Archive for September, 2008
We hear the endless whining by the effete snobs of Corporate America that they pay too much in taxes! Yet how many days does one Middle Class Taxpayer have to work to equal the total compensation of these effete snobs! Like their income is based on working! Sure we need to give incentives for creativity and going to medical school. But doctors and incentives are not the issue here. This is beyond that! Corporate executives are paid far too much! Then these WHINERS complain. Yet in Europe there are just as many per capita millionaires but they learn to adjust to an economic system that tries to practice SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY! Oh dear in this era of licentious permissiveness (to use a conservative term) I said a bad term, “social responsibility”!
(The video above is funny but makes an important point how we could have used the money we wasted in Iraq! Show it to your friends!)
Because of George Bush, along with his fellow traveler John McCain and their lackey Joe Lieberman, our nation is throwing billions and billions into a vast WILD EYED REPUBLICAN SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT IN IRAQ! What do you expect to happen with interest rates? Years after “Mission Accomplished” our nation is allowing our troops to die! Worst yet they are lead by a Commander – in – Chief who did not finish his mandatory meetings in the National Guard! Then add to this the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy! Bush does this as he goes on a mass spending spree with this neo-con IRAQI SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT!
What do you think is going to happen to the budget surplus that was left to Bush by Bill Clinton? You would think Bush and his fellow traveler John McCain would at least care for the Veterans whom they placed in harms way! (See Video Below) No they prefer to cut taxes to the super rich instead!
Meanwhile we wave the white flag of surrender to the face of Osama Bin Ladin in the Afghan – Pakistani border region where the Al Qaeda homeland is located and their finances our undergoing a SURGE from the record opium production. The Afghan Opium Surge profit combined with the renegade nuclear scientists in Pakistan and the Al Qaeda base camps in the border region could result in a mushroom cloud over an American city! Not to worry with the great job George Bush has done with our border and port security!
Has anyone noticed a typical Republican Script?
ISSUE #1: Iraq War and Republican SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT IN IRAQ while cutting taxes to help the rich and destroying the Clinton budget surplus!
ANSWER: Let’s not talk about how we got into this mess the fact is we are here and so the patriotic thing is to just fix it!
ISSUE #2: Housing crisis with higher interest rates from the war costs combined with lax regulations.
ANSWER: Let’s not talk about how we got into this mess the fact is we are here and so the patriotic thing is to just fix it!
ISSUE #3: Wall Street bail-out crises from unpaid mortgages being held by credit institutions the result of issues 1 + 2 above!
ANSWER: Let’s not talk about how we got into this mess the fact is we are here and so the patriotic thing is to just fix it!
Well they are right! The time has come to fix these issues!
COUNTRY FIRST! TAX THE TOP 5%! IT’S THE PATRIOTIC THING TO DO!
VOTE FOR BARRACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN!
I just finished watching the Presidential Debate between John McCain and Barrack Obama! As an Obama supporter I wish he would go more on the offensive! John McCain came on as a little nasty and pushy! He seemed to have reverted to his prior strategy of “experience”. Obama was being polite and we need to see if that comes across positively with the public! I feel it will come across as being a wimp!
(I was reminded of the above Video while watching the debate. I would add though that Senator McCain has adopted two children from Asia so he is a good man. But his speeches can be angry)
Let me repeat a maxim that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid simply have not learned and perhaps Barrack Obama has not learned!
If you cannot forcefully defend your own political philosophy the American public rightly or wrongly will believe how then can you defend Middle Class interests and the interests of the United States around the world! Furthermore American voters like “action figures”. Even if those figures destroy their real friends, the average citizen has such a feeling of “OVERWHELMING IMPOTENCE” in the face of their day to day lives that Sarah Palin giving lipstick zingers acts vicariously as the “compensatory power” they wish they had in their own lives!
I can say what I feel as I am not a politician running for office! For those of you who remember the book, “The Greening Of America”, a new “Consciousness” is arising in America. The book calls it “Third Force Consciousness”.
I call it “MIDDLE CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS”. Slowly the Silent Majority are realizing our own “CLASS INTEREST” and not allowing fear to make us serve and internalize the needs of the upper class as our own!
As a humble observer with a degree in Psychology here is the advice I would give to Barrack Obama! When John McCain raised the following issues here is how I would respond with the following in addition to what he said or amplifying what he said!
McCain: The surge is winning and you would have us leave in defeat!
ANSWER: We are not leaving in defeat our brave troops fulfilled the constitutionally issued Mandate of the American Congress to over turn Sadam Hussein! Perhaps John McCain does not get it! “Mission Accomplished”! We have already won the war! Congress did not mandate the Republican wild eyed Social Engineering Experiment that is attempting to deal with the Shiite – Sunni rift of 1300 years! We know the Surge can work, we need a Surge in Afghanistan! Besides both the Iraqi President and Prime Minister want us to give them a time table for our withdrawal! Didn’t our troops die there so Iraq could have self determination?
McCain: We should not have contact with Iran!
ANSWER: Well then how about the CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS like Halliburton that has a subsidiary in Iran and General Electric which was selling Iran technological products! I guess it is alright to aid those who kill and injure our troops when it is done for profit! Second, while a Star Wars anti – missile system is a good idea the one we are going to build in eastern Europe does not help the United States and is stated to only be effective against rogue states! Fine then what message are we sending Iran if we tell them we will not tolerate them having nuclear weapons! The very PREMISE of this system is based on that we WILL allow them nuclear weapons! If we are not to have contact with Iran what does it mean that our supposed ally, “Iraq” has relations with Iran and the Iraqi Prime Minister has even visited Iran.
(The above Video addresses the issue of Palin vs Obama’s experience)
McCain: I have the experience and Obama doesn’t!
ANSWER: “Why yes John you are correct! Your running mate can see Russia from her home and being that I am from Illinois I lack that vast foreign policy Experience! I only have Senator Joe Biden a heart beat away from myself if something happens but you have Sarah Palin”!
- Being Governor of Alaska and situated next door to Russia is kind of like having foreign policy experience! Only you have no responsibility for dealing with the Russians nor really talking to them”!
- What’s the difference between the foreign policy experience of an Alaskan Salmon and the Governor of Alaska? — LIP STICK! Well that might be unfair to the Alaskan Salmon as they swim occasionally into Russian territorial waters and hence have some experience abroad!
The time has come for Democrats to forget about generating “Bad Karma” and start kicking Ass!
Let’s take back America from these effete snobs of the corporate class. No Bailout for the Wall Street lackeys – PERIOD! If this crisis really is an economic equivalent of 9/11 then let’s Nationalize the Banks, AIG and Credit Card Companies! We can call it the “FISCAL PATRIOT ACT”! Let’s use their rhetoric! That’s it!
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
SUPPORT THE FISCAL PATRIOT ACT!
NATIONALIZE THE CREDIT INSTITUTIONS – COUNTRY FIRST!
VOTE FOR BARRACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN!
John McCain is playing the “Patriot Game” and placing the welfare of the upper 5% over the class interests of the Silent Majority – our great Middle Class! While speaking to NBC’s Brian Williams, John McCain said the nation’s elected officials should place the needs and agenda of America’s Corporate Class above the money allocated by our constitutionally elected officials. Let me make one thing clear! I don’t like earmarks in general though what is an earmark to one could be a vital necessity to another! None the less I would be more willing to spend millions of dollars that were allocated by our constitutionally elected representatives to study the mating habits of monarch butterflies in North Dakota than to spend one penny subsidizing the rich fat cats of Wall Street!
First we are told that America cannot afford Universal Health Care but we MUST allocate immediately 700 Trillion Dollars to prop up the reckless behavior of Wall Street! Regardless if you believe in Universal Health Care or not! (I Do). Why are we to march lock step to the music of John McCain and his fellow traveler George Bush! Like a little baby John McCain is holding the debates hostage to our acceptance of this program! You can see his selfishness when in the above interview he talks about wanting “Town Hall Meetings”. So if he had “Town Hall Meetings” where he could pack them with political hacks then he would forget the fiscal crises? He speaks of wasteful government spending yet when Bill Clinton left office we had a budget surplus!
We are in this financial mess because John McCain and his fellow traveler George Bush have committed this nation to a vast Wild Eyed SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT IN IRAQ! They continue to pump lives and money into this project years after the Congressional goals of the war were fulfilled! Years after “Mission Accomplished” they now talk about a one hundred year commitment while the War on Terror is being lost in Afghanistan!
Where is the NEWS MEDIA on the facts of this financial mess? We are witnessing yet again more Pro-conservative news media biases! You never hear the role of the Iraq War and its effect on our economy from these talking heads! Yet the Republicans whine about the news media being biased against them! When will the Democrats get some spine and go on the attack instead of merely being “reactors”!
The time has come for The Middle Class, America’s Silent Majority to stand up to these effete snobs of Corporate America and say enough! No bail out! Protect America from the licentious permissiveness of deregulation!
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
NATIONALIZE THE BANKS AND CREDIT CARD COMPANIES!
Let’s call it THE “FISCAL PATRIOT ACT”!
John McCain’s slogan is “Country First”! Therefore why should we rush this bailout for Wall Street? If our banks and credit institutions fail we should simply NATIONALIZE THE BANKS AND CREDIT CARD COMPANIES!
(The Above Video by “The Young Turks” collaborates a point I made in a prior post and goes beyond with some EXCELLENT additional insights)
I am sick of our nation being pushed by the Republican politics of fear! Instead of rushing this bailout for AIG, a company that fired many of it programmers after first having them train their H1-b foreign replacements, I suggest we wait out the supposed banking crises when AIG goes belly up! By the way as a former employee I hope they do go under! If there is a problem with our banking system this is 2008 not 1929 and our society no longer suffers from many free market hang ups! Nationalize the banks and credit card companies! The Republicans seem to believe this nation must automatically self destruct unless we surrender to their crony protectionist scheme! Why are we to saddle our nation with the risk and cost equivalent of two Iraqi Wars? No way! What for the effete snobs of AIG? That company used to “re-org” folks out of work every two years. Then hire them back as full time temps and six months latter rehire them. Now the pension clock was set back! I know I was one of them!
America’s Silent Majority - Our Great Middle Class are growing tired of those who make huge sums of money but lack Social Responsibility to the society and nation that allows them to do so. Let’s remember WE RESENT THOSE WHO MAKE FAR MORE THAN US AND IT IS A HEALTHY RESENTMENT! What have they done to be so over compensated! Let them experience, as one Congresswoman stated, “Not a Golden Parachute but a crash landing as most Americans experience”!
Tonight John McCain played a great political game and attempted to suspend the debates and campaign. Great first we suspend our constitutional guarantees with the Patriot Act and wage a Republican Wild Eyed Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq that brought us to this financial crisis! Now we are supposed to “trust” the Republicans in this new national crisis that they and their fellow travelers on Wall Street brought about. As I mentioned in my prior post isn’t it amazing how we don’t have the money for Universal Health Care yet the Middle Class taxpayer is supposed to finance this wild eyed social engineering experiment in Iraq years after “Mission Accomplished”! We had election campaigns in the midst of World Wars and Civil Wars. What’s the worst that can happen? Nationalize the banks and credit card companies!
When Bill Clinton left office we had a balanced budget. George Bush destroyed that with his Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq. Little minor details like the differences between Shiite and Sunni never seemed to bother the Social Engineering Experts at the Republican Party! Now McCain wants to continue this for 100 years! It used to be said, and I never even agreed with it, that “politics ends at our shores”! Now Politics is to end at Wall Street! The Republicans are to “PONTIFICATE” what is our national interest and we are all to meekly follow! We are all like good little slaves to serve the Corporate Collective! Ah yes they have a term for this! They call it “FREEDOM”.
- Freedom from economic security!
- Freedom from Universal Health Insurance I rather serve my social betters and insure AIG!
- Freedom from Democratic decision making as corporations and their lobbyists know best for the Silent Majority!
- Freedom from stability as I grow older in the work force! What need do I have for that! My lot is to serve my social betters!
The time has come for Republicans to remember the “lessons of history”! A phrase they so love to quote! Hitler took power in the fear of the Reichstag Fire! We have had enough “Enabling Acts” since Bush and Cheney took office!
Stand Up For America and the Hell With AIG and Wall Street. If the banks and credit institutions start to go then “Country First”!
NATIONALIZE THE BANKS AND CREDIT CARD COMPANIES!
Then we will not have to rush this kidnapping of our economic future by these effete snobs of corporate America!
Gosh golly I thought the costs of Universal Health Insurance would be impossible to pay for according to the same folks who gave us this costly Wild Eyed Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq! But now that AIG is going belly up Americans are expected to foot the bill for a company that underwrote the destruction of American worker’s middle class lifestyle! The “Programmer’s Guild”, which is embryonic union for Computer Professionals, has stated that AIG has undermined the salaries of American computer workers by using foreign H1-b workers and even forcing their own American employees at AIG to train foreign replacement computer workers!
Why is it that Universal Health Care costs were said to be out of range for our society yet the American Middle Class must underwrite a Corporation that undermines skilled American workers! You see it is not just a blue collar issue! How come we as a society can be called upon to arouse our national resources to save the corporate giants but not to establish Universal Health Care! While the effete snobs of the corporate world bail out on their golden parachutes the Silent Majority is expected to underwrite their greed yet be denied Universal Health Care!
If we had Universal Health Care we would be independent of the Corporate Collectives! Some of us who are computer oriented might even start our own consulting business! But the costs of individual health care are to prohibitive! All would have the freedom to change jobs without fearing the loss of health care!
Republicans do not want us to have this freedom! They INSTEAD want to give us:
·FREEDOM from health care!
· FREEDOM from economic security!
· FREEDOM from tying to make a better life by going back to college and taking technical courses THEN importing foreign technological workers to fill the jobs they don’t ship overseas!
· FREEDOM to pay ever increasing unregulated rates and charges to credit cards and mortgage companies while the effete snobs profit from our pain!
I applaud Senator Joe Biden in demanding that the upper 5% pay a higher percentage of taxes! It’s the patriotic thing to do for those who benefit from easy money! After all it is secondary income from stocks not work. Further we the Silent Majority allow this ridiculous over compensation for executives who even make more than the President of the United States! Instead of being the lackeys of the Corporate Class and being told how many days we have to work each year until we finish paying our taxes, I propose instead informing every corporate employee something else with a note in their pay check! Every employee should be told how many days they have to work before they reach the total compensation of the Corporation CEO receives in one day!
Tax day is merely a time for a check into reality for those who are so promiscuously over compensated! Who are they to earn hundreds of times more than me! There is a movement in the corporate world where employees are encouraged to make suggestions to help the company profit. Yet they get little financial compensation. Instead they get social reinforcement! Let’s use the same thing with CEOs! Don’t give them big bonuses instead have a meeting and say, “Lets have a big round of applause for Bill Gates for his new innovations in Windows Vista!
Sure I grant doctors the right to earn more than me! But when someone is making millions per year there comes a time for some SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY! Oh dear did I say a bad word in this era of Licentious Permissiveness! Gee I don’t see these companies running now to some tropical island to set up their headquarters! I have to work not just for pay but for “pain avoidance“! I have bills. Let these effete snobs join the rest of the Silent Majority!
Maybe George Bush and his fellow traveler John McCain should now advocate the privatization of Social Security as they did a few years back! God imagine if this nation had followed their advice! This bail out is going to cost us the price of two Iraqi Wars!
The time has come to say NO to a third term for George Bush’s and his fellow traveler John McCain!
Stand up For America and the Middle Class!
VOTE FOR BARRACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN 2008!
We live in an era of Licentious Permissiveness where Corporations come before people! On Friday “NBC Nightly News” Anchor Brian Williams said “the cost of this bailout is equal to two Iraqi Wars”! Yet the Philosophers of Corporate Permissiveness will rant against the Middle Class as McCain advisor Phil Graham calls us a “Nation of Whiners”! These are the very same people, who gave us the wild eyed Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq! It has taken us longer than our occupation of Nazi Germany but cannot produce results, yet they tell us we cannot afford Universal Health Care! Well McCain economic advisor, Senator Phil Gramm thinks we are a nation of “whinners”!
Make no mistake about it! This crises was not simply caused by an era of Licentious Permissiveness in the Corporate Boardroom without accountability, but also the Republican continuance of this Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq long after “Mission Accomplished”! The Republicans,where not satisfied with the Bush Tax cut to the wealthy and the destruction of the Bill Clinton budget surplus! They then ran up a monumental war debt while the War on Terror went and still goes largely unfought! They are the ones who gave us this financial crises! With home loans being made that had floating rates what do you think is going to happen when our nation goes from a budget surplus to a monumental war debt and interest rates go up?
I don’t see any rush now by the big companies to leave America when they can get a handout for their mismanagement! Does anyone see the extensive program of “Wealth Distribution” from the Middle Class to the Corporate Upper Class! Why should we have to carry the burden! Their motto is:
Private Profits – Socialized Risk and Debt!
We can find the national resolve to bail out the corporations but where is that same resolve when the issue is UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE! These parasites no longer engage in exporting goods and services but instead they export American jobs (both blue and white collar) along with American technology. Frequently even to the enemies of freedom! Then they undermine the college technological graduate by importing cheaper H1-b Visa workers to fill the technology jobs here that they do not export! All the while the push for the redistribution of wealth away from the Producers in this society to it’s parasites in the Corporate Class! Yet the bleeding hearts of the Republican Party will not Stand Up For America as Senator Joe Biden has so wonderfully stated!
We the producers in this nation, the Silent Majority or Middle Class, are willing to “tolerate” the nonsense of disproportionate compensation in order to spur creativity! But there comes a time when the piper must be paid! We need to return to the tax schedules that were in existence prior to Ronald Reagan! How many days does an employee of a corporation have to work until his compensation equals that of a CEO! Sure it is ok to pay CEO’s more! But they have been getting away with murder! Tax time is a “check in with reality”! They make too much – period!
While we have to perform this bail out as they have entwined “Corporate Interest” with our National Economic Survival, we cannot let them add to our national debt the cost of two Iraq Wars on top of the one we are already waging! (See the Video Below)
When the “Referee” or Government leaves the field of competition it does not result in an increase of freedom! Rather the BULLY now fills the vacuum! We are living in an era of Corporate Collectivism! We cannot even leave our jobs to start our own business because we depend on the Corporation for our Health Care! Without regulation Corporate greed runs wild! We need SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY in this era of corporate licentious permissiveness!
In this environment we have John McCain talking about the “fundamentals of our economy” being strong because the American Worker is strong! Where was he when he and his fellow travelers in the Corporate Class redistributed the wealth of America’s Producers! He was for the Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthy!
Many upper class folks (not all) attempt to deprive the Middle Class of Universal Health Care! No this age of Licentious Permissiveness must come to an end! Let us join with Senator Joe Biden in urging a repeal of the Bush Tax Cuts! Let the upper 5% pay more it is only patriotic!
Stand up for America and our Middle Class – the Silent Majority!
Vote for Barrack Obama and Joe Biden this November!
