"MAKERS" vs. "TAKERS"

Truman's Definition of a Republican

 

I remember being taught, as a child, Harry Truman's definition of a Republican as "a person who will not lend anyone a dime, until they first prove they don't need it".  We have come to 2012 only to find that the Republican Party has been swallowed by Repoobs; deep South discontents, and their expatriates, who have doubled down in their efforts to take over this country, even if it takes another Civil War!

 

Democrats, who tend to not fare as well in the ovarian lottery as Republicans,  have throughout our history, tended to be builders, people who want to grow the country, who do so by making things.  The Republicans, throughout our history, tend to be people who are entitled to take; our money, our dreams, our lives and labor, and now our future.

 

The Repoobs, led by Mitt and Congressman Ryan, are demonstrating their disregard for truth, the law, and for the nation's financial health in their push to regain power.

 When I was in uniform, the Hatch Act, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939,  passed by Congress the year I was born, was used to deter us from speaking out on political matters while on active duty.  We see evidence on our T.V's everyday that this law is being brazenly broken.

 

Similar disregard for law is evidenced by religiously funded groups, called "social welfare groups" who openly fund political advertising.

 

We have to apply equal vigilance against "domestic enemies" as "foreign enemies".  Our Constitution requires it.  Any Party that fails in this requirement does not deserve to continue in existence.  Don't let your vote become weapons against your country.  This is not simply "dirty politics as usual".
 

Stay Vigilant!! "Citizens United" is a cancer in our Democracy.

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The Case AGAINST Electing ANY Repoob

A Look AHEAD!

1.  Hope and Change (revisited):  There is no hope for us unless we change the most consistent facet of our economic difficulties:  the flow of MONEY that CORRUPTS our Processes and Representation. The most malevolent among the monied interests have come out of the shadows to buy every bit of "whatever it takes" to eliminate Obama.  From the day of Inauguration, they have locked up our government, showing no concern for the financial health of our economy or for the plight of  job seekers.  So far, thanks to Roberts protecting his Court from images of corruption, the President dodged their ploy to take him down on Obamacare.  If we elect Obama again, the good money people can emerge and get our economy moving.

2. Economic Shift:  In an earlier blog, I explained SAY'S LAW, and showed how the  Malevolent Monied Interests in the Global Economy have rendered it inoperable.  In its August 20, 2012 issue, TIME Magazine shows in an article entitled GO GLOCAL, what has happened to the world economies post-2008 Meltdown.  They explain why manufacturing jobs (the most lucrative in any economy) will NOT return to this country at a time when even foreigners are interested in building new operations here.  Since 2008, the Global Economy has shifted to a Glocal Economy, and what is called the Great Moderation has begun.  Check it out.  Romney and the Repoobs will do anything to get control of this economy before the citizenry catches on to these changes and their implications.

3. Concentrated Power:  Those on the Right who are not blinded by dark emotions must see by now that Romney is a money-hungry, un-principled head about to be attached in Convention to a malevolent social-issued body of Repoobs.  Even those Republicans who have not been run off by the Repoobs, are finally beginning to object to the levels to which their party has sunk.  Limbaugh, and now Akin,  (throw Rove in the mix) have both parties holding their noses.  The time is ripe for the voters to break the power lock these elements have held since the 2000 "Selection".

4. Recovery:  The sane money people in the world's Financial Markets are beginning to sense real recovery from the Cheney/Bush wreckage; although it will be slow going for at least two more years.   Pay attention:  Mitt has pledged to return to talk of War and Protectionism.   Against China!That's exactly what drove this nation to its ecoonomic depths in the 1930s Depression.

5. The Fear Factor:  The Gun Nuts, along with the No Tax Pledgers,  have done their bit to cripple this country and to hold us in fear of the future and of each other.  They must be put back into the caves they crawled out of.

6.  The TRUST Factor:  After the deep destruction of  ourTrust, in our institutions and in each other, accomplished by the Repoobs during the Cheney/Bush years; Mitt has the blind belief that we should elect him, ignoring his secrecy about his financial dealings, and to do so based on BLIND TRUST!

Even Mad Ronnie cautioned us to Trust, but VERIFY!!

 Stay Vigilant !  VOTE EARLY!!

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Of POTS And KETTLES

Its the BLACK Thing, After All

Rudy and Mitt are in the media lately "feigning indignation" over hapless Joe Biden; accusing him of being a racist.  As they say, "it takes one to know one".  But what about those of us who've had to live under the heel of racism?  We're never a part of the white-on-white conversations on race that the white male media loves to stage from time to time.

Mitt, born into Mormonism in 1947, and Rudy, born into Catholicism in 1944, are eerily similar men on this substrate of  "American Exceptionalism".  Both are money-grubbing, chamelion-like social climbers who have chosen politics as their path to wealth and power.  Mitt, born in Detroit, MI,  and Rudy, born in Brooklyn, NY share similar fates at the hands of the "ovarian lottery" as well.  Both have deeply troubling backgrounds when it comes to race in this country.

Joe Biden, Vice-President to the first (admitted) non-white male President of this country; was born in Scranton, PA, in 1942.  I'm older than all of these guys, and I was born "Negro" in north-central Missouri in 1939. 

A fellow officer in the Air Force, white, Catholic, read my Master's Thesis on the origins of racial attitudes and beliefs in the United States, and the conditions of racial integration within the military in 1972.  He described what it was like to be born white and Catholic is a Parish in Massachussetts.

He was puzzled why non-white citizens did not follow the advancement patterns practiced in his Parish.  He told me that it was common for a parishioner who got a job in the water company to work diligently to get jobs there for other members of his parish.  He noted that blacks, who had been here far longer that most whites, never adopted that practice.  He noted that self-help was also not practiced by Native Americans or Hispanics.  We both cited our experiences and academic sources to guess at answers, but none were satisfactory.

Back to Mitt and Rudy.  Both are driven men, with questionable methods of dealing with, and beliefs about "others"; both by race and religion.  They have long, zig-zag histories in the public eye, very often engaging in questionable practices when they strayed across boundaries of race, class, and religion.  Rudy's racist police force in NY city, for example, and Mitt's "evolution" in the Mormon religion that didn't get around to disavowing its racial beliefs until recently.

For most of my 73 years, white males in the media have delighted in round table discussions of race, without any inputs from non-whites.  They absolve and condemn each other, while discussing "the others".  They gave off impressions that they were in total control of this topic and phenomenon.

They should heed what Moynihan warned; that whatever "edge" whites held over non-whites, or conditions imposed on them by whites, would be lost within ten years.  After that time, whites would suffer similar conditions. 

Stay Vigilant! The kettles are banging away!

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ARE we now a SCARED, MEAN, AND MURDEROUS NATION?

From JFK to Today

If you've been following this blog, you know that my first vote in a presidential election occurred in 1960.  Torn between the segregationist politics of LBJ and the sleaziness of Tricky Dick, it was a tough choice.

The mean politics and assassinations of our leaders that took place within eight years of that election circumscribed a dark period in our nation's history.  It was a darker period than the decade of the fifties that gave us McCarthyism, Civil Rights turmoil and the beginnings of the Vietnam War.  In 1968, when the average baby-boomer was 21,  the entire world suffered as a Youth Rebellion.

And those were our fat years!

We're being told, slowly, about the involvement of our politicians and federal government agencies, like the FBI, in the assassinations of the sixties.  The period also gave us the extreme political rhetoric of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.  The moderate elements of our two major parties began to fade, only to be replaced by more extreme and larcinous politicians.

Over that time, as the baby-boomers grew from age 13 to 65, we now have grid-locked, wacko government in the Congress of the United States, and organizations like Zocalo Public Square, Cal Humanities, and the Institute for Civility and Politics wonder where the "civility" went.  At this writing, we have baby-boomers turning 65 at the rate of 10,000 per day, and are projected to do that for the next 19 years!

Add to all of this the fact that we're entering a period of lean years, and you see why we're scared, mean, and murder stalks our city streets and movie theaters.  Mad Ronnie Reagan, (he described himself that way), kicked this trend into high gear in 1980. 

In 2012 the voters have to get our federal legislature "off the dime" and back to work solving our nation's major problems, like, preparing for a sick and ageing population,  and ending theft and craziness in Congress.  Pick a party that will not consider Compromise, the "genius" of our form of goverment as "Evil".  Vote out all members who support grid-lock, and put in people who will change the rules of the place so that we can work on our problems.  The well-financed media attempts to place blame for all of the above on the current occupant of the White House must be blunted and ignored. 

Stay Vigilant!  The fiscal health and the very survival of the nation is at stake!

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LET'S THINK THROUGH "VOTER I.D."

Can a State Limit Voting Any Way It Wants?

Surely NOT, you say, to the subtext question.  If it were otherwise, a state could limit voting to only right-handed people who go fishing!  That's absurd, you say?  How about limiting voting only to those who have "valid, state-issued, driver's licenses"?  That says only people who are licensed to drive cars and who are current, can vote.  Equally absurd, you say?  Well tell that to states with Repoob Governors who are getting away with such limitations.

What does the "LAW" (federal voting law) limit?  You can't deny people by gender.  You can't deny people by skin color.  You can't deny people who don't have a certain amount of income or assets.

Well,  the Repoob Governors, and their Legislatures, have found a way to do all of that.  They are successfully circumventng Federal Law.  Not surprised, you say?  The Right Wing has always been searching for ways to nullify Federal Laws they don't like.

What is a state within their rights under law to require? (1) Residency, (2) Citizenship Status, (3) Registration, (4) Date and Place, or other similar provision for casting a vote.

The Repoob Governors have gone far beyond their rights and  may limit the number of voters significantly in the 2012 election.  UNLESS the voters take their revenge by VOTING A STRAIGHT TICKET that DENY THEIR VOTE to ANY REPOOB!!

THINK ABOUT IT!  We are not helpless in the face of this NULLIFICATION of Federal Law.

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JOBS: THE "BAIN" OF POLITICIANS

They're Counting on Our Ignorance

If you've had a chance to take a glimpse at Rifkin's book (my last blog), you know by now that this whole flurry and flap over "jobs" is a grand  con game the politicians have been playing for about sixty years. 

 That's how long the trend toward permanent annihilation of jobs in this country has been going on.  The root cause is that Say's Law "pooped out".  The law basically says that technological advances destroy jobs temporarily; but creates more new ones.

 Beginning about 60 years ago we learned that the technological advances were NOT creating enough new jobs and we began to get Jobless Recoveries from periodic economic downturns.  We began to see that the productivity gains were pocketed by corporations and the Financial Boys helping them to engineer the demise of our older industrial base.

The productivity gains were not plowed back as investments in new plants and equipment.  Instead, they scoured the planet looking for cheaper places to operate.  Financial bubbles were engineered to keep us asleep, it appears.

Add to this long history the aging baby boom population, and our neglect of technical education and you see the steady decline in work in this country; trending toward NO JOBS within the next three or four decades.  Now we know why the Repoobs stole everything but the kitchen sink when they had unfettered access to our treasury.

SAY'S LAW rested on the assumption of increased efficiency through technological innovation.

How efficient were the Repoobs at running the government?  From Enron to the Melt-Down, with Katrina along the way, take your pick, there's nary a hint of any efficiency at anything;  but looting.

Now Mitt and the Repoobs are knocking on the door to get another crack at our jobs.

Stay Vigilant!  They say "its different this time"?  You damn betcha!!

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We CAN See The FUTURE

The "Crystal Ball vs. Denial??

Want to know what's really going on?  You have to go back in time, about 15 years.  That's when I bought Jeremy Rifkin's book The End of Work  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Work.

I bought the book because it echoed what Peter Drucker taught in his classes 10 years prior.  The knowledge has been around, altogether, for more than 25 years!  Dont'cha think the politicians knew and have been busy "getting theirs" while keeping us Mushroomed?

Rifkin writes on page 288: "In a world where sophisticated information and communication technologies will be able to replace more and more of the global workforce, it is unlikely that more than a fortunate few will be retrained for the relatively scarce high-tech scientific, professional, and managerial jobs made available in the emerging knowledge sector.  The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained  to scientists, engineers, technicians, executives, consultants, teachers, lawyers and the like, and then somehow find the appropriate number of job openings in the very narrow high-tech sector, seems at best a pipe dream and at worst a delusion."

The writer lays out what everyone in the Yin Yang Media scream for as a "serious discussion" of our future.  I highly recommend that every serious voter get and read a copy of this book before they vote.  You will understand why the Repoobs have grown so strong and have steadily waltzed us toward the twin-cliffs of Default and Fiscal Calamity.  Rifkin lays out in detail what he saw for our future in 1995.  You'll see why the Repoobs are silent on the subject; except to spread fear of Social Security and Obamacare.

The first decade of the 21st Century showed how easily the voters in this country can buy political lies and suffer succeeding economic collapses.  Let's wake up and make sure the second decade of this century doesn't dig us yet deeper into the morass.  Truth is not attractive, and quick-fixes are delusions.

Stay Vigilant!

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