So Barack Obama meets a phony plumber who asks why he should have to pay more taxes if he were to take over a business he does not own. Obama's reply is that we should spread the wealth around, more or less. I'm not quoting here, so don't accuse me of not giving the whole exchange or quoting out of context.
Now the whole media and the whole right wing are in a frenzy, bringing up "socialism" and "Karl Marx" and the quote, "To each according to his need, to each according to his ability."
Joe Biden even went on a news program and was asked if Obama was a Marxist.
The only reason I call all of this silly nonsense is because the media and the right wing have JUST NOW, JUST NOW decided to call the democrats on what they've always stood for which is income redistribution.
So all these years of social security, medicaid, welfare, food stamps, Great Society, War on Poverty, etc etc etc. All those decades of all those entitlements and the media and the right are just now calling the Dems on it. WOW!! No wonder our country is in the messed up state it's in. We live under this both idiotic and corrupt regime propped up by an idiotic and corporate interlocking directorate controlled media.
Whenever you require higher income people to pay a higher tax rate than lower income people for the purposes of social welfare benefits, that's income redistribution. That's socialism.
Granted, we do not have a brand of socialism in this country anywhere near like the European Union. They have extremely high taxes for everything and most of the people love it. They think they're giving to the "greater good." They give their people "free" healthcare. So we definitely aren't as socialist as they are.
And I am not totally against social programs to help the very poor in our society, but it should be limited to people in genuine need, not lazy bums who don't wanna work or want to keep having more kids at everyone else's expense.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Listen to Jesse Ventura
The former Minnesota Governor, Navy Seal, Viet Nam veteran, and yes, pro-wrestler, whose real name is James Janos, has an important message for us to hear. All of us need to at least hear once what he has to say.
America is approaching fascism.
Now I know already what you're saying....nutbag, lunatic, crazy conspiracy theorist, etc. etc.
So now that we're past that, allow me to give you the message of Mr. Ventura: You've got the perfect merging of government and corporate interests, the control of our entire political system by two political parties who are controlled by corporations, the blocking of 3rd party candidates from participation in debates because of the debates being put in control of a government controlled by the two parties.
You've got ministers like John Hagee and Rod Parsley on the far right, and Jeremiah Wright on the far left endorsing presidential candidates. How can that be? I thought ministers ran churches, which were 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations and that the minute they endorsed candidates they lost that. What's happening?
You've got personal liberties being taken away and it goes beyond and before the Patriot Act, like how Jesse's house was bugged back in 1999 when he first became governor. And that was a personal house, not the governor's mansion. Or the fact that with the Patriot Act the government can sneak into your house when you're not there, search the premises, and leave with no warrant and no notification, all in the name of fighting terrorism.
You've got the government media complex using its surrogates back in 2002 and 2003 to attack those who were against this nonsense war in Iraq as unpatriotic and wanting America to "get attacked again," or that the "smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud." Fear mongering to rally the masses to a both statism and an imperialist foreign policy.
Now we've got the government buying interest in banks and doing favors for their corporate buddies like AIG which is costing us a trillion dollars.
Just you wait til our dollar's worth toilet paper.
Be very careful, especially those who think more government is the best answer in any situation. The more you let government do for you, the more control they'll take of your lives and the quicker you'll see your freedoms vanish.
America is approaching fascism.
Now I know already what you're saying....nutbag, lunatic, crazy conspiracy theorist, etc. etc.
So now that we're past that, allow me to give you the message of Mr. Ventura: You've got the perfect merging of government and corporate interests, the control of our entire political system by two political parties who are controlled by corporations, the blocking of 3rd party candidates from participation in debates because of the debates being put in control of a government controlled by the two parties.
You've got ministers like John Hagee and Rod Parsley on the far right, and Jeremiah Wright on the far left endorsing presidential candidates. How can that be? I thought ministers ran churches, which were 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations and that the minute they endorsed candidates they lost that. What's happening?
You've got personal liberties being taken away and it goes beyond and before the Patriot Act, like how Jesse's house was bugged back in 1999 when he first became governor. And that was a personal house, not the governor's mansion. Or the fact that with the Patriot Act the government can sneak into your house when you're not there, search the premises, and leave with no warrant and no notification, all in the name of fighting terrorism.
You've got the government media complex using its surrogates back in 2002 and 2003 to attack those who were against this nonsense war in Iraq as unpatriotic and wanting America to "get attacked again," or that the "smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud." Fear mongering to rally the masses to a both statism and an imperialist foreign policy.
Now we've got the government buying interest in banks and doing favors for their corporate buddies like AIG which is costing us a trillion dollars.
Just you wait til our dollar's worth toilet paper.
Be very careful, especially those who think more government is the best answer in any situation. The more you let government do for you, the more control they'll take of your lives and the quicker you'll see your freedoms vanish.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
The United States of Corporate Socialism
$28 Billion BEAR STERNS
$200 Billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
$ 85 Billion AIG
There's more to that list, but to just give the most notable examples. Then you have yesterday's
use of $700 Billion dollars like it was toilet paper. It's really a shame.
I'm really disappointed in the Republican party. Yes, there were quite a few members who voted against the bail-out, but still far too many given the "principles of the party."
The Republicans are supposed to be the party of not only the party of limited government but also opposition to excessive entitlements.
But they seem to have thrown away those beliefs 25 years ago. First it was Nixon abandoning the Gold Standard in the early 70s. Then the bail out of the savings and loan industry in the late 1980s. Then the Chrysler bail out. Now all these financial institutions who bought too many mortgage-backed bonds. Who bails you and me out when we get in a financial crunch?? NOBODY. Unless you're ultra poor and can get food stamps and Medicaid.
We are capitalists when the economy's good, and socialists when companies start to fail. How much more billions do we have to print and borrow before Wall Street will be happy again? Spoiled children.
Get ready for inflation. Get ready for cost of living to rise worse than before, and of course these crooked CEO's whose butts are being saved by this trash can full of pork are gonna drag their feet on raising wages for workers.
People are really hurting in this country. If it's not rising gas prices (and we can think BIG BROTHER for standing in the way of those going down), it's BIG BROTHER Bernanke and the Fed printing more money, now an additional $700 Billion on top of the absurd amount, or it's greedy corporations not appreciating their employees, etc, etc.
Now, as far as the blame game goes, the private and public sectors are both responsible. A pox on both your houses. On the one hand, you've got Bill Clinton's Community Redevelopment Act in the late 90s. Then you've got Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (who at some level were subordinate to the Fed) who don't even follow their own 80% loan to value guidelines because BIG BROTHER'S telling them give more loans to unqualified buyers and make it look like we're doing something. On the private sector side, you've got greedy banks who answer to Wall Street's quarterly earnings expectations. Wanting to show as many mortgage sales as possible. Even if it means not verifying income. Even if it means lending 115% of the value of a home with just closing costs down. Even if it means people getting into an ARM that adjusts after 2 years.
There was a time in this country when you couldn't get a home loan unless you had 20% down payment and closing costs. Nowadays you can get a home loan from a respected lender like CITIMORTGAGE for just Closing costs + 5% of purchase price. And they're considered a selective lender. Imagine all the sluttier banks out there.
$200 Billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
$ 85 Billion AIG
There's more to that list, but to just give the most notable examples. Then you have yesterday's
use of $700 Billion dollars like it was toilet paper. It's really a shame.
I'm really disappointed in the Republican party. Yes, there were quite a few members who voted against the bail-out, but still far too many given the "principles of the party."
The Republicans are supposed to be the party of not only the party of limited government but also opposition to excessive entitlements.
But they seem to have thrown away those beliefs 25 years ago. First it was Nixon abandoning the Gold Standard in the early 70s. Then the bail out of the savings and loan industry in the late 1980s. Then the Chrysler bail out. Now all these financial institutions who bought too many mortgage-backed bonds. Who bails you and me out when we get in a financial crunch?? NOBODY. Unless you're ultra poor and can get food stamps and Medicaid.
We are capitalists when the economy's good, and socialists when companies start to fail. How much more billions do we have to print and borrow before Wall Street will be happy again? Spoiled children.
Get ready for inflation. Get ready for cost of living to rise worse than before, and of course these crooked CEO's whose butts are being saved by this trash can full of pork are gonna drag their feet on raising wages for workers.
People are really hurting in this country. If it's not rising gas prices (and we can think BIG BROTHER for standing in the way of those going down), it's BIG BROTHER Bernanke and the Fed printing more money, now an additional $700 Billion on top of the absurd amount, or it's greedy corporations not appreciating their employees, etc, etc.
Now, as far as the blame game goes, the private and public sectors are both responsible. A pox on both your houses. On the one hand, you've got Bill Clinton's Community Redevelopment Act in the late 90s. Then you've got Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (who at some level were subordinate to the Fed) who don't even follow their own 80% loan to value guidelines because BIG BROTHER'S telling them give more loans to unqualified buyers and make it look like we're doing something. On the private sector side, you've got greedy banks who answer to Wall Street's quarterly earnings expectations. Wanting to show as many mortgage sales as possible. Even if it means not verifying income. Even if it means lending 115% of the value of a home with just closing costs down. Even if it means people getting into an ARM that adjusts after 2 years.
There was a time in this country when you couldn't get a home loan unless you had 20% down payment and closing costs. Nowadays you can get a home loan from a respected lender like CITIMORTGAGE for just Closing costs + 5% of purchase price. And they're considered a selective lender. Imagine all the sluttier banks out there.
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