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> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote:
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> > > > > > ________________________________
> > > > > > From: Buck
> > > > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > > > > > Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 4:42 AM
> > > > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Black Thursday
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> > > > > > --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog"
> > > > > > <raunchydog@> wrote:
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> > > > > >> "A half century ago America's largest private-sector employer
> > > > > >> was General Motors, whose full-time workers earned an average
> > > > > >> hourly wage of around $50, in today's dollars, including health
> > > > > >> and pension benefits.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Today, America's largest employer is Walmart, whose average
> > > > > >> employee earns $8.81 an hour. A third of Walmart's employees work
> > > > > >> less than 28 hours per week and don't qualify for benefits.
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> > > > I am in downtown Detroit, Michigan right now at a Thanksgiving retreat
> > > > with Ammachi. Half of the Fairfield meditating community and many of
> > > > the old TM meditating movement are here too on retreat with Ammachi
> > > > this week. It is like TM old-home-coming. Is very nice. She is a
> > > > powerful spiritual antenna radiating the Unified Field in effect with a
> > > > lot of people receiving and reflecting that too here. She is very lit,
> > > > helpful and generous that way.
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> > > > It is noteworthy to contemplate Detroit as an example of the new
> > > > economy. Fifteen years ago they had a middle-class work force. In
> > > > that fifteen years they lost a million people from the area.
> > > > Neighborhoods are empty. Last year they lost 70,000 people alone. The
> > > > downtown also is sobering to think about. An incredible amount of
> > > > commercial tall-building real estate empty downtown. What would it
> > > > take to re-occupy all that empty space with $8.81 an hour people
> > > > living? I do think the TM movement could afford to be magnanimous and
> > > > offer TM to people given the new reality of general employment now in
> > > > the economy at a scale that reflects common incomes and not just hold
> > > > out for the 1 percent. TM out in the world is not known for that but
> > > > the TM-Raja could think about surprising people and actually be
> > > > magnanimous, for a change. The science seems to indicate that it would
> > > > be helpful.
> > > > -Buck in Detroit
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> > > > > > I should like to see our David Lynch Foundation work with the
> > > > > > TM-Raja towards developing a subsidy to enable retail workers to
> > > > > > learn meditation. If these workers are only working 29 hours a
> > > > > > week they certainly have the time to help everything by meditating.
> > > > > > Scale the price of meditating to the 29 hour a week worker earning
> > > > > > $8.81 an hour. That would be helpful. Magnanimous even.
> > > > > > -Buck, the Apostle
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> Magnanimous, meaning noble and generous in spirit; giving and kind.
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Magnanimous Synonyms: All heart, altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, big,
bighearted, bountiful, charitable, considerate, free, generous, great,
greathearted, handsome, has heart in right place, high-minded, kindly,
knightly, liberal, lofty, loose, munificent, noble, openhanded, selfless,
ungrudging, unselfish, unstinting.
> > > > > >> There are many reasons for the difference â" including
> > > > > >> globalization and technological changes that have shrunk
> > > > > >> employment in American manufacturing while enlarging it in sectors
> > > > > >> involving personal services, such as retail.
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> > > > > >> But one reason, closely related to this seismic shift, is the
> > > > > >> decline of labor unions in the United States. In the 1950s, over a
> > > > > >> third of private-sector workers belonged to a union. Today fewer
> > > > > >> than 7 percent do. As a result, the typical American worker no
> > > > > >> longer has the bargaining clout to get a sizeable share of
> > > > > >> corporate profits.
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> > > > > >> Despite decades of failed unionization attempts, Walmart
> > > > > >> workers are planning to strike or conduct some other form of
> > > > > >> protest outside at least 1,000 locations across the United States
> > > > > >> this Friday â" so-called "Black Friday," the biggest shopping day
> > > > > >> in America when the Christmas holiday buying season begins.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> At the very least, the action gives Walmart employees a
> > > > > >> chance to air their grievances in public â" not only lousy wages
> > > > > >> (as low at $8 an hour) but also unsafe and unsanitary working
> > > > > >> conditions, excessive hours, and sexual harassment. The result is
> > > > > >> bad publicity for the company exactly when it wants the public to
> > > > > >> think of it as Santa Claus.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Consumer spending is 70 percent of economic activity, but
> > > > > >> consumers are also workers. And as income and wealth continue to
> > > > > >> concentrate at the top, and the median wage continues to drop â"
> > > > > >> it's now 8 percent lower than it was in 2000 â" a growing portion
> > > > > >> of the American workforce lacks the purchasing power to get the
> > > > > >> economy back to speed. Without a vibrant and growing middle class,
> > > > > >> Walmart itself won't have the customers it needs.
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> > > > > >> Most new jobs in America are in personal services like
> > > > > >> retail, with low pay and bad hours. According to the Bureau of
> > > > > >> Labor and Statistics, the average full-time retail worker earns
> > > > > >> between $18,000 and $21,000 per year.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> But if retail workers got a raise, would consumers have to
> > > > > >> pay higher prices to make up for it? A new study by the think tank
> > > > > >> Demos reports that raising the salary of all full-time workers at
> > > > > >> large retailers to $25,000 per year would lift more than 700,000
> > > > > >> people out of poverty, at a cost of only a 1 percent price
> > > > > >> increase for customers.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> And, in the end, retailers would benefit. According to the
> > > > > >> study, the cost of the wage increases to major retailers would be
> > > > > >> $20.8 billion â" about one percent of the sector's $2.17 trillion
> > > > > >> in total annual sales. But the study also estimates the increased
> > > > > >> purchasing power of lower-wage workers as a result of the pay
> > > > > >> raises would generate $4 billion to $5 billion in additional
> > > > > >> retail sales."
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> http://www.salon.com/2012/11/21/dont_shop_at_wal_mart_on_friday/
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>> ________________________________
> > > > > >>> From: Bhairitu <noozguru@>
> > > > > >>> To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com
> > > > > >>> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 11:45 AM
> > > > > >>> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Black Thursday
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> > > > > >>> Ã
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> > > > > >>> This is also probably a generational clash. I know a lot of
> > > > > >>> younger
> > > > > >>> people who might have gone to a movie or played a video game would
> > > > > >>> probably like to make the extra dough on Black Thursday and
> > > > > >>> Friday.
> > > > > >>> Many find family gatherings "old fashion" and have not much
> > > > > >>> interest in
> > > > > >>> them. I even recall in high school that after turkey dinner at my
> > > > > >>> cousins we (the younger set) would go out to a movie.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> But hey, this is Kapitalist Amerika where kapitalism is
> > > > > >>> celebrated by
> > > > > >>> the masses though most of them couldn't give you a proper
> > > > > >>> definition of
> > > > > >>> it. :-D
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> On 11/21/2012 03:59 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
> > > > > >>>> And if they(shoppers) do that, they(retailers) won't open on
> > > > > >>>> Thanksgiving next year. Market forces at work.
> > > > > >>>>
> > > > > >>>>
> > > > > >>>>
> > > > > >>>> ________________________________
> > > > > >>>> From: awoelflebater <mailto:no_reply%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > > > >>>> To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com
> > > > > >>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 1:55 PM
> > > > > >>>> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Black Thursday
> > > > > >>>>
> > > > > >>>>
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> > > > > >>>> --- In mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog"
> > > > > >>>> <raunchydog@> wrote:
> > > > > >>>>> This year, Black Friday has become BLACK THURSDAY. Employees
> > > > > >>>>> will work
> > > > > >>>>> 12-14 hour shifts, beginning at 4 or 6 pm on THANKSGIVING DAY.
> > > > > >>>>> Workers
> > > > > >>>>> have been told that "there will be consequences" which means
> > > > > >>>>> getting
> > > > > >>>>> fired. Workers need their jobs. The message needs to come FROM
> > > > > >>>>> THE
> > > > > >>>>> PUBLIC that the big box retailers have chosen an irrational and
> > > > > >>>>> offensive way to do business. Tell the people who run those
> > > > > >>>>> stores that
> > > > > >>>>> you will not shop on Thursday. Tell them that disrespecting a
> > > > > >>>>> national
> > > > > >>>>> holiday for families to be together bothers you. 1-800-WALMART,
> > > > > >>>>> 800-440-0680 is the number for Target.
> > > > > >>>> The whole thing is patently ridiculous. Can people not stop
> > > > > >>>> shopping for 24 hours?! Everyone should just stay home and eat
> > > > > >>>> on Thanksgiving. Maybe even spend a little time with family.
> > > > > >>>> How's that for a concept?
> > > > > >>>>> [https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-lL87ygk3F94/UK0O33nU-cI/AAAAAAAABos/\
> > > > > >>>>> mbmM4hVwhF8/s512/WalMart.jpg]
> > > > > >>>>>
> > > > > >>>>
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