Middle Class Populist

Archive for December 23rd, 2007

Conservatives have no loyality! Just look at how the Republicans and their fellow travelers in Corporate America have betrayed their former hacks in the blue collar trades. During the Vietnam War construction workers would literally “beat up” college students and others who demonstrated against the war. Some construction workers even told me they did not get a “draft deferment” but a “draft exemption” due to their union getting their jobs labeled essential to the national defense!

Look at how the Republicans have treated their former lackeys!

Now under the Chamber of Commerce’s blessing, low wage Mexican workers are displacing and lowering the wages of American construction workers and soon truckers. Vietnam still is solidly communist long after the fall of the Soviet Union. Hey but those who advocated you lose your life or limb to preserve General Ky now run to make a profit in “communist” Vietnam! Here is a little history lesson for those to young to remember. Note how many blue collar unions supported the Republicans! What did that get them?

Most of those who were against the Vietnam War were not in sympathy with Jane Fonda. The news media, which I always believed helped the conservatives more than the liberals, created a false dichotomy of “Patriots” vs. “Politically Correct Liberals”. From a Middle Class populist perspective it is important to look at the differences between the “Politically Correct Liberals” and the “Republicans”!

These differences are no different today from years ago!

(1) Politically Correct Liberals:

They desire to “apologize” to the enemies of America. They have jettisoned the false collective guilt of being sons and daughters of Adam and Eve to now preaching collective guilt based on being white middle class Americans! You know the line we are X% of the worlds population yet we use X PLUS Y percent of the worlds resources. Mea Culpa Mother Goddess, Mea Culpa Mother Goddess! By the way I know the statistic is true but how about bringing the bottom up instead of making our lives miserable?

(2) Republicans and Conservatives:

They see the issue and the enemies of America from a completely different prospective! The Republicans do not believe in apologizing to the enemies of America rather they see the enemies of America as INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES! We live in an era of licentious permissiveness where CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS shred their “American identity” to become “Multinational Corporations” sending jobs and technology to even the enemies of our way of life!

Guess who will “rediscover” their American Identity when the China that they have built up, turns against us and our military must perform a massive buildup that could have been made unnecessary? These very same Iscariot CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS will then become “American” to make a profit! They preach “individual freedom” yet work to make the Middle Class individual renounce his own self interest in favor of the “CORPORATE COLLECTIVE”. This is no longer just a blue collar issue. High Tech college educated employees are seeing their jobs shipped overseas. Then those jobs that remain are having their salaries undermined by the importing of lower paid H1-b foreign workers. Soon the H1-b program will be expanded to all white collar fields!

The conservative idea of “freedom” is to reduce the power of the Federal Government as a referee of the market! But when that occurs the middle class individual does not see his freedom rise. Rather the CORPORATE BULLY, who preaches the Gospel of Ann Rand, now uses “government intervention” to lower the wage scale of both white and blue collar jobs by allowing CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS an era of licentious permissiveness to ship jobs and technology out of this nation that gave them birth, succor, protection and profits! These followers of Ann Rand then use “Government Intervention” to import foreign H1-B workers to change the employment market of high tech workers. Why should a college student struggle with the difficult courses in the technology sector when his/her incentives of future employment compensation are being reduced! These same followers of Ann Rand then wonder why “ATLAS SHRUGGED”!

The Silent Majority, America’s great Middle Class, will not stand by to see our individual freedom’s subjugated to the Corporate Collective! While the BLEEDING HEARTS of the Republican Party condone corporations that dodge their tax responsibility as they make paper Corporate HQ’s in foreign lands, they label the corporate lobby contributions to political candidates as acts of freedom! No it is the money of Middle Class Americans that the BULLY is collecting from us in the form of higher product costs and/or lower wages that make these lobbyists payments possible! Bad enough that a corporate CEO makes far more than us but he expects the middle class individual to subsidize his lobbyist’s payments to the government! We indeed do live in a land of two Americas! They expect us to accept them acting in their own selfish class interest but when the middle class individual wants economic freedom in the form of health insurance and assurance that education will not be undermined by the H1-b program they call it tyranny!

Yes we Middle Class Americans want to harvest your lackey definition of freedom in our individual lives:

Freedom from economic security: Who needs economic security when you own a house and have mortgage payments to make or are raising a family! My purpose is to serve the Corporate Collective! If I had economic security I might even dare to seek higher pay or God forbid start my own business! For the sake of the Corporate Elite that is why it is so important that I have FREEDOM FROM HEALTH CARE and FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC SECURITY.

Freedom from health care: Don’t let the government provide me with health care like every modern European nation does. Freedom from National Health Care means paying extravagant medical bills while hoping the Corporation will not fire me! Yes indeed that is the freedom I want, to serve the Corporate Collective!

Freedom from Social Security: By all means end this evil wicked program I don’t need that in my old age! By all means change it so millions of Americans can become “petty investors” while you cry for the Martha Stewart’s of the world and the big money interests. This is just a means of psychological warfare against the middle class to make us identity with the super rich. No, just owning stock does not make me identify with the Bill Gates of the world!

Most importantly is FREEDOM from asserting my Individual needs over the Corporate Collective: If I should study hard to become a computer programmer by all means use “selective government intervention” to bring in foreign H1-b Visa workers to undercut my salary. The needs of the Corporate Collective come first!

John Edwards is right we do live with “two Americas”. The time has come for America’s Silent Majority – our great Middle Class to assert itself from those who would subjugate the individual to the new 21^st Century Collectivists, the unchecked CORPORATE COLLECTIVE!