Drs. Rania Milleron and Nicholas Sakellariou talk about changing the culture of the engineering profession so that more will step forward when they see bad things happening. And Karen Friedman, from the Pension Rights Center, tells us about preserving your pension and answers the question: “Is Social Security really in trouble?”
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Ralph Nader, among the greatest Americans of all time.
Absolutely true!
The MPRA was passed into law on 12/14/14. This bill was passed because, for 40 years prior to passing this bill, ERISA wouldn’t allow cutting pensions. We were told by the cspf director Thomas Nyhan in 2016 that the fund would be broke in 10 years. We are down to 5 years now, because of our professional ( kick the can down the road ) politicians in D.C. cannot agree on anything, including the BLA/HR-397.
Too bad this discussion couldn’t have extended to the events of September 11, 2001. Most engineers, including those involved in the design and construction of buildings, seem to accept the narrative of the U.S. government that three skyscrapers collapsed that day in New York City because two got hit by airliners. There is also a contingent of engineers who argue that this explanation violates engineering principles. Is Attorney Nader so utterly persuaded by the government account that he thinks there’s nothing to discuss, or is he simply censoring this topic out of all discussion.
Under grad engineering students enter US engineering schools as a very broad diverse group but due to the overwhelming corporate influence of the military industrial complex these malleable students come out of the engineering schools as a single focus hyper competitive homogeneous group with limited diverse critical thinking skills. The deliberate suppression of more humanities courses required for graduation limits the exposure to more “critical thinking” and maintains a bubble/sheltered existence.