On Thanksgiving Day; Corporate Profits Hit New Record, U.S. Workers Still Struggling

Elections 2010 This Thanksgiving Day the top 1% are much more well off than the many

While most of us have a great deal for which to be grateful---the day also serves to remind us that there are many who do not.

Just over the past two years an additional 4 million of our fellow Americans have lost their healthcare insurance bringing the total of our republic’s uninsured to 59 million.

On any given day at least 38 million of our fellow Americans many of them children have no idea whether they will have a next meal and if so, what the source of the meal will be.

At least 18 million of our fellow Americans have lost their jobs over the past three years. Of those 8 million are jobs that are either obsolete or not returning.

Almost 10 million of our fellow Americans have lost their homes to foreclosure since 2008.

7 million of our fellow Americans are tethered to an ever expanding prison-industrial complex.

200,000 of our fellow Americans and military veterans are homeless.

Texas Red has the lowest high school graduation rates.

Sadly, given the tone and timber of the GOPers, Tea Partiers and Blue Dogs (sound like gang names, don’t they?) it is much unlikely that any member of any of these “parties” is going to make any effort any time soon to remedy  any of the foregoing conditions.

The consequences of our elections lead to public policy that while benefiting a few is inimical to the balance of our population.

Until and unless we can think and act as a nation ready to help one another the deterioration will continue and may well sooner or later include many of those reading this.

Thankful for tender mercies and small favors. Wish your family and you safe, peaceful days of Thanksgiving.

From Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way…

Hasta Siempre,

More:

Nearly 59 million lack health insurance: CDC

“… Republicans who just took control of the House of Representatives last week have vowed to derail the new law by cutting off the funds for it, and some want to repeal it. Experts from both sides predict gridlock in Congress for the next two years in implementing healthcare reform's provisions.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101110/hl_nm/us_usa_healthcare_insurance

Texas Has Lowest High School Graduation Rates

Texas is in last place for high school graduation rates.

http://www.parapundit.com/archives/002225.html

7.9 million jobs lost - many forever

http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/02/news/economy/jobs_gone_forever/index.htm

1 in 6 Americans goes hungry

http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/16/news/economy/food_insecurity/index.htm

2.3 Million Americans Now in Jail or Prison

http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2008/americans-incarcerated.html

200,000 war veterans homeless in US

http://www.infowars.com/200000-war-veterans-homeless-in-us/

The prison-industrial complex, apartheid public education system, racism and Elections 2010

http://robertruiz-respublica.blogspot.com/2010/10/prison-industrial-complex-aparatheid.html

http://www.examiner.com/public-policy-in-san-antonio/the-prison-industrial-complex-aparatheid-public-education-system-racism-and-elections-2010

and for all the right-wing chamber of commerce types whining, bitching and ranting---things couldn’t be better for the oligarchs; for you and me not so much.

BUSINESS FURIOUS AT WHITE HOUSE FOR DOUBLING ITS WEALTH - Major corporations are dug in against the White House, furious at the size of their profit statements and bonus checks and angry that the Dow has nearly doubled on Obama's watch.

Corporate Profits Hit New Record, U.S. Workers Still Struggling

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23/corporate-profits-q3-2010-_n_787573.html?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Hill+Brief&utm_campaign=HuffPost+Hill+%2811%2F23%2F10%29

Foreclosure Filings Near 4 Million In 2009, Worst Since Depression

http://www.ourbroker.com/foreclosures/foreclosure-filings-near-4-million-in-2009-worst-since-depression/

The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990

“However, James W. Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorensen offer a more complex thesis. In their book, The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990,[5] they argue that Texas' execution rate reflects the Southern "cultural tradition of exclusion," and that "[s]uch exclusion was a basic element of the legacy of slavery."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rope,_the_Chair,_and_the_Needle:_Capital_Punishment_in_Texas,_1923-1990 

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=The+Rope%2C+the+Chair%2C+and+the+Needle%3A+Capital+Punishment+in+Texas%2C+1923-1990&ih=1_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0.2973_1&fsc=-1&x=19&y=17

Illusions of Justice

http://www.amazon.com/Illusions-Justice-Rights-Violations-United/dp/0934936005/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282216290&sr=1-1

A People's History of the United States – Howard Zinn

http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-P-S/dp/0061965588/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290505605&sr=1-1

 BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Honoring Veterans | PBS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoTn92RJlbk&playnext=1&list=PL77710D6EDD25E467&index=3