Ну как? Не надоело еще в говне вариться?
Ах да, я же забыл. Крым-то ваш.
Это просто пиздец. Нахуй ты такой дебил?
> Крым-то ваш
Лол, а ведь я уже и забыл. Спасибо что напомнил. Присоединили Crimea, северный шельф присобачили, таёжный союз пилим потихоньку, пиздеца 90-х уже нет. Мне нравится.
Да сука хуле ты творишь-то блять. Всю толстоту испортил, мудак ебаный.
Как ты думаешь на что я буду опираться на то что там кукарекает политик или на то что я вижу перед своими глазами и опираясь на собственный опыт.
>Как ты думаешь
Думаю что ты долбоеб.
>то я вижу перед своими глазами и опираясь на собственный опыт
Когда тебе все глаза закидали говном, а в уши постоянно кричат "КРЫМНАШ", то ты вряд ли сможешь что-либо сможешь оценить адекватно.
Ты там свой госдолг то видел?
Но ведь про крымнаш орешь ему ты.
А ты свой?
http://lenta.ru/news/2015/09/23/twice/
Я как раз-таки пытаюсь ему указать на то что это абсурд.
Абсурд в чем? В том что про крымнаш уже год никто не орет, и все про него заыбыли, но ты продолжаешь о нем кукарекать и напоминать.
Зачем ты вообще тему перевел на это? Мне как-то вообще похуй, и тебе должно быть. Ты блять сделал из мухи слона.
> лента.ру
Вот именно, нахуя ты начал кукарекать про крымнаш на ровном месте? Или ты думаешь ссанкции из-за него ввели. Не было бы крыма, за пидоров бы ввели. Они эту тему так плотненько до крыма раскручивали. Был бы повод.
>пикрелейтед
Ты всегда постишь только с одной пикчей? Печально
>кредиты под 5%
Ипотека под низкий процент на деле выливается в дикое повышение цен на жильё. А простой ипотечник что в Рашке, что там надрывается и сосёт хуи абсолютно одинаково.
Надо коэффициент ППС взять нынешний (который я не могу никак найти обновленный после девальвации), но чувствую он будет процентов 40. (ибо до девальвации был 80%+).
40% означает, что одинаковые блага внутри России можно купить за 40% от цены, которую пришлось бы затратить в США.
на 12 забыл умножить.
Потом забыл вычесть налоги из 51939.
И еще забыл разделить на число жителей хаус-холда.
Проксипидор или идиот?
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Подгорает, когда аноны читают тред между строк.
Подгорает, когда аноны читают тред между строк.
Лолблядь.
ЯСНО.
Даже день искать тебе няшные эльфийские домики в субурбии за 50-70к$ в каком-нибудь Кентуки. С тремя спальными, двумя туалетами и двумя гаражами.
Никто не говорит, что США это рай, там ГОРА проблем разного масштаба. Но когда рядом кукарекают орки-рабы из пидорашки, у которых з/п 300 баксов и нет местных выборов, то становится смешно. А потом грустно.
> у которых з/п 300 баксов и нет местных выборов
Методичку забыл сменить что ли?
что это за хрючево?
>Даже день искать тебе няшные эльфийские домики в субурбии за 50-70к$ в каком-нибудь Кентуки.
Роказывай, ленивая ты пидараха
Goodbye Middle Class: Guest Column by Michael Snyder
51 Percent of Americans Make Less than $30,000 per year
October 22, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “End Of The American Dream” – We just got more evidence that the middle class in America is dying. According to brand new numbers that were just released by the Social Security Administration, 51 percent of all workers in the United States make less than $30,000 a year. Let that number sink in for a moment. You can’t support a middle class family in America today on just $2,500 a month – especially after taxes are taken out. And yet more than half of all workers in this country make less than that each month. In order to have a thriving middle class, you have got to have an economy that produces lots of middle class jobs, and that simply is not happening in America today.
You can find the report that the Social Security Administration just released right here: . The following are some of the numbers that really stood out for me:
38 percent of all American workers made less than $20,000 last year.
51 percent of all American workers made less than $30,000 last year.
62 percent of all American workers made less than $40,000 last year.
71 percent of all American workers made less than $50,000 last year.
That first number is truly staggering. The federal poverty level for a family of five is $28,410, and yet almost 40 percent of all American workers do not even bring in $20,000 a year.
If you worked a full-time job at $10 an hour all year long with two weeks off, you would make approximately $20,000. This should tell you something about the quality of the jobs that our economy is producing at this point.
And of course the numbers above are only for those that are actually working. As I discussed just recently, there are 7.9 million working age Americans that are “officially unemployed” right now and another 94.7 million working age Americans that are considered to be “not in the labor force”. When you add those two numbers together, you get a grand total of 102.6 million working age Americans that do not have a job right now.
So many people that I know are barely scraping by right now. Many families have to fight tooth and nail just to make it from month to month, and there are lots of Americans that find themselves sinking deeper and deeper into debt.
If you can believe it, about a quarter of the country actually has a negative net worth right now.
What that means is that if you have no debt and you also have ten dollars in your pocket that gives you a greater net worth than about 25 percent of the entire country. The following comes from a recent piece by Simon Black. Credit Suisse estimates that 25% of Americans are in this situation of having a negative net-worth.
“If you’ve no debts and have $10 in your pocket you have more wealth than 25% of Americans. More than 25% of Americans have collectively that is.”
The thing is– not only did the government create the incentives, but they set the standard.