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While many Democrats where blowing kisses to Republicans believing this would be a new era of cooperation, the Corporate Collectivists and their minions in the Republican Party are arming for battle. Their plan is to subvert the freedom of the Individual to The new 21^st Century Collectivists. No not the Soviet Collective but the Corporation! Just look at how they are waging Brown Shirt like tactics to disrupt the forces of Democracy in Town Hall Meetings around our nation! These Corporations want to make us subserviant to their agenda. (See video below).

When will the Democrats wake up! This War must be waged on a different battle field and with different tactics! When will Progressives and Democrats realize that this is CLASS WARFARE plain and simple! Oh dear me did you hear what I just said! Oh we don’t want to sound corrosive that may earn us some bad karma!  Well I have news for my fellow liberal Democrats, the Republicans and their fellow travelers on K-Street are out to win and they don’t care what are the means to achieve that end! Do they worry about class warfare when they ship our jobs overseas?

What’s that we can train blue collar workers for computer jobs, after all technology is the wave of the future – right? Wrong! What jobs these elitists cannot ship overseas they are bringing foreign H1-b workers here legally to undermine the high technology labor market. This is not just a blue collar issue. Democrats would do well to stop talking about “labor” and start talking about “employees”. White collar employees are getting the shaft as well. (I know I was one of them).

Progressive Liberal Democrats must wage psychological warfare against the Republicans and stop being such wimps. Here are some talking points:

• Demand that every employee should know at what day in the year their accumulated earnings equal the total compensation of the CEO’s first workday in the year. I bet by December 31^st most would still not earn what the CEO made on January 1^st.

• Question who are these people to make such large amounts of money when the President of the United States, who has far more responsibility, only makes $400,000.00 per year.  Their compensation is not from a “free market” but from the oligopoly of the market.

• The Government should not get in the busseness of setting salaries. But the time has come to say that no one has contributed to society to such an extent that they deserve more then the President of the United States. Tax day is when these effete snobs have to check in with reality! Find a cure for cancer and maybe we can waver your taxes. But when they earn their  ridiculous rate of compensation by finding ways to cut mine that does not justify them to collect such licentious rates of compensation. April 15th is the day to check in with reality!

• Why should I be taxed by the Corporations to support their K-Street activities! I resent multimillionaires being allowed to make large contributions to political groups that fight Universal Health Care because they have a larger wallet then me. But that is not enough for them! Instead they have the corporation make contributions! Excuse me where does the corporation get the money to make that contribution? The corporation gets it by raising prices and/or reducing salaries to employees! Then they lecture us about “Individual freedom being subverted to serve the collective”! Stop making the middle class subsidize the agenda of the super rich!

• No one is against people becoming millionaires or even billionaires! The issue is fairness! By shipping jobs overseas and linking health care to one’s job the individual is not free but subservient to the CORPORATE COLLECTIVE!

• These same people speak of themselves as the “producers” in our society! Why didn’t they say that during the election. No instead they called Obama an “elitist”.

• Why should insurance companies and our employers stand between us and our doctor?

Who the hell cares how much it costs! Does anyone care how much it costs the American Taxpayer when the Tobacco industry infects our youth and gets healthy red blooded Americans addicted to CANCER STICKS? Does anyone care that their idea of a “Value Added Product” is a cigarette with the addictive drug nicotine? Why does our society allow these cancer peddlers to continue to operate? This my fellow Americans is their idea of “freedom”. That is to say freedom to die in the service of the Corporation! Oh these bleeding hearts for the Corporations that want to subvert the freedom of the individual by producing cancer sticks (cigarettes) then trying to deny Americans Universal Health Care!

Did these effete snobs of privilege care when George Bush lowered the taxes on the super rich and gave us the biggest budge deficit in history all while they waged a phony war in Iraq? Yet now they wail and whine about how “our children” are going to have to pay for Universal Health Care and the economic stimulus package! No they don’t care about “our children” they fear that their children will have to pay higher taxes on the wealth that they did not earn. They fear a rise in the “inheritance tax”. Imagine poor dear Mrs. McCain with her 87 million. What leave here only half of that? Oh I would rather go without health care then to tax my social betters!

Yet this is what is going to happen unless Democrats and Progressives stand up and take our Town Halls back from these effete snobs of privilege and their intellectually challenged minions whom they send to the Town Hall meetings to disrupt.

If you are Middle Class and have “SELF RESPECT” then you must question what justifies anyone to earn more than three or four times your salary.

The time has come for America’s Silent Majority, our great Middle Class, to stand up and take our nation back from these effete snobs of privilege.

Oh poor baby Sarah Palin. Did that nasty liberal biased news media finally become too much for the “Pit bull Hockey Mummy” from Alaska? What drives me crazy about Sarah Palin is the way the news media where too scared to pursue her ties with the Alaskan independence Party and her ties with a witch hunting pastor who gave her the laying on of hands. Please note that while I am an Episcopalian I am not making fun of Pentecostals! I understand most of you reading this are not aware of Sarah Palin being a “PAL of Witch-hunters and Alaskan Secessionists”!

But then again the news media never had the guts to do follow ups on her relationship to the Alaskan Independence Party! With the exception of a few Journalists on CNN and MSNBC, Sarah Palin got a free ride with the news media. Below Keith Olbermann talks about Sarah Palin’s hypocrisy and her relation to both the Alaskan Independence Party and her witchdoctor hunting pastor! (Keith gets into this fully about four minutes into the video but I recommend you watch it in full.

Concerning Sarah Palin’s being a pal of Secessionists, she was wrongly accused of being a “formal member” of the AIP (Alaskan Independence Party). That she was not a formal member, as it was originally alleged by some, has been taken to dismiss the entire issue of her ties to the Alaskan independence Party! Well not so fast! You see her husband was a member for seven years and she even sent a video address to their convention last year just a few months before she became the Republican nominee for Vice President. You can view it on the Alaskan Independence Party website below.

http://www.akip.org/conv08.html

The AIP Goal is secessionist from America. Their own website states this as their ultimate goal.

http://www.akip.org/grege.html

Their founder Joe Vogler did not want to be called an “American” but an “Alaskan”. See the video below.

Oh poor Sarah Palin, such a martyr for the Conservative Cause! Those nasty people in the news media even asked her a question about the “Bush Doctrine”! Being the great foreign policy expert that John McCain said she is, why is such a question considered to be biased?

Yes this is Sarah Palin the one who constantly accused Barrack Obama of being a “pal of terrorists”. Yet to criticize her would result in accusations that the news media is biased! Hell this woman got a free ride! The news media never questioned her about her ties to the Alaskan Independence Party.

God imagine if Barrack Obama’s wife where a member of the Black Panthers? Imagine if Barrack Obama addressed a convention of Black separatists? The news media went on and on about the nutty Rev Wright but barely mentioned John McCain’s ties to Rev. Hagee or Rev. Parsley! But even worse was Sarah Palin and her love of a minister who conducted witch hunting in Africa! (See top video). Yet you never heard about him in the news media!

Well let me close this post with a little humor! The “Ballard of Sarah Palin” see above! These effete snobs of the Republican Party accused Barrack Obama of being a “elitist”! Yet now they wail and whine like babies that the upper 2% is going to have to pay more taxes. They call these people the “producers”! Hey what do these parasites do to earn more money then the President of the United States? Do they have more responsibilities than the President of the United States! The time has come for America’s producers, our great Middle Class to stop being a Silent Majority but a vocal one! Let’s take back our nation from these effete snobs of privilege!

Good night Sarah and good riddance!

Yes I am a Social Democrat and voted for Jimmy Carter. I believed the Shah had to go at the time. Now I feel the opposite. Partially because I believe both Liberals and Persian Monarchists have both matured.

While our direct support could hurt the forces of “Change” in Iran, I do believe in the Audacity of Change and that the vehicle for such change is the restoration of the Pahlavi Monarchy in a Western Constitutional framework! While the Shah has passed on, his son the Crown Prince, is alive and capable of becoming the new Shah. (See the video of him below) History has given the Crown Prince the opportunity to serve his nation by becoming a Constitutional Monarch whose future, like the restored Spanish Monarchy is to serve his nation as a respected “Referee” and Constitutional Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

Above the Crown Prince addresses an audience at an American University. Despite the fact that his father had some flaws, under the Shah, Iran advanced in Western Liberal values. I believe his son has learned from the mistakes of the past. I believe we western Liberals have also learned and matured.

Under the Shah there was religious tolerance. The older religion of Iran “Zoroastrianism” has suffered under the mullahs. This heritage of Persia must not be snuffed out by extremists!

If we who label ourselves as “Liberals” decry religious fundamentalism and the Christian Right then we should also decry Islamic Fundamentalism. Just as we should denounce “atheistic fundamentalism” of communist states. All of the above have their rational tolerant advocates. The two films above show the pride that many Iranian “Persians” take in the monarchy and their history.

When a monarchy acts like the British and now Spanish Monarchies they insure the survival of Western values and freedom by placing their future not as “rulers” but as respected “referees” who enable “Parliamentary Democracies” to flourish without fear of a military takeover or one party rule. The forces who are fighting Ahmadinejad are slowly realizing that the so called “Islamic Republic” is as dangerous as we view a Christian theocracy. By the way I am an Episcopalian not an atheist.

While a Constitutional Monarchy is not for us in America, I strongly support the restoration of the Pahlavi Monarchy in Iran in a Constitutional framework!

Remember when George Bush wanted to divert funds from Social Security for “Private Investment Accounts?” He wanted to play the young against the old and also try to make even those with little income identify with the richer elements of the investor class by owning stock! Well now they are at it again! They have taken Obama’s criticism of McCain and used it out of context against him. Today one of Obama’s economic team stated that the economy is fundamentally sound. The Republicans and the news media then tried to link that with McCain’s statement from the campaign. See the video below and how the right wing is using it to smear Obama.

When McCain said that he was trying to prove his belief that little or no government intervention is needed. When Obama today says “that the economy is sound” he is saying that for two valid reasons:

1. He understood that the economy was NOT sound, now as President he has taken big steps to correct it.  With those steps now taken now he can make the statement that the fundamentals of the economy are strong! McCain on the other hand with his do nothing Republicans only wanted to create more tax cuts for the rich and increase their wealth redistribution program away from the Middle Class and toward their fellow travelers in the Upper Class.
2. As President, after taking strong action rather than saying Government is the problem, President Obama has said “Government is the solution!” Thus it is now IMPERATIVE to increase consumer confidence! If he did not talk positive then he would be, and already was,  criticized for being to negative by the Republicans!

Dr. Christina Romer is not a political analyst and hence was red meat to the talk show host here who wanted to score some points. Yes now imagine if instead it was Sarah Palin who said that. The right wing would be all over the news media that the news media is biased.

Where are these right wing Republicans when Rush Limbaugh (their leader) says he wants our President to fail?

The time has come to take our nation back from these effete snobs of privilege! I am mad not only that corporate CEO’s are making millions while destroying our economy! But when the President of the United States with all his responsibilities only makes $400K who are these CEO’s even if they do good to make such money?

The time has come to raise our CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS (oh dear did I say something wrong) and ask WHY SHOULD SOMEONE BE MAKING SO MUCH MORE THAN THE AVERAGE AMERICAN? WHAT ARE THEY CONTRIBUTING TO SOCIETY? No I don’t mind a doctor or lawyer making three times my salary. But when I see this ridiculous wealth curve and their influence via the “K-TAX” on our political decision making processes of our society, then I believe we must use our democracy to bring about SOCIAL RESPONSIBLY!

Who are these people to make so much more money then the rest of us! We need a  PROGRESSIVE INCOME TAX to reward the PRODUCERS in this society! That is to say the great Silent Majority, the American Middle Class!

“Time to be Patriotic” as Vice President Joe Biden has said! Let’s have “Tickle up economics”!

REPEAL THE BUSH TAX CUTS NOW!

REPEAL THE REAGAN TAX CUTS NOW!