I am so glad we are inching away from the equality rhetoric when we aren't talking about
opportunities.
In the fifties I used to find it a puzzling insult to be considered equal to some prejudiced white
person whose grandma willingly came here on a boat.
I was a kid; but that is how I was raised.
What decent person would want to be 'equal' to a barbarous slaver?
Who wants to be considered equal to a racist who had the choice to come here?
I thought I would understand it better as I got older. When my parents explained African American history to me, I thought, "Aren't we supposed to be the ones who are superior and angry?
Didn't we survive without executing all that violence, force, and assault?
I am more sophisticated now. But I feel quite certain I told my own children: "there are some
things and people to which and to whom we would definitely not want to consider ourselves 'equal'." Yuk ...
Friday, February 3, 2012
Eleven Million Grandmothers
Mr. Gov Rom has asserted to The Newt in a debate that the immigration 'problem' does not
merit the compassion we would give eleven million grandmothers.
Here is the thing. We don't have a problem at all with eleven million illegal immigrants. All of
them know the way home. We have the problem with whomever has hired an illegal immigrant,
such that the hired person and his family would be really dumb to go back home to no job.
Here is a thought: pay Americans a living wage instead. Then you won't seem to want a system
of communist leanings, where a chosen few live a life of privilege, but everyone else makes the
same teeny tiny bit of money no matter how hard they work.
Hiring causes immigration people: illegal and otherwise.
merit the compassion we would give eleven million grandmothers.
Here is the thing. We don't have a problem at all with eleven million illegal immigrants. All of
them know the way home. We have the problem with whomever has hired an illegal immigrant,
such that the hired person and his family would be really dumb to go back home to no job.
Here is a thought: pay Americans a living wage instead. Then you won't seem to want a system
of communist leanings, where a chosen few live a life of privilege, but everyone else makes the
same teeny tiny bit of money no matter how hard they work.
Hiring causes immigration people: illegal and otherwise.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Komen The Political
Komen doesn't want a relationship with an agency which provides a much needed legal service
to women, Planned Parenthood.
So then who needs them?
Apparently they have enough valid data to fight a cure with data from women who say they have never had an abortion?
Of course that doesn't matter. At least Komen won't have anything to do with
Of course that doesn't matter. At least Komen won't have anything to do with
an organization offering terminations. That is the best Susan G. will be able to do, because of
course they will treat women who have had abortions. They will treat women who have performed abortions. They will treat women who have aided in the termination of pregnancies.
They won't treat them through Planned Parenthood. They will treat them all directly themselves, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, because privacy is privacy- but they want to have destroyed it in Planned Parenthood.
They won't treat them through Planned Parenthood. They will treat them all directly themselves, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, because privacy is privacy- but they want to have destroyed it in Planned Parenthood.
This way, though, Planned Parenthood can replace Komen funding with funds from sources
wanting nothing to do with forcing more women's health issues onto society and into our country, by pushing us all back to a time when abortion was illegal, inviting sanctioned scorn.
Planned Parenthood: good riddance to compromising, complicating, privacy-stomping minds and funds ... you are better off. Now you can build a great coalition.
Komen will have to 'crawl' to a cure; but you may be the ones able to help them in the end - if they can even accept the cures you help advance. You will have excellent research documentation.
The whole matter may have been better handled by allowing private matters to be private, because of course no one will have a sensible way to any individual's relationship with having
had abortions, or helped with abortions, or performed abortions. The scarlet letter is dead.
Thank You Lawrence O'Donnell
I had no idea what the PBGC could do. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is a government agency. According to Lawrence, they are now fighting to force American Airlines
to honor the pension agreements they made with their employees. Apparently AA has underfunded the agreements they made when the company sought protections in bankruptcy court.
Whereas a bankrupt company can't meet all its fiscal responsibilities, pension promises are in
a class by themselves. They are agreements made in return for WORK, not investment.
People not able to live off investment make agreements to live off the efforts of their work.
According to AA, work done per specific agreement has no more right to respect than the informed gamble to take a chance on money that may work.
Perhaps now that corporations are people, corporations would like to advance a reality in which
dollars are people as well.
So when an AA pilot agrees to work so that he can eat enough to maintain a medically normal
weight, what will the dollars cheated from his pension plan be eating when he gets to the grocery
with half the money it costs him to buy food?
Now it makes more sense that Bain Capital would attempt to curb pension benefit obligations
to employees. Why that money which escapes from employee benefit goes into the Bain pocketbook!
Superiority
If all your superiority is based on how well you can lie, cheat, exploit, assault, and steal as much
as you can, what happens to the strengths you could have developed instead?
Even when you legalize as much aberrant behavior as you can think of in yourself, while criminalizing every behavior you can describe in people who are trying to sidestep your many follies, that legality is on the paper, and in the minds of those making troglodyte thinking seem desirable.
What will happen then, when legal behaviors can be better defined as those which decry all your intentional assaultive and exploitative behavior toward others?
Hopefully, the day legal behavior doesn't destroy the lives of people who work, is in the near future of our country.
as you can, what happens to the strengths you could have developed instead?
Even when you legalize as much aberrant behavior as you can think of in yourself, while criminalizing every behavior you can describe in people who are trying to sidestep your many follies, that legality is on the paper, and in the minds of those making troglodyte thinking seem desirable.
What will happen then, when legal behaviors can be better defined as those which decry all your intentional assaultive and exploitative behavior toward others?
Hopefully, the day legal behavior doesn't destroy the lives of people who work, is in the near future of our country.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
State Of The Union January 2012
What a relief to hear positive changes can be a part of our future!
I do have to wonder about the milk spill, though . Has anyone ever seen those huge milk vat silo
things? I would Not want to see a spill!
But apparently we are adding jobs, showing strength abroad, returning the power of our auto
industry, increasing our commitment to energy at home, and a great deal other things which will
ensure a strong middle class growth in our country.
I hope the real estate proposal outlined will work for the housing industry. Reporters have described the particulars as workable only if banks get a pass on being held accountable for their
errant parts in the crises in all fifty states. Two states have attorney generals who think that is too
bitter a pill to swallow.
Maybe if home owners get enough relief, these banks could get a temporary pass, having cases
dismissed without prejudice in the event they err again.
I do have to wonder about the milk spill, though . Has anyone ever seen those huge milk vat silo
things? I would Not want to see a spill!
But apparently we are adding jobs, showing strength abroad, returning the power of our auto
industry, increasing our commitment to energy at home, and a great deal other things which will
ensure a strong middle class growth in our country.
I hope the real estate proposal outlined will work for the housing industry. Reporters have described the particulars as workable only if banks get a pass on being held accountable for their
errant parts in the crises in all fifty states. Two states have attorney generals who think that is too
bitter a pill to swallow.
Maybe if home owners get enough relief, these banks could get a temporary pass, having cases
dismissed without prejudice in the event they err again.
Hoax
Why would republican politics put forth the pretense of wanting to govern? These are the groups
who want no central government. The Middle Class is standing between them and the poor,
thereby having to, as a class, be rendered poor themselves- by 'the job creators'.
Governing fascists will want us all as renters with no careers. Simple jobs with plenty of 'duties' for each will do as far as 'bosses' are concerned.
Those government fascists would return us Italian city-states, and the German city-states of centuries past. City-states dissolve into warring factions. Have we forgotten?
Non government types might even like us to skip over even the Middle Ages to return to Athens and Sparta. But didn't they have to eventually unite to become Greece?
They want there to be a ruling, Patrician class who owns everything; and then there exists the
rest of us.
So who are those causing any sort of 'warfare'? Are those crying out against oppressive policies the ones causing the policies by hating them?
I feel certain that isn't how it works.
Would people hoping for much needed overtime in their checks actually beg to be laid off?
Would people plead to work for years without a raise?
Would the average worker want a promotion to consist of twice as much work with a raise of
a few cents per hour called 'salary'?
Would someone with a family want to work a series of 'temp' jobs offering few if any benefits-
then have Social Security gutted as well?
How many people who have to work want no workplace rules( save the whim of an employer) and no right to organize?
If no one at all worked in a union, what could working people strive for in a daily routine that
wasn't at the whim of an unregulated workplace?
Republicans really would work old people and children until they dropped.
Ruling classes did do that in England during the 16th and 17th centuries, and before.
British farmers are still having a hard time working their own land in some cases. They hate the
collectives they have to work so hard to avoid, and which have become increasingly necessary in order to grow enough food. Yes, farming can still be labor intensive.
Republicans would like to be elected in large numbers so that they can tear our government
down. They would fund an ever burgeoning military force, leaving public policy leadership
to Libertarian goals: which are of course to have no goals for public policy, and actually no public policy at all.
We can vote to destroy our own government. As we do that, we have to know we are destroying
ourselves. As we destroy ourselves, all manner of foreign oppressors will constantly intervene
in any policy we did have which would tend to keep us a whole country. We'd play right into the hands of having not only a lack of government, but a lack of nation.
Our Middle Class is an enemy of regression. Our Middle Class offers goods and services to
itself, and to the poor.
We fight the possibility our houses will burn to the ground, or our family members will be killed
fighting fire without professional safety measure.
We fight against the murder and theft of all members of our society, not the rich members alone.
We teach all children in professions which have grown in a myriad of subjects over the years.
We offer each other professional nursing services when one of us is ill, even though we can barely afford doctors or medicines.
We build homes for each other, neighborhoods, not mainly tenements.
We build roads we can safely travel over in the vehicles we've also built.
We train one another to be social workers for members in our society who may have gotten lost.
A great many of the poor and disadvantaged among us are women and children.
Women, therefore, who are not greatly dependent upon men, can expect a future of increasing
deprivation, of an increasingly backward evolution of choice, of opportunities for self-reliance, of personal, public and private autonomy.
Women who are already greatly dependent upon men, well, you will surely have to stay that way.
Men and women who have daughters they don't want at the mercy of those who would make
them poor, should vote a bit more progressively than you would if you if you didn't care about the
possibilities for your girl children to become poor adults.
Make no mistake here middle class voters, your ways of life are 'slip slidin' away' (the way the song words erosion).
Your opportunities for bettering your ways of life are 'slip slidin away'.
And make no mistake working people: Poverty is a tremendously violent force in any one's life.
Electing persons who don't want a government is a cruel hoax on the public and its sensibilities.
who want no central government. The Middle Class is standing between them and the poor,
thereby having to, as a class, be rendered poor themselves- by 'the job creators'.
Governing fascists will want us all as renters with no careers. Simple jobs with plenty of 'duties' for each will do as far as 'bosses' are concerned.
Those government fascists would return us Italian city-states, and the German city-states of centuries past. City-states dissolve into warring factions. Have we forgotten?
Non government types might even like us to skip over even the Middle Ages to return to Athens and Sparta. But didn't they have to eventually unite to become Greece?
They want there to be a ruling, Patrician class who owns everything; and then there exists the
rest of us.
So who are those causing any sort of 'warfare'? Are those crying out against oppressive policies the ones causing the policies by hating them?
I feel certain that isn't how it works.
Would people hoping for much needed overtime in their checks actually beg to be laid off?
Would people plead to work for years without a raise?
Would the average worker want a promotion to consist of twice as much work with a raise of
a few cents per hour called 'salary'?
Would someone with a family want to work a series of 'temp' jobs offering few if any benefits-
then have Social Security gutted as well?
How many people who have to work want no workplace rules( save the whim of an employer) and no right to organize?
If no one at all worked in a union, what could working people strive for in a daily routine that
wasn't at the whim of an unregulated workplace?
Republicans really would work old people and children until they dropped.
Ruling classes did do that in England during the 16th and 17th centuries, and before.
British farmers are still having a hard time working their own land in some cases. They hate the
collectives they have to work so hard to avoid, and which have become increasingly necessary in order to grow enough food. Yes, farming can still be labor intensive.
Republicans would like to be elected in large numbers so that they can tear our government
down. They would fund an ever burgeoning military force, leaving public policy leadership
to Libertarian goals: which are of course to have no goals for public policy, and actually no public policy at all.
We can vote to destroy our own government. As we do that, we have to know we are destroying
ourselves. As we destroy ourselves, all manner of foreign oppressors will constantly intervene
in any policy we did have which would tend to keep us a whole country. We'd play right into the hands of having not only a lack of government, but a lack of nation.
Our Middle Class is an enemy of regression. Our Middle Class offers goods and services to
itself, and to the poor.
We fight the possibility our houses will burn to the ground, or our family members will be killed
fighting fire without professional safety measure.
We fight against the murder and theft of all members of our society, not the rich members alone.
We teach all children in professions which have grown in a myriad of subjects over the years.
We offer each other professional nursing services when one of us is ill, even though we can barely afford doctors or medicines.
We build homes for each other, neighborhoods, not mainly tenements.
We build roads we can safely travel over in the vehicles we've also built.
We train one another to be social workers for members in our society who may have gotten lost.
A great many of the poor and disadvantaged among us are women and children.
Women, therefore, who are not greatly dependent upon men, can expect a future of increasing
deprivation, of an increasingly backward evolution of choice, of opportunities for self-reliance, of personal, public and private autonomy.
Women who are already greatly dependent upon men, well, you will surely have to stay that way.
Men and women who have daughters they don't want at the mercy of those who would make
them poor, should vote a bit more progressively than you would if you if you didn't care about the
possibilities for your girl children to become poor adults.
Make no mistake here middle class voters, your ways of life are 'slip slidin' away' (the way the song words erosion).
Your opportunities for bettering your ways of life are 'slip slidin away'.
And make no mistake working people: Poverty is a tremendously violent force in any one's life.
Electing persons who don't want a government is a cruel hoax on the public and its sensibilities.
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