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No. 16-6E
State of The
American Dream:
Economic Policy And
The Future Of The
Middle Class
by Amy Traub, Heather C. McGhee,
demos.org
TALKING POINTS
1. Public policy choices have been
poor.
2. Political conflicts of interest
affect the interests of the poor
and middle class.
3. If you dont have any say into
the terms of your employment
then you are a slave . . . And
thats the way they want it.
4. In 1944, FDR said, We cannot
be content, no matter how
high that general standard of
living may be, if some fraction
of our people whether it be
one-third or one-fifth or onetenth is
ill-fed
ill-clothed
ill housed
insecure.
5. The benefits of a minimum
wage far outweigh the costs.
6. Make it a habit to vote in every
election.
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From Conflict
of Interest to
Country First:
The Six Rules of
Relationships of
Trust
Part 1 of 6
Recent headlines all have something in common
they are about conflicts of interest.
Illinois governor tries to sell Senate seat,
Madoff investors left Broke, Broken,
Bailed out Bank Officials get 1.6 Billion and
Refuse to Account for Money, and
America Is Outraged over AIG Bonuses.
What is a conflict of interest exactly? It is
primarily disloyalty and how disloyalty is covered up.
Can everyday people protect themselves?
Yes, but we have to get smart.
The best and least expensive way you can
protect yourself is to prevent problems in the first
place; by becoming far more discerning about who
you employ in a Relationship of Trust and becoming
aware of your own duties when others ask you to
serve as their agent, trustee or employee.
What are Relationships of
Trust? There are two kinds of
relationships in our lives:
Arms-Length Relationships
Relationships of Trust.
Visualize this type of relationship as three people:
one sitting across the negotiation table from the
other two. Visualize the two sitting together on the
same side of the negotiation table: the first person
has his arm around the second person because
the first person is acting as the second person s
protector, advocate, defender and/or adviser. Those
two people on the same side of the negotiation
table are in a Relationship of Trust where
the protector is acting on behalf of and in the best
interest of, the person being protected.
Meanwhile the protector is in an Arms Length
Relationship with the person across from them at
the negotiating table. Our focus is the Six Rules of
Relationships of Trust that govern the relationship
between the protector and the protected.
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workplace safety
a minimum wage
maximum hours (and time-and-a-half for
overtime)
and a ban on child labor.
Balance of Power We also learned that
capitalism needs a fair balance of power between
big corporations and workers.
We achieved that through antitrust laws that
reduced the capacity of giant corporations to
impose their will, and labor laws that allowed
workers to organize and bargain collectively.
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FDR 1944
State of the Union Message
free speech
free press
free worship
trial by jury
.
freedom from unreasonable searches and
seizures.
They were our rights to
life and liberty.
Growth As our Nation
has grown in size and
stature, however, and as
our industrial economy
expanded, these political
rights proved inadequate
to assure us equality in the
pursuit of happiness.
Lack of Security We
have come to a clear realization of the fact that true
individual freedom cannot exist without economic
security and independence. Necessitous men are
not free men. People who are hungry and out of a
job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Second Bill of Rights In our day these
economic truths have become accepted as selfevident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second
Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security
and prosperity can be established for all regardless
of station, race, or creed.
The Rights Among these are:
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