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Society Is In Decay – When The Worst Is First & The Best Is Last
If you want to see where a country’s priorities lie, look at how it allocates its money
Plutocrats like to control the range of permissible public dialogue. Plutocrats also like to shape what society values. If you want to see where a country’s priorities lie, look at how it allocates its money.
While teachers and nurses earn comparatively little for performing critical jobs, corporate bosses including those who pollute our planet and bankrupt defenseless families, make millions more. Wells Fargo executives are cases in point. The vastly overpaid CEO of General Electric left his teetering company in shambles. In 2019, Boeing’s CEO got a bonus (despite the Lion Air Flight 610 737 Max 8 crash in 2018). Just days before a second deadly 737 Max 8 crash in Ethiopia.
This disparity is on full display in my profession. Public interest lawyers and public defenders, who fight daily for a more just and lawful society, are paid modest salaries. On the other hand, the most well compensated lawyers are corporate lawyers who regularly aid and abet corporate crime, fraud, and abuse. Many corporate lawyers line their pockets by shielding the powerful violators from accountability under the rule of law.
Physicians who minister to the needy poor and go to the risky regions, where Ebola or other deadly infectious diseases are prevalent, are paid far less than cosmetic surgeons catering to human vanities. Does any rational observer believe that the best movies and books are also the most rewarded? Too often the opposite is true. Stunningly gripping documentaries earn less than 1 percent of what is garnered by the violent, pornographic, and crude movies at the top of the ratings each week.
On my weekly radio show, I interview some of the most dedicated authors who accurately document perils to health and safety. The authors on my program expose pernicious actions and inactions that jeopardize people’s daily lives. These guests offer brilliant, practical solutions for our widespread woes (see ralphnaderradiohour.com). Their important books, usually go unnoticed by the mass media, barely sell a few thousand copies, while the best-seller lists are dominated by celebrity biographies. Ask yourself, when preventable and foreseeable disasters occur, which books are more useful to society?
The monetary imbalance is especially jarring when it comes to hawks who beat the drums of war. For example, people who push for our government to start illegal wars (eg. John Bolton pushing for the war in Iraq) are rewarded with top appointments. Former government officials also get very rich when they take jobs in the defense industry. Do you remember anyone who opposed the catastrophic Iraq War getting such lucrative rewards?
The unknown and unrecognized people who harvest our food are on the lowest rung of the income ladder despite the critical role they play in our lives. Near the top of the income ladder are people who gamble on the prices of food via the commodities market and those who drain the nutrients out of natural foods and sell the junk food that remains, with a dose of harmful additives. Agribusiness tycoons profit from this plunder.
Those getting away with major billing fraud grow rich. While those people trying to get our government to do something about $350 billion dollars in health care billing fraud this year – like Harvard Professor Malcolm K. Sparrow – live on a college professor’s salary.
Hospital executives, who each make millions of dollars a year, preside over an industry where about 5,000 patients die every week from preventable problems in U.S. hospitals, according to physicians at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The watchdogs who call out this deadly hazard live on a fraction of that amount as they try to save lives.
Even in sports, where people think the best athletes make the most money, the reverse is more often true. Just ask a red-faced Brian Cashman, the Yankees GM, who, over twenty years, has spent massive sums on athletes who failed miserably to produce compared to far lesser-paid baseball players. Look at today’s top ranked Yankees – whose fifteen “stars” are injured, while their replacements are playing spectacularly for much smaller compensation than their high priced teammates.
A major reason why our society’s best are so often last while our worst are first is the media’s infatuation with publicizing the worst and ignoring the best. Warmongers get press. The worst politicians are most frequently on the Sunday morning TV shows – not the good politicians or civic leaders with proven records bettering our society.
Ever see Congressman Pascrell (Dem. N.J.) on the Sunday morning news shows? Probably not. He’s a leader who is trying to reform Congress so that it is open, honest, capable and represents you the people. Surely you have heard of Senator Lindsey Graham (Rep. S.C.) who is making ugly excuses for Donald Trump, always pushing for war and bloated military budgets, often hating Muslims and Arabs and championing the lawless American Empire. He is always in the news, having his say.
Take the 162 people who participated in our Superbowl of Civic Action at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. in May and September 2016. These people have and are changing America. They are working to make food, cars, drugs, air, water, medical devices, and drinking water safer. Abuses by corporations against consumers, workers and small taxpayers would be worse without them. Our knowledge of solutions and ways to treat people fairly and abolish poverty and advance public services is greater because of their courageous hard work. (see breakingthroughpower.org).
The eight days of this Civic Superbowl got far less coverage than did Tiger Woods losing another tournament that year or the dismissive nicknames given by the foul-mouth Trump to his mostly wealthy Republican opponents on just one debate stage.
All societies need play, entertainment, and frivolity. But a media obsessed with giving 100 times the TV and radio time, using our public airwaves for free, to those activities than to serious matters crucial to the most basic functioning of our society is assuring that the worst is first and the best is last. Just look at your weekly TV Guide.
If the whole rotted-out edifice comes crashing down, there won’t be enough coerced taxpayer dollars anymore to save the Plutocrats, with their limitless greed and power. Maybe then the best can have a chance to be first.
Ralph Nader via CommonDreams.org
103 Comments on "Society Is In Decay – When The Worst Is First & The Best Is Last"
Cloggie on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 8:42 am
“ust because it doesn’t fit into your neat imagine of the future doesn’t mean it is not real. I doubt that you read the whole article I posted.”
I didn’t read the article, only the headline. The NSR is Eurasian anti-Anglo, hence anti-Israel.
Davy on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 12:31 pm
Speed, you’re right. You echo my sentiments exactly.
“I hope Trump turns himself into a dictator
so that he can send all the democrats to
Auschwitz in railroad cars.” ~~Speedy~~
As the saying goes, ‘Great minds think alike’.
JuanP on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 12:42 pm
Oops, Speeder, this is a Juanpee posting:
Davy on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 12:31 pm
Speed, you’re right. You echo my sentiments exactly.
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 1:09 pm
Exponential growth.
Remember a lonely lily pad floating on an empty pond? She multiplied daily, so after day one, there were two lilies; after two days, four lilies; then eight; and so on. After 20 days, there were 1,048,576 lilies. After 21 days, there were 2,097,152 lilies that covered the pond, exhausted nutrients and died.
More Davy Identity Theft on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 1:14 pm
JuanP on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 12:42 pm
Cloggie on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 3:25 pm
Exponential growth.
Remember the first wind turbine? A little later there were two, then four, then eight and before you could say ‘Hitler’, there were 2,097,152 wind turbines that covered the earth, and the fossil fuel energy problem was solved.
Davy on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 4:11 pm
“I’m with Davy on this one. I hope Trump turns himself into a dictator so that he can send all the democrats to
Auschwitz in railroad cars.” ~~~Speeder~~~
Gee, thanks speeder. I quoted you verbatim. Now JuanP can’t claim we are not on the same page. ‘Great minds think alike.’
Keep up the hate.
Gaia on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 4:54 pm
All political parties are prone to corruption, not just liberals and conservatives. In this day and age, we live in a world of mass media disinformation (aka fake news, propaganda), skyrocketing health problems (PTSD, depression, anxiety, substance abuse etc.), socioeconomic inequality (rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer, mass unemployment etc.), environmental degradation (surface mining of non-renewable resources, water shortages, contamination of food/GMOs), government invasion of privacy (nothing is private anymore: welcome to the Orwellian Era where mass surveillance, facial recognition etc.). Nobody has all the answers. It is too late to “save” the Earth. By 2100, we are all goners.
Gaia on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 4:59 pm
Why bother colonizing the Moon and Mars when our home is being trashed everyday? Our planet is becoming unlivable.
Gaia on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 5:10 pm
We already have reached a point of no return. There will be no one world government or any of that sort. We are living in fear of the unknown, paranoia and stupidity.
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 5:33 pm
‘High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End’ in 2050, New Report Suggests
The climate change analysis was written by a former fossil fuel executive and backed by the former chief of Australia’s military.
“Even for 2°C of warming, more than a billion people may need to be relocated and in high-end scenarios, the scale of destruction is beyond our capacity to model with a high likelihood of human civilization coming to an end,” the report notes.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/597kpd/new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050?fbclid=IwAR0xKoOo7iTbK4hc5Hoxpa0ja6O8lAkEN1TXsI0Z9Qfh2uhMTwHMdv9-2Ac
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 6:04 pm
“Cloggie: “I didn’t read the article, only the headline. The NSR is Eurasian anti-Anglo, hence anti-Israel.
My comment: “Just because it doesn’t fit into your neat imagine of the future doesn’t mean it is not real. I doubt that you read the whole article I posted.” BINGO!
I was 100% correct! It didn’t fit your mindset so it was “fake news”. Even when I posted other articles from other sources, proving what was in my referenced article, you put it down.
Do you get a headache from those tight blinders? I bet they pinch sometimes. Those rose colored glasses are a problem also. Makes you trip over facts when you cannot see them. Oh well, you are just another reason the EU and the West are going down. Soon, I hope! Enjoy the fall!
GO TRUMP! TARIFF THE HELL OUT OF THE EU! GO FOR IT! YOU CAN DO IT! TRUMP IN 2020! LMAO!
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 6:12 pm
Gaia, you are correct. It is only a matter of time until the regression begins in earnest. We have begun the decline, more obvious in some countries than others. The babys born today will likely see the end of humanity, especially as you and I have know it. All the techie dreams and the united world are just dreams. The tribe is too big. The resources too scarce. The energy waning. Too late. Enjoy what is left.
JuanP on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 6:20 pm
OOpps, pretty obvious this is a juanpee post:
Davy on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 4:11 pm
“I’m with Davy on this one. I hope Trump turns himself into a dictator so that he can send all the democrats to
Auschwitz in railroad cars.” ~~~Speeder~~~
Gee, thanks speeder. I quoted you verbatim. Now JuanP can’t claim we are not on the same page. ‘Great minds think alike.’
Keep up the hate.
Gaia on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 6:25 pm
The techie dreams and the united world are just fantasy. Once our species becomes extinct, we will be gone forever.
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 6:32 pm
Charlie Hebdo
Europe’s Populist R.I.P.
https://i.redd.it/4vrg2wha05231.jpg
haha
Gaia on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 6:56 pm
There is an old saying: “You enter the world with nothing and leave the world with nothing. It’s what you do in-between”.
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 7:00 pm
Gaia, yes, and in a few thousand years all that will be left to say we were here are some pyramids. The junk buildings we built in the last 1,000 years will be gone without constant maintenance. In a billion years, all of the continents will have been pulled under the mantle and recycled. The new world will have no trace of the failed homo sapiens.
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 7:03 pm
Dust to dust. Nothing more. Star dust with the ability to think for a while. Nothing before. Nothing after.
Yesterday is memories. Tomorrow may never come. Enjoy now for it is all you have.
More Davy Identity Theft on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 7:34 pm
JuanP on Mon, 3rd Jun 2019 6:20 pm
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 1:20 am
Charlie Hebdo wanted to be buddies of Islam. Didn’t work out that well, eh?
https://news.images.itv.com/image/file/564557/stream_img.jpg
Charlie Hebdo RIP
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 1:47 am
The usual venom of the British left, not entirely unfunny, against Trump-America:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/03/trump-windsor-state-visit-queen
What I like about this picture is that Ivanka Trump is perusing a display of US artefacts in the Royal Collection like you would a disappointing hotel buffet. When the scrambled eggs are just milk.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48507582
Queensland, 23 degrees south of the equator (think Sahara)
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 1:53 am
Dutch MSM press on Trump UK visit:
https://tinyurl.com/yyettsfl
I AM THE MOB on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 6:00 am
Someone got to dress themself today!
https://i.imgur.com/4B2l7l4.jpg
What a fat CHUD..
The right loves there tub o lard leaders!
That is why woman don’t want to breed with them anymore.
HAHHA
I AM THE MOB on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 6:03 am
US politician ‘milkshaked’ for first time!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48503820
let’s keep it going!
Dredd on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 7:25 am
Spot on Mr. Nader.
Gaia on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 11:05 am
Authority should always be questioned. Power corrupts.
Robert Inget on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 11:31 am
Burning question…
Would chocolate milkshakes be considered
racist?
(Just send us (taxpayers) the bill Trumpy
Your’er already working on a second trillion dollar deficit, thanks to tax cuts for millionaires).
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday unveiled a $16 billion bailout for farmers hurt by his trade war with Beijing, signaling a protracted fight ahead that is already prompting some American companies to shift business away from China.
Mr. Trump, flanked by farmers and ranchers in cowboy hats during remarks at the White House, said China had “taken advantage” of the United States for far too long and vowed to protect an industry that has been “used as a vehicle” by Beijing to hurt America’s economy.
“Farmers have been attacked by China,” Mr. Trump said, adding that if the United States is in a trade war, “we’re winning it big.” (30)
This last statement breaks some kind of record.
Every word here, a big fat lie. Including (if).
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 11:40 am
It is absolutely try that the rise of China was enabled by the US “globalists”, who thought they could “integrate” China into the “New World Order” as the planet’s cheap labor factory:
https://newspunch.com/joe-biden-love-new-world-order/
Since 2000 it became gradually clear that Russia and China were not interested in getting integrated in said order. China said “thank you very much for your factories”, but we aspire to remain independent. And there can be no doubt that in 5, 10, 20 years time China will be the next #1.
I perfectly understand the sentiment of DJT. He may be a buffoon, personally, ‘energetically’ and environmentally, but his economic measures make sense.
Welcome to the not-too-stable multi-polar world, after empire.
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 11:42 am
“China were not interested in getting integrated in said order.”
China has never been interested in integrating into anything but what is Chinese. This is their cultural essence. It has been like this for 2000 years.
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 11:55 am
“Your’er already working on a second trillion dollar deficit, thanks to tax cuts for millionaires).”
like Millionair bob
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 11:58 am
“And there can be no doubt that in 5, 10, 20 years time China will be the next #1.”
Anytime you see “there can be no doubt” you know the speaker is full of shit trying to peddle something.
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 12:03 pm
More on the KLM initiative to do R&D into V-shaped airplanes:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2019/06/04/klm-to-fund-rd-wing-plane/
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 12:14 pm
Just booked a return ticket to Venice from my home town (2 x 1200 km) for the INSANE low sum of 60 euro. I would have gladly paid 250.
In other words, carbon neutral synthetic kerosene for $200,- per barrel is not only possible, but absolutely desirable, certainly in the light of over-tourism (to which I contribute).
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2019/05/31/amsterdam-airport-carbon-neutral/
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 12:55 pm
From makati’s link:
https://www.opdeepstate.com/russian-communist-world-domination-in-the-new-world-order/
““The communist strategists are now poised to enter the final, offensive phase of the long-range policy, entailing a joint struggle for the complete triumph of communism.”
OMG
“Given the multiplicity of [communist] parties in power [throughout the world], the close links between them, and the opportunities they have had to broaden their bases and build up experienced cadres, the communist strategists are equipped, in pursuing their policy, to engage in maneuvers and strategems beyond the imagination of Marx or the practical reach of Lenin and unthinkable to Stalin.” ”
Some low-IQ idiot on this board now has to change his knickers, right mobby?
“For Communists, ideology is not dead. It is embodied in Soviet and Chinese strategy.”
OMG
Russia and China are authoritarian nationalist. Russia went back to its conservative orthodox roots and China is hyper-capitalist and has no ambition to impose its ideology on anybody except for Chinese Taipei and Tibet.
There are hardly any communist parties left in the world that matters. Not even in Africa.
1.5 billion people are moving towards ever more stringent, archaic Islam (the most “right-wing” ideology on the planet).
Makati, I know you are a closet commie, but this self-deception ridiculous.
There is only one truly communist country left on this planet and that is the US.
Note, communist, not in an economic sense but in a racial sense. The US is the only country left whose oligarchic mostly-kosher leadership is still dreaming of the World Commune, that is a world without borders and everybody race-mixed.
Recently the US deep state has publicly admitted defeat:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/the-good-news-zog-is-dying/
The bad news: they haven’t give up on the US and the rest of Anglosphere. Once DJT will have been disposed off, one way or the other, they will pick their practice of mass immigration in order to finish of Anglo whitey once and for all.
I AM THE MOB on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 2:52 pm
Scapegoating George Soros: How media-savvy far-right activists spread lies
Far-right extremists are using social media to spread lies about “white genocide” & conspiracy theories about Soros
https://www.salon.com/2019/06/04/scapegoating-george-soros-how-media-savvy-far-right-activists-spread-lies_partner/
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 5:40 pm
“Scapegoating George Soros”
LOL, MOBster, you couldn’t have picked a bigger douchebag to support.
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 6:18 pm
What’s a douchebag y’all might be wondering?
Well, let me tell you a widdle story.
“If You’re Going to Call People Douche Bags, Know What They Are”
https://tinyurl.com/y2henoh8
“I’ve seen a lot of douche bags in my life. Literally. Having grown up in the ’50s, everyone’s mother had one hanging over the shower nozzle in her bathroom. If I close my eyes, I can still see that red plastic bag, dangling against the shower wall, announcing its importance in “the modern woman’s daily hygiene regimen.”
“In fact, if I did not see one hanging in a friend’s shower, I would worry about the state of her mother’s vagina. And as a preteen, I had enough thoughts about my own developing lady parts without worrying about the privates of some mother from down the block.”
“last night my grandson called my daughter a douche bag. Right there in front of the entire family as we were watching TV.”
“I told my grandson not to use these words in public. If he doesn’t like someone, he should just walk away from them and find someone else to play with.”
“We can’t rid “douche bags” from the English language, but we can teach our children not to go around acting like ones.”
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 6:20 pm
What’s a douchebag y’all might be wondering?
Well, let me tell you a widdle story.
“If You’re Going to Call People Douche Bags, Know What They Are”
https://tinyurl.com/y2henoh8
“I’ve seen a lot of douche bags in my life. Literally. Having grown up in the ’50s, everyone’s mother had one hanging over the shower nozzle in her bathroom. If I close my eyes, I can still see that red plastic bag, dangling against the shower wall, announcing its importance in “the modern woman’s daily hygiene regimen.”
“In fact, if I did not see one hanging in a friend’s shower, I would worry about the state of her mother’s vagina. And as a preteen, I had enough thoughts about my own developing lady parts without worrying about the privates of some mother from down the block.”
“last night my grandson called my daughter a douche bag. Right there in front of the entire family as we were watching TV.”
“I told my grandson not to use these words in public. If he doesn’t like someone, he should just walk away from them and find someone else to play with.”
“We can’t rid “douche bag” from the English language, but we can teach our children not to go around acting like one.”
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 6:29 pm
Oops, sorry for the double post everyone.
dumbasses
JuanP on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 6:35 pm
juanpee postings
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 6:18 pm
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 6:20 pm
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 6:29 pm
More Davy Identity Theft on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 6:45 pm
JuanP on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 6:35 pm
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 6:56 pm
When I use bad cussing wurds on public internet sights it makes me feel all strong about myself and adult like.
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 7:00 pm
“like Millionair bob”
Hey wait a minute…..
Do you have a Learjet like I do bob? Or was I being a hypocrite again?
Cloggie on Wed, 5th Jun 2019 12:24 am
France and Germany to build new fighter jet:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/neuer-kampfjet-deutschland-will-geld-fuer-ruestungsprojekt-mit-frankreich-freigeben-a-1270866.html
Cloggie on Wed, 5th Jun 2019 12:36 am
After B373-Max, the Dreamliner is next:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7104735/FAA-finds-Boeing-787-jets-wheels-tires-lose-braking-steering-function.html
Boeing in a tail-spin, pun intended.
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 5th Jun 2019 12:42 am
Shut up Cloggo. None of your stupid stories have anything to do with peak oil. You are just talking to yourself like you always do.
Cloggie on Wed, 5th Jun 2019 1:56 am
“Shut up Cloggo.”
Desperate mobby has yet to grasp the meaning of a discussion board.
“None of your stupid stories have anything to do with peak oil.”
This thread is about collapse of society. Here a British prof predicting the collapse of society as a result of dumbing down [*]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSDnQ1RwF0Y
I see the troubles with Boeing as a direct result of third world immigration policies to the US by the oligarchs. Enjoy the collapse!
“you are just talking to yourself like you always do.”
Well, apparently not. You are reading my posts and, with foam on your lips, you react by informing me that you don’t read my posts.lol
There are several here whose posts I never read. I would never waste my time by informing those folks that I don’t read them.
[*] good argument against hyper-complex nuclear power stations. At least wind turbines and solar panels are a lot simpler to handle by the simpletons of the idiocracy of the future.
JuanP on Wed, 5th Jun 2019 3:21 am
OOpps, juanpee posting
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 7:00 pm
“like Millionair bob”
Hey wait a minute…..
Do you have a Learjet like I do bob? Or was I being a hypocrite again?
JuanP on Wed, 5th Jun 2019 3:23 am
oopps, more juanpee postings
Davy on Tue, 4th Jun 2019 6:56 pm
When I use bad cussing wurds on public internet sights it makes me feel all strong about myself and adult like.