media hysteria -it just adds fuel to the fire. The 'mountain lion' fiasco - is a perfect example of it. Yet it's nothing new. I have been reading Edwards Behr's book "Anyone here been raped & speaks English?" (1978) and he speaks of it - and how disinformation and hysteria led to the mass deaths of the India partitions and beyond. I do recommend it. His background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Behr_(journalist)
With regard to plastics. I've thought a lot about this issue. We simply have to stop producing plastics that don't break down. My question is HOW do we get people to outlaw plastic that is contributing to disease & destroying our environment? I've imagined getting a glass company running, but perhaps someone else would be better at doing that, since I really don't know how to do that. I would like to see Pepsi & Coca-Cola bring back glass & stand up for the environment, but again....I don't know how to make that happen. If I could....I would. I would support any company doing it & would vote to outlaw plastic. Maybe it can't happen until we Billionaires thumbs off of the scale of justice & our government. Stop voting for Republicans & Demand propaganda be made illegal during newscasts. That's the quickest/easiest solution I see. If there are better & easier ways to achieve this...please let me know.
Nice commentary, Russ on current events in your recent newsletter.
On the subject of the workers killed in the bridge accident, I would like to find out whether they were here illegally. That seems to be hinted at in some of the reporting, but I’ve seen nothing definitive.
I look at illegal immigration from the perspective of labor rights. To me, illegal workers decrease the power of legal workers, usually American citizens. If there are large number of illegal workers, then the legal workers have less bargaining power for wage increases and less political power economically. This is economics 101. Immigrants are almost always good people, but the question of their effect on labor conditions should not be ignored. When you have large numbers of illegal immigrants in a labor market, that is usually where you find unsafe conditions, long hours, and low wages. It’s a case of double exploitation. The workers here illegally are being exploited, and their presence helps employers exploit the legal workers.
media hysteria -it just adds fuel to the fire. The 'mountain lion' fiasco - is a perfect example of it. Yet it's nothing new. I have been reading Edwards Behr's book "Anyone here been raped & speaks English?" (1978) and he speaks of it - and how disinformation and hysteria led to the mass deaths of the India partitions and beyond. I do recommend it. His background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Behr_(journalist)
With regard to plastics. I've thought a lot about this issue. We simply have to stop producing plastics that don't break down. My question is HOW do we get people to outlaw plastic that is contributing to disease & destroying our environment? I've imagined getting a glass company running, but perhaps someone else would be better at doing that, since I really don't know how to do that. I would like to see Pepsi & Coca-Cola bring back glass & stand up for the environment, but again....I don't know how to make that happen. If I could....I would. I would support any company doing it & would vote to outlaw plastic. Maybe it can't happen until we Billionaires thumbs off of the scale of justice & our government. Stop voting for Republicans & Demand propaganda be made illegal during newscasts. That's the quickest/easiest solution I see. If there are better & easier ways to achieve this...please let me know.
Thanks in advance-
L
Nice commentary, Russ on current events in your recent newsletter.
On the subject of the workers killed in the bridge accident, I would like to find out whether they were here illegally. That seems to be hinted at in some of the reporting, but I’ve seen nothing definitive.
I look at illegal immigration from the perspective of labor rights. To me, illegal workers decrease the power of legal workers, usually American citizens. If there are large number of illegal workers, then the legal workers have less bargaining power for wage increases and less political power economically. This is economics 101. Immigrants are almost always good people, but the question of their effect on labor conditions should not be ignored. When you have large numbers of illegal immigrants in a labor market, that is usually where you find unsafe conditions, long hours, and low wages. It’s a case of double exploitation. The workers here illegally are being exploited, and their presence helps employers exploit the legal workers.