Archive for November, 2008
Remember when Nancy Pelosi wanted to have use of Air Force jets to fly around the country and she was denied! Yet these effete snobs of corporate America cite “security reasons” for having private corporate jets to fly them, each in separately, while they come begging to Congress! In the video below it is mentioned that listing their flights as a “Security Requirement” gives the CEO’s the right to use it as a “tax deduction”!
While I feel Nancy Pelosi has not been activist enough I believe she has more of right to a private jet for security reasons then these effete snobs of corporate America! For that matter I would accord the same right even to a Republican Speaker of the House. Perhaps “our social betters” don’t see the elected officials of a free society as deserving the same benefits that they have.
President – Elect Barrack Obama mentions the influence that the corporations have on the elected decision makers of our society when they accord members of Congress passage on these private corporate jets. In his book, “The Audacity Of Hope”, Barrack Obama mentions that being accorded the right to fly on a private corporate jet is like living in a different world. The airports are different and the wait is in luxury! You would imagine that a free society would VALUE the time and comfort and most important, the “safety” of an ELECTED decision maker over the Lords of the Corporate Collectives!
This whole fiasco that George Bush and his fellow travelers have brought upon this nation is now helping Middle Class Americans “get in touch with their feelings” to use a phase from my hippie past! We must ask:
- Who the hell are these Lords of the Corporate Collectives to receive such enormous rates of compensation”!
- What did they do for society that justifies such sweeping rates of compensation?
- Why should they be paid so much more than the average American? Hey it’s not like they EARNED IT! (Wow can you believe I said that)!
True we don’t want the government to become involved in the ratio of pay scales. But there comes a point when it is time to check in with reality! That is why the progressive income tax is so important! No one is trying to stop these effete snobs from being millionaires but there has to be some balance for the PRODUCERS in our society! That is to say America’s great Silent Majority – Our Middle Class! Isn’t it amazing that in Europe they still have multi-millionaires and yes billionaires while their societies strive for social responsibility! I am sick and tired of hearing elitist snobs refer to the upper 5% as the “Producers” in our society! The Middle Class is tired of the CLASS WARFARE being waged against it by the effete snobs of Corporate America!
Bush and his fellow travelers have engaged in their Social Engineering Experiments in Iraq, wasting our troops and resources, while the War on Terror goes unfought in Afghanistan! We have seen the wages of Bush’s domestic social engineering experiment with the growing redistribution of wealth from the Middle Class to the top 5%!
The time has come in America to stand up for ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM! Roll back both the Bush and Regan Tax Cuts. Stand up for the Middle Class! Just look at how the consumer, who is now carrying heavier debts and uncertain job future, is holding back from spending in this critical shopping period for corporate America! Do you realize that even with an economic stimulus package in the form of a tax rebate to the Middle Class, much of it will find it’s way to China due to the enormous in balance of trade! Instead of experiencing a domestic “Multiplier Effect” these CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS will now have a stimulus package benefit communist China! These CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS have spat upon our flag and institutions for to long! They set up phony headquarters on Caribbean Islands and profit from the transfer of American technological know how to China! The consumer is now heavier in debt while predatory mortgage owners and credit card companies have profited! Now they fear a reduction in Christmas spending as it will destroy corporate profits! Bush and his fellow travelers should have thought about that before!
ATLAS IS SHRUGGING!
Earlier today CEO’s of the big three came to the capital each in their private jet to say how they are going to cost trim. Isn’t it amazing that companies and even motivational guru’s can praise concepts like “Kaizen” or “CANEI” where worker groups are encouraged to create “profitable innovations” then be compensated merely by praise instead of money while corporate heads can be compensated with millions and fly in private jets to Congress to request billions for their mismanagement! Maybe we should do the opposite! Maybe that is why they are in the situation they are now because the real “ATLAS SHRUGGED”!
I believe the auto companies need to first go into bankruptcy with their chief executives fired! THEN our nation can intervene with a printing press cash infusion that would be reciprocated with both a contract to reform and a share of their corporate stocks. These stocks could latter be sold to generate a profit for our society that risked this investment!
I do not believe America should go into debt for the effete snobs of corporate America when we have pressing needs for Universal Health Care and funding for Alternative Fuel Research and Development. Tonight I heard Mitt Romney saying that the big three American Automakers need to become “competitive”. If I heard Barrack Obama state that I would agree. But when I hear Mitt Romney say the word “competitive”, I get a shiver up my spine.
When Republicans say “competitive” what they really mean is that employees should reduce their salaries to that of third world countries. Yes there will be the need for the UAW Union to compromise but I reject a bailout that would include a substantial lowering of wages and/or the movement of auto manufacturing off shore. What then is the purpose if the big three auto companies decide to renounce their American identity! Why should we bail them out!
Now that the American auto industry has followed Rush Limbaugh and manufactured these dinosaur cars called “SUVs” why aren’t the Republicans willing to help them. After all if you listen to Rush Limbaugh you would think that driving an SUV is a patriotic act!
President – Elect Barrack Obama has stated he would like to see the auto industry become the leaders in “Green Technology” and have America take the lead in selling fuel efficient cars to the world! I agree! Instead of shipping American jobs overseas we should ship cars instead. But I also believe there is another marketing niche that the American auto industry is ignoring.
One Indian company is making a small non-frills “starter” car that they hope to flood the Indian market with. In the third world there is an emerging middle class and a “proto middle class” that is financially above poverty but not quite ready to be called “middle class”. These folks would love to be able to buy a car but they need a “no frills” type car that has manual transmission, no radio or a/c. They cannot afford a regular car but do want to own a car. True this would not sell in the United States but this is the only type of car that some could afford currently in the Third World. This class of consumer is above poverty but not quite middle class. We should not surrender this marketing niche to foreign Automakers!
Finally since the UAW is going to have to give some concessions I would suggest: the auto companies give them stock in lieu of pay increases and they have some quota of representatives on the corporate board of directors!
Hey isn’t that why George Bush wanted to allow younger workers to opt out of Social Security deductions for a private investment accounts so they would “identify” with the ruling class! Well forcing the big three auto makers to give their union workers stock and a quota of representatives on their board is better than the ‘praise compensation” of CANEI or “Kaizen”! If the new executives of the big three auto firms along with executives of welfare recipient AIG do well then instead of being compensated with money we can use their CANEI or Kaizen method and simply call a company meeting and give them “praise”. Hey that is the way to “motivate” them right? Well why treat workers to that and not executives!
The Middle Class has had enough of these effete snobs of privilege!
Isn’t amazing that we can bail out AIG with the cost going up between 110 to 150 billion yet we cannot afford 75 – 100 billion per year for Universal Health Care! AIG screwed me when I worked for them. We lived in fear each year near the holidays that we would be subject to “re-org”! Sometimes they would then offer us a position as a “PERMANENT TEMP”. This would reset the pension clock if we were taken back. When I worked there they had an entire division of “AIG TEMPS” who worked full time permanently! This relieved AIG of paying them a pension and vacation time. Hell they did this so as not to pay external temp contracter companies. Nothing wrong with that but not when these employees are really full time PERMANENT TEMPS!
Yes there are valid needs for temps but those people really work seasonally not as a permanent subclass without health care, pension or vacation. Then there was “good ole Hank Greenberg”! Well he wasn’t known by the name “Hank” when I was there. His name is “Maurice Richard Greenberg” or as he would sign every company memo “MR Greenberg”! When I finally left AIG to take a civil service job I had a small pension but five years letter they sent me a smaller check for $1,600 and terminated my pension.
Oh yes this is the company that had as one of it’s divisions “Socialist Countries”. They had no problem investing in the enemies of America. But they did have a problem giving honest Americans employment as computer programmers! You know the employment category that is supposed to be the fall back for auto workers and other displaced workers once they “buckle down” and study! Read what the “Programmers Guild” has to say about AIG and how they took in foreign computer workers just so they could fire their higher paid American programmers.
Then these idiots have the audacity to give their executives bonuses after we bail them out! AIG is a classic example how the Middle Class is being screwed by the corporate elite and their “wealth redistribution program” from the middle class to the effete snobs of the corporate elite!
Might I suggest that instead of worrying about our “social betters” with their bloated “sense of entitlement”, every AIG employee should be given a calendar with “good ole Hank Greenberg’s” picture on it! The calendar would then list the day in the year when the AIG employee’s total compensation would equal the total compensation that the executives and good ole “Hank Greenberg” made on just the first working day of the year! I bet the end of the year would come and AIG employees would still not reach that point!
There is a new consciousness in America! It was predicted in part by the old hippie era book, “The Greening Of America” when it mentions “Consciousness III”! It is sweeping America with the recent election. It is “Middle Class Consciousness! Americans are now asking themselves, “Why are only corporations allowed to pursue their self interest”?
- Hey it’s not like these fat cats actually EARNED their money!
- What contribution did these AIG executives or any of the top 5% do to earn such money?
- Did they work harder than you or me?
No one is trying to stop folks from becoming millionaires. But isn’t it amazing that in Western and Northern Europe where they have semi-socialism they still have millionaires and even multi-billionaires! What is not tolerated in Europe is the bloated “sense of entitlement”! Like Europe, we simply cannot afford this bleeding heart syndrome for the effete snobs of privilege anymore! As Senator Joe Biden has said, “It is time to be PATRIOTIC, time to be part of the solution”! I agree 100%. Hey it’s not like they EARNED IT! Sure they work hard but so do you dear reader! So do I! Fine someone makes two three even four times more than you but what did the executives of AIG do to earn such money.
Let me ask you a rhetorical question!
Would you support giving every African American a check for $50,000.00 in lieu of the uncompensated work their ancestors did while slaves? Well the idea is understandable but most Americans would correctly say “sorry no”. What work their ancestors did does not count, it is the work you do today! The individual must EARN his money. Fine then can you tell me why Cindy McCain has inherited near 88 Million dollars! Seems the over compensated work her ancestor did is still paying off today! No I am not against passing on an inheritance! The issue is priorities and fairness in a FREE SOCIETY! The issue is her opposition to pay a little extra in taxes so the rest of us can have Universal Health Care. It’s not like she earned it for God’s sake! We need employment where we don’t compete against foreign slave wages! Americans need UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE! The silent majority just does not have the time to pity our “social betters” with their bloated “SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT”!
That is why we have the progressive income tax! It’s just reality checking in! Not to mention that after AIG earned corporate profits from their “Socialist Countries Division” it is just time to be well “PATRIOTIC”. Three cheers for Vice President – Elect Joe Biden!
The Silent Majority has had enough!
AIG GO TO HELL!
Well it is one week after the election and the future of America is looking up! I am happy as heck but never believed this would happen. The time has come to roll back the evils of the Bush era! Hell let’s not only roll back the Bush tax cuts but the Reagan tax cuts also! I love the bull that the bleeding hearts of the Republican Party whine on the news media! They whine that we Democrats want to engage in a “Wealth Redistribution Program. Excuse me that is what has been going on since Bush took office!
<Enjoy the Video above and show it to your Republican friends they will hate you for it!>
The Middle Class has seen it’s wealth and job opportunities exported to the Third World while the Upper Class reaps the profits. First it was blue collar jobs. But that wasn’t enough for them! Many like myself studied computer science with the hopes of achieving a better life. Then corporate America introduced the H1-b Visa program to fill the few remaining high tech jobs with cheap foreign workers who must fear for the good will of their employers. Is it any wonder many college students don’t see the point in taking a computer curriculum? What is the INCENTIVE? The “Wall Street Journal” last year in March stated that accounting, bio tech, financial analyst and other white collar jobs will follow! Apparently to earn a living you must secure it from your portfolio or corporate executive job. Blue collar and yes even white collar jobs are for the under class in the Republican scheme of things! Yes the very folks who whine about innovation and incentive being hampered by government intervention have no problem with orchestrating government intervention to destroy the carrer hopes of many college graduates. Then they wonder why “Atlas Shrugged”!
Well there is a new dawn arising in America! “MIDDLE CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS”! We allow the MYTH that some should make millions per year in order to enhance creativity and motivation! But at the same time we must ask ourselves:
- Why should a corporate executive make millions per year”?
- What contribution to society is he making?
- Did he or she create a cure for canceer?
- What contribution did Mrs. McCain make to society when she inherited $88 Million while her fellow travelers try to deny middle class Americans universal health care and some type of employment security!
No one wants to stop incentives and innovation but there needs to be a balance. That is why progressive taxation is so important! Today I heard Rush Limbaugh ask a caller how much money she wants to make. She said $200,000.00 per year. Rush then told her she is then at the limit of the American Dream under Barrack Obama! Really Rush?
Isn’t it amazing that in Northern and Western Europe where they have socialism they still have millionaires and yes even multi-billionaires! So Rush Limbaugh should stop his whining! Hey it isn’t like they ACTUALLY WORKED FOR IT! <Wow can you believe I said that>
I don not begrudge Cindy McCain her $88 Million that she never worked for but just inherited! But the time has come in this nation when the SILENT MAJORITY, those of us who have to work for a living, and yes even fear that this can be taken away from us, demand equal treatment and a government that is responsive to our needs!
Believe me if just working alone was a guarantee of success then the corporate top 5% would not have K-STREET pushing for “government intervention” to serve their agenda! This election has demonstrated that the SILENT MAJORITY wants Universal Health care rather than welfare for the rich! Sure it’s ok to be a millionaire but what about me is the new mantra of the middle class!
We cannot get involved in the compensation for every job title. Let the market do that. But tax time is time for a check in with REALITY! No ne wants to stop folks from being millionaires! But the middle class has been the victim of the Republican Wealth Redistribution Scheme for too long. More and more Americans are starting to see this! I know the video below has got to be a joke but I think there is some truth in it. You can always hope. Anyway I am feeling giddy afterr the election victory so enjoy have a laugh!
I know several conservatives who took a beating in the stock market and said they voted for Barrack Obama because he will bring stability to the market even if they have to pay higher taxes! The economy may make even Klansmen think! More and more Americans, while not trying to stop anyone from being a millionaire or hamper creative innovation, do wonder what many in the upper five percent actually do to be compensated to such a great degree over the average American.
Like it’s not that most of these upper 5% ACTUALLY EARNED THE COMPENSATION THEY RECEIVE!
Sure they work but do they do so one hundred times more than you or me? I don’t think so! Barrack Obama needs to be the Pontifex Maximus for the new era. He must not merely act as a reverse George Bush but become the “Philosopher – President” like FDR and JFK! I We need to bring “European Innovations” to America! The first was “Social Security”. Can you imagine if George Bush had his way when he wanted to allow younger workers to switch to private investment accounts? First the drain on a smaller base for Social Security. Then the stock market disaster! Bush wanted to make more people “identify” with the upper class. Hell most of us already have stocks yet that doesn’t change the fact that if you loose your job your stocks will be gone soon. Barrack Obama needs to help the average American acquire more MIDDLE CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS!
You can feel the fear in the Republicans!
ISN’T IT WONDERFUL!
HELL YES!
God can you imagine the Republican reaction if the news media suppressed information about Barrack Obama being associated with an African – American Independence movement? Yet where is the Democratic Party outrage as the news media suppress the connection between Sarah Palin and the Alaskan Independence Party! This rabid group of secessionists wants to pluck a star from the flag of our nation! Yet the news media marches like lame little wimps afraid to say anything after they asked poor Sarah Palin a “trick” question. “What is your opinion of the Bush Doctrine”!
The video above gives excerpts of Governor Sarah Palin’s speech to the Alaskan Independence Party that she made THIS YEAR! The video also gives excellent background information.
Many will try to pooh pooh the connection between Sarah Palin and the Alaskan Independence Party by stating that the AIP has retracted she was a member! Also her voter registration records confirm this. Well it turns out she was not a formal member but she did attend their meetings and THIS YEAR actually video addressed these rebels from her office as Governor! You can click here and see the full video on the Alaskan Independence Party Website!
Let’s review the facts:
- She spoke to their convention this year and praised them. God imagine if Barrack Obama did the same for a Black separatist group! Again the video can be found on the Alaskan Independence Party website itself which I will repeat here!
- While the AIP retracts that she was a formal member none the less on their website (different page than the above) they state that she physically attended their convention in 2006, gave a video speach in 2008 and her husband was a FORMAL member of the Alaskan Independence Party!
Can you imagine if this had been Barrack Obama? Where is the outrage? Where the hell is the news media?
In the video above Keith Olbermann really sticks to Sarah Palin not just for her connection to the Alaskan Independance Party but also for her minister pals. Jack Caferty and Chris Matthews have mentioned her linkage to the AIP. But you hardly hear this talked about compared to the orgy of coverage concerning Ayers and Obama! Maybe Senator Obama doesn’t want to raise the issue as he is leading anyway and the public does not like negative ads. But you would think some Democratic Senator would have the guts to stand up make this public especially since she is clothing herself in the American Flag! Oh yes and $150,000 dollars for her wardrobe! Does the news media need the Democrats to act first! Perhaps this is a contest to see who can be the biggest WIMPS – News Media or leading Democrats!
(George Bush – Our Commander – In Chief! The above video explains his spectacular military record! )
Where the hell is Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid on this if Barrack Obama wants to play the high road! But then what can you expect from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid they let Bush go on as Commander – In – Chief when he should be called “Deserter In Chief”! (See the video above)
This Tuesday let’s take our country back from these effete snobs of the Republican Party!
The time has come for the Silent Majority to stand up for America!
VOTE FOR BARRACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN!
