The revolutionary progression from
fragmented to cooperative power is more apparent than ever.
Proliferating institutionalized
channels, permitting power to orchestrate government purpose -- seeds previously sown and
discreetly cultivated ... are now being harvested to the fullest.
A better educated and until
recently, an increasing middle class, not immersed in corruption as a way of life ... is
diminishing in numbers, strength, and voice.
The few still capable of raising
their voices "are shouting foul" -- only to be labeled as impudent hold-outs
from the past, a past power insists we must relinquish. The past it seems is not permitted
in the future. Those who are shouting foul, are the straight shooters. No pretense is
made. The message is clear, the result is clear, we are still being killed by the
unleashed ferocity of power. We are becoming immune to script writers and orators
bombarding us with disinformation ... using every available means of getting to us.
Corporate investment in government, is growing without restraint -- a country and its
leaders caught up in a campaign finance sham ... is a clear indication of the monetary
resource "power is allocating to control us."
Let us focus on employment for the
moment. There is no disagreement amongst honest thinkers concerned with the future
citizenry of America. An impoverished society cannot long enable a super power to remain a
super power. Russia, in its present state of pandemonium, supports that deduction. Why
then has our present state of the working class -- "a progressing economic
meltdown" been allowed to happen ... and apparently be acceptable. While families
struggle with under employment, or by designe, restrictive employment -- work harder than
ever to stay afloat ... government puffs out it chest and brandishes the latest economic
reports attesting to our prosperity. They are an accurate picture of power’s success,
they have no meaning to the middle class worker "living on the brink."
Reading Robert Lekachman "Greed
Is Not Enough," a chapter titled ‘Full Employment," details significant
thoughts. It states that the major objective of progressive policies is a job for every
man, woman, and teenager, who credibly needs work. On the other hand it goes on to explain
that unemployment, at a moderate seven to eight percent, confers many benefits upon the
prosperous and truly affluent. The premise being, if everyone were employed,
extraordinarily high wages would have to be paid even to toilers in the most menial of
jobs. Furthermore, it proposed that whenever decent employment and high wages exist, it is
exceedingly difficult to coax men and women into a volunteer army.
Delving deeper into the motives of
sustaining designed levels of unemployment or underemployment in today’s service
society ... lets address unionism and its decline in effectiveness. Unemployment calms and
suppresses a union’s bargaining position. Unemployment moderates or totally
eliminates a union’s fight for wage increases. Threats by management to shut or shift
operations freezes or cuts wages. It has become the winning tactic of power.
Corporate has prevailed; the unions,
now have to invent excuses to its members. In order for the Unions to keep on breathing
they must convince their members that in order for "them" to keep on breathing, union and
corporate must deal in a new way. The wind up is, corporate power has coerced the supposed
leaders of people power (the unions’ elite) to cozy up to them and become less
revolutionary. What’s the result? The worker’s lose -- struggle to make sense of
it ... increasingly convinced tomorrow will never present opportunities like the past.
The brutal reality is apparent.
Market Capitalism can tolerate full employment in wartime emergencies as long as all the
parties know it’s temporary. Because full employment becomes the most equitable
income distribution it’s a bane to power’s agenda and will never be allowed to
become an ongoing target. Who! has helped corporate recapture the ability to regulate our
lives. At the risk of repetition ... it was our elected servants "operating in
absolute defiance of our originally intended laws."
Evaluate the concept of what full
employment within the confines of our boarders might accomplish. Work opportunities would
optimize every level of skill (an event we were once approaching), and provide productive
jobs for those stuck in the welfare debacle ... and become a real bridge to the future for
all minorities. A protracted period of full (single wage-earner) employment, once thought
to be within our grasp, might go far toward solving the problems we face now ...
increasingly polarized social intransigence.
Without full, meaningful, family
sustaining employment, the possibility of reinvigorating an economy that could benefit we
the people is becoming slimmer if not impossible. As questioned before, was the middle
class explosion following the Second World War the allowable aberration. Are we in the
midst of corporate readjustment to temporarily tolerated affluence of a rapidly
proliferating middle-class? Is corporate agenda so firmly entrenched that we are
witnessing the demise of a middle-class in America? Will our future be irrevocably tied to
employees overseas, being paid slave wages. That is where our jobs are disappearing to.
If we listen carefully, there are
those among us willing to believe and fight for a future that can still be ours. If we
gather together and agree to wrest from power what is rightfully ours, the concepts of our
"Declaration Of Independence," reinforced by our Constitution, can we still
prevail.
The voices of battle are in letters
to the editor, calls to talk shows, houses of worship, underground newspapers, the
Internet ... from every nook and cranny throughout America. Is it possible they will come
together and be capable of defying the will of power? Who can we possibly engage in
attempting diplomatic negotiations.
We are back to the search for the "cradle of
power." No doubt its lofty quarters tower above the cast of players it has chosen to
perform for "we" at the bottom. If we the people boycott their production and
produce our own show, we might become the hit of our times. It might bring
"them" to their senses and temper their greed. Shouldn’t it be worth a try?
Be patient
downloading. It's worth it.
