America Is NOT BROKE!

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich.

Today just 400 Americans have the same wealth as half of all Americans combined. Let me say that again. 400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have as much loot, stock and property as the assets of 155 million Americans combined. If you can't bring yourself to call that a financial coup d'état, then you are simply not being honest about what you know in your heart to be true. And I can see why. For us to admit that we have let a small group of men abscond with and hoard the bulk of the wealth that runs our economy, would mean that we'd have to accept the humiliating acknowledgment that we have indeed surrendered our precious Democracy to the moneyed elite. Wall Street, the banks and the Fortune 500 now run this Republic -- and, until this past month, the rest of us have felt completely helpless, unable to find a way to do anything about it.

By: Micheal Moore

http://www.michaelmoore.com/

The Great Migration of Style

This weekend, I took a late night flight from Charlotte to New York to attend an internship fair in Manhattan. While not particularly looking forward to the traffic, the hustle of the subways, or the crowded streets, I was looking forward to seeing the infamous New York style.

I was sixteen when I made my first trip to New York. It was the dead of winter and everyone, fashionably of course, bundled under layers of clothes. Colorful scarves, sleek coats, snazzy boots, and spiffy hats. Yep, New Yorkers had style. I returned to New York five years later, this time in fall, and witnessed that same style. Before my trip this weekend, it had been four years since I'd visited New York, and my eyes were starving for that New York flare.

Unfortunately, I left New York still hungry. This time around it wasn't like before. The New Yorkers were merely dressed, leaving their "impress" at home. There was no flare. No umph! The clothes just hung on the people as they walked. Nothing colorful,nothing sleek, nothing snazzy, nothing spiffy. Maybe I just expected too much. Or maybe I'd seen similar style in other places here in the South such as Atlanta, DC, or Charlotte. Yeah, that's it. I'd seen style in other places. It no longer has only one residence.

So in a few years, naturally, the remakes of "Sex and the City", "The Devil Wears Prada", and "Confessions of a Shopaholic" will be filmed below the Mason Dixie Line,The valid style, particular that of the South, swag as many call it, is evidence that fashion forwardness is no longer exclusive to New York. As many people have left the world's capital for new and smaller places, it seems that style has migrated as well.

Why women settle?

So this note was inspired by myself, and a couple other situations that I've noticed.... And my idea is to understand why we as women settle, specifically with MEN. We as women always settle for LESS than what we deserve from guys.... It must be a universal thing. But settling for a GUY because you are afraid to be alone is the WORST thing you could possibly do because in the end no one will be hurt but you. We as women have to understand that a man will ONLY do what you allow him to do, nothing more and nothing less. All I'm saying is, find a guy who is WORTH settling for, not some guy who you think will change and everything will become a fairytale, because the more you live in a dream, the harder it is for you to awake. (Let that marinate) We as women should stop letting guys trample over us just for the sake to say we have a MAN! You will never be happy with any guy you meet, good or bad, if you are not first happy with yourself. We all fall victim to a guy that you really like a great deal, hell may even love, but if they guy that you are so head over heals for does not reciprocate that same affection then what is the point of continuing to deal with him??? Every girl has a guy that they just can NOT let go, but if you DID let them go I PROMISE that you will find a guy who gives u everything you thought that guy was giving you a plenty more. As Kevin Hart says we put guys on too high of a pedestal... No that’s not the case! You just have to find the RIGHT guy that will SIT high on that pedestal with you. I’m not saying that I am perfect, I feel included in this letter just as much as any other girl, but we DESERVE soooo much better as women and until you think you deserve better as well, you will never find it. All self worth definitely comes from within, and it just takes some longer than others to realize that. So the next guy you are involved with ask yourself... "Is he making me happy and is he bringing out the best in me for US?" If your answer is negative then you already know what you should do. The saying says "Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot" and that statement couldn’t be more true! By Jahnna L. Hunter www.twitter.com/sexychoklit jahnna.hunter@asurams.edu

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