A 1946 Call To Action Pt 1

REAR VIEW MIRROR: This film produced by The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) gives a taste of the post WWII politics that led to the Taft-Hartley Act that restricts the ability of workers to join unions. Taft-Hartley continues enforce today.

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• unions
• taft hartley act
• wages
• ue
• WWII
• workers
• the real news

[1140Cecile]

When this video was made, you'll notice in the pie chart that banking assets were less than 10 percent of GDP and the remainder were represented by producers of actual, tangible products. About 15 years ago, bank assets represented about 17 percent of GDP and today the assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP. Banks do not actually produce anything but simply trade in capital.

[gringodeltoro1]

@Bellybusterr It is actually, but the problem is when you put one crook down, another one appear somewhere else... we need spiritual enlightment.... otherwise we are bound to repeat the same bullshit.

[oolong2]

@LeadHammer

It's called an illustration... No different than showing a cartoon pie.

You act like they took up half the documentary with this illustration when it was only a couple minutes.

There are a lot of things that people did in movie, TV, and radio that we would regard as silly today.

It just sounds like you're trying to impose your current culture, mindset and thought process to judge the communication effectiveness of 60 year old video which is rather silly and pointless.

[LeadHammer]

@oolong2 This is how it should have been explained, in terms of average salaries and GDP, not in terms of how long the line made of dollar bills would be. It would take less screen time and would be more respectful to a viewer. How is that hard for you to understand?

[preacain]

the military industrial complex, or nwo is not that new at all its a son of imperialisim

its funny how so many people call the nwo a commie organisation when tis really a economic freemarket run by left over colonials and nazis!

[oolong2]

@LeadHammer

Have you never heard of inflation?

Do you realize that the GDP in 1940 was less than a 100 billion dollars? Today we spent nearly twice that just bailing out AIG.

Back then you had families living on a 100, 125, 150 dollars a month vs. today a family can spend a hundred dollars just going out to a nice restaurant.

So YES back then it would have been hard for people to imagine 31 billion dollars.

How is that hard for you to understand?

[LeadHammer]

@yellowkrux I am not talking about CGI, I am talking about explaining 500 million in terms of one half of a billion, or explaining 31 billion in terms of the physical bill size. This is stupid and took a whole minute of running time. This is how an important message can be ruined. I don't want to be considered an idiot who cannot count. I turned this video off at this point. This should be a lesson to documentary directors who want to preach - do not treat your viewers as complete idiots.

[yellowkrux]

@LeadHammer This is 64 years old, they couldn't use fancy CGI so they used lazy humor. People are idots, remember that.

[sinekonata]

@blackiron60

I know that but in europe, communism and socialism got to run a lot longer and stronger although the communist "threat" was a lot closer: only western europe was still capitalist. So if it's not because of people's state of mind divergences, what was that huge difference about? The only other reason I can think of is that the corporations in US were a lot stronger than in europe and middle class a lot wealthier.

[marpoq]

they were feeding us that security bullshit back then too huh?

[bossmarion]

Man I get chills watching this. 65 years goes by and nothing has changed.

[green95gt]

this is good thanx