Today's World: September 2011

Saturday, September 24, 2011

When Will I Ever Be Represented In Congress?

I stopped writing my blog last month because I needed a break after a year.As you see from my archive,I have written posts on numerous subjects that came from my political/economic readings.I have stopped recently and started to read fiction and resume my hobbies in full. I'm going to the gym and my main interest is my new grandchildren(twins) that were born in June.

Presently,I have a hard time reading or watching anything political.The last good ideas I heard came from Robert Reich and his book"Aftershock".Reich does appear on TV from time to time but he isn't allowed to present his specific ideas but responds to general economic conditions(read my archive post on his full ideas).Bernie Sanders appears on TV programs and I agree with his viewpoints and admire him but he doesn't go far enough to the left for my taste buds.He is repetitive and doesn't bring a full set of ideas that will reshape our failed economy that has brought increased income inequality and a sour taste called hopelessness.I don't have anyone really representing my viewpoints and unfortunately don't see any light at the end of the tunnel.

So I'm dropping out again and will watch the river flow or dance with angels down at the Dutch.I'm currently reading "The Lonely Polygamist" by Brady Udall and maybe polygamy is the answer but one can get lonely with all the kids and wives.They say it's lonely at the top... so maybe endlessly taxing the rich will be good for their spiritual life as they descend the ladder of economic royalty.Maybe the very,very rich should be polygamists and support thousands of wives and children.The poverty rate would fall...Wall Street would be confident about aggregate demand and savings would turn to investment, so the American dream would shine again in the deep caves of the recession.

Talking heads just talk in circles, the way administrators in education have meetings to decide the time and place of additional meetings.Everyone is so serious today about everything...maybe we had it right when we smoked pot everyday and just played basketball in the projects.I'd rather laugh again,at myself and anyone who takes themselves too serious.We should have the Army kick the shit out of any company that internationalizes their workforce to increase their stock prices for selfish college boys and girls who have turn their backs on their fellow citizens in need.Maybe we should stop fucking with each other and think about the country as one entity not individual sanctuaries with toys made in Asia.

So I'm going to stick my head in the sand and hope it's different when I reappear.Today,I'd rather watch "Family Guy" than the Presidential debates that have economic/cultural ideas from the 1920's .Eat healthy, exercise and go to lunch at a cheap restaurant..that's all we have left.

Wisconsin Public Unions

As we witness the members of the public unions of Wisconsin and their supporters in the streets,one must remember their fight for democracy in the workplace helps all Americans(90% non-union workers) who work for smiling,insensitive dictatorships that would cast workers out into the cold for voicing their opinions and standing up to injustice.The corporate,conservative mindset hates real democracy because it gives ownership to the powerless and respect to the oppressed. Our fathers and mothers had ownership when one third of the American workforce was unionized.Work councils(in fifty percent of Germany's companies)provide equality and democracy between management and labor while making all the decisions for a productive,profitable company.Germany is one of the leading exporters of the world.This new form of capitalism must be replicated on our shores.

William Goonan

From "The Wrecking Crew" by Thomas Frank

The longing for permanent victory over liberlism is not unique to the Anglo-Saxon world.In country after country,business elites have come up with ingenious ways to limit the public's political choices.One of the most effective of these has been massive public debt.Milton Friedman,dean of free-market economists, stated that deficits were a way to smash a liberal state that voters could not be persuaded to part with otherwise.The famous "supply-side" theory that states less tax will unleash economic growth has been used by Republicans to increase the deficit.Reagan and Bush#1 increased the national debt from 914 billion to 4 trillion by 1992.Geroge W Bush,with tax cuts, unpaid wars and bank bailouts,increased the deficit by another 6 billion.Reducing the public's faith in government is the final goal of the Republicans.

Corporate Watch Blog

One of the most glaring examples of this continues to be the ability of corporations to cheat the public out of tens of billions of dollars a year by using offshore tax havens. Indeed, it's estimated that companies and wealthy individuals funneling money through offshore tax havens are evading around $100 billion a year in taxes -- leaving the rest of us to pick up the tab. And with cash-strapped states all across the country cutting vital services to the bone, it's not like we don't need the money

Democratic Socialist USA Statement

WE OPPOSE TOTALITARIANISM IN ITS SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS FORMS. Communism is a horrible, destructive parody of socialism. "Communism" is the most dangerous enemy of democracy and free Labor in the world. We rejoice in its collapse of the Soviet Union with formerly enslaved nations now joining the society of democracy. SD,USA proudly opposes Communist totalitarianism and opposes religious extremism arising in many religious traditions, especially in the Islamic world.
WE AFFIRM THAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC/DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MOVEMENT SHALL ALSO BE A ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT DEDICATED TO PRESERVING THE FRAGILE ECOLOGY OF THIS PLANET. We commit ourselves to working with labor and environmental coalitions like the Blue Green Alliance, begun by the unionists and environmentalists to preserve our planet and create new jobs in renewable energy and mass transit.

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When Will I Ever Be Represented In Congress?

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