Thursday, August 1, 2013

I See Even More Clearly Now

I can understand what Republicans want.
I hope Obamacare gets in the way of their vision.
Republican businessmen have long scoured the globe for  many decades seeking colonial models for exploiting entire cultures.
That scouring is coming to a screeching halt overseas.
So many people have so many phones and smart phones, they are more and more difficult to separate
from the ideas they want to come to fruition.
Being exploited is not an idea they want to espouse.
So in an extreme panic, Republicans continue to search abroad,  but also to search for a way to legislate their poisons into our lives at home.
If Republicans can strangle governments at home into quivering heaps of lifeless mass, who stops
them from refusing to pay employees?
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives tried to kill the National Labor Relations Board
this year.
If you work all week, then don't get paid, you're out of luck if there is no NLRB- especially if you
live in a state run by Republicans.
Right now, Wal Mart workers in 100 degree warehouses drink dirty water because no other water is
available to drink.
If one of these workers dies, well they've been contracted by a company that contracts workers of a
third company.
That third company barely admits to knowing the names of their workers.
Companies like Wal Mart do to workers what the real estate market did to homeowners in the last
recession. Some, of course, didn't lose their homes, but they lost their pensions.
They give us so many cheap goods and services that we fail to notice how much our taxes go up as
more and more of their workers qualify for food stamps and emergency rooms.
Why buy from them? If we want to pay more taxes, pay them without helping the greedy exploit
everyone in sight.
I heard an economist in an MSNBC interview say Republicans are using the cash they should be
paying out in wages as raises and benefits to pay themselves back for any taxes they pay.
Therefore, worker wages have remained incompetent to keep pace with costs of living.
All of this, and still these businesses are enraged with the Federal Reserve for keeping interest rates as low as possible for students, and other ordinary people.
They go on and on about the wonders of Texas, when Texas pays low wages, has weak regulation, and gets more tax dollars back from the Federal Government than they ever pay out in citizen income taxes. How in the world could they ever secede?
Republicans want to tank labor markets the same way they tanked the financial markets.
If they do succeed, workers will have third world lifestyles in a first world country.
We bailed out banks. We bailed out auto companies.
Who's going to  bail us out? We barely have the vote any longer.





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