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Sunday, December 30, 2012

The Politics of Porn and The Fiscal Cliff

Sorry you little dirty minds, no porn to look at.
How to make a non entity the main topic of discussion. First you tell people over and over, with great zeal and urgency that this imaginary thing is about to happen and soon, almost to soon to be stopped. Then you give them one and only one option that just might keep it at bay. What might that option be? Give more money to the richest of the rich. They know best how to handle money, right? Actually no, they don't. They know how to spend it on themselves. But, if not the richest, then who? The working man, not the poorest, not the richest, no, the middle classes. They know how to save, they know how to spend on the occasional luxury item, they know how to cut corners in order to have that occasional luxury. The men and women you want read books, newspapers, use the internet for more than social and shopping. The ones who by a cell phone for making calls and upgrade when the old cell stops working. They clip coupons  shop sales and never buy the latest, newest, just gotta' have it to be different like everyone else crap. Farmers, shop keepers, teachers (you know they spend their own money on classroom supplies) union members and the like. People who work for a living, not get paid to create unemployment (venture capitalist are super at that). Way back in the 80's a very stupid actor (never vote for a man who makes a living acting in really bad films co-staring a chimp) turned politician promoted an equally stupid idea called Trickle Down Economics (fatal to all economies it comes in contact with), and the incredibly stupid party he belonged to is still trying to make it work. (I am reminded of a story involving a deceased horse and a stick) I hear tears welling up inside Mr (Hang on Sloopy)John B. The middles classes are inherently the most important of the classes to the health and survival of any viable economy. They employ via small businesses the largest portion of the populace, not the Walmart's not the government. Take the time to add up all the small businesses and count them as one entity, it'll blow your tiny corporate mind. Take away the building contractor, where is your house now? The plumber? What's that semi liquid around your ankles? It ain't gold Mr K. That pretty car you ride in, how'd that gas get in the tank?

 Now for the porn (kinda)-

There once was a man from Nantucket
who carried his beer in a bucket
he slipped on a shell and his beer went to hell
so he scooped up the sand and sucked it.  


did I piss you off? I will






 Boehner    

Monday, December 3, 2012

Is Business Really Anti-Union?

Over the last few years Big business and their allies have been waging war on Unions calling them, among other thing, anti-American. Question is, is business really anti-union? A union is a coalition of similar interests, people, or organizations that join together for their collective good. OPEC just happens to be a union (cartel) of oil producing nations. A conglomerate is a union (cartel) of companies come together for their collective good (profit). http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cartel?show=0&t=1354205342 
Interesting to note, syndicate is synonymous with both cartel and mafia.
This attack on the working class is nothing more than smoke and mirrors by the Republican Party and their corporate sponsors. Corporations are nothing more than a union of shareholders, a cartel, a mafia. Worker Unions are also a cartel, a mafia if you will, with one slight difference. The sole purpose of incorporation is to limit they companies liability/liabilities monetarily and legally. Workers Unions were and are there to keep the business owners from forcing workers to toil in substandard conditions for little to no pay in order to increase (maximize) profits at the cost of workers health and lives. Without unions there never would have been OSHA rules, vacation, daily and weekly time worked limits, healthcare, retirement and age limits banning child labor or a middle class with the buying power to fuel a consumer driven market. A simplified explanation is here: http://money.howstuffworks.com/labor-union2.htm
So, is Big Business really anti-union? No. They just don't want workers unionized fighting the union of them. It's all the same thing, business just uses a different term. A synonym is a synonym none the less. Corporations are unions. Unions are made up of people but they like corporations are not people.


did I piss you off? I will.