Today I will show you how the NY Daily News is covering the SS numbers. The Daily News is an entirely Big Corp, GOP, Capitalism operation.
First quote, "It's an abrupt break from a long lull that saw COLA averaging just 1.65% a year over the past 10 years."
True, but if you add in the 5 previous years when there was no COLA that 1.65% would be a great deal lower.
Captain’s Log, Stardate 10132021:
“To see the blue color whip by, and now you’re staring into blackness. That’s the thing. This covering of blue is this sheet, this blanket, this comforter of blue that we have around us. We think ‘oh, that’s blue sky,’ and suddenly you shoot through it, like you whip a sheet off you when you’re asleep, and you’re looking into blackness—into black ugliness. And you look down, there’s the blue down there, and the black up there, and there is Mother Earth and comfort, and—is there death? Is that the way death is? It was so moving to me. This experience, it was something unbelievable. It’s one thing to say ‘oh the sky, and it’s fragile’—but it’s all true. This pillow, this soft blue. Look at the beauty of that color. And it’s so thin, and you’re through it in an instant. Suddenly you’re through the blue and you’re into black, what you see is black, and what you see down there is light, and that’s the difference. And not to have this? What you’ve given me is the most profound experience I can imagine. I am so filled with emotion about what just happened. It’s extraordinary. I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now. I don’t want to lose it. I can’t even begin to express. . . what I would love to do is to communicate, as much as possible, the jeopardy. The moment you see the vulnerability of everything. It’s so small. This air, which is keeping us alive, is thinner than your skin. It’s a sliver; it’s immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe. It’s negligible, this air. It’s so thin. Everybody in the world needs to do this. Everybody in the world needs to See.”
—William Shatner
More than 10,000 John Deere workers could be on strike by the end of the day.
Yesterday, I came out of the internet anonymity closet and identified myself as having been employed for more than a decade by IATSE - the International Alliance of Stage and Theatrical Employees. This was in connection with a C99 members' account of several instances of labor resistance around the country that included the news about IATSE movie and TV production employees voting to authorize an industry wide strike.
"Social Security benefits will rise 5.9% in 2022, the most in four decades.
UPDATE in the comments adding in the amounts per year.
That is the NY Times headline. Here is what that means:
If your benefit in 2021 is $1,000.00 per month, your check will go up $59.00 per month.
If your check is $2,000.00 per month, your check will increase by $118.00 per month.
Update, Oct. 9, 3pm ET: In the virtual DNC fall meeting held today, the motion to suspend the rules and approve Jaime Harrison’s slate of 75 at-large members was passed by DNC members by a vote of 304-59.
