I did not learn of the good General until I was in my 40′s. The man should be a national hero and his story taught in elementary school.

He was unafraid to call it as it was – corporate fascists.

That was accurate then, and accurate now. Only now everyone is too polite, in on the scam or cowed to say so.

The Democrats signed NAFTA and are going to cut SS. They get elected because they suck less. And so the “how do you boil a live frog?” process works.

I am crazed to the point of letting suck more run things, so that the heat turns up and the frog gets jumpy.

Insane, I know. But so is death by a thousand cuts.

The country is liberal, and we have a fascist government. Gotta change.

So what?

Terry and the rest of the DLC – Clintons, Obama, etc – remind me of the verse in the Good Book:

“So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”

Rev. 3:16
KJV

Sounds like a scary number, but a pittance compared to the MIC, the Wall street bailout, or corporate subsidies.

Here’s a real one.

Annual cost of attendance at a community college in NC is ~$15,000 annually. That’s room, board, tuition, transportation, etc.

Annual max Pell is $5,500. Assume a 20 hour a week, $8 per hour job. $8,320.

You see the problem. If a student works more (and a lot of them do) to make up the difference, class work is impacted.

My solution is raise the minimum wage to the buying power of my freshman year in college.

20 x 52 x 10 = $10,400. Problem solved.

I have reasonably (by current standards) decent insurance (doesn’t begin to measure up to the employee-sponsored coverage when I first entered the workplace) that left me with 13% of my gross income in out-of-pocket expenses after surgery.

Ouch.

Great, another DLC sell-out that voluntarily worked for a firm who advertised:

“We represent management in all forms of state and federal litigation involving claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act. We practice before governmental agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, the Mine and Safety Health Administration, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and other Department of Labor agencies. We also advise clients on union avoidance, organizing campaigns, and union representation elections.”

The cold hard fact is, working people have no one representing their interests. The Democratic Party stopped doing so with the election of Jimmy Carter.

If you have an understanding of how large samples randomly create “false positives” (if you flip a coin 1,000,000 times, somewhere heads may turn up 100 times in a row. That has the appearance of meaning, but in the fact-based world, is statistically irrelevant)you understand the purpose of total survellience is oppression, not security.

“Does a continuing depression actually serve the interests of the wealthy? That’s doubtful, since a booming economy is generally good for almost everyone.”

If a broad-based booming economy were the prime directive, slavery would have been a non-starter.

Oppression, exploitation and control of the “Other” is the prime directive of the 1% – witness the extremes the Southern division of the 1% went 150 years ago to maintain their “peculiar institution”.

Today’s “Other” is the 47%, and today’s plantation owners will be no less ruthless in maintaining their “peculiar institution”, circa 2013.

I take my irony where I can find it!

I’m sorry – this says more about us than the Syrians. Wall Street soils its pants because of Twitter? As opposed to you know, turning on CNN and getting the facts?

Pathetic.

The establishment wanted cheap labor and a wedge issue amongst the working class. It’s working well for them. For the immigrants and native workers, not so much.

And while Republicans are not the answer, the Democrats are no help, either.

It would have perfect karmic symmetry for Stockton to renege on LIBOR-based bonds.

Eventually, wealthy parasites have to pay their share or leave.

It’d be better for all concerned to pay as they go.

The most important part of this strategy is to minimize exposure of their ideas to the electorate.

Aaron’s dead, Andrew is convicted and Jamie Dimon is our young President’s BFF.

One need look no further to know how fucked up our country has become.

PeasantParty,

“War is a racket.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

“Occupy The SEC may be one of the final experiments of trying to “work within the system” vis a vis Wall Street and has yielded predictably nebulous results thus far.

Working within the system to demonstrate the system does not work is a necessary step in legitimizing working without the system.

Corporate fascism is redundant. Corporatism is fascism.

“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”

Benito Mussolini

Corporations were the prime factor in German, Italian and US fascist movements, to the point of planning a domestic coup d’etat. That coup was derailed by a man you never heard of in your history books. Who in his later years, taught “War is a racket”.