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Coast to Coast - April 09 2017 - Wealth Disparity
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More Info............: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2017/04/09
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DATE: Sunday - April 9, 2017
HOST: Richard Syrett
GUESTS: Mike Sauve, Donald Jeffries
American industry has been gutted, with wages and benefits stagnant or reduced,
thanks to disastrous trade deals, outsourcing, and the crippling of unions,
according to researcher Donald Jeffries. He joined Richard Syrett to discuss the
widening income disparity in America, how more and more people are struggling
economically and realizing that the system is rigged against them. We've
witnessed a massive transfer of wealth into the hands of the people at the top,
along with them getting all the perks, benefits, and freebies, even though they
don't need them, Jeffries pointed out. The average salary in America is about
$44,000 a year, whereas CEOs make around $22 million, and there is nothing in
their work performance, he commented, than can justify this gross imbalance.
Even CEOs that fail miserably are given huge "golden parachutes."
The effect is global, with the 62 richest people in the world having more wealth
than the bottom half of the world. America was insulated from this effect for a
long time, he remarked, but now that factories and manufacturing have
disappeared, there are fewer and fewer good jobs for those without college
educations, and the skyrocketing costs of college have made attendance difficult
for all but the wealthy. People get more upset about the poor getting welfare
than say a wealthy sports team owner getting city funds to build a stadium. They
just don't see the big picture, he added.
We talk about companies and banks that are "too big to fail," but the mass of
humanity has been resigned to being "too small to succeed," said Jeffries,
noting the lack of opportunities for people to earn a living wage. We hear that
raising minimum wage will cause the price of products to rise, but why don't
they apply that argument to the exorbitant CEO salaries and corporate pay outs?,
he pondered. Jeffries cited the career of Louisiana senator Huey Long as someone
who tried to turn things around. A genuine populist, his motto was "every man a
king, and no one wears a crown," and his 'Share Our Wealth Society' had 10
million members at the time of his assassination in 1935.
THE JOHN TITOR MYSTERY
In the year 2000, a man calling himself John Titor introduced himself to the
Internet as a time traveler from the year 2036. He weaved a rich tale of being
sent back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer. In the years that followed,
select details would emerge to help further legitimize John Titor but the
question of whether or not Titor was a real time traveler remains a subject of
contentious debate. In the first hour, author and investigator Mike Sauve talked
about the veracity of the case, and who might be behind the original postings.
One theory posits that Larry Haber, an attorney who claimed to represent John
Titor's mother, instigated the posts, and one of Haber's two brothers, who both
have IT backgrounds, contributed the science/computer material.
WEBSITE(S):
mikesauve.com
donaldjeffries.wordpress.com
BOOK(S):
Who Authored the John Titor Legend?
Hidden History
Survival of the Richest
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