Mountain Views News          Saturday, April 30, 2011

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OPINION

 Mountain Views News Saturday, April 30, 2011 

STUART Tolchin..........On LIFE

HAIL Hamilton My Turn

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A Rising Tide 

Lifts All Yachts


NOW THEY TELL ME

My back is killing me and it’s no wonder—
I’ve been carrying the burdens of the world on 
my shoulders for 67 years. Yes, right now; today, 
April 26, 2011 is My Birthday. So what do 
you care? Look you’re lucky that I just didn’t go 
ahead and write HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME one 
hundred times and fill my allotted space with just those words. I’m going 
to say it again just to show you I can do it. Happy birthday 
to me! No capitals this time - just an exclamation point.

No, don’t stop reading yet. Don’t give up on me. It turns out we need 
each other, you and I and everyone else. You see I’m just beginning to 
understand something about this strange business of survival. I think 
I believed that the instructions for salvation were “out there” in some 
book - so I just kept reading as much as I could. No one ever discouraged 
me from reading and I skipped two half-grades before I was in the 
fifth grade. What did I get from all of this reading? Well, I remember 
that before I went to Law School there was some test that was required 
and one of the sections of the test was called General Information. I 
remember receiving a 99 plus in this section which meant that I had 
almost more general information than anybody. I also remember receiving 
a score of 58th percentile in the Writing Section which gave a 
clear indication that I did not have a clue how to actually punctuate 
a sentence or how to effectively communicate with other people. No 
surprise, huh?

Anyhow, somewhere along the line I think I realized that just acquiring 
information from books was not going to do the trick. What 
I needed was WISDOM not just INFORMATION. We live in what 
used to be called the Information Age and certainly with the aid of our 
electronic technological extensions we all have more information at 
our finger tips than people have had at any time in history. So what! 
We, you know we - all of us, seem to be on a kind of irreversible path to 
Destruction. We keep killing one another and in the process seem to 
be making it very tough for all life on the planet. When I talk to people 
there seems to be a kind of tacit agreement that Mankind has lost its 
way and that there’s nothing that can be done about it. That’s the amazing 
thing - there seems to be agreement about this and yet, other than 
recycling garbage most of us make no attempt to do anything about it. 
Right now the only change I’m making is to sort of drive less because 
gas prices have caused me to think about how much money I am wasting 
as I go through my day.

Maybe this increased awareness resulting from the price of fuel is a 
good thing. After all, energy is finite and we have just a certain amount 
of energy that we can spend during our lifetimes. Okay, let’s think 
about it. What do we want to do with our lives? I’m in the midst of 
reading this great book that was posthumously put together from the 
scattered notes of a great writer who committed suicide a couple of 
years ago. Certainly, the suicide itself is a kind of news bulleting that 
informs a reader that there are no ultimate solutions to be found in the 
book - no Wisdom but lots of information. Yes, I am still compulsively 
reading books but with less hope of finding any answers. The thing 
that I am getting out of this book is summarized in the author’s phrase 
“the tyranny of non-conformist conformity.” Yes, that’s something - 
we have all been deluded into feeling that we’re in this alone and from 
this belief we ending up marching together alone to Oblivion. 

Do you get my point? We are not in this alone. It is not up to me, 
or you alone to save the world. No wonder my back hurts from trying 
to carry the world alone. Really there is no need to celebrate my 
Birthday; instead there is a need for all of us to recognize and preserve 
and protect this wonderful gift of life that we have all jointly received. 
Who gave us this gift? For sure, we’re not going to find out from reading 
books. As far as I can tell the answer is hidden somewhere in the 
way we touch one another and the way we touch the world around us. 
Go gently on this Good Earth and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to everybody 
- including those of you still to be born - really, we’ve got you in mind. 
It says so right here. 

No matter how you 
slice it, when it comes 
to income and wealth 
in America the rich 
get most of the pie and 
the rest get the leftovers. The numbers are 
shocking. Today the top 1 percent of Americans 
control 43 percent of the financial 
wealth (see the pie chart below) while the 
bottom 80 percent control only 7 percent 
of the wealth. Increasable, the wealthiest 
400 Americans have the same combined 
wealth as the poorest half of Americans -- 
over 150 million people.

 

In 2007, the year before the current recession, 
the share of the after-tax income 
going to the top 1 percent hit its highest 
level (17.1 percent) since 1979, while 
the share going to the middle one-fifth of 
Americans shrank to its lowest level (14.1 
percent).

During this same period, after-tax incomes 
for the top 1 percent rose by 281 
percent after adjusting for inflation -- an 
increase in income of $973,100 per household 
-- compared to increases of 25 percent 
($11,200 per household) for the middle 
fifth of households and 16 percent ($2,400 
per household) for the bottom fifth.

Put another way, income for the top 20 
percent has increased since 1980 while 
real income for the bottom 80 percent declined. 
In 1980 the top 1 percent received 
8 percent of the total income, while today 
they receive 18 percent. During the same 
period the income for the bottom 20 percent 
decreased by 30 percent.

In 1980 the top 0.1 percent of Americans 
received 2 percent of total income. Today 
they get 8 percent. In 1980 the average 
CEO made 50 times more money than the 
average worker. Today the average CEO 
make almost 300 times more than the average 
worker!

 America has become a lot richer, while 
most Americans have seen their incomes 
stay the same or decline in terms of purchasing 
power. As Warren Buffett, the second 
richest man in America famously said, 
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my 
class, the rich class, that’s making war, and 
we’re winning.”

Wealth and income inequity today in 
America is by far the worst in the industrialized 
world and has fallen in line with 
many Third World countries.

Some people look at income inequality 
and shrug their shoulders. So what if this 
person gains and this person loses? What 
matters, they argue, is not how the pie is divided 
but the size of the pie. That argument 
is fundamentally wrong. An economy in 
which most citizens are doing worse year 
after year -- an economy like America’s -- is 
not likely to do well over the long haul.

The top 1 percent have the best houses, 
the best educations, the best doctors, and 
the best lifestyles, but there is one thing 
that money doesn’t seem to have bought: 
an understanding that their fate is bound 
up with how the other 99 percent live.

Since 1973 national Gross Domestic 
Product (GDP) has increased 46 percent 
in real terms, but the medium income 
has only increased by 15 percent. Where 
did the other 31 percent go? It went to the 
wealthy!

Supply-side economics is the cornerstone 
of Republican economic theory and 
has driven U.S. economic policy since the 
Ronald Reagan presidency. He popularized 
the controversial idea that greater the tax 
cuts for investors and entrepreneurs would 
provide incentives to save and invest and 
produce economic benefits that “trickle 
down” into the overall economy.

In other words, if government economic 
policy focuses on making the rich richer, 
the benefits will “trickle down” to everyone 
else. As supply siders are found of saying, 
“a rising tide lifts all boats.” Since Supply-
side economics has come to dominate 
American economic policy, the rising tide 
has certainly lifted a lot of yachts, but at the 
same time it has left most of the row boats 
stuck in the mud. 

The past 30 years of Republican economics 
has proven that trickle down theory is 
just a convenient excuse to justify an economic 
policy favoring the rich, with benefits 
trickling up to make the very wealthy 
even wealthier. A rising tide is still critical 
to lifting all boats, but the implication is 
that helping to raise the lowest boats may 
actually help keep the tide rising.

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The following person(s) is (are) doing 
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of registrant(s) is (are) MARTIN DURON, 
ROBERTO HERNANDEZ, 1437 VIRGINIA 
AVE., BALDWIN PARK, CA 91706. This 
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The following person(s) is (are) doing business 
as: KALI COMMUNICATIONS, 2930 W. 
IMPERIAL HWY. STE. 206, INGLEWOOD, 
CA 90303. Full name of registrant(s) is 
(are) ANA ISABEL ARAUJO ROCHIN, 
GEORGINA HERAS, 6101 MILES AVE. 
#C, HUNTINGTON PARK, CA 90255. This 
Business is conducted by: CO-PARTNERS. 
Signed: GEORGINA HERAS. This statement 
was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles 
County on 04/11/11. The registrant(s) has 
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The following person(s) is (are) doing business 
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W. 30th ST., L.A, CA 90007. This Business is 
conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: 
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File No. 11-014708

The following person(s) is (are) doing 
business as: WEST COAST AUTO BODY 
SHOP, 5950 LAUREL CANYON BLVD., 
N. HOLLYWOOD, CA 91607. Full name 
of registrant(s) is (are) WEST COAST 
AUTO BODY SHOP, INC., 5950 LAUREL 
CANYON BLVD., N. HOLLYWOOD, 
CA 91607. This Business is conducted 
by: A CORPORATION. Signed: ARI 
GEVSHENIAN. This statement was filed 
with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County 
on 04/22/11. The registrant(s) has (have) 
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fictitious business name or names listed above 
on 06/18/99. NOTICE- This Fictitious Name 
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SENSE OR NONSENSE?! - 

Some Actions/Statements on County, 
State and Federal Issues Made Recently 
By Our Elected Officials:

“Realignment is a Trojan horse that transfers the state’s financial 
mess onto the county which is already stretched thin by 
unfunded state mandates,” said Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich. 
“Similar to rearranging the chairs on the Titanic, the 
state is shirking its responsibility to protect the public, pushing 
convicted felons back into local communities and requiring 
local government agencies to do the state’s job -- without 
the financial resources to do it.” 

Supervisor Michael Antonovich

Letter To The Editor

Editor:

 May 15-21 is National Emergency Medical Services Week. I encourage everyone 
to do two things. First, familiarize yourself with local emergency resources and how 
to access them. Make certain that everyone in your household knows how to call for 
help, whether it’s 911 for paramedics and fire, or the nearest Poison Control Center.

 Second, I hope everyone will take a moment to think about, and thank, the many 
emergency medical responders—paramedics, physicians and nurses—who stand 
ready 24 hours a day to protect and help you. They are a lifesaving team, working 
in unison when every second counts. They work long hours, often in difficult and 
even dangerous circumstances, to save lives. 

 They deserve our gratitude and respect every day. 

Sincerely, Tom Beck, Chair 

Methodist Hospital Emergency Department Council 

LIFESAVERS

Would you risk your own life to 
save another person’s? Would you 
routinely work all night, and on 
weekends and holidays, to help 
others? Would you deliberately 
head toward a disaster scene from 
which everyone else was fleeing?

There are people who do these 
things. They are paramedics, 
physicians and nurses, assisted by 
firefighters and police. 

May 15-21 is National Emergency 
Medical Services Week, and it’s an 
appropriate time to not only honor 
these people, but to also think 
about how much their presence 
means to your life. 

In fact, their presence might one 
day save your life. 

When a phone call for help comes 
in, these selfless people respond. 
They don’t ask if it’s safe, or 
convenient (often it’s neither). 
Whether it’s a child who has been 
found unconscious in the family 
swimming pool, an adult with a 
heart attack or stroke, or teenagers 
involved in an auto accident, 
paramedics respond and start to 
forge the first link in a lifesaving 
chain.

These highly skilled professionals 
have the knowledge, skill and 
commitment that will make a life 
or death difference for millions 

of people across the country this 
year. They serve communities 
large and small, in areas urban and 
suburban. What doesn’t change is 
their dedication to helping others.

When the sick or injured arrive at 
our emergency room, the second 
link in the chain starts to form. 
Physicians, nurses, technicians 
and others operate as a carefully 
choreographed team, triaging, 
assessing and treating. 

They, in turn, are part of a still-
larger team of emergency medical 
professionals throughout Los 
Angeles County, all of whom 
cooperate in case of a local or 
regional disaster, forming another 
link in the lifesaving chain.

What this means to you, your 
family and your community is 
that in an emergency, someone 
will be there to help you. It won’t 
matter if it’s the middle of the day 
or the middle of the night, or a 
weekday or a weekend. Millions of 
people are alive today because this 
lifesaving chain was forged anew 
when their emergency struck.

National Emergency Medical 
Services Week is only a week in 
length. Our gratitude to these 
people should be endless.

Mountain Views 
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