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January 2012
"If the Rich are Getting Richer, What's Left for the Rest of us?"
Cover Story "If the Rich are Getting
Richer, What's left for the Rest of us?"
Features - Russell Simmons - The "Occupy Wall Street" Interview by Kam Williams
- Raising Resillient Teen Girls - Five Tips To Cobatt Effects of
Sexual Abuse"
- The Winning Team: Someone Has To Die To Self! - Springfield
Urban League - 85th Anniversary Awards Dinner -
Fitness: Secrets To New Year's Resolutions
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- January 2012
Raise your hand if you thought the government bailout of $700
billion dollars would make your financial life a little easier.
Yeah, me too. Silly rabbit; I guess tricks really are for kids!
You see, even though I’m a true conspiracy theorist who sees the
man behind the curtain, I still find myself hoping the tin man
gets his heart. And I keep hoping our politicians, corporate
CEO’s, and the IRS will someday find their hearts as well.
Because, I’ve gotta tell you, that was one helluva twister that
picked us up and dumped us in this financial wasteland, where
the rich are getting richer by the minute and the rest of us are
trying our best just to hang onto our houses. Unfortunately,
what we saw was the same-old same-old, because it turned out
that, in the words of U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, “The people on
Wall Street got the bailouts and you guys got stuck with the
bills...!” Exactly. That’s our tax money going to bail out big
mortgage companies, banks, etc. Companies and banks that don’t
pass on the goodwill to their customers, and instead pay
themselves huge bonuses while still foreclosing on hard-working
people. So, as we struggle to pay the bills from all of the
plastic we pulled out last month, let’s take this time to
reflect on our situation and how we got here. Capitalism...you
gotta love it. It holds out the possibility of becoming filthy,
stinking rich, the old “ragsto- riches” story, like a
tantalizing carrot dangling right before our eyes. It places
deep within our hearts the desire for things that we don’t need
and have no real use for, but we can’t live without and for
which we will go into debt for the remainder of our lives and
even our children’s lives. But the reality is that the great
majority of us will never reach that proverbial “promised land”
of vast wealth, and in fact most of us are simply trying to live
comfortably without the fear of losing our jobs or becoming
homeless. Read Story
Last Month's Issue -
December 2011
"OBESITY:
Why Are We Getting Too BIG For Our Britches?"
In 1972, two Eastern Airlines flight attendants filed a
discrimination lawsuit against the airline charging that the
weight and grooming regulations caused their working conditions
to be unreasonably stressful. Both women left their jobs due to
constant harassment about their weight, which was expected to
stay below 132 lbs. for a 5’9” woman. In 1974, a 27-year-old
flight attendant, who was 5’7” and 139 lbs., was fired by
Western Airlines for being 4 pounds over their required weight
of 135 lbs. Thirty seven years and numerous lawsuits later, most
U.S. airlines have loosened the tight, anorexic hold they once
had on young women who desired to fly the friendly skies. In
fact, their height and weight restrictions are currently more
for safety reasons. Flight attendants must be tall enough to
reach the overhead safety equipment, and thin enough to buckle
into those tiny jump seats as well as fit through the narrow
plane aisles and emergency exit windows. But it’s not just the
world travelers who face such discrimination. In May 2010, a
waitress at a Michigan Hooters restaurant was told during an
annual evaluation that she was overweight and at risk of losing
her job. She was 5’8” and 132 lbs.”Read Story
November
2011 Issue
October
2011 Issue
September
2011 Issue
"Are
We Who We Really Think
We Are?"
"Capital
Punishment: Can A Flawed System Be Fixed?"
"Greed! How Is
It Destroying
Our World?"
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