AS GLOBALIZAÇÕES E OS OLIGARCAS
As ideologias de apoio aos oligarcas como o neoconservadorismo e o neoliberalismo acentuaram as desigualdades a nível planetário.
Os oligarcas estão cada vez mais ricos, e os comuns têm cada vez menos dinheiro. Acentua-se a diferença entre os mais ricos e os pobres no Ocidente desenvolvido.
No Ocidente os Estados Unidos lideram o Ranking das Desigualdades Sociais.
Na União Europeia o Ranking das Desigualdades Sociais é liderado pelo Reino Unido e por Portugal.
A classe política portuguesa copia muito bem os maus exemplos dos estrangeiros. Em termos de desigualdades sociais, a classe política portuguesa copiou o chamado «modelo anglo-saxónico», isto é, copia o que os Estados Unidos e o Reino Unido têm de pior. Um fosso brutal entre os oligarcas e os pobres, que nesses países constituem como que um "Terceiro Mundo Interno".
A propaganda dos oligarcas faz deles acima dos humanos, como que deuses. Mas o que fazem os oligarcas saudáveis em 48 horas seguidas? E as oligarcas? Nem isso? Nem isso? Nem isso? Ou também isso, isso e isso? Afinal pertencem à espécie humana, são como os outros e como as outras.
Mas essa falsa aura de superioridade que se atribui aos oligarcas e às oligarcas é uma descarada mentira, pois eles e elas pertencem à espécie humana.
É preciso contrariar esta tendência de dominação do mundo pelos oligarcas, que são uma pequena minoria.
Um dos pesadelos provocados pela dinâmica neo-conservadora-neoliberal é a perda da habitação.
« Homelessness grows as more live check-to-check
By Stephanie Armour, USA TODAY
Homelessness in major cities is escalating as more laid-off workers already living paycheck-to-paycheck wind up on the streets or in shelters.
As Americans file for bankruptcy in record numbers and credit card debt explodes, more workers are a paycheck away from losing their homes. Now the frail economy is pushing them over the edge. With 9 million unemployed workers in July, the face of homelessness is changing to include more families shaken by joblessness.
Former neighbors and co-workers are on the streets, live with relatives or stay in shelters. Unemployed managers are living with their elderly parents. Families who once owned their own homes now sleep on bunk beds in homeless shelters. Job seekers in suits and ties stop by soup kitchens heading out to afternoon interviews. With no place to live, some homeless are camping out in their cars until work comes along.
"There is still a mind-set that the homeless are substance abusers who have made bad life decisions," says Ralph Plumb, CEO of the Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles. "But more and more, they are individuals responding to a catastrophic financial event. The homeless are us. They're regular folk."
Requests for emergency shelter assistance grew an average of 19% from 2001 to 2002, according to the 18 cities that reported an increase — the steepest rise in a decade. The findings are from a 2003 survey of 25 cities by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Among the trends:
• Families with children are among the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless. The Conference of Mayors found that 41% of the homeless are families with children, up from 34% in 2000. The Urban Institute reports about 23% of the homeless are children.
• Cities and shelters are also seeing the shift. In New York, the number of homeless families jumped 40% from 1999 to 2002. In Boston, the number of homeless families increased 8.3% to 2,328 in 2002 compared with 2001.
• An estimated 3.5 million people are likely to experience homelessness in a given year, the Urban Institute reports. People remained homeless for an average of six months, according to the Conference of Mayors survey — a figure that increased from a year ago in all but four cities.
Homelessness also increased during past recessions, but advocates say several issues are making the current rise more disconcerting. Those factors include the five-year cap on welfare benefits, a surge in home prices adding to longer periods of homelessness, and the fact that this recovery has been a jobless one, providing little immediate hope. »
(In «USA TODAY»)
Os oligarcas estão cada vez mais ricos, e os comuns têm cada vez menos dinheiro. Acentua-se a diferença entre os mais ricos e os pobres no Ocidente desenvolvido.
No Ocidente os Estados Unidos lideram o Ranking das Desigualdades Sociais.
Na União Europeia o Ranking das Desigualdades Sociais é liderado pelo Reino Unido e por Portugal.
A classe política portuguesa copia muito bem os maus exemplos dos estrangeiros. Em termos de desigualdades sociais, a classe política portuguesa copiou o chamado «modelo anglo-saxónico», isto é, copia o que os Estados Unidos e o Reino Unido têm de pior. Um fosso brutal entre os oligarcas e os pobres, que nesses países constituem como que um "Terceiro Mundo Interno".
A propaganda dos oligarcas faz deles acima dos humanos, como que deuses. Mas o que fazem os oligarcas saudáveis em 48 horas seguidas? E as oligarcas? Nem isso? Nem isso? Nem isso? Ou também isso, isso e isso? Afinal pertencem à espécie humana, são como os outros e como as outras.
Mas essa falsa aura de superioridade que se atribui aos oligarcas e às oligarcas é uma descarada mentira, pois eles e elas pertencem à espécie humana.
É preciso contrariar esta tendência de dominação do mundo pelos oligarcas, que são uma pequena minoria.
Um dos pesadelos provocados pela dinâmica neo-conservadora-neoliberal é a perda da habitação.
« Homelessness grows as more live check-to-check
By Stephanie Armour, USA TODAY
Homelessness in major cities is escalating as more laid-off workers already living paycheck-to-paycheck wind up on the streets or in shelters.
As Americans file for bankruptcy in record numbers and credit card debt explodes, more workers are a paycheck away from losing their homes. Now the frail economy is pushing them over the edge. With 9 million unemployed workers in July, the face of homelessness is changing to include more families shaken by joblessness.
Former neighbors and co-workers are on the streets, live with relatives or stay in shelters. Unemployed managers are living with their elderly parents. Families who once owned their own homes now sleep on bunk beds in homeless shelters. Job seekers in suits and ties stop by soup kitchens heading out to afternoon interviews. With no place to live, some homeless are camping out in their cars until work comes along.
"There is still a mind-set that the homeless are substance abusers who have made bad life decisions," says Ralph Plumb, CEO of the Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles. "But more and more, they are individuals responding to a catastrophic financial event. The homeless are us. They're regular folk."
Requests for emergency shelter assistance grew an average of 19% from 2001 to 2002, according to the 18 cities that reported an increase — the steepest rise in a decade. The findings are from a 2003 survey of 25 cities by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Among the trends:
• Families with children are among the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless. The Conference of Mayors found that 41% of the homeless are families with children, up from 34% in 2000. The Urban Institute reports about 23% of the homeless are children.
• Cities and shelters are also seeing the shift. In New York, the number of homeless families jumped 40% from 1999 to 2002. In Boston, the number of homeless families increased 8.3% to 2,328 in 2002 compared with 2001.
• An estimated 3.5 million people are likely to experience homelessness in a given year, the Urban Institute reports. People remained homeless for an average of six months, according to the Conference of Mayors survey — a figure that increased from a year ago in all but four cities.
Homelessness also increased during past recessions, but advocates say several issues are making the current rise more disconcerting. Those factors include the five-year cap on welfare benefits, a surge in home prices adding to longer periods of homelessness, and the fact that this recovery has been a jobless one, providing little immediate hope. »
(In «USA TODAY»)
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