Ed Schultz: Americans Being Displaced by Corporate Greed

[hjtjl]

Every bullets spent on Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq could have gave people food every day. Every shells fired by tanks could have been money for the rents and real estate taxes. Every Missiles and bombs spent in war could have provided people with roofs over their heads and food on a plate every day.

[Chan107]

@Chan107 He also made me clock out while still working and some days I could not get a brake. I had to eat lunch while I worked. I was HATED by my co-workers for "taking gravy work" away from them. Not only that I had to buy MY OWN TOOLS. I asked my boss for a raise for all of the money I made him. He said NO. I asked until he put me on flat rate commission work. He was a smart ass. The hourly pay and commission pay came out to be the same amount I get weekly.

[Chan107]

@Chan107 Just an average of 220 bucks after taxes and insurance working a typical 48 to 55 hr work week. I work 13hrs straight with one half hr brake on Mondays and Thursday. Some jobs I could not do due to the lack of tools. Told my boss this and he said if you don't come to work with the proper tools and be prepared. Then you wont get work, period.

[randallpaulcom]

First off we need to get entrepreneurial again. We used to be looked up to for our products around the world. Many relied on corporate employment who fleeced the nation to enable and empowered them to out source overseas. So you want jobs! Forget it! It doesn't go with the bottom line folks but they still want you to consume their products you once made. It will backfire because you can;t have a nation of consumers with our producers. A Selective Boycott strategy is the only answer.

[randallpaulcom]

@randallpaulcom So we look at U.S companies who manufacture in China who once manufactured here & who once employed many before the bean counters came in. Collectively we create a boycott strategy letting companies know that they will be on a boycott list for 6 months. The list will be long but boots will shake when they realise that they are next in line for a consumer shut out. That's how you protest by way of the wallet. Money speaks louder than words folks & that is their only understanding

[TheMaddog780]

its non partisan problem.. democrats are just as at fault

[tommyg524]

bilderberg.

[rich2rock]

People that have been sitting on the couch drinking all day long have achieved as much as any of these people now haven't they!? Shouldn't that be telling you something??? Why bother, huh?

[bestwayusa1]

Americans 93 % none union and our 7% union work force we must all unite for liveable wages and healthcare. Don’t be spellbound by the talking media heads of the unscrupulous companies and Gov officials who indirectly work for them. And are trying to put a wedge between us None of them are hurting are they. Support only fair trade! And USA products. Lets fill our coffers again. With taxes made by product's made here. Go on line to Made in USA.

[5lkk]

In my part of Kansas there are plenty of of Great Depression era WPA projects still in use. Thing is in 2010 these aren't the kind of jobs many are ill equipped & unwilling to do. Also the wages from these jobs may not be enough for the middle class to pay there financial obligations. The repugs. contract on Americans doesn't allow the middle class to walk away from it's obligations as the corporations have been allowed to.

[TheForwardGaze]

We need alot more Progressive Democrats in congress.

[GulfOilDisaster2010]

Money for small business loans -- IS-- THE JOBS PROGRAM.

[shroomduke]

$ Trillions in Corporate Welfare for Oil (iraq) and Gas (Afghanistan) Invasions & Occupations, 700 Military Bases, Forign Aid, Drug wars, Bailouts, Handouts all to "Corporate Welfare Queens"!!!

Republicans fundamintally believe this is a ZERO SUM GAME, when YOU LOOSE THEY WIN! regardless of the damage to America and her people!

I am begenning to believe that republicans are fucking EVIL!

[justforthoughts]

good reporting on this Ed. Keep up the good work.

[BlowDevilUp]

And yet they will vote for the Rep. Palin!!!

[christjewells]

wtf is saxbliss chambly? (this is rhetorical...)

[im4wur2]

I have to wonder how many American jobs have been lost as a function of Reagan's "trickle down economics". Instead of reinvesting back into our own country, many of the wealthiest investors in the US have invested off shore (where they thought they'd get better returns). ..and so, there went MANY American jobs. - Trickle down was a scam, played on average Americans who have been paying the price for Reagan/Greenspan's lunacy.

[claudia1love]

Thank You Ed.... and i mean it sincerely... For standing up for those of us who can't...... I love you man....

[MarmaladeINFP]

I always find it odd that rich people love the idea of killing people in foreign countries but they hate the idea of spending the same money on helping people in America. Do the poor, unemployed, and homeless Americans feel safer because our troops are killing innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq? Do the working class and other average Americans feel safer knowing their children are dying in pointless wars that profit the rich?

[bartonim]

@MarmaladeINFP That was Obama's mistake. He inherited Bush's wars, and he should have finished off over there--just get out and take care of the problems at home. The best thing he can do is sign that emergency legislation to get people back to work. Clean up the repug mess!

[MarmaladeINFP]

@bartonim Obama isn't a horrible president. I never bought into the whole hope thing. I tend to be suspicious of political rhetoric... even when it seems sincere. Obama is just a politician. I feel mostly indifferent towards him. The only thing I wish he had done was simply to undo what Bush did in relation to terrorism: end the wars as quickly as possible, get rid of the Patriot Act or at least get rid of the unconstitutional parts, & close the detention camps where torture has occurred.

[bartonim]

@MarmaladeINFP I agree. I think they are all flawed, some more than others, but they all play the role of politician. But, yes, your comments are right on--if Obama had done all of those things, there is no doubt he would have had a brief moment of political suffering, but in the long run those moves would have come to be seen as the right things to do.

[liberalmike1994]

@MarmaladeINFP I disagree that all the people our troops are killing in iraq or afghanistan are innocent however i agree with everything else. also i think they want that money wasted because poor desperate people are more likely to accept an awful job with no chance for advancement than people who feel safe financialy.

[MarmaladeINFP]

@liberalmike1994 Not all of anyone in any war is innocent. For damned sure, US soldiers who die in foreign lands aren't innocent. The Iraq war was a war of aggression which was promoted through lies, propaganda & patriotism. BTW wars of aggression are not only immoral but also illegal (according to both US & international law). The Afghanistan war could be partly justified at least initially, but even then the justification was very weak. We are a military empire. That is all that can be said.

[MarmaladeINFP]

@liberalmike1994 As for the rest of your comment, I agree. I think there are those in power who see it as convenient to keep people poor and slightly desperate. It's not necessarily that there is a conspiracy. It's not that they necessarily hate the lower classes. It's just that it's not to their advantage to have it any other way. They are simply acting in their own self-interest... which just so happens to be the same self-interest that most other rich people share.

[RESETband2012]

@MarmaladeINFP This is strictly due to Ego-Programming.. The Ego Program is vast and complex, and has unfortunately become who we are as Human Beings... The rich are rich bc they acted on their Ego's, and bc a Capitalism is about Capitalizing on Financial Opportunities and therefore placing one's self-interest above Common Sense and simply what is right. To lust for money/power is the root of Ego, for it takes the Ego to be able to justify ignoring common sense

[MarmaladeINFP]

@RESETband2012 The major problem we face in the modern world is self-interest. Humans evolved to only be able to viscerally understand and sympathetically care about what exists in the immediate environment. Human nature isn't designed to function on the level of nations and globalization. When humans act on such a large scale, they will always inevitably act immorally. We can try to improve society, but human nature can't be changed (unless someone is planning on eugenics).

[RESETband2012]

@MarmaladeINFP when one says "human nature" they refer only to their own nature, as that is the only "nature" one can dictate-- no one has ever made a single decision for another. u can only control your self, so its about self-responsibility, and anyone who uses the excuse of "oh its just human nature" is showing their own nature. "be the change" is the only way to change anything. i agree about self interest--that was obvious in my statement i thought, so no need to tell me that. 

[MarmaladeINFP]

@RESETband2012 BTW "human nature" is studied by "scientists". In order to understand "human nature", study "science" (psychology, sociology, neurology, genetics, etc). People who dismiss "human nature" out of their own ignorance are just showing their own nature. Even ignoring science, it's just common sense. For example: If you've been around a lot of dogs, you'd realize that different breeds have consistently different "dog natures": agressive or friendly, hyper or calm, aloof or curious, etc.

[RESETband2012]

@RESETband2012 good points. however, the difference between humans and animal kingdom is "free choice", ability to reason and choose to be selfish and ignorant, or One and Aware with all of existence. because Humans DO in fact have that choice, their "nature" or who they are/how they act is based on thoughts/actions that they consciously choose. most humans choose to be selfish, lazy, immature, and greedy but that doesnt insist that all humans are instinctively like that, some do not.

[RESETband2012]

@RESETband2012 most of our choices come from our programming--from the time we are born we are taught certain things that we blindly accept without ever really questioning--as these things are past down for generations, and to stand against usual family conduct and beLIEf systems, is to subject oneself to certain ridicule and torment, so we take the easy route/wide path and become more like programmed robots than Human. so it is not "nature" or Natural for us to be selfish, its our programming.

[EziekielNightwind]

Where are the jobs?

China and India. You all voted conservative, and your jobs were exported for profit. Deal with your mistakes.

[cosmosgato]

@YourUploadSite All this stared with Obama?

If that makes you feel better then go with it.

But the truth is you are misinformed in the extreme.

Fox News fan?

Look up the phrase useful idiot.

[citizenkong]

@YourUploadSite

The trend of sending jobs over seas was happening long before Obama.

Be honest with yourself.

[cosmosgato]

@EziekielNightwind I'm old enough to remember when this started. The 70's!

It was only "suppose" to effect the worthless lower classes and the stupid . The middle class didn't care and the professional class laughed. Well the jokes on everybody. Turns out those Asians and Indians can compete very well indeed.

Yeah we've been screwing up for awhile!

[mannecyberguy]

@EziekielNightwind If you get a chance, read Lou Dobbs' book,"Exporting America; how corporate greed is shipping American jobs overseas".

[5lkk]

@EziekielNightwind The democrats have been complicate, but only because that's what the voters in their districts/States where demanding. Mostly voters who where playing the wall street gamble with their retirement funds. This idea that the stockholders are #1 needs to be killed, but it might be too late late it may have already killed America & capitalism.

[TYTARMY]

I love Big Ed, but I can't wait for next week when Cenk Uygur replaces him for the week. That is going to be awesome.

[Newssnoop]

@TYTARMY I admire Ed's passion for the common folk and feel he is irreplaceable. I also can't wait for Cenk and what he's going to bring to the table next week. TYT soldier.