Ted Rall for March 05, 2018

And yet Ted Rall, according to previous comics, is okay with this regime.

Republicans are perfectly okay with this. Whatever the oligarchs want must be good for the country.

#Twolegsbetter

They say there is “full employment” and yet the homelessness is on the increase.

What is wrong with this picture?

And this form of Corporate Slavery will be strengthened by an upcoming Supreme Court decision aptly called Janus—both faces will express pain for labor.

Janus saw into the past and furture. One side smiles (to the super rich) the other side is sad (to us as if nothing can be done.)

The point of this cartoon is the existence of non-compete clauses that greatly restrict the mobility of the worker to find a better job. This puts too much power in the hands of the bosses and keeps wages lower than they would be in an open labor market. Have y’all noticed that wages haven’t kept up with wealth growth???

Thank you Mr. Rall, for putting out important information on problems that aren’t always in the spotlight,but need to be.

And soon we’ll be tethered to the healthcare employers give again – then every time you get a new job all your old sicknesses won’t be covered. Republican utopia!

Is American workers paradise.

Retail companies compare their corporate workers’ salaries to other retailers “average” salaries to keep them artificially low while saying they did a “market survey” of “comparable” pay.

Not asleep, bribed to make the deals possible. Add to this that in over half of US states workers can be fired for ANY reason.

Asleep? Hardly. If that were all it was…

Good grief, Sherman might as well rename itself to Black Kow.

Now add the Fed’s policy of freaking out as soon as peon wages start to rise at all. (The skyrocketing CEO wages are not a problem, natch). Talk about a rigged system.

Good to see that teachers in West Virginia are striking, despite this: “A statewide teacher strike in West Virginia entered its seventh day on Friday, with teachers defying efforts by the state’s governor and union leaders to end the walkout with a deal to raise pay.” Of course the Legislature’s promises turned out to be lies.

Unions have been co-opted and mainly work for the corporations. And most workers don’t even have that.

When money is the global lingua franca, and the entire economic system can properly be described as cancerous (all growth is good, more profit is the objective, repeat ad infinitum), then this is what you get. The comments here do not admit that the whole shebang is cockeyed. It’s nobody’s fault, exactly as we’ve all bought into the system of private property and never ending growth.

The only way out of the box is enlightened leadership that can curb the excesses and attempt to treat people fairly and with dignity. The market system with its unbridled growth is terrific at allocating resource and rewarding winners. But it needs to be constrained properly. This is what the EPA, SEC, FDA, CFPC, and the other regulatory agencies should be doing to protect people.

Unfortunately, when you have blind, incompetent and mentally ill “leadership” coupled with an outrageously amoral and unethical republican party, you get massive distortions. The democrats are at least trying to create a more just circumstance. The republicans are simply cancerous to the core.