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When I
first came to your planet and demanded your homes, property and very lives, I
didn't know you were already doing so, willingly, with your own government.
I can win no tribute from a bankrupted nation
populated by feeble flag-waving plebeians. In 2008 I shall restore your dignity
and make you servants worthy of my rule.
This new government shall become a tool of my
oppression. Instead of hidden agendas and waffling policies, I offer you direct
candor and brutal certainty. I only ask for your tribute, your lives, and your
vote.
Your Future President and Eternal Ruler
DO UNTO
THEM AS
THEY HAVE DONE UNTO YOU
The Universal Default Credit Card
Clause
How Your Credit Card Interest Rate Can Go “Through the
Roof” for No Apparent Reason
Most consumers know that your credit score affects the credit card rates that
you are eligible for. What you may not know is that if your credit score is
lowered, then the interest rates on existing credit card debt could increase
significantly. How? Universal Default.
It’s not a phrase that most are familiar with, and it’s certainly not one that’s
used in day-to-day conversation. And although you may not even know what it
means, it is very possible that you could learn about universal default any day
now—the hard way.
Buried in the fine print of the credit card terms and agreements,
a universal
default clause generally states that if you default (are late paying your bills)
to the credit card issuer or any other lender the interest rate on the credit
card could be raised. Banks that utilize the universal default clause
periodically check credit reports of their cardholders. If a credit score is
lowered for any reason—late payments, high debts on loans, etc.—then the
universal default can be activated. Yes, even if you have a perfect bill-paying
record with the card issuer.
According to Linda Sherry of Consumer Action, more banks than ever use universal
default policies to increase interest rates based on their customer’s credit
performance with other creditors. “Banks seem to be saying that if there is even
a shadow of a doubt that a cardholder might not pay, they are going to get a
premium on their money while they still can.”
“We (Consumer Action) believe the real purpose of these policies is to maximize
revenue at the expense of those who are least able to afford it.
After you have
checked everything you can including your credit report and find nothing wrong
and you request an explanation for the increased interest this is the type of letter you
may receive, the one below came from Washington Mutual (WAMU).
***
Thank you for your recent
correspondence regarding the Important Notice of Changes to Your Account
Agreement you recently received.
You requested information regarding
the reason(s) your Account terms were changed.
We decided to adjust your Account Agreement to reflect changes in the legal and
regulatory environment, and standardize our business practices.
- We adjusted your Returned Payment
Fee to reflect the competitive environment and to better fit the different ways
our customers manage their accounts.
- We adjusted your Default APR to
reflect the competitive environment and to better fit the different ways our
customers manage their accounts.
We hope that we have addressed your concerns. If you have any further questions
regarding this matter, please call us at the customer service number listed on
your statement, or write to us at the following address:
Washington Mutual
Once again, thank you for contacting us regarding your Account.
***
The letter below
was an attempt to establish a reasonable solution. It is probably a worthless
act but let's see if a response occurs.
***
I am very disturbed by what is happening to my
account.
When I received my last statement I was aghast to view the increase in my
interest rate. I immediately called WAMU to find out what was going on.
The first person I spoke to said a notice was sent out to make me aware of the
change. No such notice ever arrived. Nevertheless, I asked why and was told I
couldn’t be told. I then asked to speak to a supervisor who then told me because
of privacy issues I could not
be told why the increase.
The attached letter eventually arrived and all that it says is you can legally
and will legally raise my interest rate. What is so private about that?
My credit report shows I am in good standing with all my accounts and they are
all paid before the due date as is my account with WAMU.
Therefore I have to conclude that WAMU has raised my rate not because of any
problem that exists on my credit report but it was raised on a whim because you
can.
This is no way to treat a long term customer that has demonstrated (the ability
to pay down his account to 0.00) a flawless relationship.
I would like the opportunity to arbitrate this injustice with someone other than
those that I spoke to previously on the phone. They are mute when it comes to
discussing anything
Paying this high rate of interest is unacceptable and so is the suggestion that
I close the account and pay it off with the past rate.
I will await your answer before acting in any
adverse way on my account
***
Being totally ignored is no surprise. Their
arrogance is
"legally supported" by our government.
Another attempt at calling and writing will be
tried. If no solution the next step will be contacting state representatives.
This posting will continue to be updated.
***
Might this correspondence induce an
answer?
I would expect an answer to my previous
correspondence attached.
To be totally ignored, and unable to discuss the problem WAMU created (reference
my account) is unjust, the height of arrogance.
From the time I opened my account with Washington Mutual until today I have
performed in an exemplarity manner.
Do you really want to ignore me?
Awaiting your reply.
***
To read the fine print on many C.C.
agreements
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Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan heads the
federal agency that oversees the banks handling much of the nation's consumer
lending. Those 1,750 nationally chartered commercial banks include heavyweights
like Citibank, Chase, and Bank of
America. Dugan's agency just launched a website to guide consumers
through disputes with their banks. He told U.S. News that even more needs to be
done to help consumers, and he discussed the financial meltdown related to
subprime mortgages.
Take
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iT WORKS. DON'T GIVE UP!
Jobless rate continues to rise as
jobs cruise away.
This does not include the underemployed or
those that have given up.
Jobs brochures on display at a state unemployment
office in Sunnyvale, Calif., Wednesday, July 30,...
The nation's unemployment rate climbed to a four-year high of 5.7 percent in
July as employers cut 51,000 jobs, dashing the hopes of an influx of young
people looking for summer work.
July's reductions marked the seventh straight month where employers eliminated
jobs. The economy has lost a total of 463,00 jobs so far this year.
The latest snapshot, released by the Labor Department on Friday, showed a lack
of credit has stunted employers' expansion plans and willingness to hire.
Fallout from the housing slump and high energy prices also are weighing on
employers.
Young people streamed into the labor market looking for summer jobs. This year,
fewer of them were able to find work, the government said. The unemployment rate
for teenagers jumped to 20.3 percent, the highest since late 1992.
The Middle
Class Is Coming To an End
Jobs
that were shipped out of the country with the help of our traitorous government
will "never" come back, and if you think otherwise because of the hypocritical
rhetoric of the two power hungry candidates foisted on us ... your in "La La
Land."
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Once There Was A Middle Class
"It Has Been Destroyed"
The 1960s were the decade in which
my parents grew up. Their parents were the so-called Greatest
Generation and I, for one, actually think that moniker is appropriate,
considering that their childhood was the Great Depression and their
early adulthood was fighting World War II, a set of experiences almost
beyond my grasp. My parents (and with some good probability, yours)
grew up in the era of the rise of the military-industrial complex, in
which people could reasonably expect to get a solid paying job and
stay there throughout their lives.
This meant several things:
One, American education was the envy of the world. You simply couldn’t
get a better education than the one provided by an American
institution. Colleges were yet to be overcrowded as even then only a
small minority went to college, so if you were to get post-secondary
education in the United States, you were set.
Two, real worker compensation was never higher. In terms of the actual
value of a dollar at the time, the average American worker had it made
in the 1960s and 1970s. No matter what you did in life, you could fall
back on a factory job that would pay you a strong enough wage that you
could make it, no matter what.
Three, although the Soviet menace was real, it was distant. Although
the Cold War was terrifying in its own way, it never ascended into a
fighting war and there was never any sort of direct attack on American
soil. The Vietnam War was ongoing, but it was literally on the other
side of the globe, abstracting in a way the bitter horrors of war and
death.
Four, the art of marketing and consumerism was in a nascent stage.
Look at the sophistication of advertising in the 1960s and compare it
to now. There were some baby steps, clearly, but the psychological
edge of today’s marketing utterly blows away what you would find in
those days.
Five, the price of homes in real dollars was extremely low compared to
today. The price of a home since 1960 has gone up at a rate much
faster than inflation, a bull run that is perhaps finally being slowed
or reversed after many years of incredible growth. Thus, someone who
bought a home in 1960 stumbled into a killer investment.
Six, employers took long-term care of their employees. If a person
worked in a factory for thirty years, the company would guarantee them
a pension that would safely enable them to live out the end of their
days in a comfortable fashion. If you took care of the company, it
took care of you.
Under these assumptions, my parents could buy a home (rather cheap)
when they were younger than I am right now merely on the wages earned
with just one of them working a seasonal factory job (which paid quite
well). Because of this factory job, they now receive a very nice
pension after having never put anything into their own retirement
plan.
Does this sound like your economic reality? It certainly sounds
nothing like mine. My reality is more like this:
It involves employment that treats me more as an independent
contractor instead of a real team member, which means I have to save
for my own retirement rather than plan on a pension.
It involves homes that are amazingly expensive, even in the relatively
cheap area where I live.
It involves no “fall back” plan in the form of abundant factory work
that anyone can do. The fall-back jobs that I know of make minimum
wage, which is far less than a true living wage in the United States.
My parents regularly offer “advice” on how I should manage my finances
based on these assumptions that their childhoods and early adult lives
showed them, pointers such as you should buy a house as soon as you’re
married and you’re young - you should be buying fun stuff - go ahead
and get that monster plasma television. Their hearts are undoubtedly
in the right place, and they are speaking things they believe to be
true, but they aren’t true for me - if I took their advice, I would be
in the poor house.
So what’s my solution? If you are given advice by your parents - or by
anyone at all (including me) - consider the assumptions they’re coming
from. Are they valid for you? Even if they are, ask yourself does this
advice really make sense for me? Don’t just blindly follow any advice.
I obediently dance to the
tune of your "future rulers" as they fabricate, lie, and promise they'll
...dance to your tune.
But! ... this "Court
Jester" knows the woes either frenzied power seeker
"will heap upon
you."
Those in power
have drained your brain so well you may no longer have the compulsion, the will to
fight back in a meaningful way. Our founders created a Republic and it's up to
us to keep it going. Right?
"
Ranting for change may be an effective way to
tap into an upset population that is desperate to stop the tragedies that are
tearing their lives to shreds. Little do they understand that they have been
been put into their present circumstances by the constant detrimental change
that has been programmed and implemented for decades.
The most dramatic change has been in our
education system more concerned with sex and condoms than with the three r's.
The next devastating program of change was the elimination of good paying family
supporting jobs. They were shipped out of the country. To complete the program
and get rid of a middle class that were growing to pwerfull the boarders
were open to a flood oof illegal aliens that are destined to become the
predominant sector of future society.
Step by step, government and corporate have
colluded to advance to a NWO "GLOBALIZATION." Though not totally there,
the program has moved ahead almost to the point of being unstoppable.
We have had enough change to almost kill us.
Empty rhetoric promising more change is something we must avoid.
What must be done is to eradicate all the
change that has diminished our lives, our freedoms, our future.
We must find a way to go back to the future,
the golden age, and once again reach for a future that will generate a promise
of fulfilling our hard work to pass on the same opportunities to our children
and grandchildren.
The presidential candidates that are presently
seeking to run our lives don't even come close to helping us to go back to the
future. they are just more of the same shills. Snake oil salesmen that know no
other way to do business.
The Bush Legacy
...and if you think McCain or
Obama are better You're "Nuts"
A society whose citizens refuse to see and
investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their
media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable
facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's
going to get.
If ever there was a time for the working poor to come to the aid of their
country and revolt ...
"THIS IS THE TIME."
Your government in cahoots with
corporate has allowed corporate to ship all meaningful jobs of opportunity
around the world ... and they will never come back. That could never
happen under our original constitutional intention.
As Lincoln said
in his First Inaugural Address,
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to
the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing
government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or
their revolutionary right to dismember or
overthrow it.
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National Identity
Crisis
An
alarming new report finds that the United States is in danger of
losing its national identity. A non-profit group surveyed 2,400
Americans and found that 63 percent believe our national identity is
weakening—24 percent believe we’re so divided that a common identity is not
possible. The report blames our failure to teach and understand our own history:
A recent survey of fifth-graders found that only seven in 100 could explain the
significance of the date July 4, 1776
And so the end
began.
The
Destruction of America's Founding Ideals
0f the elite of the NWO have
accomplished what they have been working on for decades ...
destruction of a middle class. It is estimated that by the year 2050 the white population of
the USA will become a minority ... ranging below 50% and that will mark the
end of a social group that built the country and worked so hard pursuing
the American Dream. Now! before it's too late, there may be enough of us left
to understand the severity of what is going on and muster an effort to destroy
the enemy that has created this scenario. To put it bluntly it requires
an all out revolution that will eliminate the traitors that had a hand it
fostering, knowingly becoming stooges for the controlling elite. Our country
was founded by the daring of a group of men when they effectively told
the king of an empire ... "Go To Hell." That time has
come again. We must wake Up!!! Time is of the essence. The younger
bamboozled need to be educated.
We have been
raped
and pillaged
THIS IS WHAT THE NEXT GENERATION FACES
They are not
acknowledging the negative impact illegal aliens have on the economy.
They are not truthful
about the devastation occurring to the middle class.
They are porously
creating a two tier environment, the haves and have not.
The boarders are wide open and will remain that way, it suits their purpose.
Wake Up! politics like
never before has become the ultimate art of practiced lying.
i HAVE YET TO SEE A SINGLE,
HONEST CANDIDATE ACKNOWLEDGE THE CHAOS AND SUBMIT A PLAN TO GO BACK TO THE FUTURE
.
HERE COMES THE KING
The planned
destruction of our Republic, our Sovereignty, is well underway and it seems we
can't penetrate its sanctuary and reverse the process. Corporate supremacy now
rules America. Let me introduce your new ruler, "corporate kingdom" the ultimate
uncontested winner overall.
A greater than ever Infestation
The hordes of deadly "brainless blobs," they have
implanted into our government, ensuring control by corporate, is replacing
the voice of "we the people" and are silently,
stealthily , proliferating within the environs of
every government institution from the white-house down. The far reaching
tentacles of these lethal, poisonous carnivores are
slinking penetrating every nook and cranny of our lives. Its deadly venom is
destroying all we believed America stood for. Left to multiply unchecked, all
that was dear to us will become history. If you think this is an exaggeration
then you are so dumbed-down (conquered) you have become a detriment to any
solution to retaking our country.
What is shamelessly included in the Consumer
Price Index (market basket) that determines COLA for most of seniors pitiful source of
income?
The market
basket was contrived to reduce government cost and has nothing to do with the
inflationary costs seniors are experiencing. And that's a fact!!!
The
Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is
limited to the spending patterns of younger working consumers and represents
less than one-third of the total U.S population. Although used to
determine Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs), it specifically EXCLUDES the
spending experience of anyone whose primary source of income is from retirement
pensions. Currently the CPI-W market basket contains such things as rent, some
medical costs, food, gas and oil among other items. It also includes high tech
consumer items such as computers, big screen televisions, cell phones, DVD
players that tend to rapidly decrease in price as the technology improves.
Seniors however, do not purchase high tech items as often as younger working
consumers. Instead, older Americans spend a greater share of their incomes on
items that are more rapidly increasing in price-like prescription drugs and
health care. Thus senior advocates say the CPI-W tends to understate senior
costs resulting in COLAs that are not keeping pace with senior costs.
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"I see in the near future a crisis
approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country...
Corporations have been enthroned
and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the
country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the
people until all wealth is aggregated in a few
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Pushing Hamburger, where we've been,
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Education has been forsaken. Almost all expectations firmly
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It's only a matter of time. The clock
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moment in world history. For the first time, a mighty nation will either save
itself or be destroyed, and have it broadcast in real-time, around the globe.
I think we are, as a nation, fearful of looking outside our two party system.
Democrats and Republicans have all the "experienced" candidates, and we must
have them in office. Only they can run the world, because of their experience.
This has become a dangerous circular thought process, wouldn't you agree?
Well, it is not the job of the U.S. Government to run the world. Its not even
their job to run America. Its our job. I know how that may sound in this small
press release. Its true, and it is me looking at the big picture. Many people in
this country have the qualities and patriotism to properly administrate a
public office. Political experience has nothing to do with it.
I look at the hundreds of political parties in this country, and wonder why the
presidential race is not far more inclusive. I have taken the time, and read
through many of their platforms. Some are good, some I don't agree with, but I
respect all of them. The position of President is far too important, for it to
go to one of two parties, every election cycle. The same holds true with our
Congress. The elections should not always go to only the major parties.
It takes maybe five minutes, to click around a political party's website, thumb
through their literature, and see if there are some ideas in there, that you
want to see debated on a national level. There certainly is no shortage of
information on all of America's political parties. I really hope that all 200
million eligible voters will look at the 2008 presidential campaign from an open
perspective. As a citizen, patriot and candidate, I am willing to hold up my
end. I am willing to do my part of the hard work, to make sure I let all of you
know, about my respect for the Constitution, and eliminating every part of the
federal government, that falls outside the Constitution.
Every election cycle we get bogged down in clichéd politics and clichéd sound
bites. I could, and am more than willing, to spend hours talking intelligently
on any one issue.
It all starts with thoughtful discussion and debate. Communication, on genuine
issues, leading to simple solutions. This is what will bring America back from
the edge. More taxes, more laws and more politicians will NOT do a lick of good.
I’ve spent 23 years, being an activist, always trying to help my nation.
Again, I say it, I don’t know all the answers.
I would encourage all of you, to realize that the individual can make the
biggest difference, always. I hope scores more, of "average citizens" hear my
call. I want to see a whole roster full of patriots and thinkers, run for office; at every level.
We are Americans. We can do anything.
JOBS AND THE WORK PLACE
 The sweat shop, with its dangerous
work conditions, minimum wage not yet legislated, children exploited without compunction,
is not a picture of the dark ages ... "it was only yesterday."
Those conditions were representative
of city life in the early 1900’s. It was the normal environment where a predominance
of new immigrants clustered. This was where they would gather their wits and aim for a
better life. They quickly understood what was required and amidst a maelstrom of
indoctrination hurdles, they forged ahead and their efforts paid off.
Back then, reward for effort might
have appeared to be happening at a snails pace. In retrospect, as my thoughts wander back
to then, I can only regard the advances made at that time to be amazingly rapid. Did this
create a problem? Was this "new" strongly developing class of achievers rising
too fast, getting uncomfortably close to penetrating "Power’s Towers"?
Unionism was surging ahead -- minimum
wage was established -- child labor laws were enacted. Everyone, even those with minimal
education, were climbing the ladder to success. "Achievement," possible for all,
permeated the social climate.
America was surging ahead as never
before. A courageous entrepreneurial climate was largely responsible for ongoing success.
Destructive corporate practices, advanced by socially sanitized MBA’s ... was yet to
come.
For the moment, corporate careers
promised a good living and most important "stability." Newly developing
technologies began to set agendas for the educational system. Students were pleased to
graduate, armed with specialties tuned to industries’ needs. We were still a
manufacturing based society. Employment opportunities were broad ranging. Our industrial
base was expanding ... "not eroding."
Welfare, social security, income tax,
were newly emerging concepts. Prosperity for the increasing middle class was just as new.
They were the avant-guard for America’s surging success. It led to undaunted
progression. Everyone was focused on bettering themselves ... and they could. The notion
of creating government monitored safety nets wasn’t needed. The traditional family
was not threatened. Educational tools were rewardingly accurate. The community was
involved and socially entwined. Concern for others was still alive and functioning.
This "praised, energetic
society" forged ahead. It advanced from crowded city cliff dwellers to suburbanite
home owners. They departed from train, trolley, bus rider, to proud owners of shiny new
automobiles. The sought after forty hour work week became reality. Leisure time,
disposable income, continuing trust that the bubble would only expand, kept it growing
bigger.
Honest effort and pride in
accomplishment was a winning formula. That factor made all else possible, or so it would
seem. In short order, the guidelines became insignificant. A new breed of corporate
masterminds, consumed with greed and rewarded for it ... implanted their socially destructive objectives.
Product, product quality, worker consideration, fell prey to daily stock market
performance requirements. Paraphrasing a board room remark, "GM doesn’t sell
cars; it sells stock." What was the end result of this arrogance? Japan, Germany,
England, eagerly moved into the U.S. auto market. They remain embedded and prosperous
until today. We are asked to accept a transformed picture of our economy ... the
"nonsense" of an unrestrained global market place.
Our socially responsible formula in
tatters, resentment and mistrust pervades the mass of hurting, disillusioned, workers ...
destroying their social fabric. Workers that made America great, vested their future in
believing, are now suffering the teachery of trashed promises. Again, I must repeat ...
"It’s not the buggy-whip syndrome; it’s the greed syndrome."
Our economy has had its ups and downs
before. Unemployment reached much higher levels than today’s publicized numbers.
Temporary disruption of the work force is not a new phenomenon. Abrupt and extreme
dislocation of the work force "is a new and frightening happening." This shift
in job opportunity was formulated behind our backs. If this planned switch to a service
society was forecast, approached honestly, open for national discussion, there might have
been a chance it could have been designed to be successful for all. Would that have been a
bad way to go?
Before society was beset with
today’s chaotic, hateful downsizing and restructuring, people willingly listened to
explanations. When intelligently presented with facts, accepting a glitch appeared to be
reasonable. Faith and the willingness to believe in a return to normalcy was still
possible.
Recessions of varying degrees came
one after another, but as disruptive as they were they seemed manageable. Never did the
"glitch" elevate anxieties to the point where we reached a level of combative
disintegration. During all previous up and down cycles faith in the system prevailed.
There was always a rosier future on the horizon ... a believable rosier future.
Life did get better. A thirty five
hour work week was in the wind. Some corporations had already instituted a forty hour four
day week, affording families more leisure time.
Everyone! banks, corporations,
workers, appeared to be on the same wave length, convinced the future would continue to
promote mutually beneficial advantages for all.
Banks, in particular, were at the
forefront of displaying confidence. Credit was freely dispersed. Weren’t the banks
determined to shower us with credit ... confirming the recipient’s ability to handle
it? If one had any doubts about the future and the ability to repay debt, banks were
instrumental in dispelling such anxieties. We were on our way to owing our lives to the
company store. An accident?
Corporate promised ... workers
believed. We were glad to have them. They were glad to have us. Who did more for whom?
It was a time when I witnessed
computer repairmen advance to marketing executives ... trained within the
company. I witnessed office personnel
at Aramco being sent to the Middle East for high level training ... within the company. I
witnessed many success stories, where people with intelligence, not necessarily with
degrees, made it to the top ... trained within the company.
Small, entrepreneurial family
businesses were sprouting up wherever you looked. Under the elevated trains in Brooklyn, a
cluttered drab store, selling mops, pots, and assorted housewares eventually became a
splendid store on Manhattan’s 5th. Avenue. A hard working electrician, carrying his
load of tools on bus and train, converting gas to electric light, eventually had crews
working throughout the city. A baker from Europe, starting with a small facility, the
bakery and a four table restaurant, eventually grew to develop an extensive bread delivery
business. Another newcomer to America began by nailing shingles on the roofs of Levittown
homes. He grew to the extent where his real estate holdings became legendary and was
written about in the Readers Digest.
While this freedom to progress
appeared to be America’s solid doctrine, all too soon corporations showed signs of
how they could exercise muscle. Merger mania grew, in spite of laws that were supposed to
prevent the inevitable ... "too much corporate power." Mergers with suspicious
motives, hostile take-overs, junk bond deception, were visible gathering storm clouds. It
was obvious, "Power" -- not improvement ... was on a rampage. It wasn’t
long before workers’ notions of opportunity and security, began to melt away. Every
merger or takeover produced sell-offs and lay-offs. As power got fatter, we got leaner.
Many of us went broke.
Middle management, a substantial
segment of the middle class, had the rug pulled from under them. No longer could the
emissaries of power, "our silver-tongued renegades in government" preach the
glory of tomorrow. The words of Barnum, "a sucker is born every minute" had
reached a climax. The sucker was waking up. The "Chip" not yet fully utilized,
was beginning to emerge as the ultimate tool of power. Fighting back still appeared to be
possible. Now! waiting much longer ... may insure impossibility.
The middle class society that brought
America to her greatness was unconscionably altered and dismantled. The dedicated workers
who created the bubble of growth -- who cooperated in every way to ensure its future ...
were unceremoniously dumped. "Power" affirmed its capabilities of ultimate
control. Normally expected job longevity, ensuring a worker’s future well being, was
being eradicated. As a result, the "Family" was relegated to continue its slide
to oblivion.
Debt, so readily showered on us,
became a noose around our necks. As our death rattles grew in intensity, consumerism, the
"wheels of power’s limousines" ... was going flat. That didn’t seem to
matter so much. It’s easier to repair a tire than restore a life. "Power"
knew that and proved that.
Today, turmoil reigns as never
before. Corporations’ profits, greater than ever, stock values flying high, have been
created by inexcusable downsizing ... a practice that will come back to haunt them. Those
who have gotten the ax are being bombarded by government to embrace retraining. Our
government, though they secretly sponsored corporate advantage, now tries to sweet-talk us
into submission. If they succeed we will all wind up "Pushing Hamburger." Will
the Pacific Rim economic expansion be receiving economic refugees from the USA?
As if there is not enough greed
created chaos, more is being cooked up. Welfare reform, an attempt at improvement, is
being engineered by sadistic minds. It is being designed to force welfare recipients into
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