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As i mentioned in a prior post the Conservatives don’t seem to care that CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS have no problem in tearing down the flag of our nation from their merchant ships in order to avoid paying their fair share of taxes to the nation that gave them birth, succor, protection and yes PROFITS! Instead they register their American ships in Liberia or Panama. Now the Republican Governor of Texas flirts with the idea of Secession! Yo we had a Civil War you right wing jerk! See Rachel Madow in the Video below)

The BLEEDING HEARTS of the Republican Party and their fellow travelers (remember that rhetoric from the right wing during the Vietnam War) look the other way while the Governor of Texas hints at “Secession from the Union”! Well then he is in the tradition of his fellow traveler Governor Sarah Palin, who last year addressed the Alaskan Independence Party Convention. True she was NOT a formal member, unlike her husband but she did attend their functions! You know “just paling around with secessionists!” With few exceptions you did not hear a word from the news media about Sarah Pallin and her connection to these rabid seccessionists who want to tear down the flag of our nation and replace it with the flag of Alaska!

What is even worse is that Democratic Party leaders and officials let the Republicans get away with this!

Can you hear the cry of “MEOW” from Democratic Party Headquarters? How about some testosterone shots? Let’s kick some Republican ass while we wave the American flag! What is the matter with the Democratic Party have they been eating to much tofu that they cannot muster up the balls to really use this as a PATRIOTIC ISSUE against the Republicans? God can you imagine if that had been Obama who talked about seccession or addressed the Alaskan Independence Party?

This is a situation that is tailor made for us Democrats! Time to wave the flag and denounce these TRAITORS to our flag and country!

• Stop being a pal to Secessionists – JUST SAY NO!
• Stand Up For America when the CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS tear down our flag from their merchant vessels to hoist the flag of Profiteering! The last ship was under our flag and I am glad we saved them. But in the future that will not always be the case. Got Pirates then hold a Tea Party and invite the vast Liberian and Panamanian naval fleets to protect you. Why should our service men and woman die for CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS! Have your Tea Party with the pirates you idiots!

The Silent Majority – Our Great Middle Class has had enough of this permissiveness! Stand up for America!

This nation has paid over $150 Billion just to AIG. Instead of worrying about this insurance giant and their stockholder’s  “SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT” what about the SILENT MAJORITY of America who could benefit instead from this bail-out money being spent on Universal Health Care! AIG is the company that did not ship high tech jobs overseas but instead fired many of their computer programmers to instead turn over their jobs to H1–b foreign workers! Oh but AIG has morals! They let them train their replacements first!

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I used to work for AIG. They made it an institutional practice, as did many banks, to hire PERMANENT TEMPS!

Temporary employees are ethically used to cover periodic shortages in the work force. However these people were there 52 weeks per year, 8 hours a day and five days per week! As permanent temps they did not have to give them vacation, sick leave, pensions or medical benefits. The then CEO “Hank” Greenberg was not know to us as “Hank” Greenberg, as he is listed in the Wall Street Journal but as “Maurice Richard Greenberg”. He would sign his name on company documents with his initials as “MR GREENBERG!”.

Oh yes AIG had it’s annual holiday ritual called “Re-org”. This is when rumors would fly that jobs would be cut and everyone would be stressed out! This was in the so called good times!

One final note on AIG and temp workers! They even maintained their own internal “Temp Agency”. That way if a temp worker was made permanent they would not have to pay the agency fee! This practice was also utilized by many banks!

My fellow democrats need to learn an important lesson. Out-sourcing and off shoring are not just a blue collar issue! White collar employees are also subject to this. We are forced to read stupid stock reports then go to job interviews and “make believe” we give a shit! Like my interests are the same interests of the stock holders! “Profit” and Ayn Rand style “rational greed” are only for our Social Betters while employees are to subvert their “rational greed” to the greed of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS!

No that does not mean we should not be team players. But I am tired of suppressing my class needs to the owners of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVE! I am tired of paying hidden taxes to my social betters in the form of added prices for goods and services or lower wages to fund their K-Street activities!

Make no mistake about it! We face an issue of two city – states! Both are contradictory and try to supress the other. Politics is but the story of their conflict!

• In the first the motto is “One dollar then one vote!”.
• In the second city the dynamic is “One person then one vote!” Our nation is now deciding what motto it will be that guides our Republic!

Money that goes to K-Street is funding the ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS of the social elites! Just look at how America has developed a huge trade deficit! If our guiding principle was “one person – one vote” then we would have “fair trade” not so – called “free trade”.

The time has come for the Silent Majority – our great Middle Class to stand up to these effete snobs of privilege! No more money for AIG. The time has come to NATIONALIZE AIG! God Bless America!

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!

Once again in this era of licentious permissiveness the BLEEDING HEARTS of the Republican Party whine about how the Corporate Wealthy are so overburdened by regulations while they have driven our economy to the ground! Now apparently they have used OUR SOLDIERS to ground their profits by installing faulty electric equipment in our military bases in Iraq! One of Halliburton’s subsidiary’s fellow travelers, a company called “KBR” has now been blamed for the death of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth. He died from electrocution due to faulty electrical workmanship while taking a shower! He is not the first.

What we are seeing my friends is just another example of an era of Licentious Permissiveness, where anything goes when it comes to corporations making money! Why not with Halliburton after all they not only do contract work for us in Iraq but also our sworn enemies, the Shiite nut jobs in Iran! Oh dear but we won’t want to put “REGULATIONS” now on these giant CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS who make their money while we in the Middle Class work! Well that is at least those of us who have not seen our jobs off shored to foreign lands by these CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS who have no loyalty to the nation that gave them birth, protection and profits!

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I would not want to hamper the profit making style of my “social betters” like those who invest in Halliburton? So what they invested in Iran, the nation who is sending arms to cripple and kill our soldiers! <See Video Above>. Saying “no” to corporations would undermine “freedom”! We need to know our social place! What place nasty “Regulations” on these advocates of 21^st Century Collectivization? Never I say!

I believe in FREEDOM From Corporate Responsibility!

• We should “Know our place” in the new scheme of “CORPORATE COLLECTIVIZATION”.
• So what that de-regulation has placed us in a situation where we had to spend at least $700 billion to bail out Corporate America! Far better that we deregulate then spend $100 Billion on Universal Health Care. If we did that then people would be able to feel some “independence” from the CORPORATE COLLECTIVES they are employed by! We don’t want that!- NEVER!
  
• Due to the large size of these Corporate Collectives we cannot let them fail thus we must  pay to bail them out ! But look at the bright side! Our futures will be bleak and we will fear for our jobs and being without universal health care, with fear of unemployment we can fall behind on either our mortgages and/or credit cards and thus pay higher interest to our SOCIAL BETTERS!

Yes my fellow Middle Class Americans and that is how they define “FREEDOM”!

I want freedom from corporate responsibility because it means:

• Freedom from Universal Health Care!
• Freedom From A secure economic future! Today on the MSNBC Website we have more good news! Business Week Magazine says we can forget about Retirement! Isn’t that wonderful!
• YES FREEDOM FROM RETIREMENT! – Ah yes only in America! I only wish George Bush had his way and had privatized Social Security!

This is pure bull shit! When is the SILENT MAJORITY – our great Middle Class going to say enough of this! If my tax dollars are going to bail out these companies then we should collectively own a majority of their stock, at least till the government can recoup it’s losses! Who are these people to make millions of dollars in salaries while the President makes only $400K per year and has far more responsibility!

Look at what has happened to blue collar jobs but also white collar technical jobs! What jobs have not been off shored are now being filled legally by foreign H1-b Visa holders to force down the wages of those who are trying to adapt to the new age of technology! Some white collar employees are even unionizing in the computer field! Meanwhile these CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS leave the nation and even take up phony Headquarters on Caribbean Islands to avoid paying their taxes! Haliburton however really is moving their Corporate HQ!

That is why I use the term “CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS”. These are both corporations and individual investors who send America’s jobs, wealth, technology and security off shore, and frequently to the enemies of America! Look at the recent Dubai Ports deal! They don’t care for Port Security but “Portfolio Security” – theirs! Well the deal was stopped but none the less Halliburton has moved their Corporate Headquarters to Dubai! I guess they want to be closer to their fellow travelers in Iran! While you cannot always fault individual investors who buy foreign stocks, we need a program to protect America’s “PRODUCERS” – no I am not talking about rich Trust Fund kids who don’t have to work or even Heiresses! I am talking about the Silent Majority of America! That is to say our great forgotten Middle Class! Have you noticed how these effete snobs of privilege like to appropriate the term, “producers” for themselves? To hell with just rolling back the Bush Tax Cuts. We need to roll back the Reagan Tax Cuts! Strange isn’t it that in Europe they still have millionaires even with their higher tax rates! I am not against those who are rich. What I resent is those who are rich making it impossible for others to have a decent life! Do any of these people contribute 100 times more to society then those of us in the Middle Class?

The time has come to STAND UP FOR AMERICA against these effete snobs of privilege!

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!

I don’t share the enthusiasm of many that President – Elect Barrack Obama chose Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State. I say this because she has betrayed the working people of America both white and blue collar with both NAFTA and the H1-b Visa program. The latter is not well known by most Americans. The H1-b programs is destroying those remaining high tech jobs in America that where not off shored. See the video below!

While Bill Clinton was a major force for NAFTA I could forgive the Clintons for NAFTA in that the results were not wide spread until after he left office.However Hillary Clinton has destroyed the dreams of America’s high tech college graduates with her support of Corporate America’s H1-b program!

(Above we see our Brave Lady Of NAFTA in Bosnia)

NAFTA is just one “instance” of so called Free Trade as it only effects the US, Canada and Mexico. If free trade where restricted to just North America then Mexico’s economy would soon be raised to a more level field. Currently however many corporations are now leaving Mexico for Thailand and Indonesia because as bad as the wages are in Mexico the rewards of slave labor are better for corporate America in the far east.

When you hear people saying that displaced blue collar workers could be trained for High Tech Jobs then you better understand how corporations are destroying the careers of college technical graduates with the H1-B program. But don’t worry soon marketing, accounting and finance careers will be affected according to a front page article in the March 2007 Wall Street Journal. Check out the website of the “Programmer’s Guild” for more information!

Off shoring and H1-b are not simply blue collar issues! Corporate America is waging a war on the middle class and Hillary Clinton was one of their champions. Yes to her credit she is an advocate of Universal Health Care. I just wish she would return to her loyalty of the values of American liberalism rather than multinational corporations!