I agree with Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC who is advocating a Constitutional Amendment to get the money out of politics. I suggest you check his site and sign his petition at http://www.getmoneyout.com/ which is also co-sponsored by The Huffington Post.

This issue threatens the very nature of our democratic political institutions! President Franklin Delano Roosevelt warned us about the vile forces of “organized money” and their nature to reshape our democracy into a nation of necessitous citizens! They do this by interfering with the electoral processes of our nation. President Barrack Obama is a tame kitten “playing progressive” inside the monied confines of the corporate sandbox.

Barrack Obama, while “playing liberal” inside the monied confines of the “corporate sandbox”, is advancing the Republicans building a “nation of necessitous citizens” burdened with high unemployment, usury style credit cards and student loans that cannot be paid off. Naturally Republicans don’t call this a nation of necessitous citizens but a “business friendly environment”!

Yes I realize that recently Barrack Obama has shown more testosterone. But this has only been for surface issues and he will not address the core issue I am presenting in this post! We need nothing less than a Constitutional Amendment to get money out of politics! No more “meows” on this issue!

Barrack Obama is not alone in being a wimp. It costs money to run a campaign and most Democrats are playing liberal inside the corporate sandbox with Barrack Obama.

Taxation Without Representation By Corporations

Lobbyists with thick wallets are all over Washington! Furthermore with the recent Supreme Court decision that unlocks the flow of corporate money directly to front groups, we Americans will be paying for the corporate agenda via the costs of goods and services we buy!

It does not matter what the issue is:

1. Job creation
2. Banking regulation
3. Net Neutrality
4. Balancing the budget
5. Universal Health Care
6. Alternative Energy
7. Rebuilding our infrastructure
8. Woman’s right to choose
9. Gay rights
10. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
11. Global warming
12. Social Security and Medicare
13. Education
14. Immigration

The only factors that should weigh in the minds of our elected officials should be the reaction of voters and what is best for America! They can listen to the advocacy groups of voters! But corporations are economic groups not political action groups.

Corporations are not citizens! If we deny corporations the right to fund candidates we have not denied anyone their rights. The stock holders and managers have the rights of every citizen to put their hands into their own pockets but not into my pocket to fund a candidate!

A Proposal: Fund All Elections With A Corporate Tax

Can you imagine the uproar? We would be told that is cosmetic since the corporations would simply pass on the tax cost to the consumer! Really!

Well then who is paying for their lobbyists? Who is paying for their funding of front groups? The cost for these comes from somewhere! The cost of advancing their corporate agenda comes from the added cost to a corporation’s goods and services that we the consumer pay! Furthermore to engage in an economic boycott of some corporations constitutes an “extra cost” to the consumer in time and perhaps money.

A trip to the market place should be a economic transaction free of the costs advancing the political agenda of our social betters!

Constitutional Amendment For Electoral Reform

Below Dylan Ratigan presents an illuminating background into the influence of money in our political processes and also the issue of the growing income gap between the rich and the middle class! I will add my addition to his proposal.

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Dylan Ratigan proposes a Constitutional Amendment that would declare that money is not speech! I like that but I feel it is not enough. I understand his logic since he does not want the amendment process to be taken up with extra details. I realize that some electoral reforms will have to come by regular laws not a amendment to the constitution.

With that in mind I propose we “magnify” “every dollar given to a candidate by small contributions and that magnification be funded by a tax on large corporations! This must be enshrined in a Constitutional Amendment! The “magnification factor” can be determined by Congress via regular laws.

I suggest a factor of ten! This “magnification factor” could be adjusted up or down by Congress via laws. However the right of Congress to do so would be via a constitutional amendment that would also prohibit any involvement by corporations in influencing elections! The rich should have a cap on their donations to an individual candidate also. I have no objections to them stuffing envelopes or going door to door! You know – just like the rest of us do as volunteers!

Tax Loopholes: Could They Be Used To Tame The Beast?

I hold a radical view concerning corporate tax loopholes! I am a Social Democrat so if you are liberal please read this through as you may not have realized this before about tax loopholes!

When this balding hippie was a college student in the late 1960′s I was taught in my economics classes that tax loopholes could serve as a means of social control over corporations!

Here is the key issue:

Was the decision processes that created the tax loopholes free of corporate corruption? If we desire as a means of social policy to shape the beast’s behavior by means of “contingencies of reinforcement” to reward socially desirable corporate behavior then tax loop holes are good.

Positive example of a tax loophole:

Tax auto companies for high gas consuming vehicles like SUV’s but reward auto companies that produce hybrid vehicles with a tax loophole!

Negative example of a tax loophole:

Corporate lobbyists use their money to corrupt the decision making process of our Democracy to get a tax loop hole that favors their corporation or industry merely to expand their profits. In this case the beast is not being tamed but our society is being tamed to serve the corporate collectivists! Examples are a tax loop hole for the Tobacco industry or the oil industry!

We do not want a communist economy because people do need incentives to create. Further we do not want to legislate what each job occupation should receive for their compensation. God imagine what divisions that could cause! So we “make believe” the “free market” will do this for us!

In practice we know the free market is not free but can be controlled by elitists. That is why we sometimes have intervention!This is called a “mixed economy”!

Psychologist B.F. Skinner was world renown for his “theory of operant conditioning” where by an organism could have it’s behavior “shaped” by schedules of both positive and negative reinforcement!

A corporation is not a citizen but it is an organism that has behavior which can be conditioned. “Tax loop holes” are a mechanism to bring about socially desirable corporate behavioral change! The crucial point is that the contingencies of reinforcement are established by society! The agency for that establishment by society over the market and corporations is our political processes!

The problem today is that the corporate beast is not being tamed but our democratic processes are being tamed by the corporate beast!

This bring us to the most critical issue:

Modern day economy does require intervention and some regulation! But are the decisions for that societal intervention being made on the basis of democratic decision making processes that have as their foundation the principle of

“one person – one vote” or

is the intervention made on the principle of

“one dollar – one vote“!

There can be no Obama imitation of an ostrich, with it’s head in the sand when the future of our democracy is at stake! The issue is Barrack Obama or “Change We Can Believe In”? We cannot do a “meow” on this issue any longer! The same type of “meow” that has turned health care reform into a insurance cartel enrichment program. The same “meow” that created a Financial Reform package that does not end the casino betting on Wall Street. The same “meow” that allows credit card usury to continue to exist but let’s it be more transparent in the credit card statement.

This is Barrack Obama’s idea of “Change We Can Believe In”!

I have a better idea!

Senator Bernie Sanders For President In 2012!

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Barrack Obama cared more about the support of Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson then the progressive base that elected him. The Democrats could really show up the Republicans now by forcing a vote on the Middle Class Tax Cut but all we hear is their pathetic “MEOW”! Now we are supposed to save him and Harry Reid. Harry Reid the guy who took loads of money from the Health Care Industry. And you wonder why we don’t have single payer or even a public option! Blance Lincoln, was another winner from this special interest. See the link above to www.opensecrets.org

If Obama had the courage to advance “Change We Can Believe In” then he would have called out his fellow Democrats on this. But then again those nice dollars Obama got from Goldman Sachs have placed him in the corporate sandbox! President Obama was the 2008 top recipient from Goldman Sachs. Is it any wonder that Democrats can “play” progressive but only within the confines of the “CORPORATE SANDBOX”! Isn’t it time for President Obama and the Democrats to enable our Republic to break out of the corporate sandbox and enact a constitutional amendment to keep corporations in their place outside of the financing of elections! We need to protect “FREEDOM” by placing the corporations in the sandbox and unleashing Democracy out of the corporate sandbox.

I could not agree more with Cenk Uygur author of the  show, “The Young Turks” concerning how the Democrats are becoming such wimps!

I don’t mean to imply the President Obama is dishonest. Far from it! As I mention in a prior post due to the costs of campaigning both Democrats and Republicans have to take money from corporations and we need to fix that! We need to fix that while still allowing large sums to be spent on issues. Hey it’s our democracy and campaign financing is worth it to protect the decision making process of our society.

By all means Corporate CEO’s should be invited to talk before Congress. Let them spend their money on nifty slide show presentations before Congress rather than stuffing Congressional Campaign chests! Let the decision making capacity of our democracy be swayed by the brilliance of their “elocution and argumentation” rather than the money that they force us to pay for their K-Street operations via higher costs of goods and services and/or reduced employee compensation.

The time has come to end “Taxation Without Representation”! This occurs every time I buy gas or a product that I need only to have part of the proceeds go to serve the political agenda of organized money! Where are the Tea Party people protesting this form of “Taxation Without Representation”?

But then where are my fellow Democrats? Can you hear their pathetic mantra of “MEOW”? Led by Barrack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi!

DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVE TALKING POINT

I did not vote for “Change I can believe in” to witness 18 months of total pathetic wimphood!

I will ALWAYS vote. But if my local Democrat congressional candidate  is not a progressive, and mine is not, I will vote Third Party or write in “Michael Moore”!

Voting for Non-Progressive Democrats is a vote for:

• Two more years of kissing Joe Liebermann, Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln’s butts. –  Oh yes this is the “Change We Can Believe In” that I voted for! –  No way! I hope every non-progressive Democrat looses if they are running! Obama you are next if you don’t change!
• Democrats voting to block pharmaceuticals from Canada while allowing countless blue collar and white collar jobs to be off shored. Can you hear the loud sucking sound? Special thanks also to the Clintons for this!
• Making nicey while Republicans slander President Obama. At this point it is no longer my concern for Obama but only that he is the titular leader of my party and he is being attacked constitutes an attack on my values. If Obama does not have the guts to say these Tea Party people are nuts then he DESERVES what he gets!
• Standing still while the corporations continue to wage war on “individual freedom” in America as the Supreme Court decision goes unchallenged. Oh yes the Wimpocrats will have some minor bills passed but that is not the same as a Constitutional Amendment!

I will not sit back and allow Obama, Reid and Pelosi to dictate to the Middle Class that our only choice is Republican control of the Congress or two more years of WIMPHOOD! If voting third party or a write in vote for Michael Moore results in a Republican victory then so be it.

The reason why some liberal political commentators want you to continue to vote for wimps is because they cannot face the fact that Obama, Reid and Pelosi are WIMPS! For us to accept this pathetic 18 months of  wimphood would be to redefine “Change We Can Believe In” and allow conservatives to pair “impotency” with “liberalism”. If you haven’t noticed this has been their favorite game since the 1960′s. Better to allow a Republican victory than to loose hope in the Progressive Agenda! Two more years of this krap is not “Change We Can Believe In”!

If the Republicans try to privitize Social Security Obama’s response will be:

“Well can we talk about this! Come to a compromise”! “Why this is just silly season in politics”. No Mr President believing that the last 18 months constitute “Change We Can Believe In” is the real silly season in politics! If Obama failed in every legislative goal but was in full campaign mode addressing the power of “organized money” in destroying our democracy then I would count him at least as a winner! At least then he would still be an advocate of “Change We Can Believe In” instead of playing “progressive” inside the corporate sandbox!

I have had enough! Time to kick Republican butts! President Obama are you on board with the people that elected you?

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Below is a video featuring Ed Schultz. He is pushing for Democrats to come out and support Democrats in the House and Senate. I like Ed Schultz but he just does not get it. Why should progressives support candidates who don’t stand for “Change We Can Believe In”. Ok what can happen if the Republicans get control of both the Senate and the House! They cannot repeal the weak Health Care bill unless they have super majorities in both houses because Obama will still be the President!

The problem is that Ed Schultz knows in his guts that if confronted by a Republican controlled House and/or Senate that wants to privatise  Social Security President Obama will probably say, “Oh can we talk about this? Maybe go down the middle?”

The Democratic base has had it with Obama, Reid and Pelosi. If the Republicans get control of the House they will most likely try to de-fund the Health Care Law. I don’t know if they want to use that obscure provision in the Constitution concerning the federal purse string as it could back fire.

Why didn’t Pelosi use the House purse strings to defund the Iraq War years ago? Because the Democrats have turned into wimps! This was before Obama got elected. Now President Obama has made it worse by kissing Joe Liebermann and Ben Nelson’s ass when he should have used his rhetorical skills to launch a crusade against corporate interference in Congressional decision making. Well the base has had enough! Maybe this will wake Obama up!

This defeat could be good as this Health Care Law is so weak and it’s weaknesses should be exposed to the light of day. Along with the stimulus and the finance reform law. All weak as can be!

The issue is not simply the bills strength! The issue is that Obama has failed to rally the base by attacking corporate interference in the our governmental processes! None of the laws that Obama passed will ever be strengthened because Obama, Reid and Pelosi have become the “CASTRATI BRIGADE”.

They whine about a “starter house” and that the progressive base should be thankful while they kissed the corporations butts and rejected the importation of cheaper Canadian pharmaceuticals!

So tell me just when are we to build on these weak starter houses of the stimulus, finance reform and the health care? When the Republicans take over in January?

The Progressive base is tired of these pathetic losers and the money they take from corporate America!

I urge every progressive voter to only vote for progressive Democrats. If there are none in your district then vote Green, Socialist or write in John Stuart! Don’t stay home but make your vote count. Don’t support wimps! Barrack Obama could change this by

1. Openly saying in a speech to the nation that all politicians have to take corporate money to run an election but now we need to change this. Then publicly list his major contributors.
2. Invite every member of Congress to do the same and urge them to vote for a Constitutional Amendment that would forbid any corporate monies to candidates or political ads of any kind. Let the lobbyists spend extra money on audio-visual aids to their presentations to Congress. Let the persuasion come from their eloquence and logic of their arrangements not their CASH!
3. Openly challenge Republicans after a grace period pulling them out of the closet. Naturally Republicans will then attack Democrats listing their corporate sponsors. GREAT! Time for a Transactional Analysis Game of “Let’s you and he fight”. The public wins because there will be no way to not vote for the Amendment.
4. Any Republican who openly backs the amendment MUST receive strong praise from the President and progressives even if they vote against us on every other issue! If they run in an election where the Democrat will not support the Amendment we must back the Republican.
5. We must put the Corporations into the sandbox else they will place our democray in their corporate sandbox. Listen to that swishing sound! It is the noise of blue collar AND white collar jobs going over seas to serve the corporate agenda.

Progressives must vote for candidates who believe in “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN”. If Obama wants to forget his base we should forget him. President Obama there is still time to wake up!

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As a liberal I am fed up with Obama and his appeasement of the Republicans and their fellow travelers in corporate America. But what upsets me even more is that my fellow Democrats are “playing liberal” inside the confines of the “Corporate Sandbox”. When are we to have “change we can believe in”? When we have 95% of the Congress? Don’t blame the Republicans because Obama, Reid and Pelosi are wimps! They are the cause!

Obama is IMPOTENT! He is impotent not on the basis simply of the weak reforms he has made but because he did not fight for “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN”! If President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi did not accomplish even one law but instead went on a daily TV campaign to break the corporate strangle hold on the American Middle Class by using the Presidential bully pulpit then I would judge him a success! He would be a success because at least he fought the good fight! But he did not and I will not lie for him!

The issue is simply this for President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi:

Stop “playing progressive and liberal” inside the confines of the CORPORATE SAND BOX! We expect Republicans to take corporate money because they favor the elites. But when Democrats “play liberal” but  support the off shoring of American blue collar and white collar jobs while banks engage in the practice of usury there is no “Change We Can Believe In”!

Trying to scare the Democratic Base to support the Troika of Impotence, Obama, Reid and Pelosi so we can have six more years of pathetic wimps kissing the butts of Joe Lieberman or Ben Nelson is not “Change We Can Believe In”.

A Plan To Bring The Democratic Base Out In November!

• A Constitutional Amendment that calls for the separation of Corporation and State!
• Protect America with a strong Tariff.
• Tax heavily corporations that off shore American Blue Collar and White collar Jobs. Yes high tech white collar jobs are leaving this nation and training blue collar workers for tech jobs means nothing if these jobs also are off shored to serve the interests of our social betters!
• Bring this nation back to the golden era of Republican President Eisenhower when we had a 90% Progressive Income Tax!

Since campaigns require money every politician can start with a clean slate and nothing should be held against anyone for the money they took IF they will support the Constitutional Amendment to separate Corporation and State! This is important. We must take Democracy out of the sand box and put the corporations inside the sandbox. Any politician who signs on board must be forgiven their past. Both parties took money.

The way to achieve this is for Obama to state his contributions openly. Then attack any Republican who does not support the amendment. He can list their contributions and finally use that great rhetorical skills he has put aside. Naturally Republicans will then attack Democrats who take money and that is EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT THEM TO DO! I am a progressive first and a Democrat second. We want this whole house to implode on itself! Any Republican who willingly joins to support this amendment must be praised openly. This will result in a society where logic not money wins the day! Republicans can make a contribution to this new egalitarian society but corporations must be placed in the sandbox!

Individual CEO’s have every right to speak up but no more then the average citizen!

This will result in stiff opposition not simply from Republicans but almost every Democrat. Democrats generally do not take contributions to advance the corporate agenda directly but instead to confine their liberalism to the Corporate Defined Sandbox.

The sandbox imposed on Democrats was to never question the personal income generated by the so called “free market” to a small group of elites. While we don’t want to regulate how much each occupation gets compensated we must now bring out into the open that no one deserves to earn millions per year.

Organized money has cast a “MYTH” on American culture.

That myth is that their compensation is just and earned. We must tolerate some income disparity so as to encourage innovation! But it is the so called “free Market that must be contained within the sand box not democracy! We will NEVER have change we can believe in until progressives come out of the sandbox and corporations are put in the sandbox. No we don’t want to eliminate corporations! But we must make the market place subject to the Democratic Ideals of a free nation not the Government the subject of the corporations!

If you are Middle Class and have self respect then you must:

1. Question why anyone should be earning more than the President of the United States. Again we don’t want to get into how much each occupation is compensated. A 90% progressive income tax will balance the effects of the market.
2. Realize no one really deserves to earn more than three times the average citizen. We can tolerate this disparity but allow a 90% Progressive Income Tax to balance this disparity.

When it comes to the political decision making process of a democratic society “Corporations should be seen and not heard”! Corporate CEO’s should by all means be invited to give testimony before Congress in their areas of expertise. It is their “elocution, rhetoric and persuasiveness of argument that should sway Congress! It is their logic not their money that should impact the political processes of a democratic society!

I am so proud that my social betters believe that the American employee can compete with foreign slave labor. That’s why I want to return that faith in my social betters by allowing them to prosper with an Eisenhower era progressive income tax of 90%! It’s just our way of saying we have faith in our social betters as they have faith in us!

This November we must stand for “Change We Can Believe In”. If Obama is with us –  Great. But we can live without Obama! Consider each candidate if they were for the Progressive Agenda. If not then vote for a third party candidate. So what if the Republicans win the House.

Obama, Reid and Pelosi are reaping the results of being wimps! The issue now is are we Progressives wimps? I will not vote to support six more years of Obama kissing Joe Liebermann’s ass! That is not “Change We Can Believe In”! Yes I realize Obama is starting to come around but no where near enough! The Clinton’s helped off shore American jobs and thus Hillary Clinton is no replacement for Obama.

However Howard Dean and Senator Sanders are viable alternatives to Obama in 2012 if he cannot get his head out of Joe Leibermann and Ben Nelson’s ass!

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President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, being the “Troika Of Impotence” in advancing the progressive agenda, are now beginning to realize we may loose control of the House! Maybe they can take a break from singing Komb Bye Yah and making nicey with the Republicans to actually listen to the Democratic Party base. Reid is even scared for his own senate seat!

So how are those campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical industry working out for you now Senator Reid? Thanks for destroying the Public Option!

Naturally they want us liberals and progressives to stand by them after they:

1. Denied us the Public Option in the so called Health Care Bill. Note I would “settle” for a strong public option but I want a single payer health care system.
2. Kept the bailouts for the giant corporations but did little for Main Street.
3. Did nothing really to end “To Big To Fail” except create a small insurance backup fund so the rich can continue to play their gambling and bizarre practices. Why not break up the banks?
4. Stood by while the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to inject more money into our elections process. We need a constitutional amendment to end ALL corporate infections of the decision making processes of our society. Let our representatives use the eloquence of their logic to advance their thesis not money forcefully raised from the Silent Majority by added costs to our consumer products and services that these corporate collectives produce.
5. Allowed a so-called Financial Reform Bill to pass without regulating credit card usury.

November Election Loss Means Republicans Go On Witch Hunt

Below is a clip from the Keith Olbermann Show. Keith Olbermann reports on what the Republicans have in mind should they gain control of the House! They will go on an endless string of hearings into the Obama Administration! But then Obama being the wimp that he is deserves this since he would not investigate the Bush Administration for their sending Americans to die in a worthless war in Iraq!

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In the clip above Rep. Debbie Wasserman tries to do a tap dance about Democrats being strong advocates for job creation! Yes I understand she is trying to make the situation better but it will not sell. While REAL DEMOCRATS who follow FDR and want to fight the interests of ORGANIZED MONEY are for job creation, most Democrats have spent the last year and a half singing Komb Bye Yah with their corporate sponsors and the Republicans.

Sure we had the Health Care Issue to face but the real issue is:

Corporate Control of our elected officials both Republican and Democrat! Fact: You need money to wage a political campaign. Corporations give to Republicans because they advance their agenda. Corporations give to Democrats so they will “play liberal” but like good little children do it in the “sand box”. Good little democrats don’t raise that nasty issue of the class warfare that is being waged against the middle class!

So just listen to Congresswoman Wasserman do her little tap dance about job creation. It is not going to sell with the American people. Heck many liberal commentators are attacking Obama for the same reasons I have! We gave more money to AIG alone then we did to infrastructure rebuilding! Sure it takes time for a “real stimulus” to effect the economy but this was not a real stimulus and we should have capitalized on the economic discontent the Republicans created.

What the Troika Of Impotence Should Have Been Doing to Prevent A November Election Loss!

Obama, Reid and Pelosi should have been advocating a strong Tariff to defend not only American blue collar jobs but high tech white collar jobs as well. You cannot train blue collar workers for white collar jobs that are being off shored and/or filled by legally imported H1–b workers to undercut the salaries of America’s Middle Class. Americans should not have to compete with slave labor! Yet the bleeding hearts of the Republican Party whine that the Bush Tax Cuts will expire. We should eliminate not only those tax cuts but the Reagan Tax Cuts as well! We need to go back to when Eisenhower was President with a 90% progressive income tax.

But the Democrats will not because they can only play “liberal” inside the restraints that their corporate masters have set for them. They attack us progressives and now want us to bail them out! They fear a November election loss and they should!

When Republicans under Bush had problems they would “entertain” the masses with a side show scaring them about Blacks or Gay Marriage. Why cannot the Democrats have some testosterone and now wage the class warfare issue? Oh dear now did I say something so nasty? Have you noticed the sucking sound as all the high tech jobs are leaving this country and those that remain are being filled by imported H1-b workers? I have as I was one of those replaced!

Instead we have even Moveon.org telling myself and other supporters to write Harry Reid a thank you e-mail for making the most luke warm gestures to support the weakened Health Care Reform Law.

Don’t we Democrats have any guts! TIME TO LOCK AND LOAD! Maybe if we had advanced a real Democratic Party agenda we would not be facing a November election loss!

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Today the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can engage in “Taxation Without Representation” by unrestricted funding of political ads for or against candidates and issues of their choice! Guess where their funding is going to come from? It is bad enough that these effete snobs of privilege earn more in one day then many earn in one year! But they will not simply stick their hands into their slothful deep pockets to fund their class agenda but will forcefully stick their hands into the pockets of America’s Silent Majority – our great Middle Class! The modus operandi of financing their corporate K-Street agenda and this transfer of wealth from America’s middle class to the corporate elitists will be via:

• Higher costs for goods and services the corporation provides and/or
• Decreased quality and/or quantity of such goods and services
• Decreased compensation for their middle class employees
• More incentives to off shore both blue collar and white collar jobs overseas. Frequently even to the enemies of America!

(Watch this excellent video of Keith Olbermann and Rep. Allan Grayson)

Once again we hear the term “freedom” used by Republicans. No this is not “freedom” for the middle class but freedom for the bully!

We hear this mantra of the right repeated over and over “that as the government grows then individual freedom withers”! But the government is not the only force on the field. In a democracy the government is an agent of the people! It serves as the “referee”. Reduce it and you do not increase individual freedom but create a vacuum! Decrease the power of the referee and the silent majority then live their lives at the mercy of the corporate bully!

Corporations can then operate without impunity against their employees, the consumer, and the environment. Without the referee the “Individual” losses their freedom to the “Corporate Collective”!

With their new Supreme Court mandated power to engage in “TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION” they can perform a vast right wing social engineering experiment to remake America in their image!

From “One person – One vote”, America will be changed into a new Gilded Society of “One Dollar – One Vote”! Our new purpose in this brave new world is to serve the corporate collective! After all in their world of entitlement  it is they who are the “producers” not we the Silent Majority of the middle class!

Yet these fools in the Tea Party movement cannot see what is happening to our nation. Any middle class American who has “self respect” would reject these elitists who brag they are the “producers”!

I wish Sarah Palin would have talked about who are the “producers” in our society in the last election! Instead that friend of Alaskan secessionists and effete snob had the audacity to call Barrack Obama an elitist!

In this Republican brave new world, where individual freedom is subservient to the Corporate Collective, we will witness more American blue collar and white collar jobs being shipped overseas while our social betters reap the profits! In this new “Global Gilded Society” our social betters, the so-called “producers” will hold no allegiance to America nor to the preservation of our way of life! Just look at Halliburton! They now have most of their corporation’s headquarters in Dubai! They even had a subsidiary in Iran. The very nation that was sending weapons to kill our soldiers in Iraq!

Where is the loyalty to America and our way of life from those who prospered? They even place their Corp. Headquarters on Caribbean Islands to evade their responsibly to the land that gave these “persons” their incorporation birth! In this brave new world of the Guided Society our military technology is shipped overseas, frequently to Americas enemies! All the while the these effete snobs and their fellow travelers in the Republican Party sing their new “REPUBLICAN GLOBALIZATION GILDED AGE CORPORATE INTERNATIONALE”!

Where is their loyalty to the nation and society that gave them incorporation, profits and freedom? Well if the Chinese go communist again guess who will “rediscover” their American identity if there is a military buildup and profit! The crisis we face to defend America and our middle class demands a “Constitutional Amendment” to strip corporations of the right to impose the cost of their K-Street agenda on middle class Americans! There can be no compromise!

The time has come to face the real issues in our society!

While we want people to have incentives to innovate, we don’t want that “innovation” to be the production of products and services by slave labor compensation nor the loss of leisure time with friends and family! The time has come to question why anyone should be making more than three times the salary of the average American. What the hell are they doing to earn such compensation? We need a European style progressive income tax. If you are a middle class American and have “self respect” you must demand an end to their extreme control of compensation standards. My God it’s not like they found a cure for cancer, heart disease or aids! From the way these effete snobs of privilege whine at taxes you would think that they actually earn their wealth and have an entitlement?

The time has come for the Silent Majority, our great Middle Class, to assert it’s right as the “Producers” in of this society! If we do not have the “separation of  corporation and state” our story will be the tale of two Americas! The impoverished middle class and the effete snobs of corporate elitists who govern us!

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The Public Option does not stand a chance! Not because the American people don’t want it but because of the power of Corporate Lobbyists! Where are the “Tea Baggers” with their pompous slogans of “No Taxation Without Representation”? We Middle Class Americans are being taxed by these corporations to support their self interest against our own class interest (oh dear did I say something wrong here). Where do you think these Corporations get their money to fund their K-Street Operations? They get it from the average American against our will. Health Insurance Companies must either raise their premiums or lower their coverage to finance their K -Street lobbying against the Public Option. See video below.

I thought our nation was founded on the principle of “One Person – One Vote”! Instead we operate on the principle of “One Dollar – One Vote”! Forget the fact that the Corporate Elitists have deep pockets and earn more than the President of the United States! That is not good enough for them. They rather stick their hands into MY POCKET to fund their activities when they as individuals have far to deep pockets to begin with!

Make no mistake about it the issue is not just the “Public Option” the issue is CLASS WARFARE against the Middle Class. Oh they talk the Ayn Rand lingo about the “Individual vs the Collectivists”. With the word “collectivists” being a label for Democrats as government intervention is evil. Yet these effete snobs of privilege want to render the Middle Class individual into a servant of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS!

Republicans want us to fear the excercise of the societal action via a freely elected goverment to enhance the lives of all citizens not just the elite! When the decision making processes of a free government are corrupted by Corporate Collectivists the individual looses!

When Government intervention in the service of the individual is thwarted, when the police power of a free society is diminished freedom is not increased because the BULLY fills the vacuum! That bully is the power of CORPORATE COLLECTIVISM!

It is not just Health Insurance but the credit card industry and the off shoring of American Middle Class blue collar and white collar jobs that is the issue. While these CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS ship our future out from America we Middle Class Americans, blue collar and white collar employees, see our hopes and dreams destroyed. All in the service of the wealth and leisure of our social betters who now want middle class Americans to pay for their political lobbying!

Meanwhile the Democrats continue to take contributions from these elitists! When will Barrack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi get some testosterone and fight back? The Democrat Party has turned into wimps!

The issue is not just Universal Health Care nor the increasing use of racist language against our President. The issue is the CLASS WARFARE being waged against the Middle Class by the effete snobs of privilege who want to keep Americans dependant upon them. Yes they do “use” racists but the issue of the rhetoric against President Obama is far more than racism. The issue is the blatant funding by corporations who want to undermine “Individual Freedom” and instead make us subservient to the Corporate Collectives! Without health care as you grow older your “Individualism” is made subservient to the Corporate Collectivists! Just look at how they are financing not only Republicans but blue dog Democrats! Now they want to undermine campaign financing laws. The video below is funny but the message is true!

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Corporations are now to be viewed as “persons” with citizenship rights. Well I did not see any of these so called “persons” in the 1960′s reporting to my draft board! Though I did see them report for profits in the war then latter CUT AND RUN with blue collar and white collar jobs to the foreign lands. These “corporation persons” have the loyalty to America of a whore! Yet in this era of “licentious permissiveness”, to use the Nixon era right wing lingo they so proudly whined, where is the sense of “responsibility” to the nation that gave them birth, growth and yes profits?

Yet today the bleeding hearts in the Republican Party and their fellow travellers, the blue dog Democrats, seem to believe that Middle Class Americans should pay for the political agendas of our social betters! Where does the money come from when insurance companies finance their K-Street operations and give contributions to disrupt Town Hall meetings and our democratic processes? They get this money from Middle Class Americans in the form of higher insurance premiums and/or reduced benefits!

Supreme Court Justice Sotomoyer challenged that view as one of her first acts in the Supreme Court. Where are the Tea Party advocates when the Corporations impose on us “Taxation Without Representation”! Make no mistake about it. This is CLASS WARFARE being waged by these effete snobs of privilege against the Middle Class. We need to be like Western Europe that not only has Universal Health Care but follow the Germans with eleven week paid vacations every year! Or Sweden with sixteen week paid leaves for parents after the birth of each child. Oh dear me then we may not be as “productive” to the needs of our social betters! Why must Middle Class Americans subvert their “Individualism” to the “Corporate Collectivists”? Why don’t more Democrats get some testosterone!

As I have said countless times before in this website. I am not against millionaires or billionaires! Hell I want to be one also! Nor am I saying that all wealthy people are greedy! The issue is balance! That is why we need election reform, universal health care and a fair progressive income tax. The time has come for the Silent Majority, America’s great Middle Class, to stand up and take our nation back from these effete snobs of privilege!

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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”!

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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!

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!

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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!

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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!