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That's to keep them busy, and it gives their mom enough time to buy no hat. Oh, it's wonderful, mama. The schools that I got here, till you 16, you go to public school. First is a grammar school. Then when you grow high, it's a high school.   There they teach you French, Spanish, Latin, and a Greek.   But I'm trying to learn. And I'm very happy that I've got the most wonderful teaching in the world, and that she is so beautiful. Mama, when she's trying to make me learn something, it's a pleasure, because even if it's for my brain, I don't understand, my eyes appreciate that. And just the last night, when I was coming home from school, I went to my friend's. He's certainly our fortunate. Some teachers would get disgusted with some of the answers we give, but not Miss Baldy. That's true. Miss Baldy has a wonderful capacity for patience. Yeah.  What a combination. Oh, ha! Fellas, fellas, wait up. But listen to me. My heart is bumping like it chose discovered oil. Fellas, listen. I got a terrible news. The worst news you ever heard. Miss Baldy is gonna leave us. Miss Baldy has a... What? She's gonna leave us? But why? Are you sure? What happened? She told you? No, no, no. Listen, listen. I was getting my clothes out from the clothes closet. Nobody could see me. Suddenly, the principal walked in. Oh, Mr. Reuter. He begins whispering to Miss Baldy. She says, I'm sorry, Mr. Ors. My letter of resignation still stands. And he says, please reconsider Miss Baldy. Then she whispers back something I couldn't hear. Yeah, but... But it shoots. Why you couldn't hear? Because my ear only stretches nine inches away from my head. It was, and it wouldn't go no further. Yeah, but... That's the worst news in the world. I wonder why she's doing it. She won't say it, blame you.   Ah, I'm sorry, Olsen. If I thought she was leaving an account of me, I would... Well, I would find a near-swimming pool and jump into it. What's so terrible about that? After I let the water out? But it shoots. It doesn't feel so bad. I'm sure it's not because of you, because... Maybe it could be because of me. Well, I'm always a stop to the class with my problems. No, no, Luigi. If it's anybody, it's me. No, no, it's me, all right. Yeah, but look, why are we arguing so much? What we gotta do is go see Miss Baldy and make her change her mind. I'm not going to her house first thing in the morning. And I'll go with you, Luigi. I gotta be in the stool. But that's all right. Horowitz and me, we gotta... George, you see, that's what makes Miss Baldy disgusted. Horowitz and me. There should be Horowitz and I. Oh, at a time like this, he thinks of grabber. Anyway, you two go, Luigi, and Horowitz, and talk. Talk, talk. Until you can win her, she's gotta stay. Yeah, that's all right. So we tell her how much we need her, and we're gonna tell her everything. What if it don't work? Then there's only one thing left to do. What's that? Bribery. We guarantee her an apple a day for the next ten years. Well, here's the house, Horowitz. You talk to her, huh, Horowitz? Well, I'll start, Luigi. Then she tells me to mind my own business, then it's your turn to talk. All right, all right. Oh, here, here, the disorder says, uh, manage. I'm, I'm gonna ring. I'm sorry, no rooms for rent. But we... Try me in a couple of days. I think the girl on the first floor is moving. That is unless she comes through with a rent. A rent?  Yes. Say, who are you anyway? Permit me to introduce ourselves. My name is Horowitz, and this here is... Luigi Pasco. Mama, may you guess my name, just by looking under my face? No, not exactly. Miss Baldy is always talking about her night school class. And where's the tall, silly-looking fellow who tells her funny jokes? You mean a shirt, sir? Yeah, and a quisk at all, sir. I tell you, the way she talks about you, you'd think the class was one big family. I don't know, the way she marks the papers, we must be distant relatives. Well, anyway, if you're here to see Miss Baldy, she's not in now. Oh, she's not, huh? Well, uh, where is she? Well, right now, she's down in a professional employment agency, I told her about. You see, Luigi, the whole thing is a matter of money. You mean to Mr. Landler that you turn her out of her room because she's a nut that got the money? Oh, Lord, don't get me wrong. Miss Baldy's a fine girl, very fine, but, you know, this isn't the first time I've been delayed on my rent, and, you know... Hey, wait, what are you doing?  No, please, it doesn't get us any wronger. But the way we find out the way we want to, come on, now, how do we know enough? Charles, did you see Luigi, dear Horowitz yet? I don't know, but I hope they get here to the class before Miss Baldy comes in. I'm dying to find out who she is. Well, fellas. It's even simpler than we thought, boys. She's resigning from teaching because she needs more money. Yeah, and if she doesn't pay her rent as soon as she's got to move out... They can't make her move by Yemeni. She is a teacher. Olsen, you can be a professor, but if the landlord don't get rent money, you've got to take your PhD and move to the YMZ. Why does the matter, Luigi? Well, it sure looks like I'm going to feel good. You know, sure, so when I'm going to find the address, I'm going to talk to Miss Baldy and we'll be living in a beautiful place. No. It was just a little apartment in the house. Plain, old. Oh, Luigi, don't take it so too hard. She's coming in now. Maybe we can talk her out of here. Good evening, class. I'll call the roll. Here? Mr. Harwitz? Here? Mr. Olsen? Mr. Schultz? Peek-a-boo. My, everybody. I made a joke. All right, Mr. Schultz, now we'll get on with our lesson. I assigned you the chapter on the duties and powers of the president. Mr. Harwitz, will you tell us some of the duties of the president? With pleasure. The president, let me see. And Mr. Harwitz, do you or don't you know? Well, I'm trying to refresh my memory. The place to refresh it is home when you're studying. I'll just give you a zero for that. Tabasco? Well, I must admit, powers are over the president? Yes, go on. Well, he appoints you the cabinet. With whose consent and approval? Huh? When the president appoints his cabinet, whose approval must he get? My friend, I don't know. All right, Mr. Tabasco, you may have a zero, too. Now, Mr. Schultz. Just call me zero. You stop mumbling, Mr. Schultz. You may tell us when the president appoints his cabinet, whose approval is necessary. Uh... The senate. The senate. Mr. Schultz, tell us some more powers of the president. Commander-in-chief. His commander-in-chief. Executive powers. He's got all executive powers. He signs the bills. He pays all gas on the electric bill. Oh, zero. And Mr. Olsen, for whispering those answers to Mr. Schultz, you may have a zero, too. Mishpoly, you're giving Olsen a zero. That's like putting a dance clap on Einstein. Please be quiet, Mr. Schultz. Olsen, you amazed me. Why did you do that? Well... I wanted everyone to... to make a good impression on you today. Today? Why today? Because... Well... Because you... Because here's the one that you should stay in the school and not to design. Oh, so you know about my resignation. Yeah, and I don't worry about that answer, Miss Spaulding, because... Because we wasn't spoke to your land of honor... I see, gentlemen. Don't you think you might possibly have acted a little out of turn prying into my personal affair? Miss Spaulding, it was only because... Please remember this for the future. My private life is my own. No matter how many liberties I seem to allow in my class, if I choose to resign from my teaching position, I shall resign. You may go now, class. I said class is dismissed. We don't want to go. We want to stay here with you. You're... that's right. Please... Please, Miss Spaulding, don't resign. Everything I'm learned about America, well, I'm a learner from you. All the ideas that I've got... Well, you helped me to get there. He's right. Very well. Since you all intend to remain here, I'll go. Good night, gentlemen. School will never be the same after she goes. Sure. I wonder who can take her place. Nobody. I hope there isn't that crabby old Mr. Hein. Maybe when he's a look on his a salary, that's to make him a crabby. Ah, stop. If Miss Spaulding leaves, there's only one thing left for us to do. What's that? Play hooky from school for the next 25 years. It's the fact that Wrigley Spearman chewing gum is really a two-way treat. It's a taste treat with lots of delicious, long-lasting flavor, and it's a chewing treat. Something good that you can chew on for as long as you want. What's more, this pleasant chewing aids digestion and helps keep your teeth bright and clean. So it's especially helpful right after a meal. Enjoy healthful, delicious Wrigley Spearman chewing gum often. And always have some in your home for your family to enjoy. Wrigley's Spearman costs so little. Tastes so good, lasts so long. Now let's turn to page two of Luigi Basco's letter to his mother in it. Mommy, I've got a bad news for you. You know that the wonderful teacher, I'm always right about Miss Spaulding. Well, it looks like she's really going to stop teaching. I'll never forget the mommy. The first time I walked into her room, that was two years ago. And she said, are you Luigi Basco? Mommy, the way the sweet American girl is a pronounce Luigi Basco. I felt like my name was just a guy as a citizenship of purpose. Then I remember first the year. She's teaching me so much about America. I'm going to learn about Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Paul Revere, and all the other great Americans. Also, she's teaching me the biggest American rule. You must never say ain't. Oh, I'm all so much into this girl, mommy. Last Christmas, I'm going to give her a little box of handkerchiefs. Then a couple of weeks later, she's got a cold. And when her shoes are used to my handkerchiefs to sneeze in, I was the proudest fellow in the Chicago. But anyway, I'm sitting here wondering what to do. When it is to come to somebody, and I know he's a no-got to the answer. Luigi, my friend. Hello, Luigi. Hello, hello. Hello, Pascuali. What's the matter for you? Hello, Pascuali. What's the matter, little banana nose? Outside is a spring. The sun is shining. Birds are flying around like a B-29. The air is as sweet as a perfume. And if you live another six weeks, June is going to be busting out the right of your little cabbage-a-puss. That's the matter, Luigi.  No, no, Pascuali.  Oh, it's about a guy, Luigi. Yeah, but how do you know? Oh, I know. I can read people's minds. I'm a philanthropist.  Oh, yeah, yeah, Pascuali. I would like to... I'd like to do something but what can I do to help her? Rosa, don't ask her for much. You're just a marier. Pascuali, it was not the Rosa I'ma think about. What? How are you like that? She's a committed bigamy on my little girl before even a marriage. Pascuali, I'ma think about the Miss Spaulding. Luigi, that's the sneakiest thing you could do. Marry a new teacher just to get a higher marks. You know, stop it, Pascuali. There's nothing like it. That is just a... just a well... Miss Spaulding. She's a... She's going to stop her coming into the school. That's a no sound all right, Luigi. In America, the Pouples is a play hook. You're not the teacher. Oh, Pascuali, stop it, stop it.  It's a hard for Miss Spaulding to get along on her Saturday so she's going to find another job. That's not a bad idea.  In the daytime, they teach, in the nighttime, they toot. But if she's a no going to toot, she's going to give her resignation to the principal and if she's a no, come back. Oh, that's a good... that's a free. Yeah. Well, Luigi, sometimes the things that turn out are for the good. Yeah, but the... Sure! My daughter Rosa, going to be your teacher. Miss Spaulding ain't the only one that knows the world is around. A two and two is a four and a link can discover Nebraska. No, please, please, Pascuali. I'm... I'm... I'm going to feel a bad day. Then why not, Luigi? My little girl, she's got a high school diploma. She's going to teach you arithmetic and geography and history and all the time you can be sitting and holding her hands and we're doing the movies. No, no, no, Pascuali. No, no, no, Pascuali, no Pascuali. Best thing for you, Luigi, would be to stop the schooler for good, give you a tired brain and rest. You think it's healthy to take things out of books and stuff them in that little head? Someday you're going to be standing in the sun and poof, you're going to explode, just like that. Hey, hey Pascuali, I'm... I'm a good idea. I'm going to go right now to board education and to make them understand that they got to give a Miss Balding a raise. Ah, now you're talking a sense and I'm going to give you good arguments. Just tell them that with the high prices she's enough to afford to buy chalk so she's got a ride on the blackboard with a burnt mattress. Yeah, but a Pascuali...  Also, you tell them she can't afford the school books for the last two weeks she's been teaching you with the telephoto books. Then you've got to... No, no, no, no, goodbye, Pascuali. I'm not going to the board education. Miss Balding is... He's got to stay my future. Why does this world are coming to? People are fighting so they can go to school. Excuse me, sir. Yeah? This is a board education building, isn't it? Yes, it is. Who is it you're looking for? Tell her who's the hand out the raises to the teachers. Raises to teachers?  Oh, you must be on some committee that's trying to raise teachers' salaries. That's right. I'm with the Hall of Committee and we're trying to raise it just to one at each. I'm afraid I can't help you very much. All right, then. Another please. Remember, you know, who's in charge of it to teach you the money? Well, Mr. Winters is the head of our school board. He's right up the hall in Room 107, but I don't think he'll see you. Oh, here's a... Is he not going to see me? No. Why? He's got a bad eye, isn't he? No, he's... It's just that he's busy. Is he busy, Wally? He's not going to be so busy when he's found out that his best teachers are going to live in him. No, please, not so loud. Maybe you could come back Monday morning. No, no, Monday's not good. She's got to have the money right away because you want her to turn out to not have the money to... What's going on? Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Winters. This gentleman insists on seeing you. About what? About the... About the Mrs. Spaulding's raise. Mrs. Spaulding? Who is she? The boss. He don't know who's working for him. Well, we can't stand here in the hallway. Come in, Mr.... Basko, Luigi Basko. No, then. Just what's on your mind, Mr. Basko? He's about the Mrs. Spaulding. She's a teacher and he unites the school. And you ever complain? You don't pay enough for money. What? I mean, she's not got enough to pay to rent or buy whatever she's in need of. She's going to quit at the school and then, well, she's going to join the employment agency. Well, this is all very interesting, Mr. Basko, but what do you expect me to do about it? I'm only out of the board.  Maybe $10, $15. That's impossible, Mr. Basko. Her salary is fixed. Salary? Fixed? Of course. Your instructor's salary is defined in the city salary schedule for teachers. On the basis of the money we have to go around. Money?  The board of education. Well, who's the head of board of education? I am. Oh, that's good. I'm going to tell him he's spoiling you. She's got the raises starting tonight. Please, sit down, Mr. Basko. Look, I don't decide what money is to be allotted for teaching. No, then who's decided? Well, indirectly, the people. You see, teachers' salaries come out of local taxes. If we wanted to raise their salaries, we would first have to raise taxes in order to get the money. Well, all right, I'm awake. Go ahead, the raises are taxes. It's not that simple, Mr. Basko. We are at our tax limit right now. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Sure. I'm understanding. Good. Now, do you have any further questions? Yes. You think you can give him a spoiling a raise? Good day, Mr. Basko. Hello, friends. What do you all do not say to my story? Pascuali told us you went to the board of education. Luigi, what happened? Well, there wasn't no use to classmates. The board that had the says only way a spoiling can get the raises if we tax the locals is to run on a schedule of salary and all sorts of schedules and it's impossible because the whole thing is a fix. Oh, Luigi, are you for shimmers? What's the difference? The answer is no. You're too bad that it looks hopeless now. Yeah, but there's... No, no, I'm... It's not hopeless. I've got another idea. Yeah, maybe it's crazy, but I must say we should try it. What is it? Well, I'm going to tell you, but please don't laugh, because if it doesn't work out, it's...  No, tell us, Luigi. Even if it don't work out, we can always bleed insanity. Well, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I hope it works. The baby's been running around like ebobies. Divas, I'm gibushed. Shh, shh, shh. She's coming in now. Good evening, class. Good evening. Gentlemen, since I dismissed you early last night, we have a lot of ground to make up. Oh, and incidentally, I'd like to apologize for my behavior last night. There was no way for a teacher to act. That's not true. A teacher's only human. She's not made from stone. Yeah, sure. I'd sit at the place of Miss Pauline. Just...just to tell us who you changed your mind about delivering a score. No, Mr. Basko. In class, I will not have any more discussion on that subject. We will open our books now, and we... Excuse me, Miss Pauline. Why, Mr. Wilson? That's a hellendler. Yeah, yeah. Miss Pauline, some letters came in a little while ago for you. One special delivery and the other registered, so I thought I'd better rush them to you. Well, thank you very much. Oh, I'm glad to do it. I wonder what they can be. Himmel read it. I can't stand of the spin. Thank you, class. I'll just take a moment. Miss Pauline, I'm writing this letter for a whole class that we don't want you to leave at a school. Since the teacher's the money, as it comes from a tax, this is going to take too long until you get a raise. We want to decide to make a private tax on ourselves right now. Every week, all of us should see the meet. Ship and a five dollars a piece. That's a twenty dollars all together. And we're going to mail you the money. And the closer you find you, first the week's a raise, signed it. Half-show. Nathan Horowitz. Yeah, they called, son. And I'll read your basket. Class, you're crazy. Crazy like this we should always be. I'm a spottinger. What's the register letter? It's from the Board of Education. Mama, may they accept the letter of resignation? Kenneth F. Winter's Board of Education my dear Miss Faulding, one of your students, Mr. Luigi Basko, has just come to visit. Oh, no, no, no. I'm a medium of trouble, Miss Faulding. I'll read the rest of this to myself, class. It is not easy to take a group of foreign-born students and educate them to absorb completely our American customs, institutions, and ideals. If Mr. Basko is an example of your efforts, then the city of Chicago needs your type of teaching very badly. I, for one, hope that you will rescind your letter of resignation. As for the money situation, let us hope that citizens' groups will, in the near future, put pressure on our legislature to increase teachers' salaries. You all deserve it. Sincerely, Kenneth F. Winter's. I'm a spottinger. What did he say? Did you accept your resignation? Class, I don't know. Miss Faulding, please say you're going to accept our tax every week. No, class, that's impossible. But we won't miss it, Miss Faulding. And remember, next year, if we like you, we're going to give you another raise. No, class, but you're wonderful. Miss Faulding, I... I can wait another month. And if the landlord don't, we're going to build your tent. You can sleep in the bar. Yeah, that's a fact. Miss Faulding, are you going to stay? We'd better get on with our work. I don't want to have a bunch of dumbbells in my class next year. Miss Faulding has decided to keep on teaching us, which is to make everybody very happy. Come on, Miss, is it too bad of teachers that don't want to get them more money? Because they deserve it. If I wasn't a judge, I would have given every teacher bigger days in a pay. Every summer off with the pay.  You're lovin' a son, Luigi Bascogli, immigrant. 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The promo went up and somebody at my job saw me. Is that you? And I'm like, who? Where? And I was like, oh, I think I need to quit. You were exposed. Ah!  She goes, okay, so what's the deal? And I said, well, you know, we're gonna be on Shark Tank. She's like, what? And then I go, yeah. And we're rolling out at Walmart, 1500 stores. She goes, girl, you don't have time to be here. You need to go run that business. So on the premiere night when the episode air, my team from my former company, we did a viewing party and that's a beautiful thing to be able to transition with peace and optimism instead of like, you know, quitting and everybody thinks somebody's dying.


It's amazing to think about the progress we have made with STN32Cube ecosystem since I joined STN32Cube 4 years ago. I would like to share these innovations with you. Until recently, Start of New project was always from microcontroller or board selector. Now, CubeMix allows you to start your project from examples and put your code on top of the already prepared examples in cube firmware packages. These are fully available on ST GitHub and allow you to contribute to our ecosystem and benefit from other co-developers worldwide. The new STN32U5 has ARM trust zone. This brings additional complexity since you have to work with multiple projects, the secure and non-secure ones. Do you wonder how do you set up execution context for middleware, GPI or peripheral? Just to our CubeMix graphical wizard, it is now possible to assign to each of them secure or non-secure part and all this before you generate your C-project. To enlarge and grow cube ecosystem, we want you to be able to add any piece of code for example middleware or implement your own driver with our expansion packs for example for our NFC reader. We call these software bricks cube expansion packages. CubeMix can now import these packages coming from our partners or community, helps you to configure it and generate the code for your project. One of the first packs we have is Microsoft Azure Ertos for STN32H7 series. Developers can now benefit from our complementary middleware and have quick access to operating system, file system, USB stack or TCP IP stack with few mouse clicks. We are thrilled to see how you will put your hands on this new feature and move on with your design quicker than before. We do not stop here. To go even further, we have made it possible for you to create your very own pack, share it with community or reuse it in a company. This is now possible with our new tool which we call STN32 pack creator and which guides you through the complete process of your pack. Let's speak about configuration. The new STN32U5 is coming with its low-power background autonomous mode, the LP BAM. CubeMix will deliver extension tool that guides developer to create his very own application profile between run and low-power modes in full graphical interface. It's great to think what developers like the most about our existing CubeMix features, how they can optimize hardware design with our graphical pinout preview of the microcontroller, how developers can create and enable the UART peripheral in less than 5 clicks, how it's easy to solve internal clock tree. For low-power application we have a tool to estimate low-power consumption which we call power consumption calculator. We let you to generate C project for your favorite ID and we let you to decide between fast time to design and higher code optimization with HL or LL drivers. I must not forget about our state-of-the-art STN32Q by D. There is now operating system aware debugger which lets you to see list of threats, mutuxes or other system dependent features in ID in real time. This is a very important feature for the developers and helps them to solve potential issues in their software very quickly and efficiently.


The Sergeant Major of the Army, Raymond Chandler, recently visited U.S. Army Europe and discussed the current mission and relevance of USERR. If you look at what we're doing in Poland, Latvia, Estonia, and other locations, you can see the importance of USERR. Obviously, soldiers that are wounded overseas are probably going to transit through Lawn Stool, and then you've got different forces that are here that can project power. Because of its strategic place around the world, USERR is going to be relevant as long as we need an army. During his visit, he also took the time to meet with soldiers to discuss best practices and listen to their concerns. I think the one thing that soldiers are nervous about is their ability to stay and serve.  From USERR PAO, this is Aaron Harmon reporting.


So, about a month or so ago on the program, we talked about how there was an effort amongst congressional Republicans to use COVID-19 to undermine social security. And this is something that Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell also want to do. And since social security is such a popular program, they can't just come out and explicitly say we want to cut social security or undermine social security. They can't even say that they want to privatize social security because even Republicans, even voters, that is, they have social security. They like this program, so they don't want politicians to touch it. So what they have to do is basically lie to people. Trump proposed, for example, a payroll tax cut to help people during this pandemic. Now ask yourself, why would it make sense to help people who are losing their jobs at record numbers by cutting payroll taxes?  Well, this is just a covert attempt to undermine social security because social security is a program that is funded almost disproportionately or, if not mostly, through payroll taxes. So if you cut payroll taxes, you undermine social security by cutting funding to it. And then once they create this problem, then they can propose solutions to fix social security, which leads to privatization either fully or partial. But either way, Wall Street wants it. And they are trying to deliver. So long story short, we talked about that effort and it hasn't gone away. It's still an issue. They're still trying to use COVID-19 to undermine social security and ultimately gut it by either privatizing it, whatever. And that effort is gaining momentum. And Mitt Romney is spearheading this effort because he's trying to set up these sort of task forces or committees, whatever way you want to frame this to look at what we can do to protect social security at a time when it is under threat because of COVID-19. Yeah, if it sounds sketchy, it's because it is. So for more on this, we got a Jake Johnson of Common Dreams who reports a proposal by Senator Mitt Romney to establish congressional committees with a specific goal of crafting legislative, quote unquote, solutions for America's federal trust fund programs has reportedly resurfaced in GOP talks over the next COVID-19 stimulus package. Sparking alarm among progressive advocates who warned the Utah Republicans bill is nothing but a stealth attack on social security and Medicare. Politico's Bergus Everett reported Wednesday that Romney's Trust Act first introduced last October with the backing of a bipartisan group of senators is getting a positive reception from Senate Republicans in coronavirus relief discussions, which are still in their early stages. The legislation Everett noted could become part of the mix for the next COVID stimulus package, as Republicans once again claim to be concerned about the growing budget deficit. Max Richmond, president and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, told Common Dreams in an interview that he is not at all surprised to see Romney's bill crop up again and said it should be diligently opposed and see PSSM vocally condemned the Trust Act when it was unveiled last year, warning that if passed, the measure would likely result in cuts to the earned benefits of seniors, people with disabilities and survivors. Richmond noted that in a House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee roundtable discussion this week, the idea of establishing commissions to study possible changes to social security, though not Romney's bill specifically was floated by GOP members, an indication that the New Deal era program is very much on the minds and potentially in the crosshairs of Republican lawmakers. Speaking to Politico this week, two Republican congressmen, representatives Tom Reed and Steve Womack cited the coronavirus pandemic's possible effects on social security to call for a commission to study the program and recommended reforms. Representative John Larson meanwhile is pushing for an expansion of benefits funded by lifting the payroll tax cap, which would make wealthy Americans pay more. So look, let me just save them the hassle. You don't even have to create these committees. Let me just tell you what the conclusion ultimately will be. The conclusion is that social security is going bankrupt. And in order to save social security, we've got to make some changes, which will ultimately result in us underfunding the program, undermining its long-term health and actuality when it's not currently the case that it is going bankrupt and then proposing a solution to the problem that they themselves created. I mean, we're kind of already seeing this, right? Because they're fear mongering about the budget and the deficit. That's what, you know, Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump are using as grounds to fear monger about, you know, needing to cut social security. So they propose some sort of solution to a problem that doesn't actually exist and they end up creating more problems with said solution that we didn't need them to implement in the first place. If you want to save social security and you want it to last for future generations, there is just one policy change that you need to make. And it was cited in this article by Representative John Larson. You just lift the cap on taxable income. Bernie Sanders talks about this and it is the one change that you need to make if you want to protect social security. Period. End of story. Anything else is just going to be an effort to undermine social security because they know that if they just come out and say, look, we want to privatize social security, it's not going to last. And if you want it to be there for future generations, your children and grandchildren, then we have to privatize it. That argument holds no weight, even among Republican Party voters. Doesn't hold any weight. So what they have to do is actually drive down satisfaction because this program is very popular. So if they can cultivate dissatisfaction by undermining the program, gutting it in ways and roundabout ways, covert ways, then people might be more open to the idea of privatization and they may not propose full privatization, but they at least want to start with partial privatization. And then once Wall Street gets their foot in the door, then, you know, it's a matter of time before they chip away at it. And it looks nothing like it does today. So this is why whenever there is any sort of inklings that they may make an adjustment or change or fix to social security, we have to sound the alarm because they are constantly looking for ways to undermine social security. And if they're going to use COVID-19 as a justification, they don't care that it's disgusting and insidious. They're going to use just that because this is what their donors want. And think about this. They're trying to roll this into the next stimulus package. Supposedly it's still early, but the first stimulus came with a multi-trillion dollar bailout for the industry. And the second one may come with them undermining social security. Even during a pandemic, they're always looking out for their donors. So I want you all to remember this. Whenever there is an opportunity for social security to be undermined and ultimately cut Republicans will be looking for that way out. Democrats also want to cut social security. They also want to deliver for their Wall Street donors. Obama tried to do this, but Bernie Sanders is the one who actually stopped him from cutting social security. So, you know, you have to be vigilant because both parties want to cut social security. But Democrats are a lot more tactical when it comes to cutting social security. They try to do it when they're in power and try to, you know, pass it as a negotiation with Republicans so they can argue that their hands were tied, like how Obama didn't want to raise, you know, the cost of living. Give social security recipients that raise, which amounts to a cut over time. But Republicans, they're just always, they don't care if they're in power or not. They're always looking for a way to undermine social security. And you have to be hyper vigilant.  Trump wants to do it. Mitch McConnell wants to do it and we can't let them. We have to stop them. So this is disgusting. Mitt Romney's Trust Act isn't about anything but gutting social security. We don't need to study what we need to do to protect social security. The answer is very simple. You just lift the cap so rich people can pay into it as well. There's no reason to stop people who make higher incomes from paying into social security. That doesn't make any sense, right? They're going to get it too, right? It's a universal program, so why should they not be paying into it? So that's it. Anyone who proposes anything else is lying to you. They're trying to deceive you because they ultimately want to gut social security and privatize it for their donors and we can't let them. We cannot let them. We have to fight them because they're going to do it if we don't fight them at every step of the way. The humanist report is fake news. Mike only cares about crazy Bernie and his wacky socialist ideas. Sad, very sad. I'm unsubscribing.


Welcome to my channel and welcome to yet another video in the Crash Course series on literary theory. We have already touched a few important literary theory in this series. We've touched formalism, new criticism, we've touched structuralism, we've touched post-structuralism and deconstructionism. And while we were talking about all these literary theories, we discussed a major fact that was binary opposite. Structuralists were of the belief that in order to understand one thing, you need to understand the exact opposite to it. Now, if you want to understand what is structuralism, you need to understand what is post-structuralism and how is it different from structuralism. Similarly, if you want to understand post-modernism, don't you think it's important to first understand what is modernism? Now, modernism we all know came somewhere around 1910 and have you ever wondered what led to modernism? Why writers like T. S. Eliot, Matthew Arnold were talking about fragmented world, were talking about absence of faith. Okay, so if you understand the socio-economic condition of European countries during and before 1910, you will be able to understand what led to modernism. And once you understand modernism, I'm pretty sure that understanding post-modernism would be a cakewalk. So, let's first understand what is modernism but before that it's important to know how modern and modernism are different from each other. These two words modern and modernism seems to be alike but they are very different. If you look at the word modern, you can define it by historic sense. So, what is modern? Modern is when you don't add to the previous notions or traditional values. In that case, every age is a modern age. If you look at our parents, they mostly call us that you are modern generation. Why? Because we guys don't follow the values or principles of our parents' generation. But if you ask your parents, they would tell you that their parents, that means our grandparents used to say the same thing to our parents. They also used to say that you guys are modern. Why? Because each generation drifts from the previous generation and this drift is modern. If you look at English language from linguistic point of view, you will find that English language has also gone through three periods. Old English, Middle English and Modern English. Now, old English period was somewhere around 500 to 1000 AD, then came medieval period that was somewhere around 1000 to 1400 and then came modern period. That was from 1400 onwards and that is why Jofrey Chaucer is known as the father of modern English because he was the pioneer of modern English language. But then modernism as a movement began in 1910. It is different from the term modern. Modernism began in 1910. It did not began in the time of Chaucer. Chaucer is known as the father of modern English because the English as a language started in the modern from drifted apart from medieval English when Chaucer began writing. So modern as a word is always getting its meaning from historic sense. Every generation in that sense is modern. On the other hand modernism is a literary movement, a literary period which began after 1910. And it was during modernism that writers like T.S. Eliot was writing Love Song of J. Alfred Profrog, was writing works like Waste Land. We had Virginia Woolf writing to the lighthouse. We have James Joyce writing Ulysses, portrait of an artist as a young man. All these words actually symbolize the main principles, the main values of modernism which is a literary movement beginning around 1910. And after modernism came next literary movement which also became a literary theory which is known as postmodernism which began after Second World War. That is after 1945. So modernism is from 1910 to 1945 and postmodernism is post 1945. Modernism as a movement came into being when people unanimously believed in the fact that they are left with no pillar of faith. We as human beings always want to rely on something to get faith, to get strength from something. And there were a lot of pillars of faith for each of us during the Victorian and Romantic period. And gradually human beings saw that all these pillars of faith were shaken and no longer they could rely on these pillars of faith. Because of which they found that the entire world is fragmented and they have no scope for betterment. It is very well said by Matthew Arnold in the poem Dover Beach where he says that sea of faith has dried out. Now in order to understand why modernism came into being in somewhere around 1910, we need to understand the fact that which were the pillars of faith and how humans stopped to believe in these pillars of faith. The first important pillar of faith is the power of God. We all during the Victorian and Romantic period know that people believed in the power of God. But then what happened? Then came the great philosopher, the great scientist Charles Darwin who presented a paper called Evolution of Species in which it was clearly written that there was no involvement of God in the evolution of species like human beings. We all evolved because of a natural process, natural mechanism because of adaptation and science behind this entire evolution was told by Charles Darwin. And this was the first point when people shake in religion, people share faith in God was shaken. Another important philosopher who was writing during this period was Frederick Nyshe. Frederick Nyshe said a very important statement during the Victorian period, God is dead when he saw this rampant materialism. So if you look at the first pillar of faith, God, the power of God, the faith of humans on God was shaken during the Victorian period. Next to God we always consider King because if you look at Aristotle's Poetics or other philosophers book, you will find that they always say that God has appointed King to rule on his behalf. So next to God is King whose authority cannot be challenged. What happened to this King? If you remember this was a period when Marxism was taking great force. This was a period when Karl Marx came up with Communus Manifesto and in Communus Manifesto he said that this hierarchy of King, middle class, lower class should be diminished. It is this King and the aristocratic people who are actually taking the power of lower class people who are the reason for the suffering of lower class people. And he said that there should be public property, there should be no private property, there should be no private ownership of goods. And that was the time when people lost their faith on Kings because they found out that it is Kings who are actually responsible for their miseries. So faith on God lost, faith on King lost. What next? Faith on our own power, our own potential, our own mind and then came Sigmund Freud with his book Interpretation of Dreams. So when Sigmund Freud came with interpretation of dream, he talked about the model of consciousness and he said that consciousness is structured like an iceberg. We can only see 10% that is the conscious level. There is a lot of unconscious and subconscious functioning which we cannot see. So all our actions are based on the 10% of the consciousness. Rest 90% we don't have any control on. So faith on our human mind was lost when we came to know about this structural model of consciousness. Now faith on God lost, faith on King lost, faith on human mind lost. What next? Another institution on which people believed was democracy. Then came the first world war. During 1914, 1918, there was this extreme world war situation which spread across the world. Lot of soldiers were killed, widespread bloodshed took place and then this world war first which was fought in the name of democracy came out with no result, no conclusion. And that was a period when people started questioning the institution of democracy. They started questioning their faith in democracy. They believed earlier that democracy is the reason that they are free, they are liberated, they have power to speak but then it was democracy which was responsible for this widespread bloodshed. So their faith in democracy also broke down. Finally, this was a time when science and scientific inventions were taking place. So people had a lot of belief in science but then when these atomic bombs were made which could destruct an entire city Hiroshima, Nagasaki with just one atomic bomb people started to see what bad science can do. So when science marries money that gives birth to technology and for the first time during the first world war people were able to see the negative impact of science. Their faith in science also was shaken. So if you look at the pillars of strength, our faith in God, our faith in human mind, our faith in democracy, our faith in king, our faith in science, everything was shaken and that led to modernism where the major principle was fragmented universe. There was nothing on which we could rely. There was nothing which can help us to get out of problems. This was modernism and this socio-economic condition is going to help you understand why writers like James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Virginia Woolf were writing what they were writing. They were so correct when you don't have something to rely on how are you going to live the rest of your life when you can see so much bad happening in front of your eyes. In spite of the fact that pillars of faith were shaken, the modern man during the 1920s, 1930s still believed that solutions are possible and all these writers were writing where there was this search of solution as a theme in their literary work. But then situations kept on becoming worse. If you look at the post-First World War period, you will find that there was great depression, then came different cold wars, then finally came World War II. And during all this period, all these European countries, they were gradually losing their colonies so their power was reduced. Apart from that, all these European nations became countries of multi-ethnicity. People from different colonized countries like Africa, India start living there. And this contradiction of multi-ethnicity came into being. So if you look at this post-modern world, you will find that in the post-modern writings, writers stopped looking for solutions. There was problematization of problems. If you look at the works of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, you will find that they are not at all talking about solutions. There is no search of solution. Being aware is considered to be a form of rebellion. If you are aware, it is considered that you are rebelling. So modernization means still there is search for solution. But in the post-modern world, people started to believe that there is no solution. Problematization of problem is there. Apart from that, if you look at the great modernist thinkers like Gene Waldwar, you will find that they came up with new theories like hyper-reality. What is hyper-reality? In order to understand hyper-reality, I will give you a very simple example. Before modernism, people used to manufacture objects which were known as hardware. Later computers came, technology came. Now in computer, in technology, in mobiles, what do we have? We have softwares, we have apps. Now apps, softwares, they are also manufactured. But they are not objects. If you look at Minion, Minion has become a very popular cartoon character. But do we have a Minion in reality? We have copies of Minion everywhere. We have Minion soft toys, lunchboxes, pencil box. Everything is there. But do we have Minions in reality? So when you have a copy of something which in reality does not exist, is what Gene Waldwar calls as hyper-real. Hardware is reality. You can see it. It's tangible. But software, it's intangible. It is manufactured. But it is not in physical form. So that's hyper-real. Gene Waldwar said that first Gulf War did not exist. It was hyper-real. That was the basic premise of Gene Waldwar. Because Gene Waldwar said that all what we see in media, all what we see on YouTube, on television, on radio is actually hyper-reality. They are trying to tell us what is real but we don't know whether it was real or not. We watch Disney movies. But do Disney exist in reality? No, it does not. So it's hyper-real. That's what Gene Waldwar calls as hyper-reality. And this was asked repeatedly in NetExam in July 2018. This was a question that who said that first Gulf War did not exist. It was a hyper-real episode. He also talked about Disneyland and this was asked in January 2017. So you can see repeatedly similar questions and asked in NetExam. So it's important for you to understand that because of the pillars of faith were shaken, modernism came into being. And because situation got worse, post-modernism came. And there was a slight difference in modernism and post-modernism. In modernism, there is still a search for solution. But in post-modernism, we only problematize these problems. We don't talk about solution. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is a perfect example of post-modern work. He's not talking about solution at all. He's just talking about problems. And being aware of the problem is said to be a rebellion in itself. Contradictions are embraced in post-modernism. If you look at multi-ethnicity world, if you look at different people coming from different cultures and that is celebrated, that is multi-ethnicity. And that is what post-modernism calls as contradictions must be embraced. There are a lot of other post-modern thinkers which you must study for UGC NetExam. One such is Julia Cristiva and her famous concept of intertextuality. I cover all these theories in detail with detailed analysis of previous year questions in my online audio course. So if you are willing to be a part of the online course, then you can visit my website www.arpathakarva.com. You'll get a list of all the writers that we cover as per the new syllabus. If you like the list, be a part of the course and prepare for UGC Net in a revolutionary manner. You can also subscribe to this YouTube channel because we are running this Crash Course series in which I would be talking about different literary movements and different literary theories in detail. 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