THE MAN WITH A TAX PLAN

What is it with republicans calling everyone who has a plan for anything a Communist? I've noted that the neocons use this approach on most every subject.   So, I guess they do this so they can keep avoiding the reality of any discussion by throwing simple minded roundhouse punches and making little or no contact while diverting the discussion or topic.  It's a funny spectacle I must say.  The neocons also have a blurred historic view of the most important plan of all, taxation.  The republicans continually cite the tax cuts of JFK, RON Reagan and Bush 2 as wondrous successes.  The fact is regardless of the tax cuts, the tax structure was progressive, as the top income earners always paid proportionately their fair share under jfk and reagan.  A little history here on  raising taxes, the tax rates were RAISED under Bush I and ironically some republicans use that fact to discredit the Clinton era of balanced budgets. But the die hards neocons cost Bush I the elections by shouting "Read my lips no new taxes", shooting themselves in the foot. . These higher taxes and balanced budgets thusly lead to largest economic boom in American history. So what history really says is raising taxes and a balanced budget will grow the economy. I readily recognize also that cutting taxes across the board has and may work at times, but draconian disproportionate tax cuts that favor the uber rich that GW Bush II  passed are a disincentive to produce anything and really are voodoo economics. The amazing thing even under the current skewed system is that the uber rich are so rich that they pay more taxes in total than all other income groups combined, but not as an individual tax percentage. The super rich tax burden of today is a much smaller burden than ever in our countries history. Put in a dollar for dollar context, particularly when the economies of scale kick in on the uber dollar earned, the advantages of the few become staggering. The 500 millionth dollar earned is much more valuable precisely because its taxed at the very same rate as the 210 thousandth dollar earned by, say, a professional. It gets much worse as you go down the income ladder ultimately leading to disincentives on both ends of the economic scale to be productive. The system then begins to look strangely familiar, can you say feudal? Lump on some religion and you get the bush vision thing of a feudal theocracy.  But this factual reality is forbidden to be discussed in a deliberate and mindful way, as all discussions about good government go under the radar because as we know, thanks to the neocons, discussions might lead to plans and plans have the albatross of simply being a plans around their neck. God forbid if we have a plan for anything at all, it would be unpatriotic and communistic wouldn't it.

Barack Obama and Change

Our country needs to look inside, We are a broken unit. Only love, dignity, and a plan will bring correction. A democracy with plans for society does not mean a totalitarian state. Individual freedom is supported by a democratic government. Fear based entertainment and propaganda that is driven by a lack of the fairness doctrine has led to a rebulikkkcan state that has destroyed the constitution. Our government and country has been smothered by the blubber of Rush Limbaugh. The libertarians with no plans have been running the show since 1980, Just like Ronald Reagan at the end of his television show, Death Valley Day's, its time for the neocons to ride off into the sunset. Their plan of trickle down has failed on a colossal scale. It's time for the fear mongering  to end and time to start rebuilding this once great nation that the conservatives have destroyed.   Its time to stop beating that tired drum of fear and admit our failure as a nation.   As a child I used to live my life in fear. . . then I became a man and realized that I would be solely responsible for my freedom.  No government right or left would do that for me.  It was with that liberty that I also became aware that not all experience such liberties. So unless you're a coward and you're need is to make others fearful of false boogie men for your own gain, or worse yet, you're a tool of corporate america, which is the most un-American thing one can do, it's time to CHANGE.   Its time to serve your country through your citizenship and honor WE THE PEOPLE. It's time this nation of cowards stopped sucking the corporate tit and returned to being a democratic land of the free and home of the brave. Yes we can.

Trillion dollar waterboarding

    Would you sit down and talk with enemies of the U.S.?   President Bush used a speech to the Israeli Parliament to liken those who would negotiate with “terrorists and radicals” to appeasers of the Nazis — a remark widely interpreted as a rebuke to Senator Barack Obama, who has advocated greater engagement with countries like Iran and Syria.

   

     The truth about Barack on forgien policy is that he takes an intelligent and pragmatic approach to foreign relations.  The same tact that most of the non knuckle dragging world takes.  Lets hope going forward that the United States learns that talk truly is cheap and a whole lot less expensive and bloody. 

     The most important lesson to be learned during these last days of darkness is this, Bush's foreign policy has failed because of corporate greed.  He has allowed forces of profit to not only make a fool of him domestically but also destroy the once semi-good name of the United States through-out the world.

    Bush has traveled hemispherically with his daisy cutters in hand to combat only certain parts of  his so called axis of evil.  He has waterboarded not for democracy but for profit in the name of capitalism.  Bush continues to spend trillions of dollars in Iraq to plunder valuable oil fields using American lives.  Lives lost not in the name of democracy, but in the name of corporate profits.  

   Interestingly, according to American media, the Bush administration has also put together one of the most incredible diplomatic accomplishments in history.   The Bush state department has brought that evil film buff and coward Kim Jong Ill down a peg,  through, get this, Obamaesque diplomacy.    Under Bush it seems some evil gets a pass through diplomacy and appeasement while others get the trillion dollar water-boarding treatment.   

    In the mainstream American media Bush's State department officials are being lauded as heros and dynamic chit chatters whom have brought that dictator with the crazy cool haircut Kim Jong Ill to his nuclear knees.   Supposedly just by using the very diplomatic concepts of engaging our enemies that candidate Barrack Obama has suggested and the republican party mocked.

   But not so fast, while acknowledging what a fantastic accomplishment has taken place with the North Koreans and Mr Kim jong ill, we must look closer at this so called success .        Lets not forget China's role in this historic Bush moment.  Knowing now what General Macarthur and Harry Truman learned the hard way, North Korea is part of China.   So, lets give credit where credit is due, China's efforts in North Korea made this diplomatic event happen.    Regardless of what the media and U.S history books may say and read, the U.S. owes The Peoples Republic of China a big thank you on this one.   Thank you's said, if China didn't offer so much economic opportunity for corporate America gangsters and present an overwhelming military presence we probably wouldn't have wasted time talking to Kim Jong iLL and would have been mixing North Koreans and Muslims together as an even more surreal cocktail known as Guantanimo.

   Bush may be a fool but with all do respect to Harry Truman, I will quote give em hell Harry in this context ,  "Goddamn it, you don't attack China."   So, don't buy the medias spew on this one.  Bush is still a failure beyond all imaginable thought both globally and domestically. 

John McCain is the Mangimpian Candidate!

We have heard, once again, from the despicable and unconscionable Carl Rove when he spoke before his neo-con ilksters at the Capital Hill Club, in D.C. when he said, "Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by." Rove must have been living out some fantasy that morning as he framed Obama within this image. He had to have woken up with a Viagra erection, and couldn't shake it off! 

Essentially, Rove was calling Obama an elitist hangin' out at the local homeboy country club group. What the heck was he thinking? I guess, very little. He only had his fantasy going on. This fantasy is what whiteboys think of when they hang with Regressive Party neo-cons after checking their pointie white hoods with the cloak room girl. 

Carl Rove reminds me of the school house bully, such as the one in the film "A Christmas Story", who surrounds himself with a couple of creeps, while sporting his one and only treasured possession, a tattered raccoon skin cap given to him by his toothless uncle Jeb from down Rosemary Beach, Florida way. 

This loser and pathetic film character, in this terrific movie, had taunted poor Ralphie too many times before this gentle and lovable kid finally unleashed his pent up rage on the bully beating him to a point of bloody embarrassment.

Rove is still trying to bully Democrats by attempting to convince Independents, Reagan-Democrats, and reasonable Republicans that Obama is an elitist. They have nothing to run on but this stale message.

The Regressive Elitist Club members, also known as the Republican "Have-Mores" Party, are the ones populating the country clubs, drinking martinis, as they lean up against the wall making snide remarks about the "have-nots" across the political aisle. I guess, Joe Lieberman wants so much to join these jerks. You go ahead Joe. We don't want ya anymore!

If Barack Obama is an elitist, then what does that make Bush and McCant? 

Bush, who got special treatment in the military and was able to destroy his public desertion/AWOL records with only one phone call from his daddy; and was bailed out of every business venture he so incompetently attempted to make a go of;  and was hoisted up into the Texas governor's mansion with absolutely no skills,  and then, into the White House; and never earned his Harvard or Yale degrees, but bought them is NOT considered an elitist of the highest order?

And then there is McCain. His father and grandfather had the USS John S. McCain naval battle ship named after them. John-Boy was given preferential treatment by the North Vietnamese army  after being taken prisoner during the Vietnam War because he was the son of a 4 star admiral. He then found his way into the senate because his drippingly wealthy second-wife, Cindy, an heiress to the Anheuser-Busch fortune, was able to support John-Boy's lavish life style. He found himself a real sugar-mama! Do most Americans own a $700,000 primary Arizona residence, along with 7 other homes, during a time when as many as 6 million Americans will end up in foreclosure over the coming years? I guess, these qualifications don't make a Republican an elitist. It must take more! He hasn't arrived there just yet. Poor guy. He is just an average Regressive Party shmuck trying to make ends meet, when compared to other Republican elitists. What's a guy to do?

So, Carl Rove, where do you rank? I guess, living in a million dollar home in D.C., owning a million dollar Rosemary Beach, Florida home, and two small rental cottages, in Ingram, Texas just doesn't make you  an elitist either. You've got a long way to go, dude, before you get close to the half-way up point on the Regressive Party's elitist ladder. Keep on strugglin'.

So, what about Obama? There is obviously a different standard for Democrats. The expectations are considerably lower, since they are just dumb, neanderthal-types barely able to scrape two nickels together. Just wearing Orvis Poplin Expandable Comfort-Waist pants will make a Democrat an elitist! If you wear a silk tie instead of a polyester one, then you will be labeled an elitist. If you drive a Volvo instead of a deluxe full-dressed Hummer or a Gran Turismo Maserati, you will he called an elitist.

I don't see Barack Obama rubbing too many elbows with such a privileged, wealthy and connected class when compared with John McCain and the elitists he rolls with.

The Left needs to capture this and bottle it up to the majority of Americans to sample. Let them see the difference and decide who of the two candidates is an elitist. 

The Regressive's perpetual con-job never ceases to amaze most of us. As far as anyone can tell, Obama has risen to where he is today because of his own hard work, intellect, and competence. That is more than I can say about Bush or McCain. Neither would have gotten where they are today without the wealth, and family position they both benefitted from. Without such status, neither would have a legitimate claim to anything of national prominence. 

Now, I want to further the list of reasons why McCain is no Maverick (James Garner is the real Maverick.), but a surrogate nursing off the breast of Bush.

McCain's energy policy has been solely in the hip-pocket of the fossil fuel industry as the U.S. falls further and further behind the front of the alternative energy manufacturing pack. Back during Reagan's destructive presidency, he pulled the plug on alternative energy's governmental support. Yet, subsidies to the oil companies flowed freely.

Once Clinton arrived in the White House, the Gingrich/McCain movement, back in 1995, continued to kill alternative energy's governmental support. They ran scared from the Hippie-Dippie solar and wind supporters and back into the breast of Exxon and Enron.

Today, Europe, Germany, Spain, and especially, Denmark have embraced alternatives and are becoming the world leaders in research, development, manufacturing, and implementation of renewable energy. Denmark produces 20% of their electric power from wind. They have a long range alternative energy policy.

McCain's long term energy policy is short term: drill, drill and drill some more, as well as build more nuclear plants. The cost to produce nuclear energy is more than 15 cents/KWh. The cost to produce electricity through wind is 4-8 cents/KWh. The cost to produce electricity from coal is 10 cents/KWh.

How can anyone believe McStale is a Maverick? The reality is that John McCain is a gimp! It is like he fell asleep during the Reagan years and woke up to run as the Neo-Con candidate for president losing 30 years of knowledge and reality in the process of coming back to life. He is the Mangimpian Candidate.

In order to resurrect off-shore drilling, it would take 10 years to ultimately extract only 0.2% of the world's total production. That translates into only 200,000 barrels per day. That cost would be better spent developing an alternative energy technology industry that could be exported world wide and bring new and highly skilled jobs to America. Oh, these cons don't like that idea. They prefer out-sourcing.

McCain, Rove and the rest of the Regressives have no idea how to move this nation into the future other than through greed and wars.

McCain is more like a stale sausage bun cavorting around as a freshly made cream puff! If it wasn't so pitiful, it would be funny.

Thanks for slugging through this posting,  

Tidbit:

Why is it that the South Koreans will flood the streets by the millions to protest American beef, while we sit on our butts watching American Idol instead of protesting a president who has brought most of us grief? The stock market is heading toward a significant nose dive. It is not a correction, folks! This is a stock market crash! If we experience further rising gas prices, then we will see the market fall. We are back where it was in the late 1990's,  before our brief tech bubble growth spurt, which left most of us an empty stock portfolio basket after that giddy ride broke down right before our eyes.

This is a oil bubble driven by speculators, and a disappearing dollar value. The oil producers have reduced production because their is a decline in demand; therefore, we need to tell Gimpie-boy McCain that we don't need to drill just now. John-Rip-Van-Winkle-McCain needs to wake up from his deep and inept sleep. He is the mechanized McCain being manipulated by his Manchurian Candidate handlers. He says whatever he is told to say. Right Joe Lieberman?

Jack and Jill America sit at home while the White House terrorists milk our country dry. We have an endless war going on draining our yearly budget of a $1 trillion, if we include the yearly Pentagon budget of $500B. The dollar is collapsing; home prices are falling; foreclosures are rising; unemployment is rising; Americans are over-extended on credit card debt; real wages are falling and cannot keep with inflationary consumer costs; and, consumer spending is falling. (The stimulus spike is temporary. $600 only goes so far!) Jack and Jill sit in front of the Boob Tube watching the broadcast cheerleaders spew the neo-con party line, while their 401K's disappear, and corporations are not actually earning profits, but handing it out to the CEO's, who make 400 times more than the lowest paid worker. 

When will Jack and Jill go up to the Hill and toss their pail of water into the faces of their elected political capitulators who allow BushCo to continue to give the country away to their monopolistic greedy capitalist political donors. PA's Congressman Jason Altmire needs his face washed first!

                                                                           

Jerry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktBDj8VogPo

A video about the falling dollar, rising oil prices, speculation and why. 6 minutes long. Worth watching. 

Four 10 hour work days vs. 5 eight hour work days.

    Did it ever occur to anyone that if you can't afford to make it to your job then you are basically working for nothing!  Regardless of weather its high oil prices or grocery prices holding us back, the economy in the United States must serve everyone not the few.   If you do an honest days work you're entitled to profit from this effort just as your employer does.  Regardless of your task, occupation or profession you deserve a standard of living that includes a profit for your efforts. 

    If you can't afford to get to work, then one must assume you have no extra cash left over based  on economic cultural norms of food, clothing, shelter,  or as we are told, what it takes to get by.   The population readily accepts the information of how gracious employers are to allow them to work 40 hours in 4 days.   The people never ever question the corporatocracy, media or their government as to why and where the peoples profit motive fits in the big picture.  This is thanks to the framing of this new serfdom by the media. ABC news corporation says, "Isn't it nice that employers are allowing employees to save gas and pay other bills by working the same amount of hours and one less day" they spew.   Whoo hoo lets hear it for the corporations and their generosity.  

   We the people should hold ourselves and our employers to a higher stander and not allow this criminal exploitation of the people.  Now, thanks to Nancy Pelosi and the recent passing of the  FISA bill, we can't ever expect justice in the work place, the old fashioned way thru the courts won't be allow, it's national security you know, you do want to be safe?   This act makes  Taft Hartley look pro worker.   All we are allowed to do is be happy and keep allowing the system to pulverize our work efforts at the behest of a handful really greedy people at the top.  We are living in blind times.  

      In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness.

The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

At a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces of society come in conflict with the existing relations of production, or — what is but a legal expression for the same thing — with the property relations within which they have been at work hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters."    -KARL MARX