August 30, 2019 “Not by bread alone does man live”        Devarim 8:3

Jobs. “Jobs” is the great and artful deflection the Republicans and this callous President have used for years to manipulate their base and to slyly justify innumerable policies aimed to absolve corporate polluters, permit competition-stifling mergers, restrict legal immigration, attack the rights of employees to organize, commercialize public lands for Big Ag and Big Oil, neutralize consumer protections, preserve an impoverishing minimum wage, fatten corporate elites with tax cuts, and beggar public education. “The 1%” and “The 10%” continue to prosper while the jobs upon which most of us rely are less and less adequate for our college loans, medical care deductibles, retirements, and the cartel-like pricing in travel, media/communications, health care, and college tuition. How about a little more bread for the rest of you?   “Jobs” should not be just a Republican political slogan.