WHO WOULDA THUNK?

In Teddy Roosevelt's day, during his presidency, he being a conservative Republican was called "a communist agitator."1 Of course, he wasn''t. But "conservative Republican" meant something else back then. It had nothing to do with orange complexions, corporate ass-sucking, destroying the middle-class, refusing to enforce the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, ignoring alternative energy sources, giving tax breaks to the filthy & not so filthy rich, weighing tariffs & tax incentives in favor of the big corporations.

No, Teddy Roosevelt was a true conservative, as was Abraham Lincoln. They both understood that labor creates capital, not the other way around. Corporations are sitting on so much cash (trillions of dollars) that they have the mistaken belief that they create labor. For now, they are. They are taking their capital to India, China, Taiwan & any other nation willing to ignore labor laws or have none to begin with. But whose labor gave them the riches to do that? Soon, the laborers in China, Taiwan, etc., will rebel. It may be a while. After all, a doubling of wages now & then will probably keep the peeps quite for a while. Of course, doubling thirty-eight cents an hour should be no problem for the Big fat Corps. They could do it for years & not feel so much as an itch on their economic ass.

There is a bill now before congress that would require American corporations to disclose the salary & benefits of the lowest paid employee & the salary & benefits of the highest paid (CEO) employee. Guess who is putting a lot of lobbying money into stopping this bill. That's right. Big Insurance, Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Health Care & many more. The NRA & the US Chamber of Commerce have already donated over a hundred million dollars to the Republican cause. & the best we can do is elect corporate democrats??

President Obama needs to purge (not in a Stalinesque sort of way) his cabinet. Rahm should be gone. See ya later, Tim. Cat Giet your tongue. Paluson, too. It won't happen, though. The President seeks to govern (& appease) everyone. Can't, won't happen. What's especially funny to me is that the Republicans have someone, as they did in Clinton, someone they can work with. They won't. & just like Clinton, President Obama will try to gain their favor like a little girl begging for the life of her kitten. They will fuck him. If they win either the House or the Senate, look for Republican instigated investigations into everything the Obama administration has done. Look for them to not just say no but watch them tie up government processes with phony procedures (more so than they all ready have). It's disgusting.

They will take power again after this election & they will fuck us again. & our short term memory will be how long?


1.Roosevelt's speech to the State of Kansas, concerning John Brown, Lincoln & the state of labor & property (capital). Fifty years after slavery ended, "labor" still had a special meaning. The American worker finds him or herself in dire predicaments even if not rising to the horror of slavery. Wages have not gone up in thirty years, not since Reagan. Profits for big corporations have soared. They've taken over the airwaves (owned by the public), they've sent our jobs overseas, they are getting ready to take your Social Security & your Medicare (thanks Tea partiers).