Economy

Everything I post is from a book I personally own, whether print or digital. Most of the time, I select a book based on something that's going on in the news, and many times I open it at random -- even the digital ones -- and find a pithy quote in hopes it will spark a discussion.

Yesterday's, found in the 1905 Chicago Daily News Almanac which I picked up at a library sale for about 25 cents maybe 30 years ago, was about a railroad merger that the SCOTUS struck down. A SCOTUS that apparently, unlike today's, isn't in the pocket of the billionaires. And frankly, it's beginning to scare me if even on a site like DU there's so much apathy!

Is it apathy because the economy is doing well and we aren't as worried about it as we were in 2008 when Obama and his crew of Geithner, Summers, and Rubin took over? (I think that's who they were; I'm relying on a memory that's 15 years older than it was in '08.)

UAW is on strike because the American Oligarchs are still screwing the workers. WGA and SAG are on strike because the American entertainment Oligarchs are still screwing the workers. Starbucks and Amazon workers are unionizing. Who's next? It seems to be that the push to union organizing is coming because workers feel less afraid and less desperate because the economy is doing better, not because it's doing worse.

I know there are some progressives who are pissed at Biden over the rail strike a few months ago, and I'm ashamed to admit I didn't follow it as closely as I probably should have. Maybe I should have followed more here on DU. I promise to do better in the future.

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