Those who believe in free speech and who have never sucked on a lemon, may be interested in the two experiences coming together, with this delivered speech of Stephen Colbert's to President Bush - 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner.
To take a quote from Bill Maher's site, who evidently articulates the value of such Political comedic commentators, such Refuters are required to keep the balance. "Bill Maher is one of the most politically astute comedians in America today. His unflinching honesty and commitment to never pulling a punch have earned him the respect and admiration of millions of fans. In 2003, Maher launched a new show, “Real Time with Bill Maher,”"
There is a statement I'm sure everyone has heard of in social, political and economic environments, it’s called The Poverty trap. Well, does it exist? Are there those who are condemned to a lifetime of consistently living on a low income, set by society or government, which will rarely move, irrespective to their work output?
Well, lets see if you still feel the way you feel at this moment in ten minutes from now.
Imagine your experienced but without economic skill value, by which I mean relative to those who can claim a certain value for the skilled work set by commerce . When your value is set as labor intensive and menial (as may be the label given to the case), how do you think the market and the system will be prepared for your entry into the employment market place?
I'm going to leave you to confirm one way or the other whether your perspective has changed, by leaving you a tool I designed with the help of an old college pal Mr Eddie Roberts and Co. and try it out on the individual's experiences of employed activity and if you feel inclined, drop me a line on the result of the experience.
INSTRUCTIONS: There are cells with 'black boxes', where you can put data values and assess the influence on one's earnings. By adding or take away the money too, you can see the effects on the individual or family. Then by looking at the graph, see what happens to their realized income (by which I mean collective income), after their contributions to Society and society's Rights over them verses their Rights from that Society. The password is 'Permitted,' don't forget the capital P.
This is a spreadsheet I made many yours ago, which allows you to analyze numerically, low income family wages, based on the State Support or Tax and benefit breaks, which subsidize businesses' who pay low wages, due to the value set for that work. My question is. Is the such thing as a Poverty Trap? Also, can you get out of it without enhancing your labor value with improved labor value skills and new environments of work or by just, hard work and long hours in that role?
You can write your own figures into the black boxes after downloading the spreadsheet. You can see the results on the graph which will show all of the effects on income and income improvement verses benefit changes or lost benefits incrementally. I wrote a report to this expressing the analyses and findings. You are welcome to the report if you are interested. Just drop me your email.
Roy Zimmerman Creative Science
As justice is a difficult substance to define; words like fairness, equality, liberty and balance, and in general terms ‘just principles,’ all loosely sit together to define the application of justice.However, many philosophers disagree as to the parameters and content of justice, in relation to the need and use of justice by State and Society, verses the individual.The resulting fact is, that we find many variants and conceptions of the subject.Justice only exit whilst individuals see the need to come together and form a collective, and in turn, form a society.It is at this time that the need for justice comes into effect, in the pursuit of equality of those, who form the collective, and the protection given to all who congregate and exchange one right for another, in a just society all should be equal, for a concept ofJustice to exist.
I have put further details with various thinker's views on the subject and taking the model set by John Rawls, an American moral and political philosopher.
This site will cover the Key Words lived by and held up as fundamental to our societies. I hope you will find my attempts to expose, polish and illuminate these words, both interesting and entertaining. Thank you for your company. Please feel free to leave comments or questions.