Worker Ingenuity=CEO Wealth=Elephants And Asses

[Michael]

I am proud of our ingenuity and ability to produce what we Americans have produced. If it wasn't for this computer, I wouldn't be able to communicate with people such as you. That's not the issue.

The issue is that, now that we have used our ingenuity to produce such marvels, CEOs of The Corporacracy want to rake in the profits for these products. And they want "special favors" from politicians, so part of the profit goes to the political party that will give them these favors.

Here in the US, people are convinced that there are only two legitimate political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats. There could be no organizations that are less legitimate than the Democrats and Republicans. And there aren't just two political parties in the US.

There is the Green Party, one that I support, The Libertarian Party, The Reform Party, The Socialist Party and others.

In the US, the people are supposed to choose their leaders, but they don't, although they're duped into thinking they do.

Now that Bush, who is heavily supported by the oil industry, has been reselected, oil companies, petro-chemical companies, all companies that have an affect on the environment, will continue to be awarded favors that are detrimental to the environment. They put him in the White House, so, now he owes them.

If Kerry was elected, some other wing of The Corporacracy would be awarded favors that would have nothing to do with what the people who voted for him wanted.

The final straw is that the people who physically make these products are paid, on average, over 400 times less than the CEO who is getting wealthy from their sweat. That's the final straw, as I said. That's where the profit goes. That's why people are laid off and the remaining people are told to pick up the slack without a raise in salary.

Having said all that, one should not focus only on the US. I'm sure that, in whatever way it happens in the UK, Tony Blair was bought as well. However, in the UK, the income ratio of CEO to person that makes CEO wealthy is a paltry 35 to 1.

Further, with jobs being sent to third world countries, that ratio has got to be getting wider. I'm certain that the CEO of Dow Chemical, for example, makes a lot more than a mere 400 times more than the Dow Chemical production worker in South Korea.

Progress is OK, as long as it isn't dangerous to life, limb or the environment and as long as the ratios I mentioned become more fair and equitable.

We must, everywhere, obsolete The Corporacracy as soon as possible. The Corporacracy must stay out of the business of buying national leaders.

[stilltrucking]

I been looking at open mike for about a month and I have not had the nerve to see what it was all about. I thought it was like those open mike nights in the Honky Tonks in Nashville. I thought I would have to sing or something. Glad I finally checked it out

There could be no organizations that are less legitimate than the Democrats and Republicans

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Oh yes I think so too. We are deep doo doo and they both go on like it is business as usaul.

Maybe we should all incorporate ourselves because corporations seem to have so many more rights than mere people.
Or we could just move the whole political show to eBay. That seems to be how it works these days.

Have you been following the stories about the deals Walmart has been making with China? Very disturbing to me.
A couple of people I still like are Paul Sarbanes also Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, Paul Wellstone was too good to be true. I been trying to plot my political activities for the next four years. It seemed to me that Howard Dean almost started something until he got pushed aside.

[Michael]

All of your points are well taken, Silltrucking.

There is an article at The Common Dreams NEWS CENTER entitled “No More Moore: The DLC Joins the Witch-Hunt”. It is about how The Democratic Party has turned its back on Michael Moore.

Michael Moore, the person who campaigned as hard as anyone for John Kerry, the worse case of political pabulum I’ve witnessed in my life time, who didn’t even represent progressive issues, Michael Moore is being discarded by the so called “political party” who gave milquetoast a soap box in 2004.

I’m so angry I could spit nails.

We are in deep trouble. There’s not a political party in existence who represents you or your views, whether you are the most liberal of liberals or the most conservative of conservatives.

Conservatives who voted for Bush in 2004 will soon discover who he really is. They’ll discover this when they look down at their feet and see one of them bleeding from the self inflicted gunshot wound.

[stilltrucking]

Clinton made a hell of a deal with China that is making the US a third world country. Walmart is cashing in on it.

The united snakes is now eighteenth among industralized nations in wages paid to its workers. The good news is that pretty soon we can insource jobs.

I don't know if you have watched The Charlie Rose Show on PBS. I used to like it until the night he had Michael Moore on. Everytime Moore tried to say something Rose would wag his finger in Moore's face and try and set the record straight about how Moore was distorting the facts. I wanted to cut his finger off. Now I can't watch that show without wanting to spit. My grandmother could not say the name Hitler without spitting.

That dog and pony show at the DNC convention in Boston, who was responsible for that? I think Kerry had a bunch of Kennedy people giving him bad advice. No time for PT-109. Molly Ivins knows Bush and Rove better than anybody. I heard her say months before the convention that Rove attacks your strengths not your weakness.

Fear got Bush elected.

How bad does it have to get before the pendulum swings back?

[Michael]

stilltrucking, I couldn’t believe that, after all he did for Milquetoast Kerry, Michael Moore would be put out to pasture by the DNC. I don’t know why I couldn’t believe it. It makes sense as they and The Republican Party are one and the same.

I’ve just had a bit of a “disagreement” with The Green Party. I was communicating with them on a regular basis. I was sending people letters telling them to “86” the Rs and Ds, as Molly Ivins likes to call them, and go Green.

However, a couple of members of The Green Party sort of sent me a message saying, “Don’t call us, we’ll call you.”

This is The ****ing Green Party for Christ’s sake! They didn’t mind my work and donations during the election, although they were the party that said, “Don’t vote for our candidate if you live in a “swing” state.”

This nation is ripe for Bush’s picking. After all, it did pick Bush.

How bad does it have to get before the pendulum swings back?

How bad did it get before the outside world saw that Hitler was having an ill affect on the rest of us? There’s where I think we are, although I hope that there still is a pendulum swinging.