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Archive for February, 2009

John McCain and his fellow travelers in the Republican Party are laying out their strategy for the next Congressional and Presidential Elections. Because George Bush and McCain forced our economy to bear the burden of their vast WILD EYED SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq, President Barrack Obama must now spend vast amounts of money to stimulate the economy! Yes this most likely will cause a temporary inflation latter down the road. Hell the Republicans are “banking” on it! But when it does occur it is their fault for engaging in deficit spending on an unnecessary war while cutting the taxes for their friends while the Middle Class sees it’s opportunities go down the drain.

McCain and his fellow travelers now spin the chorus of “we are fighting for the younger generation since they will be burdened with the taxes to pay for the stimulus package!” Do you remember this chorus before under George Bush? Well here is an idea Senator McCain!

WHY NOT TAKE MONEY OUT OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND PLACE IT IN PRIVATIZED INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS! This talk about future generations being hit with taxes is the same thing they said years ago when they cut taxes for the wealthy! They are trying to divide the Middle Class to serve their elitist needs then whine about “class warfare!” Below Jack Cafferty really hits McCain on this issue. While it occurred before the election we should keep this fresh in mind when we hear McCain in the second video below do his rant.

Just think what would have happened if we allowed these effete snobs of privilege to destroy Social Security! Why not do to Social Security what they did to 401K’s? When I hear about CEO’s getting 24 Million dollars a year while the President (Democrat or Republican) only makes $400K I think it is time to not only repeal the Bush tax cuts but the Reagan Tax Cuts as well!

Why is it that we can spend $150 Billion on AIG while Universal Health Care cost a mere 70 100 Billion! We need a “SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AMENDMENT” to our Constitution to insure that these effete snobs of privilege stop redistributing the wealth from the PRODUCERS in America to the rich! I just love the way they appropriate for themselves the term “Producers”! YO GET A JOB! BUST YOUR ASS LEARNING TO BE A PROGRAMMER THEN HAVE YOUR JOB SHIPPED OVERSEAS OR FILLED DOMESTICALLY BY A H1–b lower salaried worker from outside America. Then I am should bail out the likes of AIG where they actually wanted the programmers to train their replacements!

Don’t give me any shit about investors taking risks! Hey I took a risk going to college to learn computers and look what happened to my profession! Besides when I go to a job interview all I care is what is in it for ME! Why should I care about some stupid shareholder’ s report! What I am to subvert my interests to the interests of my SOCIAL BETTERS? No that does not mean we should not be team players! But what about the interests of the SILENT MAJORITY – our great Middle Class? What did a CEO do to earn more than the President of the United States? Did he contribute a cure to cancer, heart disease or aids?

Computer Programmers are even forming union like organizations like the Programmers Guild!

In the video above John McCain still doesn’t get it. YO DUDE THE ELECTION IS OVER AND YOU LOST! What gets me is he and his side kick Sarah Pallin delude themselves with the defense mechanisms of “projection” and “reaction formation” talking about Democrats being elitists! Maybe we should unleash Sarah Pallin in a clothing store to do another $150K shopping spree to save American jobs. Ah that is their idea of America and we should know our place. John McCain in the above video then agrues that “the Democrats do not have an end game!” Oh you mean like the Iraqi War Senator McCain!

But the SILENT MAJORITY – Our GREAT MIDDLE CLASS is not going to stand by! We need to take our nation back from these effete snobs of privilege!

Rick Santelli became the darling of the Corporate Elitists today by saying “How many of you people want to pay for your neighbors mortgage who has an extra bathroom?” Then he said to the President “did you hear the response this is America!” WRONG Mr. Santelli that was a room full of pompous over paid stock brokers. These effete  snobs do not represent America!

In writing this political blog I subscribe to an enemy conservative news paper called “Human Events”. In doing so my mail box gets bombarded by junk questionnaires from right wing groups doing “polls” of the so -called American public. My point is that their questions are not questions but are based on artificial premises! Rick Santelli’s question is based on such an assumption. That is to say that in America those who cannot afford to pay their mortgage are sinister and have purchased homes that are above their means!

While there are always some whom that may be true, where does Rick Santellli get his facts? Most so -called sub-prime borrowers could indeed still pay their loans IF:

• They had been given a fixed rate instead of variable rate mortgages.
• George Bush’s wild eyed SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq had not caused interest rates to rise thus forcing the variable rate mortgages to go toxic!
• People did not loose their jobs.

One reporter stated that 92% of Americans are indeed paying their mortgages on time. The implication being that it is a wicked 8% that is causing all this fuss.

Well I wonder what the figure was 18 months ago! If today it is 8% who are not paying on time I bet it was lower then and will be even higher in the near future if we do not intervene! Even if your house is not effected by a foreclosed in your neighborhood that is driving down the value of neighborhood homes, that is not the only danger to you! If these toxic mortgages are not stopped then you could loose your job and then you will be adding to that 8% which was maybe 4% some time prior an may be 15% in the future then 30% even latter if we do not act!

I get a real laugh when Rick Santelli uses a room of stock brokers to be representative of the America people! Maybe he should have spoken to some other people. You know people who actually work for a living! Maybe Rick Santelli should be concerned about the CEO’s who make millions while the President of the United States makes only $400,000 per year. Yet the President of the United States has the most responsible job on the planet!

I suppose Rick Santelli believes those who lost their job must also deserve that also! Let me make one thing straight! I want CEO’s salaries lowered by law regardless if they are or are not receiving federal funds. We need a SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AMENDMENT to our Constitution! Yes and enforced by a “Department of Social Responsibility” that would issue DSR Guidelines! If companies cannot practice fair trade then they should loose their license to operate in a free society! As i said in my prior post our society’s economic life should not be held to the social stratification of the SOCIAL DARWINISTS who want to make monkeys out of the Middle Class! As a liberal we should demand instead that our economy should not to be subject to monkeying around by SOCIAL DARWINISTS but the product of a democratic people exercising INTELLIGENT DESIGN over our economy and our lives!

I suppose Rick Santelli’s adoring crowd would have loved for George Bush to have privatetised a part of Social Security! Imagine the situation today if Bush and his fellow travelers had their way with Social Security!

The time has come for the Silent Majority – our great Middle Class to take our nation back from these effete snob of privilege!

The world is not a game of checkers but CHESS! Kill the king and the game is over! When nuclear missiles and “pulse bombs” can disable our nation’s ability to launch retaliation in fast order we need to protect our President. If reports are to believed we no longer maintain the secret nuclear safe haven in the mountains of northern Virginia under a tourist hotel. It is IMPERATIVE that our President survive a nuclear attack. It is not imperative that corporate executives survive a nuclear attack or for that matter one more day! Below we hear the anti-Obama biases of CNN News.

If Russia or China were to launch a nuclear attack against our nation the first strike most likely would NOT be against cities but against our missile and governmental decision making system. Like the game of Chess you kill the King and the game is over. Then they would present us with the choice of seeing our cities destroyed. Yes the Vice President could take over but if we are going to cut costs on the defense of our President what makes you think the Vice President or others in the chain of command would survive!

Once a first strike destroyed most of our land missiles we would have to rely on our submarines to strike hard against their country.

IF THE ENEMY perceives he can render us incapable of making a decision he is more likely to attack! Remember China lost 20 – 50 Million people in their revolution mostly due to economic displacement. Russian (then Soviet) military doctrine before she had nuclear weapons was to use wave after wave of ground troops in an effort to take a target. Loss of human life means nothing to these people! Yes I am a Liberal Democrat! But we do not live in a world where throwing kisses to our enemies will not work.

If we do not spend money to protect our President then we have created a window of opportunity to the enemies of America! Oh yes did I mention that spending this money on helicopters also produces AMERICAN JOBS!

I hope the Republicans will put their party goals aside and SUPPORT OUR PRESIDENT! Buy the new helicopters! Yes I would say the same thing if George Bush was the President!

We don’t live in a “checkers” world but a “Chess World!”.

We hear our “Social Betters” today in the Republican Party looking down on the middle class by pointing out the rise of credit card debt as a cause for the current financial meltdown! Then these same advocates of laizze faire capitalism extol the virtues of of tax breaks for the wealthy while the disposable income of the average American declines and they are forced to work longer hours to just get by! The tolls of globalization are now effecting the American economy and the CUT AND RUN  CAPITALISTS do not want to own up to their responsibility! (See the video below)

The reasons for the rise of credit card debt in America are:

• American have less earning power then they did years ago.
• Our jobs and that includes computer programming jobs are either being off shored or filled by lower paid H1–b foreign workers. This is no longer simply a blue collar union issue!
• The stock market survives on “Aggregate Demand”. Those at the top actually benefit from the indebtedness of the middle class American.

These are the same folks who will lecture the Silent Majority, our great Middle Class on the values of thrift while at the same time buying stock in companies that engage in predatory lending practices! Some of these same people even engaged in “Day Trading”! You know the “I want it now” mentality!” We spent 150 billion dollars on just AIG alone when a “mere” 100 billion would have financed one year of Universal Health Care! Yet AIG was one of the companies that called many of their computer programmers to a meeting and told them they were fired but could stay to train their foreign H1–b lower paid replacements! We now even have computer programmers forming proto-types of UNIONS in the form of the “Programmers Guild”!

When you hear the bull shit that blue collar workers who loose their jobs will be alright in the long run because some can be retrained in computers, remember AIG and visit the “Programmers Guild” web site!

Let’s demand that not only the Bush Tax Cuts but also the Reagan Tax Cuts be eliminated! Who are these effete snobs of privilege to earn more than the President of the United States! Please note I resent this even if their company does not get Federal Bail-out funds! While it is impossible to regulate the compensation for each occupation, unless such individuals are producing a cure for cancer or aids I think they can “get by” with the mere salary of the person who has more responsibity then anyone on this planet! That is to say the President of the United States!

President Obama we need to repeal not only the Bush Tax Cuts but also the Regan Tax Cuts! In this era of licentious permissiveness (don’t you love it when I use their terminology) where day traders have no connection to the enterprises and lives of the people they profit from, where CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS spurn the shores of the nation that gave them incorporation, profit, protection and birth, our tax code must impose SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY!

• Peanut butter companies spreading death in the service of profits!
• Predatory lenders going unchecked and
• Our technology going to the enemies of America for profit!

This era must come to an end! Our economy needs LAW AND ORDER! What the Conservatives have to learn is that their era of SOCIAL DARWINISM and making monkeys out of the American Middle Class are over! We Liberals demand that our economy and tax system will no longer operate under Social Darwinism but INTELLIGENT DESIGN!

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

REGULATE BABY REGULATE!

Yes I am a flaming anti-corporate liberal. If Barrack Obama wants to add a Republican to give him straight from the hip advice and who believes in infrastructure spending then JIM CRAMER is my man! Yes I know he is a corporate type but he is really for spending on infrastructure and is criticizing Obama for not spending enough! I urge  you to watch the video below! Jim Cramer really hits the point! 

If you doubt my liberal credentials just look at my other posts! Hell I am not a “Democrat” but a “SOCIAL DEMOCRAT”! But this guy Jim Cramer really makes sense to me! I have also heard him advocate for Universal Health Care! His idea is to have some type of voucher system that is independent of the employees’ work place! When I heard his idea at first I did not like it but now it really makes sense to me! Why does this make sense? Let me pose a question!

Well what type of corporate behavior are we trying to shape in our “Societal Skinner Box?”

Why should companies that do right by their employees be “penalized” while those that do not get financially rewarded? Also this will make Universal Health Care less subject to Conservative propaganda.

One other thing thing Jim Cramer says is that the tax rebates should go to the lower classes as they will spend it, which is what we want them to do. He is not saying this in a derogatory way but understanding of their situation. Kudos to Mr. Cramer as he is not advocating that a tax break should be given to the rich though I am sure he would like one.  What I really like about Jim Cramer is that he views the Infrastructure aspect to be CRITICAL and he faults Obama not for having it but not having enough. Again please watch the above video.

President Obama please consider Jim Cramer for Commerce Secretary!

So what Michael Phelps stuck a bong pipe in his mouth! It’s not like he endorsed smoking cigarettes that lead America’s youth to cancer! He should apologize to America’s youth for endorsing foods that are junk! Sure he got his athletic body by eating Kellogg’s “Frosted Flakes” or “Rice Crispies”! – Yeah right! Yet I don’t blame him for making those endorsements after all the hard work he did to reach becoming a Gold Medal Olympic Athlete. When Michael Phelps cites his “youthful age” as being the cause of his smoking a bong he should instead cite his young age for letting Corporate America use him! Make no doubt about it Corporate America with its flip flam “image advertising” was using him. Below Michael Phelps performs a funny comedy spoof on “Saturday Night Live” concerning his diet while training.

I really enjoyed the video above!

While Michael Phelps is able to eat more than most it was because of his intense athletic regimen, not that such a diet produces athletic bodies! The funny comedy spoof above again proves my point. Being a role model for America’s youth he should condemn the eating of JUNK FOOD that is only going to hook young kids into sugar and carbohydrate addiction!

My advice to Michael Phelps is to call a news conference:

• Take a box of “Frosted Flakes” dump it in a garbage can and tell kids to do the same at home!
• Show them a picture of himself in his swimming gear and tell them if they want to look that way they should exercise and develop the self discipline to follow through even if it is not to be an Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist! Kids need “long term values” in their lives not fast food JUNK like “Frosted Flakes”!
• Announce he will only sponsor products that promote health and well being, and/or sports products and gear that are “reliable and high quality”. They need not even be related to swimming but sports in general. The key issue being that he deems them worthy and reliable!
• Beat the Olympic Committee to the punch. Tell them if they don’t like his honest image then their gold is worthless and to shoe it! He will profit in the long term from doing that.
  

Yes Michael Phelps and for that matter all Olympic athletes owe the youth of America an apology! They became the lackeys of Corporate America with its “quick fixes” and FAST JUNK FOOD mentality. The same mentality that produced the economic crisis we are in today! Michael Phelps did not get his body and athletic skill from eating junk food but from discipline and hard work! He should tell this to America’s youth! Maybe even write a book on not only exercise but how to live with and coach yourself while one takes the tough road not the fast fix road!

Then there is that issue of that Sheriff from South Carolina! Michael Phelps should ask him to join in a campaign to stop TEEN AGE SMOKING! But then South Carolina’s Tobacco Industry still  produces deadly products for America’s youth and in this “age of permissiveness” (to use the right wing nuts terminology) is allowed to continue today! Maybe that Sheriff would like to join him in a campaign to stop making America’s youth subject to lung cancer!

Michael Phelphs’ sin is not that he was photographed with a so called “bong pipe”. He could have done a “Clinton” and said “I didn’t inhale”! His failure to America’s youth is that he was a pal to the advocates of profit over sound health! Michael Phelps should not be an advocate for a pre-diabetic lifestyle! If I were Michael Phelps I would tell his former sponsors he doesn’t want them back after his “contrition period” and that they can SHOVE IT! He could then be an advocate for reliable and trustworthy products as I defined above. It would not be necessary that he used the product in his climb to the Olympic Gold only that he investigated the product and found it worthy and both were stated openly. I think he might find some companies that would like this approach if they believe in their products!

What we need today are real mavericks! Instead our society glamorizes the likes of Sarah Palin with her so called “sport” of shooting wolves from airplanes! Wow that takes real daring now doesn’t it Governor Palin! (See the video below).

The above video is illustrative of the belief system behind the trek from fast JUNK FOODS to JUNK SPORTS! It is the same “fast fix philosophy” that produced not just welfare mothers but “JUNK BONDS”! No eating junk foods does not produce junk bonds but it illustrates the “feeding” of a diseased philosophy!

I am not insulting teenage girls who become pregnant nor welfare mothers. It is just that not all of them have mothers who are also the Governors of Alaska and who can pick up the support! I urge Michael Phelps to exploit his set back by making lemon aid from a lemon! I urge him to use his image in the advertising world for products that reflect the hard work and patience that lead him to be the Gold Medal Athlete that he is. He does not have to “pal around” with “Tony The Tiger”! Leave the junk food to the “real athletes” like Sarah Palin and her aerial shooting of helpless wolves. Michael Phelps can use as his motto “Be Real” and that includes screwing up once in a while!

I urge Michael Phelps to advocate against fast junk foods for kids instead telling them to work at their goals and “BE REAL” while leaving arm chair athletes like Sarah Palin to aerial hunt with her motto being:

SNAP – CRACKLE – POP!