JFK’s appeal to the nation’s steel companies During the early 1960’s the United States were coming out of a recent recession. The economy was finally looking up and the steel industry was doing especially well. They were producing more steel per worker than they had for years. President John F. Kennedy, a strong advocate for stable prices and wages, gave a speech openly criticizing the nation’s largest steel companies for their increase in steel prices and pleaded for the reverse of said rise. In an attempt to achieve his purpose of convincing steel companies to reduce prices, JFK employs the rhetorical devices of anaphora and logos.
Since that time, historians and scholars have tended to either regard Long and Coughlin as instigators of an irrational and anti-democratic uprising or as leaders and advocates of a great, forward moving social transformation. Brinkley contests both of these views quite persuasively. He maintains that Long and Coughlin had the ability to make clear the feelings of the American public that sought a means to defend the autonomy of the individual and to beat off the violations of the modern industrial state. The followers of Long and Coughlin, according to Brinkley, did not long for an economic collective, but rather for a return to a society where the individual had control over his own life and the power in society resided in institutions that were both visible and accessible from a local level. However, neither one of these leaders ever offered the American public logical plans for obtaining these goals.
Though America is not in an economic growth, it is industrialized, and so it has citizens feeling relative deprivation, and plenty of intellectuals to fuel the dissent of the NSA revealings. Some citizens are frustrated that they do not have the privacy they believed they did, others point out that, for the most part concerning US citizens, their actions fall within current law. Some have quoted the US Declaration of Independence “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.” Within Crane Brinton's theory of the stages of a revolution, the US is showing the beginning signs of the first step: the old regime decays. There is no administration breakdown, but most are highly cynical of the government, officials admit that all processes are complicated, and intellectuals are bringing up more problems. The NSA break may bring about reforms for those that
How about making great increases on taxes for the rich? Wouldn’t that reduce the income from their industries and businesses as well as making it hard for them to maintain all their employees? It’s interesting how the big earners are portrayed as being extravagant, spending on luxurious goods while the middle class who have foreclosures and bankruptcy are only portrayed as caring about their children to go to good schools. Oh! How
This is getting into the Industrial Revolution, a time where big business controlled the way millions lived and worked. Production was up and spirits were down. Business was booming and conditions got worse. Populations as well as prices skyrocketed. The U.S. was truly stepping up its game, but at a cost.
When Clinton raised the minimum wage it stimulated a slumping economy and had increases in the job market. Republicans and Democrats are at either end of the spectrum on how to increase consumer spending and the American economy in this recovery
Meanwhile, the richest Americans continue to expand their wealth. The middle class in this country is dying, while the millionaires and billionaires prosper. More and more people are slipping into poverty, while many Republicans oppose tax hikes for the “job creators”. Paine also describes America as a place free of conflict, and as place where “every difficulty retires and all the parts are brought into cordial unison.” This not only does not hold true today, but it contradicts one of the fundamental characteristics of America: the fact that as Americans we are entitled to disagree with each other and argue endlessly about any given subject. Argument and disagreement are huge part of what makes his country great.
When unions were strong we had the greatest period of equitable shared prosperity in American history. Now we have reached the point that salaries of top executives are out of sight and real income for working families are declining. Corporate Executives’ has figured out a system to increasing each other’s salaries. They visit each other while periodically and raise the notion their salaries deserve more. This is not
Thesis: It might have taken a near-historic recession and a nation-wide protest, but Americans are finally noticing the rapidly growing income gap between the rich and the poor. I. The gap between the rich and poor is widening. a. Wealth is heavily concentrated in the top 1 percent of the U.S. population.
The unions help organize and financially support the efforts of the workers to make more money. Meanwhile the conservative republicans continue to oppose raising the minimum wage citing the exact same concerns their forefathers did back in the 1930s. The reality is whether you support a minimum standard of living or not, the minimum wage as it stands is costing everyone. It drains resources from our economy by forcing workers to rely on public assistance and it cost companies too in the form of high turnover rates. When companies invest in their employees through higher wages and better benefits they realize significant savings through reduced employee