Hello to all!
I was noticing that I have only Posted Once here in the last 700+ Days. I have Been Here Daily Reading many of the Wonderful Postings from fellow Members. Anyhow I have had a need to vent about the Ongoing Debate from the "Right" side of the conversation. I have Followed the Labor/Union Busting blight that consumes "Our" Jobs. I started Writing down some Thoughts about "2011 the Year Against the Working Man" It Started right after the 2010 Election. I was Alarmed by the GOP's open Hostility for the "Working Man" I am Happy to see that My Outrage is Shared. it has now Reached something Called "#Occupy Wall St.". I have to say this Wonderful, in My eyes. So here it is "over the Jump" Late! A United People Cannot Fail!
Well the year 2011 might be known as the year against the working man. At every turn of the dial (TV or Radio), page of the paper (real or Digital) there is an out – cry of pain from the bottom 99% of Americans. The answer from our elected representatives is something about Debt…blah…Deficit…Blah…Reform, Cuts to Taxes, Regulations And so forth. So it seams to be the same old GOP line re-spun through the Luntz-o-matic. Since the National Party public Leaders endlessly Talk of “the Tax Payers”, “the Voters” & “the People”, but who are these Americans they speak of? The way they are talked about there seems to be 300 million in each of these groups? That is strange since the last National senses put the Population at near 310 Million. So the Math thing is just as hard for them as Honesty, Straw men do not vote. How does someone make such a statement as these, well just look at the way things have been debated in the last say thirty years & how out of control on going Legislative Debate is going on almost every Governing level in this Nation. “Government is the Problem” became the battle cry for one political party. That has morphed into something that may destroy this very Republic.
So what do We do? I might suggest that we stop fighting amongst ourselves, put All that Energy toward the Real problem. The Corporations that Game the System against the People, manipulates the “Working Man” mind to think that the system is Rotten, Broken & Corrupt. In many ways this is true since the Corporate America wants it that way. We are having the classic “Class/Culture War” again so to Distract & Divide the people. Since there are No real Ideological “Enemies of the State” (if there ever were), the only thing left is our own People (who cash pay checks). The newest incarnation of the “Greed Based” Citizen, this is a group of Citizens who read History & understand what happened? I don’t think so. This group sees things through highly filtered terms. The first is that “Government “is Evil incarnate. Second, well there is No second, or third, or tenth. They have used the media in a Way that would make Joseph Goebbels look like a rank amateur. Political Propaganda for three to six hours a day for a Generation, you get a “Labor Force” that votes for people who have destroyed the “Middle-Class” & Manufacturing base in the US.
I understand that the “System” is vastly titled away from the Majority of the people, Financially & Politically. It has been Lobbied this way for Thirty Plus years. The Top Owners of this nation are hiding behind, their Legal Personas, so that they reap profit & Power, Control of the System, All of it. Most of the Debate this Nation has been having for over the Twenty-Five Years, have All been the 1%’s income talking points. Capitol Gains, Estate Taxes, these Taxes affect less than .1% on the Population. The Business Regulation issues are there to Protect Us, from Business practice that Harm the People. Now things like NAFTA & GAT Do affect All of Us since the “Jobs” we had just got moved to the Third World, for a Giant “Tax” Credit. This was one of the last “Nails in the Coffin” for the “Blue-Collar” Worker here. Now “Skilled-Tradesmen”, Teachers, Police, Firefighters & “the Working Man” are treated like they Created this Problem, when the fact is they the “Board” just Took all of the Expansion of the Market (that happened over the Last 30 Years) for themselves! Yet it is Our Fault?! I t is Time For Justice! You Know Who You Are, SO do We. That Second “Gilded Age” We are Sorry, that is Not what We Asked For.