Middle Class Populist

Archive for December 14th, 2008

I find it disgusting that these “Toyota Republican Senators” from the south want to see the American Automakers go bankrupt. Where is their “patriotism”? You know the very thing they accuse liberals of lacking! True I would love to see the automakers CEO’s loose their jobs and would expect that as a precondition. While Rush Limbaugh whined and wailed that production of SUV’s was an inherent American Right,  now his fellow travelers want to see the auto worker pay for their mistakes!

(Above is an excellent clip from the “Young Turks”)

What we are seeing in America is the corporate elite have a loyalty to their class over the interests of America! American blue collar AND white collar workers had better push for ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM and FAIR TRADE! Instead we live in an era of licentious permissiveness where the corporate class can over ride the security not only of blue collar workers but white collar workers as well. My dad was an accountant and was vicimized with age discrimination! I was a white collar employee of AIG years ago. It was no fun believe me. This is not an issue of blue collar vs white collar. It is an issue of “employee vs corporations”! For too long the elites have been playing the Transactional Analysis Game of “Let’s you and him fight”! They did this for decades with Middle Vs Lower Class. Now the Democrats are becoming much wiser and not playing by the “GAME SCRIPT”!

Silly me! I am one who believes Americans are (now get this) “entitled” yes entitled to:

• Health Care
• Pensions and
• Some form of job security!
• A governmental decision making process that is uncorrupted by corporatist payoffs!
  

It is true that we need employees to be capable of being “retrained” and fluid else we would still have all ditch diggers and no machine operators in construction. But we can develop solutions for a modern economy! In Germany workers have access to an education and retraining fund. The problem in America is that some think you can retrain people for computer jobs while at the same time undermining the job market for high tech workers with the H1-b Visa program. Computer programmers are even organizing to fight the destruction of their careers. What jobs cannot be “off shored” are now being given to legal foreign guest workers so as to undermine our middle class way of life. Then Wall Street wonders why aggregate demand is declining with the resultant lack of consumer spending! They then say “look college kids don’t want to study for high tech”! Excuse me but to use their own language “now they wonder why ATLAS SHRUGGED”!

Please don’t misunderstand me. I would take those H1-b Workers who are here and before sending them home offer them American citizenship. Then they would not be subject to subjugation from the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS! They could then ask for higher salaries without fear of being deported!

There is nothing wrong with global trade just so long as it is “FAIR TRADE” not “FREE TRADE”! We cannot continue this era of licentious permissiveness where corporations exercise no loyalty to the nation that gave them succor, incorporation, protection and profits! The market only rewards lower prices not values.

FREE TRADE IS FREEDOM FROM MORAL VALUES!

FREE TRADE IS FREEDOM FROM LOYALTY TO AMERICA!

One way in which the effete snobs of corporate America continue to wage war on the middle class is to try and stifle the rising “Middle Class Consciousness”! Democrats fall into this trap by talking about “Workers” rather than “employees”! Believe me I worked for AIG and was a white collar employee! I had no job security! Perhaps it is time for WHITE COLLAR UNIONS also! White collar employees also have no job security and should join forces with blue collar employees! There is a rise in “Middle Class Consciousness” today as Americans question their assumptions of loyalty to the masters of the corporate collectives! These 21st century collectivists use job interviews to test for loyalty to the Corporate Collective over loyalty to one’s own self and values! Sure being a”team player” is ethical but what about “MY SECURITY”!

Why should the head of a corporation earn 24 million while the President of the United States only earns $400,000? Yes the time has come to question many assumptions! America’s survival depends on it else these corporate elites will sell out to America’s enemies. They already sell our military technology to our enemies in Iran and China!