Presentation

[Orange Juche]

I really wasn't sure where to put this thread... so I apologize in advance if this isn't where it belongs! (I figured here, because there may be some stuff I need to learn... along with I need to teach some EDIT - I thought I put this in learning. Oops!)

For my Morals & Ethics Philosophy class at college, I opted out of a mid-term test in order to do a presentation instead. I'm thinking of doing something like "The Ethics of Economics" or something like that... all I really care is as long as it is related to class struggle or big issues the proletariat face. It needs to be factual... I need to use facts, maybe statistics as well.

Does anyone have any ideas, or could you possibly even lead me to where I could get more info on these ideas!

Thanks!

[Zero]

Well, I would elaborate on the welth disparity of America, as compared to other countries, and indeed, even older Capitalist theories of welth disparity (It's something like the rich are on average 30 times richer then the poor, when the most invisioned was 4 to 1. Then again they didn't invision multi-national corporations...)

Also I would compare discretionary spending of the USA as compared to other countries (Sweeden, Finland, etc.) I believe Bush's economical budget planned 487 billion dollars for the millitary (this being when people still have to pay for their son's or daughter's nightvision and body armor) and around 2.7 billion for education, job placement, and training... along with a 10 billion dollar budget for the Department of State. When the military outspends the diplomatic branch by 477,000,000,000 dollars, it makes me wonder if Bush has any sense of diplomatics WITHOUT warfare.

You might also want to research the theory of the Negative Income Tax, as opposed to Wellfare, and how France and Canadia have such higher quality systems.

http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/truecosteconomics/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax

[Orange Juche]

Thanks!!!

Anyone else?

[Messiah]

An interesting point to bring up would be the inherent cycle and collapse contained within the capitalist system. Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" is a great source for this if you have the to skim it. Specifically, he mentiones when people talk about depressions and recessions in economics, they always bring up the Great Depression but it was hardly the first, just the most spectacular. 19th century America was plauged by constant economic failure, which just added to the lack of worker's rights, wealth disparity, slavery, racism and all that.

It's sort of a theoretical point, but with some examples it might serve well in proving a larger point.

Wikipedia gives you a good summary about what I'm talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions

Good luck.

[Orange Juche]

Originally posted by [email protected] 23 2006, 02:38 AM
An interesting point to bring up would be the inherent cycle and collapse contained within the capitalist system. Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" is a great source for this if you have the to skim it. Specifically, he mentiones when people talk about depressions and recessions in economics, they always bring up the Great Depression but it was hardly the first, just the most spectacular. 19th century America was plauged by constant economic failure, which just added to the lack of worker's rights, wealth disparity, slavery, racism and all that.

It's sort of a theoretical point, but with some examples it might serve well in proving a larger point.

Wikipedia gives you a good summary about what I'm talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions

Good luck.
Thanks alot... I think I'm gonna go with this! I have that book, so I will reference it... again, thanks!