Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years to all of my faithful readers and to all of You who are still able to believe in miracle...
I know I do...
Monday, December 19, 2011
CHRISTMAS EVE...in the eyes of the child it is a miracle...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years to all of my faithful readers and to all of You who are still able to believe in miracle...
I know I do...
Friday, November 25, 2011
IN PURSUIT OF LIFE, LIBERTY AND EVERYDAY HAPPINESS! On all the inalienable rights of the people movement known as Occupy Wall Street
A famous man who win the greatest battle in history of mankind, namely he defeat an Empire without using any force, without shooting a single bullet, once upon a time he said: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
His name was Mahatma Gandhi and he show his countryman’s how to battle an enormous powerful opponent using his straight against it, with one simple word…
Noncompliance…non cooperation…non violence…
On my last post I left U in the midst of the Income tax debate to savor the role of the part of our Citizens who were showing their disobediences all over America in most colorful ways: dressed like and 18 Century Revolutionaries…
I claim that they are no more then Reactionaries, that even their concerns are legitimate, their anger is misplaced…not solely cause of their nostalgical dreams of yesterday, but cause the Party they subscribe use and misused them profoundly all those years purposely manufacturing deceit called Free Market Utopia…
Today we will reflect on the other part of our Citizens who were similarly used and abused as our Tea Party people were, namely the so called Obama movement!
You know, those people who carry the President from a unknown Senator from Illinois, till the White House, and all those young people who surf the net, and buzz the word change like undercurrent only to find themselves forgotten and left behind year letter…
I remember the energy, I remember the Hope, I remember the enthusiasm cause well, I was part of it…
I did ride the pink cloud…till I witness the Democrats empty and impotent Politics, their betrayal of the Public Option, and the relentless compromises they did over and over “in our behalf…”
There is no easy way to say this, so I will say this simplest as I can:
- The scope of manipulation, of misinformation that surround this crises is appalling beyond measure!
- The undermining of its own people that Republicans did for decade and the appearance of help from the Democrat is appalling!
- The welfare, the food stamps, the unemployment benefits, the regulations no one uphold, Laws that are dead on arrival...
To me it look like the Congress don’t understand, or they simply don’t give a damn about what will happen on Main Street cause they just don’t live there!
There is a perceived fallacy that there is two separate and different school of Economic thought, like they fight their economic ideas: Austrian/Chicago school, vs Keynesian school...
Now…what a joke that is!
Its a game of a good cop, bad cop they play with Us the people.
The real issue is the crises.
Austrian School of economics ( Milton Friedman is no less Austrian even he is considered a founder of a new school known as Chicago trickle down economics, then he is pupil of Mises ) stand for Free Market Economy, and on the other side are Keynesians School of Economics who stand for Free Market Economy...
Yeah...no differences! None…
They have its own “founders” but never the less they both serve and promote Free Market Economy as much as possible!
Till the crises hit!
Free Market Economy is just a fancy name for Capitalism...
Capitalism is an economic system prone to crises, every decade like clockwise. for sure, and when he does, the Republican or Austrian/Chicago boy will recall to say:
- Let it be...does not matter who will suffer, the system will bounce back! If we intervene in the Market, the crises recovery will be slow and agonizing process that will take years…
The democrat Keynesian student will jump on those words like hit by a naked electricity cord and say:
- Are You out of Your mind? What a preposterous Idea! We can't take a risk of Public pain turning into a populist movement cause the stakes are too high! People may awaken to a new idea and overturn the whole system into something that is called Socialism!Remember Russia…We have to act and use the Power of the Government to employ all the misplaced people. We are not savages…Its 21 Century after all!
So the Keynesian step in, sooner or letter, as we see in our recent history...
During Bush last year in office people were loosing their jobs, left and right, they never even make a news on Sunday Media talk shows!
Then the New administration came, and what did they do?
What is the Keynesian approach?
-We will band aid the pain so the population will not be aware that they are no more then a frog in a boiling water!
They start a series of Public interventions known as "The Stimulus" and small local patchwork Investment in Infrastructure...
Ahh…the Keynesian way, that Wealthy people adore, cause it basically translate to:
-Let the Government borrow from the Wealthy, in order to hire a part of the populations while the rest who are outside of the sphere of intervention will wait for their turn of a good luck. The deeper the crises, the longer the slow recovery, but the result is the same, the Capitalism will bounce back, the "weakling" will be cleaned naked, and we will be off for a new business cycle! We prevent the system from any populist movement, so now we can go back to its base principles: free market...
Meanwhile the politicians wishing reelection will bring some New Regulations, New Laws that will prevent the same crises happening again in the future!
It work with the population, every single time…
Both school are designed to spread the Gospel of the Free Market, being the ultimate Salvation!
Austrian, pure Market, or Friedman Reaganomics dominate and rule our life even when Democrats control the White House, perfect example is Clinton…
To uphold Keynes who is no more then a plumber called only when the System is clog and the Capitalism have no chance of unclogging itself alone!
Keynes has never intervene with the Social Programs, they are pure Government decisions under pressure of massive public unrest as it was in the 30’ during the Great Depression…
As soon as the system come out of the crises, the sole goal of both Political Parties is to reverse, alter or repeal all the restriction and regulations they legislate under the promise..."so the greedy will be under control and they will not wreck the economy as they did last time"...
A good cop, bad cop...while we the people end with a same jail sentence called: unemployment, foreclosures, small business failure...
You know...the usual...
This time Republican drop the ball…big time…I mean they play the game so boldly that they overplayed their own cards! "But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade"- Karl Marx
Are we supposed to be surprised with the Occupy Wall Street movement?
It took almost three decades since American people were set aside on the race track of Progress to be fed on the leftover from the Corporate World, while their Income gradually melted and their indebtedness grow!
It was Obama Movement, then it was Tea Party movement and nowadays, the profound dissatisfaction and growing pain of the working people culminate into a massive outburst occupying every major city!
This crises ferocity broth them together…
Both Movement become Occupy Wall Street identifying the same enemy: The Financial Market who wreck not just their present livelihood, but their future too!
Both movement demand Change:
The Conservative right embrace Tea Party cause they never really ask for real change! Tea Party slogan “tax enough already” in reality never ask for money in a form of shifting the tax burden from the middle class to the wealthy, as the Occupiers of Wall Street demand! They just declare that “we the people” are taxed over our head! TRUE!
Well, yeah…
Lo and behold, GOP, a Party that pledge for lowering their own people taxes, cause You see, rich people are people to, normally - embrace the Tea Party movement, and in a way, sadly but true, when the Congressional Republican members speak of people they do not derail the Truth, they just don’t pinpoint the truth behind their words…"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."- Abraham Lincoln
In the following months after the midterm election its become clear that thing are not going to change, they are actually becoming worse!
Many of the Tea Party people finally realize that there is a connection between burden of taxes, deficit, Corporate welfare, and that “we the people” are the ones who always paying the bill!
Many of the Tea Party people realize that there will always be a way to find money for Wars, Corporate loopholes, Wall Street bailouts, but never enough for the people needs for a decent wages, solid health care, education or retirement!
Many of the Tea Party people realize that in the end of the day, when they close the door on politics, they face the same thing as the rest of Us: shrinking paychecks and ever rising cost of living!
Many of the Tea Party people realize that when all is said and done, all our differences disappear, we are all the same: Impoverish working people of America!
So they come to occupy Wall Street with us…
The Corporate Media set Us to hate them for so long that even the most open Progressive Liberals can hardly swallow the reality: part of Wall Street occupiers are Tea Partiers too!
The Corporate Power Players and their puppets on Capitol Hills that I will refer to simple as Powers in my future adress, will do anything to undermined the Occupy Wall Street, movement, but all they do its making it bigger!
The Powers use and abuse the Tea Party movement just as they use and abuse the Obama movement! They betray both of them and now to their surprise they facing Occupy Wall Street movement!
The Powers wonder where those occupiers come from?
Who are they?
What do Occupy Wall Street really want?
Most of all, the Powers see the energy OWS has and they want to utilize it in their favor, wondering:
- How do we use and abuse them again?
First they ignore the movement, rarely any Media send a crew there!
Then the spread of OWS all over America like a wild fire, make it impossible for the Corporate Media to ignore it anymore so they mock them calling them all the names imaginable:They are a mob, young, foolish, liberal, unemployed, leeches, parasites, anarchists, brainwashed, communists, dangerous, untrustworthy, rabble rousers, terrorists…to name just a few…
Making fun of OWS was an attempt to undermine, discredit, sway people from supporting the occupiers! OWS message was always the same! REAL CHANGE
Tea Party want to restore the past, OWS want to own the future and that simple creed that lift so many Generations: "You can make it if You work hard"- The American dream!
Both movement are mislead, cause the American people are mislead for so many Generation missing the point:
The financial meltdown is just a part of the broader economic system - Capitalism, and its that system that don't really want to change, nor any establish political party want to shake the Corporate boat risking to found itself falling overboard into the deep ocean!
Capitalism work well in the past, work well today and will work well in the future! The problem is that the “well” part belong only to the Wealthy…
All that the System will accept are small minor corrections in the outfit for the public...a band aid, or a make up! To expect more is naïveté!
Those who expect one of our Political Party alone to fix the unfixable is beyond pale! Look "Obama care" and You will get the picture!
Our political establishment, both Party, they not just kill the Public Option, they drag the HC into years of implementation giving their campaign donors and Special Interest plenty of time to adjust and find loophole in the “bill” or rewrite it altogether! We get a bill, they preserve the Insurance based HC system!
Brace Yourself my Dear progressive, and shake the illusions:
- Every Washington DC legislation that will restrict profitability of Corporate America will be risky legal enterprise beside being doom to fail!
There is a reason why Democrat don’t dwell much on the OWS parks!
Does anyone really think that any “new regulations” will tame the Power Wall Street has? Ask about the Tobin tax or Glass–Steagall Act…
Does anyone really believe any “new regulations” will tame the power Corporations have? Ask about the National Labor Relations Act, also known as Wagner act, Norris – La Guardia Act, various Labor Laws, including Child Labor Laws that “affect those under the age of 18 in a variety of occupations” that we proudly break sending our kids to learn “responsibilities” working at McDonalds etc!
Does anyone really think that we need more OSHA acts, or new Tariffs, or new Environmental Laws?
Or we should wonder why we don’t respect and uphold those Regulations and Laws we already have, even we unquestionable support and maintain enormous bureaucracy that follow them?
I can see the Congress railing around those lines…I can see both Party railing along those lines...show of bipartizanshop...how pathetic…"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."Tacitus, Roman Historian
What the Power miss about OWS is the fact that OWS are mostly Young unemployed, but educated people and they dont need another Law in the book, so they will not withdraw from Occupying our Cities cause that will be turning their back on their own dreams, ergo police brutality!
What all those Mayors, Governors & Politicians don't understand is that any arrest is badge of honor for the children of Internet…
So now the system fight them, pulling white rabbit out of it's sleeves, imposing millions of excuses and justifications for Police Department raids and rules!
Many wonder why so many OWS get arrested while no arrest occur on all the Tea Party rallies!
The answer is very simple actually: OWS isn't a Rally, nor a 3 pm meeting one week in November!
Their numbers will grow cause The Poverty, The Injustice and The Income Inequality keep growing every passing day!
They are there to stay cause they have no other place they ratter be...
They are there to stay till a real change took place in our Society!
Real change in the life of ordinary people will require a new mind set that will shake the Corporate World inside out…
Make no mistake, every passing day that the occupiers spend on the streets talking, sharing their stories, and feeling their own pain is a learning experience about the alternative that are out there...New World open for those Young and restless souls, all of a sudden being aware of the possibility and starve for a higher ground they set themselves on a learning curve…Library of books they never heard of pop up in those park…no wonder the police raids confiscate books in Zuccotti Park last week…
Breaking up camping grounds is just a start: normally, the Powers will go down the list of mind warfare, they will hurt many of the Protesters, more and more, they may sand provocateurs, they may retaliate to people who work and spend time in those protest, but in the end, they will loose, make no mistake about that!
Don’t despair OWS: First they ignore You, then they mock You, now they will fight You and then You will win!
Another great mind of our recent Human History, learn from Gandhi the calm strategies that win over impossible odds and he set his people on a same path of freedom! He never use force, but his call was like a thunder that echo years after: proud to be maladjusted he advocate civil nonviolent disobedience! “…But I say to you, my friends…there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.
I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination.
I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry.
I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.
I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence…
Dr. Martin Luther King's speech at Western Michigan University (Dec 18th, 1963).
As we use to have Laws that were just a dead letters on the paper, we where equal for so many years…white and black, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexuals…we were equal under the Law…
It took years for black people till they abolish segregation! But they did it…
It took years for the woman’s to get the right to vote! But they did it…
It took years for homosexual to break the code of silence and public bigotry! But they did it…
They prevail cause they never fall backwards, but they fallow their dreams…
Its preamble in Our Constitution: "We know these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Life worth living means not being worry are we going to make it till the next paycheck...
If our wages are shrinking faster then our bare necessity bills are rising, they pushing us into debt as a modern day slaves, and that limit our Constitutional right to Liberty!
If we work long hours, if we need two jobs just to make the end meet, we will never have a time to pursuit whatever joy in our live, and that will limit our Constitutional Right to pursuit what ever make us happy!
Democracy is not a spectator sport…it take participations…and that is what we lack in our lives…that is the real change OWS look for!
The Powers cant grasp that OWS is there to stay...cause the Poverty, Injustice and Income inequality are here to stay!
Being poor in the land of plenty is no one aspiration…
It will take time but we will have Universal single payer Health Care…
It will take time but we will have Free High Education…
It will take time but we will roll back the retirement age and Social Security eligibility on 62 years of age…
It will take time but we will have our minimum wage elevated on a living wage level and Pensions instead of 401k…
Those are workers unalienable right cause our life, our liberty and our inner happiness depend on it…
We will have it all if we hold the line on OWS...
Marie
His name was Mahatma Gandhi and he show his countryman’s how to battle an enormous powerful opponent using his straight against it, with one simple word…
Noncompliance…non cooperation…non violence…
On my last post I left U in the midst of the Income tax debate to savor the role of the part of our Citizens who were showing their disobediences all over America in most colorful ways: dressed like and 18 Century Revolutionaries…
I claim that they are no more then Reactionaries, that even their concerns are legitimate, their anger is misplaced…not solely cause of their nostalgical dreams of yesterday, but cause the Party they subscribe use and misused them profoundly all those years purposely manufacturing deceit called Free Market Utopia…
Today we will reflect on the other part of our Citizens who were similarly used and abused as our Tea Party people were, namely the so called Obama movement!
You know, those people who carry the President from a unknown Senator from Illinois, till the White House, and all those young people who surf the net, and buzz the word change like undercurrent only to find themselves forgotten and left behind year letter…
I remember the energy, I remember the Hope, I remember the enthusiasm cause well, I was part of it…
I did ride the pink cloud…till I witness the Democrats empty and impotent Politics, their betrayal of the Public Option, and the relentless compromises they did over and over “in our behalf…”
There is no easy way to say this, so I will say this simplest as I can:
- The scope of manipulation, of misinformation that surround this crises is appalling beyond measure!
- The undermining of its own people that Republicans did for decade and the appearance of help from the Democrat is appalling!
- The welfare, the food stamps, the unemployment benefits, the regulations no one uphold, Laws that are dead on arrival...
To me it look like the Congress don’t understand, or they simply don’t give a damn about what will happen on Main Street cause they just don’t live there!
There is a perceived fallacy that there is two separate and different school of Economic thought, like they fight their economic ideas: Austrian/Chicago school, vs Keynesian school...
Now…what a joke that is!
Its a game of a good cop, bad cop they play with Us the people.
The real issue is the crises.
Austrian School of economics ( Milton Friedman is no less Austrian even he is considered a founder of a new school known as Chicago trickle down economics, then he is pupil of Mises ) stand for Free Market Economy, and on the other side are Keynesians School of Economics who stand for Free Market Economy...
Yeah...no differences! None…
They have its own “founders” but never the less they both serve and promote Free Market Economy as much as possible!
Till the crises hit!
Free Market Economy is just a fancy name for Capitalism...
Capitalism is an economic system prone to crises, every decade like clockwise. for sure, and when he does, the Republican or Austrian/Chicago boy will recall to say:
- Let it be...does not matter who will suffer, the system will bounce back! If we intervene in the Market, the crises recovery will be slow and agonizing process that will take years…
The democrat Keynesian student will jump on those words like hit by a naked electricity cord and say:
- Are You out of Your mind? What a preposterous Idea! We can't take a risk of Public pain turning into a populist movement cause the stakes are too high! People may awaken to a new idea and overturn the whole system into something that is called Socialism!Remember Russia…We have to act and use the Power of the Government to employ all the misplaced people. We are not savages…Its 21 Century after all!
So the Keynesian step in, sooner or letter, as we see in our recent history...
During Bush last year in office people were loosing their jobs, left and right, they never even make a news on Sunday Media talk shows!
Then the New administration came, and what did they do?
What is the Keynesian approach?
-We will band aid the pain so the population will not be aware that they are no more then a frog in a boiling water!
They start a series of Public interventions known as "The Stimulus" and small local patchwork Investment in Infrastructure...
Ahh…the Keynesian way, that Wealthy people adore, cause it basically translate to:
-Let the Government borrow from the Wealthy, in order to hire a part of the populations while the rest who are outside of the sphere of intervention will wait for their turn of a good luck. The deeper the crises, the longer the slow recovery, but the result is the same, the Capitalism will bounce back, the "weakling" will be cleaned naked, and we will be off for a new business cycle! We prevent the system from any populist movement, so now we can go back to its base principles: free market...
Meanwhile the politicians wishing reelection will bring some New Regulations, New Laws that will prevent the same crises happening again in the future!
It work with the population, every single time…
Both school are designed to spread the Gospel of the Free Market, being the ultimate Salvation!
Austrian, pure Market, or Friedman Reaganomics dominate and rule our life even when Democrats control the White House, perfect example is Clinton…
To uphold Keynes who is no more then a plumber called only when the System is clog and the Capitalism have no chance of unclogging itself alone!
Keynes has never intervene with the Social Programs, they are pure Government decisions under pressure of massive public unrest as it was in the 30’ during the Great Depression…
As soon as the system come out of the crises, the sole goal of both Political Parties is to reverse, alter or repeal all the restriction and regulations they legislate under the promise..."so the greedy will be under control and they will not wreck the economy as they did last time"...
A good cop, bad cop...while we the people end with a same jail sentence called: unemployment, foreclosures, small business failure...
You know...the usual...
This time Republican drop the ball…big time…I mean they play the game so boldly that they overplayed their own cards! "But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade"- Karl Marx
Are we supposed to be surprised with the Occupy Wall Street movement?
It took almost three decades since American people were set aside on the race track of Progress to be fed on the leftover from the Corporate World, while their Income gradually melted and their indebtedness grow!
It was Obama Movement, then it was Tea Party movement and nowadays, the profound dissatisfaction and growing pain of the working people culminate into a massive outburst occupying every major city!
This crises ferocity broth them together…
Both Movement become Occupy Wall Street identifying the same enemy: The Financial Market who wreck not just their present livelihood, but their future too!
Both movement demand Change:
The Conservative right embrace Tea Party cause they never really ask for real change! Tea Party slogan “tax enough already” in reality never ask for money in a form of shifting the tax burden from the middle class to the wealthy, as the Occupiers of Wall Street demand! They just declare that “we the people” are taxed over our head! TRUE!
Well, yeah…
Lo and behold, GOP, a Party that pledge for lowering their own people taxes, cause You see, rich people are people to, normally - embrace the Tea Party movement, and in a way, sadly but true, when the Congressional Republican members speak of people they do not derail the Truth, they just don’t pinpoint the truth behind their words…"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."- Abraham Lincoln
In the following months after the midterm election its become clear that thing are not going to change, they are actually becoming worse!
Many of the Tea Party people finally realize that there is a connection between burden of taxes, deficit, Corporate welfare, and that “we the people” are the ones who always paying the bill!
Many of the Tea Party people realize that there will always be a way to find money for Wars, Corporate loopholes, Wall Street bailouts, but never enough for the people needs for a decent wages, solid health care, education or retirement!
Many of the Tea Party people realize that in the end of the day, when they close the door on politics, they face the same thing as the rest of Us: shrinking paychecks and ever rising cost of living!
Many of the Tea Party people realize that when all is said and done, all our differences disappear, we are all the same: Impoverish working people of America!
So they come to occupy Wall Street with us…
The Corporate Media set Us to hate them for so long that even the most open Progressive Liberals can hardly swallow the reality: part of Wall Street occupiers are Tea Partiers too!
The Corporate Power Players and their puppets on Capitol Hills that I will refer to simple as Powers in my future adress, will do anything to undermined the Occupy Wall Street, movement, but all they do its making it bigger!
The Powers use and abuse the Tea Party movement just as they use and abuse the Obama movement! They betray both of them and now to their surprise they facing Occupy Wall Street movement!
The Powers wonder where those occupiers come from?
Who are they?
What do Occupy Wall Street really want?
Most of all, the Powers see the energy OWS has and they want to utilize it in their favor, wondering:
- How do we use and abuse them again?
First they ignore the movement, rarely any Media send a crew there!
Then the spread of OWS all over America like a wild fire, make it impossible for the Corporate Media to ignore it anymore so they mock them calling them all the names imaginable:They are a mob, young, foolish, liberal, unemployed, leeches, parasites, anarchists, brainwashed, communists, dangerous, untrustworthy, rabble rousers, terrorists…to name just a few…
Making fun of OWS was an attempt to undermine, discredit, sway people from supporting the occupiers! OWS message was always the same! REAL CHANGE
Tea Party want to restore the past, OWS want to own the future and that simple creed that lift so many Generations: "You can make it if You work hard"- The American dream!
Both movement are mislead, cause the American people are mislead for so many Generation missing the point:
The financial meltdown is just a part of the broader economic system - Capitalism, and its that system that don't really want to change, nor any establish political party want to shake the Corporate boat risking to found itself falling overboard into the deep ocean!
Capitalism work well in the past, work well today and will work well in the future! The problem is that the “well” part belong only to the Wealthy…
All that the System will accept are small minor corrections in the outfit for the public...a band aid, or a make up! To expect more is naïveté!
Those who expect one of our Political Party alone to fix the unfixable is beyond pale! Look "Obama care" and You will get the picture!
Our political establishment, both Party, they not just kill the Public Option, they drag the HC into years of implementation giving their campaign donors and Special Interest plenty of time to adjust and find loophole in the “bill” or rewrite it altogether! We get a bill, they preserve the Insurance based HC system!
Brace Yourself my Dear progressive, and shake the illusions:
- Every Washington DC legislation that will restrict profitability of Corporate America will be risky legal enterprise beside being doom to fail!
There is a reason why Democrat don’t dwell much on the OWS parks!
Does anyone really think that any “new regulations” will tame the Power Wall Street has? Ask about the Tobin tax or Glass–Steagall Act…
Does anyone really believe any “new regulations” will tame the power Corporations have? Ask about the National Labor Relations Act, also known as Wagner act, Norris – La Guardia Act, various Labor Laws, including Child Labor Laws that “affect those under the age of 18 in a variety of occupations” that we proudly break sending our kids to learn “responsibilities” working at McDonalds etc!
Does anyone really think that we need more OSHA acts, or new Tariffs, or new Environmental Laws?
Or we should wonder why we don’t respect and uphold those Regulations and Laws we already have, even we unquestionable support and maintain enormous bureaucracy that follow them?
I can see the Congress railing around those lines…I can see both Party railing along those lines...show of bipartizanshop...how pathetic…"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."Tacitus, Roman Historian
What the Power miss about OWS is the fact that OWS are mostly Young unemployed, but educated people and they dont need another Law in the book, so they will not withdraw from Occupying our Cities cause that will be turning their back on their own dreams, ergo police brutality!
What all those Mayors, Governors & Politicians don't understand is that any arrest is badge of honor for the children of Internet…
So now the system fight them, pulling white rabbit out of it's sleeves, imposing millions of excuses and justifications for Police Department raids and rules!
Many wonder why so many OWS get arrested while no arrest occur on all the Tea Party rallies!
The answer is very simple actually: OWS isn't a Rally, nor a 3 pm meeting one week in November!
Their numbers will grow cause The Poverty, The Injustice and The Income Inequality keep growing every passing day!
They are there to stay cause they have no other place they ratter be...
They are there to stay till a real change took place in our Society!
Real change in the life of ordinary people will require a new mind set that will shake the Corporate World inside out…
Make no mistake, every passing day that the occupiers spend on the streets talking, sharing their stories, and feeling their own pain is a learning experience about the alternative that are out there...New World open for those Young and restless souls, all of a sudden being aware of the possibility and starve for a higher ground they set themselves on a learning curve…Library of books they never heard of pop up in those park…no wonder the police raids confiscate books in Zuccotti Park last week…
Breaking up camping grounds is just a start: normally, the Powers will go down the list of mind warfare, they will hurt many of the Protesters, more and more, they may sand provocateurs, they may retaliate to people who work and spend time in those protest, but in the end, they will loose, make no mistake about that!
Don’t despair OWS: First they ignore You, then they mock You, now they will fight You and then You will win!
Another great mind of our recent Human History, learn from Gandhi the calm strategies that win over impossible odds and he set his people on a same path of freedom! He never use force, but his call was like a thunder that echo years after: proud to be maladjusted he advocate civil nonviolent disobedience! “…But I say to you, my friends…there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.
I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination.
I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry.
I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.
I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence…
Dr. Martin Luther King's speech at Western Michigan University (Dec 18th, 1963).
As we use to have Laws that were just a dead letters on the paper, we where equal for so many years…white and black, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexuals…we were equal under the Law…
It took years for black people till they abolish segregation! But they did it…
It took years for the woman’s to get the right to vote! But they did it…
It took years for homosexual to break the code of silence and public bigotry! But they did it…
They prevail cause they never fall backwards, but they fallow their dreams…
Its preamble in Our Constitution: "We know these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Life worth living means not being worry are we going to make it till the next paycheck...
If our wages are shrinking faster then our bare necessity bills are rising, they pushing us into debt as a modern day slaves, and that limit our Constitutional right to Liberty!
If we work long hours, if we need two jobs just to make the end meet, we will never have a time to pursuit whatever joy in our live, and that will limit our Constitutional Right to pursuit what ever make us happy!
Democracy is not a spectator sport…it take participations…and that is what we lack in our lives…that is the real change OWS look for!
The Powers cant grasp that OWS is there to stay...cause the Poverty, Injustice and Income inequality are here to stay!
Being poor in the land of plenty is no one aspiration…
It will take time but we will have Universal single payer Health Care…
It will take time but we will have Free High Education…
It will take time but we will roll back the retirement age and Social Security eligibility on 62 years of age…
It will take time but we will have our minimum wage elevated on a living wage level and Pensions instead of 401k…
Those are workers unalienable right cause our life, our liberty and our inner happiness depend on it…
We will have it all if we hold the line on OWS...
Marie
Thursday, September 29, 2011
VIENNA CALLING: "WE SHOULD JUST...LET HIM DIE? YEAH..." - WHEN DOES THE GREED STOP?... On personal responsibility as deliberately manufactured deceit
I was getting data to back up my research on the issues of taxes & deficit, when I came across this unbelievable video that make such a clear difference between the two major political parties in the USA...
Facing the greatest economic crisis the world has ever seen: taxes are just the tip of the iceberg that drives the Republicans and the Conservatives from all over the World into a race to the bottom of their National Economies, cause it seems they don't care if they are onboard of Titanic as long as they know they have a reserve spot on the life boats ...
If we want to understand their relentless pursuit of tax cuts and the ballooning deficit as a result of them, we need to look behind the curtain of their public appearance, and go deep in the schools of thought that is the backbone of their beliefs!
Without understanding where their beliefs come from, we will never get a real solution, but another temporary band aid on the wound called crises, ready to be peeled off as soon as the temperature goes down, as soon as we appear to be out of the crises!
- Where is the source that brings so many ordinary people to the doorsteps of a Party that stands for such easily disputable data,?
- Where do their party talking points come from?
- How do they lure so many ordinary, and especially young people to follow them into oblivion like all the true believers do: blind!
The answer came on the National TV and left the Country breathless and shocked:
It was one of those surreal moments when the moderator in the Republican debate asked the presidential hopeful Ron Paul the following question:
- A healthy 30 year old young man, has a good job, makes a good living, but decides, U know what: “I’m not going to spend 2-300$ on Health insurance a month, cause I’m healthy, I don’t need it!” but something terrible happens, and he all of a sudden needs it, who’s going to pay for it if he goes into a coma for example, who’s going to pay for that?
Like a good politician which Ron Paul is, even virtually playing underdog, he starts the answer with a dog whistle:
- In a Society where You accept Welfare-ism and Socialism, he expects the Government to pay for that!
Pressed by the moderator the good doctor continues the libertarian creed:
- He should do what ever he want to do and assume responsibility for himself! My advice to him is to have a major medical policy…
…but he does not have it!- the moderator remind Ron Paul, that the man need a services and he DOES not have medical insurance, no one will insure him under the present condition, and he will make the bill that probably he will not be able to pay living and working and saving for the rest of his life to paid it off!
Now what was the answer that the Good Doctor gave?
What was the Libertarian solution?
What is the solution that the majority of the Libertarians and so called Tea Party people like to hear and subscribe hypothetically to it?
- That is what freedom is all about: taking your own risk…this whole idea that You have to care of everybody…
- Congressmen are You saying that Society should just…let him die?
- No…said Ron Paul, measuring the awful predicament of his views, but the honest answer came deep from the crowd…
- Yeah… came the cry out…and the loud applause from the audience…
The Country was shocked…
Now, to set the record clear, Ron Paul did give a plausible future explanation that throws the Church into the mix, and Market, and Inflation, and medical license and all kinds of band aid to smudge the awful reality of his Libertarian view that have roots in Austrian School of Economics and those are:
Now, to set the record clear, Ron Paul did give a plausible future explanation that throws the Church into the mix, and Market, and Inflation, and medical license and all kinds of band aid to smudge the awful reality of his Libertarian view that have roots in Austrian School of Economics and those are:
"Any sort of Government intervention, as is Welfare, Medicare, Social Security, Unemployment, Minimum Wage, especially Government Stimulus spending is an abomination of the Free Market Economy they believe in… Any regulation is a restriction on the Market and needs to be removed!
What they are not saying in their Internet classes at Mises Institute, or their younger counterpart known as the Friedman Chicago school of Economics, more famous like "trickle down Reaganomics", is that PEOPLE USED TO DIE, when those crises hit, most of them being children or elderly!
If the crises come during the winter it was devastating the population of the big cities...
If the crises come during the winter it was devastating the population of the big cities...
"During the early 1600s in England the life expectancy was only about 35 years, largely because two-thirds of all children died before the age of four. The average life expectancy in Colonial America was under 25 years in the Virginia colony, and in New England about 40% of children failed to reach adulthood.
Public Health measures are credited with much of the recent increase in life expectancy. During the 20th century, the average lifespan in the United States increased by more than 30 years, of which 25 years can be attributed to advances in public health.*
* From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia term: crises and life expectancy.
For a Political Party that claims sole ownership of the Faith, and reliance to the Church, they give so much credit to the survival of the fittest, cause that what was left behind in the sea of poverty when the tide of naked unfettered Free Market Economy crises hit all of Humanity, once a decade, for the last 230 years…
Those of You who will like to have a closer look at the life of the people during the unfettered market economy, during the time when “The Church” was taking care of the seek, and those who were lay off in a cyclical business turn around, You can take a trip to any public library and indulge in the story from France: “Les Miserable” by Victor Hugo, England: “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens, or much closer to home, America “Iron Heel” by Jack London…
And yet, day in and day out we hear those paid pundits on the radio, on the TV, keep peddling the notorious manufactured deceit:
“MARKET will fix everything, will balance all inequality, IF we only give him a chance“…word of interest is: “IF”, -like we never did give him a chance before…
Mildly put, the whole concept that we need to give a chance to a Free Market Economy is a fairytale, we DO LIVE in Free Market Economy, it is also called CAPITALISM and the restoration of his lost freedom is a joke, and if not so, then a tragic and deliberate misinterpretation!
-The Virus infected Skynet?-asks the dying official...
-No Skynet is the virus!- came the correct answer...
Why is it that the GOP has to find a way to mislead the masses?
The Answer is very simple: because America is a Democracy, people are free to vote and elect their representatives and form a Government of their Peers that is of the people, by the people, and for the people…at least that’s what the Constitution says…
Having that misfortunate starting point in the Constitution, the GOP has constantly reinvented its ways to divide, distort, and keep majority of the people under deliberate deceit cause de facto, democracy came from a Greek word "demos", means people, and "cratis", means rule,! In a true Democracy "people are the Ruler", means that the will of the majority of the people need to be respected and live by it, and that simple idea is a no, no, no in the book called Special Interest of the minority of the people who are de facto benefactors of the system!
I find the phenomena so amusing!
Let me point this another way:
-How did the Wealthy solve the problem and mislead the masses?
Election after election they reinvent the wheel, they rejuvenate old passions, a mix of race, religion, dash of patriotism, pinch of sexual orientation, gender, and when they run out of ideas:-They invent new names instead of the old discredit ones…
So the system they adore, the system that is so unstable, that favors and cherishes only few, and leaves so many in the gutter of poverty, the system that throw masses of people on the streets of unemployment, stress of foreclosure, massive national suffering, the system that places everything on sale, including the sphere of moral tangible things: like Liberty, Freedom, Constitution, personal integrity, personal responsibility, Society, and on and on…
Election after election they reinvent the wheel, they rejuvenate old passions, a mix of race, religion, dash of patriotism, pinch of sexual orientation, gender, and when they run out of ideas:-They invent new names instead of the old discredit ones…
So the system they adore, the system that is so unstable, that favors and cherishes only few, and leaves so many in the gutter of poverty, the system that throw masses of people on the streets of unemployment, stress of foreclosure, massive national suffering, the system that places everything on sale, including the sphere of moral tangible things: like Liberty, Freedom, Constitution, personal integrity, personal responsibility, Society, and on and on…
THAT SYSTEM it is not called Capitalism anymore, it is Free Market Economy!
Sounds so much better doesn't it?...All the terrible stories of the 18 and 19 Century are like wipe out clean, and we are all free to pursuit happiness if we only take personal responsibility for our own action...
It is a smokescreen to lure the vast majority of the population into an election of candidate that will serve the Corporate Interest and once in Washington DC, the name Republican or Democrat it is only a political Umbrella that means nothing but an empty rhetoric, cause Politicians are on sale in Capitalism just like any other good or service, just like any other tangible thing in the system, and to be surprised by that fact is more then
being naïve.
- Oh, don’t get me wrong…they've done that for decades, but why it is so important today?
- Cause the system has a Global Crises of which there no exit in site...
The sad part is that America and Europe want to transfer the cost of the crises on the shoulders of the working people, and that is wrong!
- In Europe this transfer of the cost of the crises is called “Austerity measure”!
- In America the same transfer of the cost of the crises is called Cuts in “Government spending“!
All Common Wealth that People accomplish to gain during the last Century, all is set to be not just slash but repeal all together!
Mastering their divide and conquer politics they went to far, manipulating part of its own constituency... The so called Tea Party people…
We witness rise of the Tea Party, the poorest republicans, libertarian and independent leaning republican voters who don’t really understand what the hell happen in the last couple of years, but sure they are angry as Mans can be, and they focus their anger to Government…
The ingenuity of American Capitalism…
None of the angry Tea Party people are angry at people who actually fired them, foreclosed upon them, or turned them into a modern slave under enormous burden of debt and bills they are not able to pay anymore, even they work harder and longer than ever if they still have jobs…
Never the less, their prospects are grim…
Day after day, they are closer to the door that will open the land of poverty to them, so they are angry, and tired and they have nowhere to turn but the glorious past they remember reading about: 1776...
The revolution, the new beginning, the prosperity…
All they need is a King to rebel against, and all the costumes they dress up, and the past will be the present, the rest will be midnight story in a child book someday…The GOP misguide them so long and so successfully that they hate The Government, The FEDS, the fraudulent Bankers and The Greedy Wall Street, and the Crooked Politicians, and if they can only replace them with...with...
-With WHAT...another set, new, uncorrupted one, small businesses, farms, and we can start all over again!
Just like in 1776...
Yes, it is sad…but it is nothing new in History…the call for the past to be restored came some time ago: Tea Party is just the latest reactionary* attempt to tell loud and clear that the people don’t like the present set of the state affairs…That’s all the Tea Party is!
*The term reactionary refers to viewpoints that seek to return to a previous state! Reactionary derives from the French word réactionnaire.In this French usage reactionary denotes "a movement towards the reversal of an existing tendency or state" and a "return to a previous condition of affairs."
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, under the term: Reactionary*
Having that in mind, our Tea Party apart of looking historical with all their costumes and the bags of tea hanging on their hats, we must say that they are quite entertaining most of the time…
Their concerns are serious even their anger is misplaced!
The deficit is real concern, and need to be address, the debt ceiling is a concern and need to be address but being misguided by the Party of the Wealthy they work toward the fulfillment of the very reason that cause the deviation of the Path of Prosperity America was leading for many decades in the whole world!
Our Government cage is empty for a long time…we are running heavy on red last thirty years…
Its nothing new…
Since Reagan, GOP discover that getting tax cuts for everyone is politically plausible, not to forget as well highly profitable, so they deliver tax cuts after tax cuts to their Wealthy Masters, while Democrats did not want to be a party poppers and went along closing their eyes to the troublesome reality, that more and more of the revenue fall on the shoulders of the middle class…
From the video we see how bad it is, how the burden is set more and more on the shoulder of the middle class...
The Wealthy and their spokesperson Republican Party, find the way to pass the Bills to us, working people, and not just lowering their tax rate, but also with including more and more people that will pay the price to run our Society! Wealthy People do like the Public goodies that the taxpayers dollars provide, they just don’t want to pay for them, that’s all…
But that’s a story of another time!
Marie
Thursday, July 7, 2011
WELFARE QUEENS DRIVING CADILACS THROUGH THE ARAB SPRING, MEDITERANIAN SUMMER AND AMERICAN FALL: On the rising sea of poverty in the world and the future under global austerity measures
...What variety has Man found in buildings, attires, husbandry, navigation, sculpture and painting! What millions of invention he has in arms, engines, stratagems and the like! What thousand of medicines for the health...of eloquent phrases to delight, of verses for pleasure, musical inventions and instruments!
How large is capacity of Man if we dwell in particulars!..."
I will ask anyone who is about to read these pages to stop for a second and try to answer this simple questions:
- Any idea when they were written?
Little confession: when I first come across them in the book: “Human Accomplishment” from Charles Murray, the 2003 edition, I gave them a modern note: they sound familiar…maybe around the industrial revolution? Maybe even more recent…
Well, I was wrong…
They belong to a man who wrote them on the turn of the 5th Century AD, Augustine of Hippo, 354 – 430, also known as St. Augustine, who was bishop of Hippo the Roman Province in Africa, present-day Annaba, Algeria. He was a Latin speaking philosopher and theologian. His writings proved very influential in the development of Western Christianity…
Those are his words that marvel Rome, on the peak of Roman civilization, just before he was ransack by the barbarian Visigoths...Augustine praise the city but he also warned of many flaws in the roman civilization, including the greed of the roman officials, on their inability to rise above the roman vices, as wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony, all seven of them...Rome was bathing in them, as well as Augustine for the good part of his life, till he switched from pagan to being a devoted Christian, left behind the City of Man, and call the Humanity to join forces and build a City of God, where the marvels of the Man will be accompanied by the virtues of God Grace...
St Augustine was a dreamer who was lucky never to see his dream diminish by the reality: Rome fell in 476 AD, in the peak of his technological development, bankrupt, worn out bickering about the expenses to maintain the city needs and empty talk about restoration of the republic while they lost the whole civilization…
After the fall of Rome, the religious zealots and fundamentalists took the Faith of Augustine to be a subject of their limited, and most of the time malicious interpretation!
The shiny city on the hill that would benefit from the marvel of the Human advances under God Commandments never saw the light of day...au contraire, so many of the advances Romans enjoyed were lost for Centuries under the rules of medieval Kings who were without exception ruled by Churches Fathers whose agenda was to spread the Words of the Holly Bible as they wished, having the rest of the population holding upon their words, unable to even read much less question the meaning of the religious blindness...
The wisdom of Aristotle was lost, the surgical tools of Galen were replaced with the sword craftsmanship of the blacksmiths, the numerous
inventions of Archimedes, his discoveries “eureka’s“, all forgotten- as well as many, many others whose scientific contributions was lost in the religious flames that burned over half of Europe…
The Glory of Rome was replaced with the time of history known as the Dark Ages!
The peak of the medieval darkness came with the Spanish inquisition, which swept so many innocent people under the rug of intolerance of their religious beliefs, prejudice toward different sexual affiliations and malicious hatred of science…
It took the Black plague to wipe more the a half of the population in the World to break the chain of the religious serfdom into a new era of enlightenment that become a Renaissance of the Humanity, a new born world…after all, out of the decay of the bubonic plague we Humans came out stronger then ever…
Did our conscience came a long way since St. Augustine time?
They say history repeat itself for those who never learn from her mistakes...
Surly we have building that are marvel for the eyes of pedestrians, dwelling of glass and steal, we can compete with the magnificent Coliseum who has stood the test of time for 2000 years…
-We navigate the Earth, the oceans and the air and we can even reach the moon...
-We conquer so much of the invisible world of germs and viruses, and we found cure for so many illnesses…
-We improve our tools to the precise mechanic of cyber robotics in order to make our life easier…
-We discover materials that our previous generation did not even know could exist…
There is not a single scientific field that did not undergo a dramatic
leap forward in the last couple of centuries: mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, earth science, medicine, all of them achieve unprecedented technological advances, not to mention unbelievable advances in virtual art, music and theaters…whole new level of entertainment on the click of our fingertip…
We are living in a digital age!
Yeah…Just turning the pages in the book of Human Accomplishments make me feel proud of all of Us Humans…and that is 2003 Edition, well, I say to my self:
-I-phone was not even on the market then!*
*The first I-Phone was unveiled by Apple CEO on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007.
From Wikipedia
Yes we Human can pride ourselves…we came a long way ahead…
Science and technologies wend so far ahead just in the last couple of decade and yet, this is the World we live in today: protests all year long all over the world...
The protests all over the world can be summarized like a result of massive unemployment, skyrocketing food prices, wages cuts...
Home, we facing unprecedented attack on our safety net from a Political Party that will make the austerity measure in Europe look like a walk in a park for the American People, already stretched to a breakpoint for the last tree decades!!!
Marie
The underlining reason common to all of the protest all over the World is that the diminishing economic prosperity trigger global insurrection against terrorist bankers, dictators, crooked oligarch and deceitful politicians...
There is another underlining reality, common to all of the protests, but We will never see any sign about it:
-The Political Ruling Establishment don't pay much attention to all the human misery that is spreading around the World, cause they believe the power of money that is yielding all the strings of the Society will never have a loose end, that all those protests will mean just a bad TV if any, and that their Corporate paid pundit will sway enough of the concerned people into believing that we are all in this together, and we all need to share the suffering...
We see that attitude in France, with Sarcozy, we see that in England with Cameron, we saw that in Greece with Papandreou!
Conservative Governments pursuit their goals under the same religious zealot of the Spanish inquisition, so they passing left and right all the cuts they can in order to balance the national budgets shortfalls caused by diminishing budgets revenues as a result of the lower taxes paid, while ignoring the suffering and the pain of the ordinary people...
-We all need to tighten our belt…cried out Conservatives: - We all need to live within our means…and they pass another tax cut bill, then board their own private jets…
In the Third World countries who are ridden by poverty and hunger, lack of any human right make the voices of all the oppressed people ignored and forgotten, decade after decade they endure hardship...until they took it to the streets, hungry masses that rise like a Tsunami overturning some dictators no one ever believed can be taken down: think of Tunisia and Egypt!
Media called those protests Arab Spring, and they still strolling the streets of Bahrain, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya...little do we hear about them, but being out of the Corporate News did not make them go away...it make them more severe and bloody…
The Arab Spring is turning into a Mediterranean Summer starting with Greece were people don't want to accept another useless bailout before they bally up...cause bally up they will, bailout or notits just a question of time, just like the prospect of the same street unrest facing Spain, Portugal, Italy, Croatia, up to the big trio: France, Germany and UK...
The record unemployment, the resilience of the crises and the impotence of the current government intervention bring no solution to millions of Americans who suffer in silence, totally forgotten by the Local and Federal Government, our soaring deficit threaten to turn the Mediterranean Summer into an American Fall…
America is on a crossroad: we hear over and over the call to go backwards to the system that was choice at the time when the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution…those calls omit, out of ignorance or in purpose the underlining not so "cplor me pink" reality of that time: the trails of tears they send the native americans, the black people slavery, the woman’s social position or the terrible workers condition…
The reality is so distort that we even hear voices who are saying that we never really have “Free Market Economy” and we should give it a try…
To all of them I say laud and clear as possible:
- Wonder no more, just take a good look at the Middle East Streets…listen to those people…they live without any safety net under the mercy of the ruthless system, but they know his true name: Capitalism…
- Wonder no more, just take a good look at the Middle East Streets…listen to those people…they live without any safety net under the mercy of the ruthless system, but they know his true name: Capitalism…
In the West we can give him a fancy name, we can call him “Free Market Economy” plausible adjective will not change his true colors…
We can put a lipstick on a pig…its still going to be a pig…
We can turn our deaf ear, or our blind eye, we can shut our senses and live in a bubble of ignorance, but that will not make the problems disappear…
We can indulge in lots of false theories that are circulating around to apologize and find excuses for the undeniable reality:
The whole World is in crises cause it is a failure of the Capitalist system as a whole…
When the conservative governments all over the world strip every welfare queen from their cadillac’s they drive, when they take a way all of our hardly won safety nets with their “European austerity measure” also known as “American Government spending cuts”, then what?
When conservatives use all the newly print money, and they spend all the bailout they can possibly sign us on, and after they waged all the wars they can wage under “Humanitarian actions flags” or "spreading democracy" and the system still undergo another recession…then what?
There is a new Religion rising up in the World and especially in America and its called “The Free Market Economy"!
Its Deity is called The Market…
In America its house of warship is called Wall Street…
Its followers are called The Grand Old Party, they have many cults: Republicans, Conservatives & Libertarians!
Every morning they wake up and they turn their computer to pray that their deity will bless them plentifully, that abundance and good fortune will grow their business, so they can serve it better…
Its clergy are elected officials and they are unfiltered in the highest offices with a pledge to deliver abundance to its followers in order to serve her better…
Their offerings are unprecedented, humans of every walk of life, from every race and affiliations, even children are sacrificed on their altar called Corporate greed…
Their relics are called stocks, rents, interest rate, dividend and the most cherish of them all, the most sacred one is called Profit…
Their Saints are called Founding Fathers, every word written by them, authentic or not is elevated, passed around like a sacred
communion…
Their Holly book is called the Constitution…
Their New Testament is called The bills of rights!
Their call to build a shiny City on the Hill come some 40 years a go, they still regard him dearly building a myth around his name…
The Corporate paid pundits are their anchor boys singing every day:
-Holly...holly...
The Corporate paid pundits are their anchor boys singing every day:
-Holly...holly...
Maybe We, the people, will never learn from history and we are doomed to repeat it, cause if the religious zealots get to power they will again interpret every action of our lives…
They will strip us of every benefits we enjoy and we will be left on the mercy of their Deity…The Market…
How many will fall under the modern day bubonic plague called Poverty because of our ignorance and intolerance in the age of Internet, Apollo, and nano technologies?
We can provide many time over for every human on this planet, yet so many of Us die all over the world out of hunger, not because a lack of food, but because they have no money to buy the food…
When we will learn that poverty is not some disease one catch walking on the wrong side of the street, or because he is born on the wrong side of the globe,or he bow to inferior deity,or he has a wrong color of his skin, but a consequence of the Capitalism?
- When we will wake up and realize that this system work well for only a few and live so many behind?
- When we will look at the mirror and realize that we are the gatekeepers of the system and that we enable the system to grow stronger every time we tolerate his trespassing…When we will learn that poverty is not some disease one catch walking on the wrong side of the street, or because he is born on the wrong side of the globe,or he bow to inferior deity,or he has a wrong color of his skin, but a consequence of the Capitalism?
- When we will wake up and realize that this system work well for only a few and live so many behind?
I am a dreamer…I dream every day…I dream of a better world…I know its possible…I know we can achieve any goal we can set our mind to it…
I know there is no limit to human imagination, but most of all I just hope that the progressive forces will prevail, and that the World will be spared never to undergo another kind of medieval Dark ages…Monday, May 16, 2011
NET OF SAFETY AND WEB OF DECEIT... The Fourth pillars of the Society are crumbling under Corporate greed
I tend to imagine that The President was sitting in the Oval Office the night of the 2010 mid-term elections silently watching the whole Electoral Map of the United State turn bloody red - district after district, state after state he was watching the Democrat's seats turn Republican, one after another like a unstoppable domino effect, wondering when the rollover will stop and can he keep the Senate at least?
The press the next day conclude, that the President look "beaten up"...
The first black President of the United State of America loses the coalition that brought him the victory two years before, Democrats did lost all over the board, but the pundit were wrong...
He was not beaten up...They just forget that he is that skinny guy with a fanny name who beat the Icy Queen of the democratic establishment, he was far from beaten, he just look like it...
I tend to believe that the politics is like playing chess, You have to have a strategy that will anticipate every move of your opponent if You wanna win in the end, that You may loose a pawn or two, bishop or knight, but that is necessary especial if your opponent is master of the game, that is playing the field for the long time!
To outmaneuver a Powerful opponent You have to set him to play against itself...that is the only way to win...
I believe that the President still regarding the red screen of his supposed defeat, knows the electoral seats lost are just the beginning of the turmoil storming in the not so distant future...
The fragile recovery he planned with his political capital did not bring the solutions that he was expecting.The newly elected GOP threatened to repeal his hard won health care bill, the dream legislature of so many generation of democrats...Repeal "Obama care" republicans cried...
What they did not and could not envision was that this President while he was working on the south side of Chicago as a community organizer, this college graduate had learned the ultimate street lesson:
- The rich and powerful hold all the string of society except for one, the will of the people...If the will of the people get to a critical mass of support, nothing, nothing can stand on their way on the promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!
The Power of the people is in their numbers...it is a catalyst that powers every upheaval in Human History, from ransacking the mightiest city in the world, Rome, to every major legislative victory on their behalf!
How could he do this with Corporate media machine drumming to the beat of unprecedented malicious Propaganda?
He was not the darling of the democratic establishment, he only had the truth, but would that truth resonate against all the odds?
Two years a go his bold, fearless approach to the Truth build a critical mass of people who cast their vote for him cause they realize he is a honest man from their walk of life, that he grow up eating their bread, walking their side of the street, learning daily how to lift himself above to fray.People recognize him as their own son, and they did not care that he is black, they visualized in him themselves, the kid that grew to be a man, a father and a leader...
Two years a go Corporate media was keeping the beat, but no one was dancing: all the dog whistle they use to summon the voters fail, so they learn the lesson...Fast...
The Health Care town hall meeting were the testing ground of the System that do not need a profound change, but a little lipstick, a band aid and a polish, so the power structure in Washington left the President holding the bag cause he insist on the Health Care Reform, he insist on a Financial Reform, He insist on the Stimulus package, and he get all of them, but they come to his desk so deform, he could not recognize them at all!
Yet, that legislative nightmare would become his signature accomplishments...
The last two Years he'd faced attack after attack on his personality, on his integrity, on his politics and the only support he has was the people who he left behind on the campaign trail...his own party was fractured in its own beliefs, but most of all the business community was seating in the background just watching and watching...
They sit on a stash of a $ 2 trillions, but they were watching how his administration borrow money to keep the wheels of the economy rolling and they were waiting, cause soon or later, the people who stood behind him might loose Faith, might forget the hope, might turn to despair and then things can go back to normal!
Corporations flush with cash, trimmed and poised, could wait, because they knew that their barking dogs will irritate enough of his supporters to accomplish what they are paid to do: bring their own boys in Washington DC, and they did...
The President lost the House and barely kept the Senate Democrat, he knew that all the matters he care about would be on the table cause the GOP did not need to fight to accomplish anything, all they need is to demand relentlessly and they would get whatever they asked for...
I believe the President was watching the whole country turning red, but he saw the opening...
What happen after the Presidential Election night was the beginning of a political battle of enormous proportions...
Those who think that American Election are local event that has nothing to do with the rest of the World live like Alice in Wonderland: they are about to wake up...
Rarely we get international news,most of the time they are so filtered it seams American public is protected of the ugly Truth, The Global Economic System crush!
The conservative movement is on the rise all over the world, since the days of Reagan and Tucher, every time they win an election they deliver to their masters a bags of goodies called tax cuts, deregulation, simple said: Free Market Economy that benefit few and leave behind so many...
Election after election they caved to the Corporate greed slowly but surely transferring the cost of maintaining Society on the back of the middle class just to serve their bottom line. Cunningly they pursued profit searching the globe, destroying the Earth's natural resources and corrupting small countries into a domestic system of slavery, leaving no prisoners behind just the dust of dept and decay...
So when the crises hit, almost all of the governments treasuries were empty not just in USA but all the western countries were on the verge of bankruptcy cause the ruthless Corporate layoffs just put additional pressure on the budget shortfalls...
The national governments borrowed and printed money and when that did not work, then they reached toward the only thing left to rob - entitlement programs...
Austerity measures become a reality in Europe...
In the middle East, hungry people left to the mercy of the merciless system stormed the streets and overran their current Governments!
Election after election they caved to the Corporate greed slowly but surely transferring the cost of maintaining Society on the back of the middle class just to serve their bottom line. Cunningly they pursued profit searching the globe, destroying the Earth's natural resources and corrupting small countries into a domestic system of slavery, leaving no prisoners behind just the dust of dept and decay...
So when the crises hit, almost all of the governments treasuries were empty not just in USA but all the western countries were on the verge of bankruptcy cause the ruthless Corporate layoffs just put additional pressure on the budget shortfalls...
The national governments borrowed and printed money and when that did not work, then they reached toward the only thing left to rob - entitlement programs...
Austerity measures become a reality in Europe...
In the middle East, hungry people left to the mercy of the merciless system stormed the streets and overran their current Governments!
Let's come back home and see what happened during this short six month after the Midterm Election, let's just look through the title of some of the newspapers since the GOP victory in midterm elections:
"Obama, GOP reach deal to extend tax breaks"
Washington Post Tuesday, December 7, 2010; 2:42 AM
The House of Representatives has passed the Obama-GOP tax cut deal on a 277-148 vote,
sending the bill to the president.
Huffington Post, December 17, 2010
Wisconsin protests: Gov. Scott Walker and Senate Democrats prepare to start negotiations
Monday, March 7, 2011; 4:37 PM
To Cut the Deficit, Look to Social Security
April 4, New York Times
Education cuts coming, but fewer than GOP wanted
Washington Post April 12, 2011
Paul Ryan's budget would slash $6 trillion, reform entitlements, cut taxes Politico, April,29 2011
Don’t Raise Debt Ceiling Without Repealing Obama care April 29, News max.com
Anger on display at Republican town hall meetings over Medicare and taxes... April 26, Daily KosIt did not take long that the GOP demanded what they were sent to do: bring the goodies to their Masters!
Washington Post Tuesday, December 7, 2010; 2:42 AM
The House of Representatives has passed the Obama-GOP tax cut deal on a 277-148 vote,
sending the bill to the president.
Huffington Post, December 17, 2010
Wisconsin protests: Gov. Scott Walker and Senate Democrats prepare to start negotiations
Monday, March 7, 2011; 4:37 PM
To Cut the Deficit, Look to Social Security
April 4, New York Times
Education cuts coming, but fewer than GOP wanted
Washington Post April 12, 2011
Paul Ryan's budget would slash $6 trillion, reform entitlements, cut taxes Politico, April,29 2011
Don’t Raise Debt Ceiling Without Repealing Obama care April 29, News max.com
Anger on display at Republican town hall meetings over Medicare and taxes... April 26, Daily KosIt did not take long that the GOP demanded what they were sent to do: bring the goodies to their Masters!
There was no need to fight for the extension of the tax cut for the wealthiest Americans cause they did not get any resistance from the president, actually, HE WAS THE ONE who cut the Tax Deal with them!!!
- He knew he was beaten...
- He is one term President...it was so obvious, the GOP conclude...
- He knew he was beaten...
- He is one term President...it was so obvious, the GOP conclude...
The corporate media was having a field trip, they were glorious, bold and reckless, the Birthers, the Truthers and the New World Order pursuers, the Libertarians and Tea Partiers, they were feeling so strong that they did not care to reveal their secret desire and wishes:
-While we are here, why not finish off the Unions once and for all, why not unleash the Wall Street bonanza once again, let the gold flow and the gas prices skyrocket, after all they killing each other in the middle East again, right?
- Oh, and repeal "Obama Care", water down Medicare, give the elders to the mercy of insurance companies, extend the retirement age,but we will keep Social Security cause we need the Social Security contributions to flow into the budget to cover our tax cuts! What we dont really need anymore is Education, so let's cut the education - we have unlimited supply of highly educated people from overseas, we don't need domestic graduates anymore, much less expensive teachers...
Ahh...the GOP buzzword: "Cuts"...Government spending is out of control! - Government spending cuts!
Yeah, they drum the beat for decades: - Starve the Government beast: say GOP, but the reality behind their words is their true desire:
-While we are here, why not finish off the Unions once and for all, why not unleash the Wall Street bonanza once again, let the gold flow and the gas prices skyrocket, after all they killing each other in the middle East again, right?
- Oh, and repeal "Obama Care", water down Medicare, give the elders to the mercy of insurance companies, extend the retirement age,but we will keep Social Security cause we need the Social Security contributions to flow into the budget to cover our tax cuts! What we dont really need anymore is Education, so let's cut the education - we have unlimited supply of highly educated people from overseas, we don't need domestic graduates anymore, much less expensive teachers...
Ahh...the GOP buzzword: "Cuts"...Government spending is out of control! - Government spending cuts!
Yeah, they drum the beat for decades: - Starve the Government beast: say GOP, but the reality behind their words is their true desire:
- Enslave the population cause there is no one to stand for them fools!
Then a miracle happened...
It started in Wisconsin when the Unions were attacked and about to be stripped of their hard won collective bargaining rights...The people rejected the GOP plans to reshape the future of the generations of human accomplishment: Education, Health Care, Social Security and Retirement Benefits, the four pillars of the American Social fabric were crumbling under the Corporate Greed, and the people realized it was now personal!
- It did not matter what party they belonged to, what God they bowed to, what nationality they were, where they come from, those Pillars need to be protected cause they belong to all of them...
It started in Wisconsin when the Unions were attacked and about to be stripped of their hard won collective bargaining rights...The people rejected the GOP plans to reshape the future of the generations of human accomplishment: Education, Health Care, Social Security and Retirement Benefits, the four pillars of the American Social fabric were crumbling under the Corporate Greed, and the people realized it was now personal!
- It did not matter what party they belonged to, what God they bowed to, what nationality they were, where they come from, those Pillars need to be protected cause they belong to all of them...
Previous generations of Human, how many bled so today we can have a decent lifestyle, weekend off and basic medical care...
No one was asking for Gold and Riches, no one, people just wonted to keep what was left of what generations had fought to achieve...
The Corporate Media was stoned again: How the hell that happen?-Who is waging the tail this time?
The Ryan budget was brilliant...brilliant...it was everything they were dreaming for...
- Exactly...It was everything they were dreaming for...
The Ryan budget was the new blueprint of all that GOP aspire for, make no mistake, the only one who stood on their way was that skinny man with a funny name, so they plotted to take him out of the office, with obstructionism every step of the way for the last two years, and when they would get to install a Republican President, they will take care of the Unions, Medicare, Social Security and the Public educations once and for all...
Not so fast...
For me personally, this political drama was best summarized with the words of that old Republican who looked at the Ryan presentation and told him bluntly:
- You don't know anything about Medicare, do You?
The so called budget whiz kid try to be charming and smile:
- No I'm not on it...
And that is the whole Truth and nothing but the ugly Truth:
- The rich do not understand nor do they care for any of the Pillars cause they are not "on it", and that included the Democrat establishment's lame excuses to "compromise" to GOP political pressure!!!
- The rich do not understand nor do they care for any of the Pillars cause they are not "on it", and that included the Democrat establishment's lame excuses to "compromise" to GOP political pressure!!!
Hard working people depend on Medicare, depend on their Social Security, and most of them never knew how to invest in the 401 K so they didn't have nest egg for their elderly years...
What those people have is the Government structured to work for them as it also work for those who seek business opportunities and riches...
What those people have is the Government structured to work for them as it also work for those who seek business opportunities and riches...
People knew that Education is the Light that leads out of prejudice, bigotry and racism into a opportunity for a better life...People remember that tuition was bearable under Government Grants and low-cost Loans!
They remember how it was like when the Union were strong and delivered a decent pay so people did not need to work two jobs to make the end meet, and retirement was dues paid into companies they worked for, not some stock option they did not understand...
They remember the time when the local grocery serve local produce that was plentiful in season, smaller but tastier, that was the time when food was produced to feed the people, not to make extra profit to a Retail chain...
They know that Medicare did not have supplemental or any B, C, D plans, nor donut holes, and it worked well for them...
They know that Social Security check is the only thing that hold many above the drowning into sea of poverty and scavenging through the disposal containers for food, or warming on an open fire under the bridges...
All those memories, not to mention the dreams People have all of a sudden become a story tell on the street while they protested in Wisconsin, Ohio, England, France, Greece, Spain, even they did not know about each other, a whisper start among them:
-We will fight for that safety net! - We have to protect that only safety we have!- cause it is not a Privilege, nor a Human Right, but a Human Accomplishment of Generations and Generations of Human who fought before them, from every corner of America and of the World...
-We will fight for that safety net! - We have to protect that only safety we have!- cause it is not a Privilege, nor a Human Right, but a Human Accomplishment of Generations and Generations of Human who fought before them, from every corner of America and of the World...
Pitagora did not have a patent, but his formula is used in building architecture known to man...
Pasteur did not have a patent when he discovered penicillin, and yet many antibiotic contain his medicine...
The Arab did not patent the zero, yet no computer program will work without it...
We can look around us and everything we enjoy all of our current technological advancement is just a cumulative knowledge pass to us from a previous Generation of Humans to build upon it...
All that Knowledge belong to Us, to all of us...it was given free like a Human Heritage to be utilised from all of those scientists who love to explore and invent and who did not do that to make themselves rich...
Until the Corporations came...
The Mighty Corporations!
How is it so?
The Corporation is just a form of Human Organization, they dwell in cement and brick building yet they are not made of stone, to last forever, and they are not persons!
Corporations are a finely tuned man-made money making machine that can easily be reprogrammed to serve Us, the people by paying back into our Society, but if we think that they will do that out of a good will, think again:
All that Knowledge belong to Us, to all of us...it was given free like a Human Heritage to be utilised from all of those scientists who love to explore and invent and who did not do that to make themselves rich...
Until the Corporations came...
The Mighty Corporations!
How is it so?
The Corporation is just a form of Human Organization, they dwell in cement and brick building yet they are not made of stone, to last forever, and they are not persons!
Corporations are a finely tuned man-made money making machine that can easily be reprogrammed to serve Us, the people by paying back into our Society, but if we think that they will do that out of a good will, think again:
- They are like that Terminator!
No one cant negotiate with them individually, many of them are more powerful then the Economy of many of the Third World countries, and nowadays they will crash everything on their path of growth, cause the Market system demand they pursuit more and more every year, or quarter, it just the way the system is...
Their greed is part of their inner mechanism,and If we look at them like that, then we can see that they are no more powerful then the people who own them, wealthy people, and only few of them...
The rest is Us, not so wealthy, squeezed more and more under the pressure of the merciless system all over the World, no matter where we come from, what religion we belong to, what is the color of our skin, or what language we use!
Our Dreams and aspirations are all the same, the world of people is much closer knit then you think:
I will present you a Global study called:
No one cant negotiate with them individually, many of them are more powerful then the Economy of many of the Third World countries, and nowadays they will crash everything on their path of growth, cause the Market system demand they pursuit more and more every year, or quarter, it just the way the system is...
Their greed is part of their inner mechanism,and If we look at them like that, then we can see that they are no more powerful then the people who own them, wealthy people, and only few of them...
The rest is Us, not so wealthy, squeezed more and more under the pressure of the merciless system all over the World, no matter where we come from, what religion we belong to, what is the color of our skin, or what language we use!
Our Dreams and aspirations are all the same, the world of people is much closer knit then you think:
I will present you a Global study called:
"The Future of Retirement" Around the World
Conducted in the fourth quarter of 2004, "The Future of Retirement" study canvassed 11,453 adults in ten nations and territories: Brazil, Canada, China, France, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Canadians view their later years as a time of reinvention, ambition, and close relationships with friends and family.
Americans view their later years as a time for opportunity, new careers, and spiritual fulfillment, but are less focused on family or health than are other countries. The French view these years as a time of dreams and aspirations, but also as a time of worry, and they are concerned about being a burden to their families.
The British view later life as a time of self-sufficiency, independence, and personal responsibility, counting on neither government nor family to care for them.
Brazilians view later life as a time for slowing down, relaxing, and spending time with their families, relatives, and friends, and they expect significant support from their children.
Mexicans see it as a time for continued work and hard-earned financial stability.
In China, younger generations view retirement as an opportunity for a new life but continued careers, while older generations want to stop working and relax All Chinese people view family as an important source of happiness and support.
Respondents from Hong Kong view it as a time for rest, relaxation, and the enjoyment of accumulated wealth, which is seen as the cornerstone of well-being.
Respondents from India view later life as a time to live with and be cared for by their families.
The Japanese look forward to their later years as a time of good health, family considerations, and continued fulfillment work.
The research was carried out by Harris Interactive under the direction of AgeWave and HSBC.
as presented in FPA financial Planing association
If we allow the Corporations to cover their projected profits by taking away everything we ever accomplish it will not be a fault of any politician but ours, We the people...
Conducted in the fourth quarter of 2004, "The Future of Retirement" study canvassed 11,453 adults in ten nations and territories: Brazil, Canada, China, France, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Canadians view their later years as a time of reinvention, ambition, and close relationships with friends and family.
Americans view their later years as a time for opportunity, new careers, and spiritual fulfillment, but are less focused on family or health than are other countries. The French view these years as a time of dreams and aspirations, but also as a time of worry, and they are concerned about being a burden to their families.
The British view later life as a time of self-sufficiency, independence, and personal responsibility, counting on neither government nor family to care for them.
Brazilians view later life as a time for slowing down, relaxing, and spending time with their families, relatives, and friends, and they expect significant support from their children.
Mexicans see it as a time for continued work and hard-earned financial stability.
In China, younger generations view retirement as an opportunity for a new life but continued careers, while older generations want to stop working and relax All Chinese people view family as an important source of happiness and support.
Respondents from Hong Kong view it as a time for rest, relaxation, and the enjoyment of accumulated wealth, which is seen as the cornerstone of well-being.
Respondents from India view later life as a time to live with and be cared for by their families.
The Japanese look forward to their later years as a time of good health, family considerations, and continued fulfillment work.
The research was carried out by Harris Interactive under the direction of AgeWave and HSBC.
as presented in FPA financial Planing association
If we allow the Corporations to cover their projected profits by taking away everything we ever accomplish it will not be a fault of any politician but ours, We the people...
Make no mistake, Corporate World will release every fear goblin they have to sway us into believing that Our Government is not functional, that "we need to take it back"!
Some of their Goblins will talk about Guns, some will invoke God, some will talk spending and taxes, some will talk defence, some will mix an imaginary new world order, some will talk freedom, some small business, some will spin, some will runt, some on radio, some on TV, some on the Internet, but all they do, all of their paid pundits ever do, no matter how independent they call themselves, all they are doing is praying upon our fears, desires, dreams and hopes to divide Us, to steal our votes and make us vote not our best interest, but the corporate interest as peoples best interest...
They will whirlpool every emotion we have into hatred toward our own Government pointing to GOP as a solution and back to a sense we missing lately...because GOP will deliver to their Corporate Masters, same way as the lukewarm Democrats will deliver to their Corporate Masters...
Some of their Goblins will talk about Guns, some will invoke God, some will talk spending and taxes, some will talk defence, some will mix an imaginary new world order, some will talk freedom, some small business, some will spin, some will runt, some on radio, some on TV, some on the Internet, but all they do, all of their paid pundits ever do, no matter how independent they call themselves, all they are doing is praying upon our fears, desires, dreams and hopes to divide Us, to steal our votes and make us vote not our best interest, but the corporate interest as peoples best interest...
They will whirlpool every emotion we have into hatred toward our own Government pointing to GOP as a solution and back to a sense we missing lately...because GOP will deliver to their Corporate Masters, same way as the lukewarm Democrats will deliver to their Corporate Masters...
What we need is people like Bernie Sanders and few other in the House...human with strong conviction who will not betray the work, who will preserve the safety net and who will not get lost in the Web of Deceit...
Meanwhile, I'm looking upon the skinny guy with the funny name...
I see hope again, cause the masses have risen...
Author: Marie Bagatela...
Editor and contributor: Claudia O...
Meanwhile, I'm looking upon the skinny guy with the funny name...
I see hope again, cause the masses have risen...
Author: Marie Bagatela...
Editor and contributor: Claudia O...
Friday, April 1, 2011
GONE BABY GONE...GLOBAL! The austerity measure and the economic prospect of the new world order...
The World is shaken by economic crises that no known Government tools can shift dramatically into a better gear, as a consequences people in the most affected arias of the world start uprising on the streets against the impotent Government measures, part of the World are swirled in the whirlpool of War atrocity under the banner of Democracy and Humanitarian actions, and then a natural tragedy unfold affront of our eyes:
An earthquake, Tsunami and a possible Nuclear Meltdown of enormous proportion...
There is no doubt in anyone mind that any one of this event will shape a new trend in the world, but all of them combined is a sure predicament for a global not just geopolitical change, but a setup for a different world order, newborn consciousness that always follow a global uprising of human potential...
The question is:
- What kind of new world order will take a place in lieu of the old?
Even better mind boggling question is:
- Will the austerity measure prevail, here or abroad, or they will be replaced with the New Era of Enlightenment that is ripe for happening since the fall of the Berlin Wall?
In his book "The world is flat" distinguished journalist Thomas Friedman explain in great detail the changes that are happening daily on the Globa l stage due to the fast expenditure of human and technological advantages in every sphere of the Society, from the way we work, innovate and interact, among us, nationally and all over the World, to the way we socially connect: he call that interaction between the technologies, humans and society:
A triple convergence!
Excited all together in awe of the fast passing changes that were unfolding affront of his eyes, the author share his enthusiasm with a Harvard professor of political science: Michael J. Sandel, only to realized that the triple convergence is a process identified more then a century a go by the most controversial scientist of them all:
Karl Marx lay out so bluntly his vision in a down to earth language in his even more controversial little booklet, the Communist Manifesto, published first in 1848...
"The bourgeoisie by the rapid improvement of all instrument of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all , even the most barbarian nations into civilization. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with witch it batter down all Chinese walls, with witch is forces the barbarians intensely obstinate hatred of foreigner to capitulate. It compel all nations, on pain of extinction to adopt the capitalist mode of production; it compels them to introduce what its called civilization into their midst, i.e. to become bourgeois themselves.
In one word, it creates a World after its own image."
Citation from "The World is flat", page 203
2005 edition, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux/ New York
Many spend years to diminish and discredit the German scientist, years after he died economic school of thought were start, many spend time and energy to bury him like a philosopher of a failed system that use to dominate half of the Globe until recently, and yet, he keep popping up, on a places we expected him the least...on the Global stage...
What the Friedman book fail to deliver is that the lining up of all three "convergence" will bring lots of unrest in the World cause its a prelude to a social revolution of Global proportion, forced to unfold because of the tremendous pressure of the Natural Laws of Capitalist accumulations...
That's is what we are witnessing today...
Some will argue that the Dark Forces of " The New World Order" are taking over, and are shaping the World a new, but I doubted...I doubted!
As much as a I am a fan of a conspiracy theories, I like them keep in the square box full of tubes and LED flat screen, blue ray, if its available...bucket of all over batter popcorn and an icy cold Coke...
That's as far as a can go in a good trill ride down the conspiracy lines...
The rest is a bad advertising pitch...underground media and extremely cleverly covered GOP dog whistles to sway people in nothing but hatred toward its own elected government...
You can recognised them by their call to go backward, not forward in better future...their call is the same like the rest of the GOP: less taxes, free market economy...
There is nothing new in the conspiracy of the New World Order, except the name...its the same old Rich Boys Club that dominate the world with money and power to shape the Human Society in their best interest, no matter if that require a global changing of the Map of the World, erecting or turning the national government of any given country upside down to suit the corporate greed and corporate need!
The globalist of the New World Order are just the name in the mist of the changing background set, they are the same the owners of the wealth who went global and multinational, their dominion is not any national economy but the world stage, they meet and make agreement to shape their field of interest to best cover their appetite for profit in the field of their dominion...
History tell us that they never ever care about the people, not when the Arena was cover with slaves blood to entertain them, not when they were sending the peasants on the battles to the last man standing for a piece of land in a far a way countries, and not when they were stomping the workers strike with a police batton on a horseback...
They names are changed over the Centuries from Centurions, to Dukes and Businessman, but their unsettled thirst for riches is the same, over and over again: thirst for more, and more...
What they miss are the Laws of economics that are pressing the World in a direction that's is beyond their control:
Global triple convergence!
Yeah, economy have also laws that are shaping the World sort of like a gravity, they will happen no matter how much Society wanna bend them, mask them, curved them or denied them all together...
So the question we are asking today is not: Is it happening, but where it will take us?
To the New Era of Enlightenment, under a higher conscience?
Or to the Corners of the New World Order, under the call of restoration of the "Free Market Economy"!
Make no mistake, the system is resilient, and always on edge of preservation, the last time the system was crushing under its own weight it took the World War II to spur him out of the crisis, this time we are facing turmoil in the middle east, youth marching on the street of Europe and the workers awakening in United States!
In my post: "Hark, hark the dogs bark" and the follow up: "Corporate crime and Public Punishment", I already lay out the need that should be met in order to get out of the crises, as well as how certain country react facing the crises so anyone who like to explore, is welcome to revisit the pages all over again...
Today I will just state the obvious:
American Political Establishment is on an all out open attack toward the working people of America in order to preserve the system going backward while destroying the fabric of the safety net that the people accomplish to enact through the years of fight for Workers right and Civil right, and Women's Right...
Every step the People gain during the years and years of a vicious class struggle is slowly melting affront of our eyes, not just here in America, but also in the European countries...
It will be slow but painful awakening of the High educated youth of Europe and USA, I heard so many time that their education is not worthies, but it is...
They are architects and engineers, economists and doctors, but they are also obsolete cause they becoming to expensive to be hired when the Corporate can supply the line of need with a Chinese, Indian, Russian or Brazilian architect, engineers, economist or doctors for the fraction of the price needed to maintain the labour cost in the west...so they will march in vein...they will see their dream hosed down by their own Government, and crushed by their own police forces, and the circle of hate will gain more and more momentum...or they can wake up fast, look at the facts that the science is unfolding affront of our eyes and smart up rapidly...
The Youth of Europe and America may come to realize that the best way to use their skill is not to offer themselves to the lowest denominator on the Global Corporate market and ended up waiting tables at the Corner restaurant, for a dime and a tips in a napkin, but to unite, and resist with and educated resistance:
Demand a New Era of Enlightenment!
Set a New Agenda!
Mark a New Goal!
Don't withdraw, dont retreat...their is nothing to loose but to shake the invisible chain of slavery that is upon our souls under the Corporate dominion...
If people stand together like one, and they come to realize that if the Corporate dont sell they will not make profit, if they dont make a profit their stock will fall, if their stock fail, they will crush like a tower of cards...every single one of the mightiest of Corporate, will come down crushing under its own weight of unrealized profit, of under performance...
That's is the New battlefield we the people need to master and conquer...our smartest and brightest kids are the new Generals of tomorrow who will spark the new conscience of Idea and who will bring the New Era of Enlightenment into the Dawn of a New World...
Sunday, March 6, 2011
THE STATE OF THE UNION... On Government Role, on living wage...
Last year I spend some time on Huffington post, the so called liberal Internet Media...
I enter the publication reading about the new Arianna Huffington book: The third world America...
Well done research, good analyze of the current issues...totally miss the topic!
This was my response:
- To have a "good" life, one need first and foremost not to worry about bare necessity: food and shelter!
- To have a meaningful "good" life, one need more time to spend with family and friends!
- To have a really "good" life, one need to sustainable combine the two premises!
The answer to all of the tree questions is summarized in two word:
- Living wage...
In a time when the American political divides between Red States and Blue States are extremely polarized mainly on the role and the size of the Government, the tables are somewhat turn upside down:
- The very people who are so loud against the Unions, as well as they are in favor of the "Free Market Economy", less taxes, less Government spending; its these same people are also fiercely against the one and only solutions that will solve almost all of their concerns!
They say: Ignorance is bliss for a reason!
GOP wide spread idea that seams plausible to many less taxes & amaller Governement, leave so many completely ignorant of the meaning of the philosophy they subscribe too!
- Aah, the spending is out of control...
Government spending: the holy grail of the GOP...
The tune continue as a broken record:
Cut the spending...Cut...cut...cut...
If they can get Governement spending out of the equation, taxes will be lower, market will be less regulated, business will be less restricted to invest, and grow, grow and flourish, flourish and grow even more...
Fairy tale for the small business libertarians wanna be multinationals, but not quite there yet!
Fairy tale indeed...
There is only one common denominator, aside from their "Free Market Economy" Utopia, one common denominator for all of the GOP collors of the Political Rainbow: Rebublicans and their Conservatives ofspring; Libertarians and their newest Tea Party offspring, and all their schools of thought up and down the specter, from Vienna, to Chicago and Texas Alex Jones New World Order Headquarters:
They never talk about the wages...
Free market...yeah, let the market freely set the stage for the players, he will be the ground where the forces of capital and labour can meet in the perfect equilibrium...
So ...so...18 Century...
Skip two hundred years or more, and why not...no one will notice, right...
Over two hundred years since the fierce class battle began on the streets of London, Paris, then it spread in our backyard, but hey...
If no one is talking about it, its like never happen....
Wait...The New Generation?
Well...not to worry, the new generation is so busy downloading the latest apps for the I-phone, and yes...the I- Pod 3 will hit the stores any days now, instant gratifications is the new buzz, who care what happen years, and years a go...
Or so the GOP mantra goes...
They dont care about tomorrow, they dont wanna invest today in our future generations, cause their generations is well provided anyways...
Why would they care for the public educations or the teachers pays, their kids go to private schools anyways!
Why would they care about the vouchers in Medicare, when their golden years come with a golden parachutes!
Why would they care about the Social Security benefits when the whole check is a Sunday brunch bill on the golf course tournament...
My question is not why they dont care, my question is:
Where are the Democrats in Washington to stand and get lost like those 14 brave souls in Wisconsin!
Where are the Democrats?
All of them...
The People Party should stand up to the Busness Party and say, loud and clear:
Taxation is not the solutions to the budget Deficit: the living wage is, and here is why:
The more the workers receive in pay, more goes into payroll deductions, directly on the side of the budget revenues... more budget revenues means less deficit...
The Government social spending can be reduce and control only if the population become independent of Government help, and that can be accomplish if workers receive a living wage for the day work...
People who earn living wage dont need food stamps, subsidize housing or welfare checks...
People who earn living wage dont need medicaid...
People who earn living wage dont work two jobs...down will go unemployment numbers...
People who earn living wage have full time jobs and benefits...
Social Security and Medicare solvency is in tight correlation with the percentage of the populations who earn living wage also, just look at the stats from the 60's and 70's...
The case for the Living wage should be the corner stone of Democrats Agenda, but the million dollar Questions is not how much the living wage should be, but how do we get there!
We have two, and only two options:
a ) Union bargaining with the Corporate America!
b ) Government making a New deal with Corporate America!
Notice the key word in both cases is Corporate America...
- Are we ready to shake the boat called Corporate America?
I ask this question again...
- Are we ready to stand tall to Corporate America? - Do we understand that some of us, many of us will fall in the dark blues sea to swim with the sharks named layoff and fired, cause to assume that Corporate America will accept the change in payroll cost without a vicious fight is naive... so yes, Corporate will fight back with everything they have...and more...
How can we the people fight?
Letter of the Laws...
GOP cleverly wanna get Federal Government power down to State level cause they know very well that their masters Corporations, are individually stronger then any of the small state of the Union, and they can get what ever tax break, sweet land or utility deal, and labour tax credit they wish in order to land a business, living for greener pasture if they dont...
But Laws are just the start, cause without massive people support they can be neglected in State courts under power pressure of individual Corporate interest, just look at the latest Health Care Bill...what a joke on State level that become...
That being said, the rest of us can ask the hard core Question:
- What is a living wage?
If You, my dear Readers think that the discussion about the pros and cons of Unions is a painful, divisive issue in the way of coming to a compromise, try the living wage, just to see a fierce debate turning bloody nasty one!
- Let just clear the air right from this common misunderstanding:
Living wage is not an hourly or daily amount of money in exchange for a day work...no its not!
The minimum wage set the way it is set today should be, but it is not living wage...sorry, its not...
So...cry the impatient readers...what is it then?
Living wage its how much its needed to support a healthy survival of the individual houshold, set as family of four: two adult and two children, as needed for maintaining healthy Society...
The difference between the minimum wage set like maintaining survival of the sole individual, the way it is today, and the individual houshold set as a family in order to maintain a healthy Society is no less dramatic!
The basic cell of a Society is not an individual person, but a Family!
On the other hand, the living wage should be calculated by a broader standardized cost of living index, COLI, which normally differ from state to state in the Union but the common denominator
1. The consumer basket* ( food and utility, among others goods and services);
2. Average housing expenses;
3. Cost of Energy, Educations, Insurance Premiums, Health Insurance Payments;
*The basket of consumer goods or consumer basket is the market basket intended for tracking the prices of consumer goods and services, i.e., it is a sample of goods and services, offered at the consumer market. The consumer basket is the base for the definition of the Consumer Price Index(CPI).
wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Consumer basket
The list used for such an analysis would contain a number of the most commonly bought food and household items. The variations in the prices of the items on the list from month to month give an indication of the overall development of price trends.
The market basket may be further classified into Household Items, Personal Goods and Services, Leisure Goods, Households Services, Housing, Alcoholic Drinks and other categories, depending on the country's people preferance survey.
"In Belgium, for example, wages, pensions, house rent, insurance premiums, unemployment benefits, health insurance payments, etc. are by law tied to a consumer price index."
source: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name commonly used in America to correspond to the consumer basket is Consumer price index or CPI, ironically used to track inflation...
Those of You who never belong to the Unions, who have no idea whats the fuzz with the collective bargaining is, a word on the agenda of Scott Walker, the GOP wannabe next Reagan; just to let You know:
United States Consumer Price Index
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The "item" that are taken in consideration will give better or worse picture about the rise of the cost of living expenses, no wonder now why GOP representatives in the Congress always fight to limit or totally take many items out...
Those of You who are still buying the GOP fallacy of the "Free Market Economy" and believe that the Corporate America will take care of You, will give you the benefits out of the goodness of the business profitable quarter, well believe, and next time when the energy market react on a problem in Libya and go on a price surge, take your plain gas bill to your CIO, and ask him for a raise...ask him to level the playing field...ask him to maintain the market equilibrium...and good luck with that!
The rest of us need to wise up, wake up, and smell the coffee:
-The battle that We the People need to ask Washington to win in our behalf is to include more "items" into the measurement of the CPI, and serve that like a Law that Corporate America need to respect next time they seat on the table to negotiate any Union Contract...
We need Washington to stand for Us, We are all middle, going poor lately class, We are all WI...
Economy dont need a Stimulus package, Economy need every one of the participant to receive a starting living wage, and climb from there according to the qualification, complicity and utilization of the labour force!
Whats is happening in Wisconsin is a lesson, We Progressive should never forget!
- Never again we should stay home and let Midget of a Mans take the powerful position the way some of them did in the last elections...
Governor like Scott Walker are nothing but a bell boys in the hand of the Corporate that will come running eager to please the Masters, and Unions are the last levy that hold the flood of our livelihood above the gutter of poverty that seams to plague the Third World Countries...
The rise of the middle class, the height We the people can climb above is the scale that separate us from the Third World Countries...its not the kitchen gadget that are standing on our disposal, or the high tech goggles that can make us socially well connected, but our ability to lift every one of our People up the scale of prosperity...
Cause the Cake of Wealth is there...
Corporate America is riping the benefits of the rise in productivity due to a tech advances and the international trade, while they have GOP home to make sure that the lion share of the Wealth stay on their plates...and that's nothing new...
History remember a ruthless Emperors, reckless Kings and terrible Congress, but also history show us that the wheels of the Societies are always moved forward by the People alone, never backwards, no matter how much send are thrown in it to slow it down, stopped altogether, derailed, or blow out of proportions...
Somehow, each and every time, People manage to pick up the broken bones, heel stronger, and pursuit the dreams of a better tomorrow...
History teach us that...
History never fail...
GOP fear mongers are not able to embrace the winds of change, cause it is much better and certainly much more comfortable for them to dwell in the past or in the dark corridors of conspiracy, its much easier to try to prevent the real New World Order from happening, World where the cake of our People Accomplishment is shared among all, not just few...
If GOP cant see that simple yet profound fact, then they are destine for a oblivion, like many Party of the old World, cause if the new tech can be used to liberate the Middle East from a vicious dictators, surly we, here in America, can talk and connect and spread the forgotten knowledge:
- You negotiate with Corporate America with the Letters of the Laws, and with the Straight of the Unions body Numbers!
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