While the U.S. economy weakens with no end in sight, Congress and members from the U.A.W. were unable to reach a settlement on the automobile bailout fiasco. Republicans from the south clearly have motives for not wanting to approve this deal; namely, they have foreign automakers set up in their backyards,more than likely accepted campaign contributions from them, and never liked the word “Union” dating back some 148 years! Well, I too was always suspicious of unions but for much more cogent reasons.
Number one, they drive a wedge between labor and management. The Commies in the 20’s always spoke of workers of the world uniting and envisioning this socialist utopian state. So I knew this was their baby. The AFL and the CIO started out as separate entities and later joined forces. Their reasoning seemed logical; organize industrial workers so they can receive fair wages in a safe working environment. Remember reading about how awful underaged kids were treated in those sweatshops? Long hours, low wages and humiliating conditions? How the greedy employer was raking in the dough at the expense of the poor worker bee?
Well, Karl Marx is one of the architects of this scenario. See, the Commies used to argue pretty well. They seemed to be so articulate, armed with the facts, and a sense of socio-economic history. I remember debating one years ago about race and economics. I remember this person saying, “Hey, it’s not a race-struggle it’s a class struggle.”(Their favorite reply) I generally agreed with him then and certainly it rings true today as the Middle Class is on the brink of extinction next to the Bald Eagle. But, I knew that there was more to it than that.
It wasn’t Adam Smith Capitalism that was devouring the world. It was a kind of predatory neo-Mercantilism that appeared to be the problem.
I saw Union-forming as being one of the mechanisms used to divide us. Yes, there were problems with the way workers were treated in the workplace. And the idea of workers sticking together to get a fair shake is not a hideous idea at all. But the workers and they alone could achieve a lot, minus some carpet-bagging Union guy from out of town leaving his card behind. They always seemed shady. Like a secret society of traders. If you want to eat, you have to get shaken down by them to join their club. If you resist, then suffer at the hands of the avaricious, unscrupulous employer. It was always so black and white with them.
Furthermore, they shut out Black skilled laborers in the early days and often secured work for Irish, Polish and Italian immigrants. It was widely known that the Black laborer had exceptional skills due to his background on the Plantation as an indentured servant. They had a hand in building the White House, the U.S. Capital and Master’s house. Booker T. Washington’s “Up from Slavery” details the level of skill and craftsmanship these laborers possessed. Today, Blacks will tell you that the Trade Union is not much of a better partner to him.
Unions also drive up wages which in turn forces the manufacturer to raise the price of goods and services.
Union demands and the cost of production force companies to consider going offshore in their effort to compete globally and see profits.
Their Compensation/Pension requirement is burdensome on Employers.
I trust that the American worker is smart enough to bargain singularly and collectively without the meddling of a giant trade Union, who, for all intents and purposes has ulterior motives like lining their pockets with Union fees amongst other things.
It’s time to abort Karl’s baby.
Oh, and about the Big Three? Ah, let em drown. *kidding*
As President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama jockeys himself in position for a smooth transition into the Whitehouse, questions persist as to the realism of his campaign promises; from ending the war in Iraq to a comprehensive health plan to getting the economy on track, many pundits see his proposals as campaign “wishes!”
With the unemployment numbers rising from 6.1 to 6.5 percent, the highest in 14 years and 240,000 jobs gone in October, bringing the total to 1.2 million Americans out of work, the Obama administration will have an uphill battle in keeping the United States afloat. The 911 government complicity, 8 years of Bush and Friends looting the country, jobs being shipped overseas, the gold being stolen from under the World Trade Towers with insider trading running amok and the vulgar excesses of Wall Street (phew! I’m winded) have left the “soul brother President” reduced to presiding over a gargantuan bankruptcy. Unarguably, the largest in U.S. history.
A lot of us in the Patriot community believe Obama is just another face, albeit a black one, on an Office whose policies are dictated by a parallel world government hidden from the public eye. However, many of his supporters are not globalists and can be the impetus for instituting real change by holding the new President’s feet to the fire.
Obama got a decent number of disaffected Republicans and Independents along with Reagan Democrats and even Libertarians, many of whom vehemently opposed the Patriot Act. This base can be mobilized to keep a report card on the President’s behavior and hold him accountable to promises made. Rabid, anti-Obama alarmist talk-show pitbulls like Alex Jones have not offered any solutions as to how we can excite his base to keep him in check and remind him who put him there. Instead, he incredulously says he doesn’t know what to do about Obama outside of telling his listeners to brace yourself for the death of this Republic and that they may come for him! That kind of empty fear-mongering is counter-productive and offers nothing to those that hanker for the preservation of individual liberty.
George Soros, as influential in Obama’s career as he may have been, did not convince 50 million Americans to vote for President Obama. I mean, you have to be likeable, run a clean, well-organized campaign and you know, listen to the Hip Hop community who by the way, loves the President, yet despises what they know as the New World Order! Jay Z, Eminem and Ludacris, three artists the President listens to, have all rapped about the nefarious Elite in their music at one time or another.
Many in the African American community have embraced a conspiratorial view of history for years prompting William Cooper, the murdered Militia talk-show host to admit that copious sales of his classic “Behold a Pale Horse” was the result of Black book vendors on the urban streets. So to all my Christian, Militia friends out there, do know that the President will have folk around him who are aware of “what’s going on” and that is all I will say on it.
Still, as Randy Weaver once said, we keep our powder dry, still. The IRS and the Federal Reserve will still be here so we have to continue to raise awareness and fight on. But yes, this is historic for America and we should applaud ourselves for wanting some kind of change that transcended race. But we should also keep our guard up and know that this is our country and if we want to keep our Republic, we need to throw the bums out, and apply pressure on those we “throw” in. God Bless all of America.
As the global economy teeters toward the abyss, patriots and Christians from the freedom movement are preparing to get dug in for the long haul. Here is my and Bob Chapman’s (International Forecaster) checklist for doomsday survivalists (as we’re called)
1. If you’re in the stock market, move your assets out of there and into Gold and Silver commodities. If you feel that this is too panicky and extreme then you can move 65% of it into the metals and the rest in a combo of Treasury Bills and Swiss Franc Government-backed bonds.
2. You may want to keep only operational money in the banks for payment of bills, utilities etc. Otherwise, get it out of there. With the Fed recent rate cut this morning at 50 basis points, you’d be better off stuffing cash into the “Mattress Account”..
3. Get dehydrated foodstuffs and canned goods. One website here, is a good start.
4. Obtain a good First Aid kit. Family size is necessary. I shop at camping outlets for propane, blankets, backpacks, batteries, shortwave radios, flashlights and more. Radio Shack and Home Depot are good for supplies too. Cannot forget my favorite store, EMS. (Eastern Mountain Staff)
5. Plenty of ammo and a good Rifle. 308 Winchester with a good scope will suffice. A .45 caliber pistol should get the job done as a sidearm as well.
6. A Bible, Koran or whatever source of spiritual strength that will guide you through the tough times.
Keep your head up. We will pull through this. May God bless America.
In a historic move today, lawmakers essentially agreed to a bailout worth 700 billion dollars for financial institutions holding toxic mortgage-backed securities. A vote by the House and Senate which is expected tomorrow, September 29, could be crucial in making or breaking the deal before it reaches the President’s desk. The initial proposal by the White House giving the Treasury Secretary unbridled power was quickly rejected by both parties, resulting in a revised plan that includes accountability and eliminating “Golden Parachutes” for company executives participating in the taxpayer-subsidized program. The money, to be doled out in tranches of 250,000,000,000 in its’ first installment, would ostensibly stabilize a tight credit market and restore investor confidence. Democrats sought to save face by exhorting support from House Republicans on a bill largely unsupported by most Americans. With an upcoming election in as little as 36 days, many lawmakers fear losing their seats to a seething public that feels the excesses of Wall Street should not be at their expense. The pitchforks and torches have not come out to raze the Whitehouse to the ground at such an audacious plot by the Executive Branch to consolidate power. Other countries have revolted for much less. The legislation known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program attempts to protect the American people from avaricious speculators, however upon reading the bill, Americans may be in for a rude awakening. Keep your powder dry. You can read the bill here
John McCain in his attempt to tactically boost his credibility, called for delaying the debates to focus on the economic crisis. Barack Obama responded by saying basically that a President should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. This is clearly a political maneuver to curry populist favor with the angry public.
Perhaps a worse move could’ve been his cancelling David Letterman. You don’t cross Dave! He was spot-on in his analysis on McCain’s no-show, who reasoned he had to fly back to Washington for an emergency meeting with colleagues. When a producer informed Letterman that McCain was in another CBS studio being interviewed by Katie Couric, (complete with make-up crew drawing on the Senator’s face) Letterman delivered a repartee nothing short of classic. A real coffee-spitter!
Here is an ad created by a private Citizen that bests any of Obama’s. It has been gaining momentum on YouTube and is rather hilarious as it uses John McCain’s own words! The Obama team needs to scoop this person up.
Just when you thought it was safe to hedge your savings in 401ks, IRAs, Mutual Funds, Stocks, Bonds and Securities, the Dow Jones plunged some 504 points losing more than a half a trillion dollars! Financial giant Lehman Brothers, whose 158 year legacy survived the panic of 1907 and the Great Depression, filed for bankruptcy. Merrill Lynch, another storied brokerage house was bought by Bank of America for 50 billion dollars in stock. All this on the heels of the Bear Stearns collapse and the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac bailout.
AIG, one of the largest insurance companies in the world was just given a 85 billion dollar shot in the arm by the Feds to keep its’ operations going. In the Land of OZ where fiat currency, perceived, hypothecated wealth and instruments of debt are traded and leveraged like at no other time in human history, the TAXPAYER (TIN MAN?) is expected to foot the bill. Even with over a million foreclosures on homes and savings threatened, Americans will be turned upside down and shaken until more blood and treasure flow to the Empire. (the WIZ?)
The only two powerhouses left to transact big deals on Wall street are none other than Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan. The latter, ironically being suspected in engineering the panic of 1907 and both having some interest in the privately owned Federal Reserve. This is not a coincidence. Folks, this is serious business having global economic implications as Central Banks of the world watch our markets “correct” itself. This domino effect of institutions crumbling due to over-leveraging, re-bundling risky mortgage-backed securities and other Ponzi-like schemes is only the beginning.
Is there any wonder why the Founders in their infinite wisdom put the Gold Standard in effect to prevent “Bills of Credit” from being circulated and our currency from being debased? Lastly, I’ll leave you with McCain’s top economic advisor, Carly Fiorina on why neither of the candidates and their running mates are qualified to run her former company, Hewlett Packard, who fired her in 05 and gave her a 21 million dollar severance pay. But yet ,McCain and Sarah can run a country of 300 million people with a budget in the hundreds of billions and a federal employee staff of 1.5 million? Am I missing something?
Just as Republicans were making their rounds on the “talking head shows” espousing about Palin’s 80% approval rating, roughly 1400 Alaskans wanted to make it known that Sarah Palin doesn’t speak for them. Perhaps one of the largest counter-rallies in the history of Anchorage, many were expressing their frustration with McCain’s choice. Their native Governor. From their native state! Coming off of several gaffes the Governor made on ABC’s interview with Charlie Gibson, most notably, her not knowing what the Bush Doctrine was and some saber-rattling about Russia, the 44 year old mother of “5″ was greeted elsewhere from a much smaller crowd of supporters. Below are pics from those who attended the anti-Palin rally.
And this is what the blogosphere was waiting for. Not only was it said on the first day of McCain’s VP pick that Sarah looked like Tina Fey from SNL, but many knew it would come to this;
In part one of what will seemingly go down as one of the most awkward, uninformed, disturbing interviews in recent memory, Sarah Palin sounded like a hockey mom last night. Charlie Gibson, the lucky ABC veteran anchor vetted by the McCain camp for an exclusive interview with the Alaska Governor tossed a few softballs her way. Forget hitting them out the park, she barely got any hits to first base. The mother of 5 was asked what we should do if Israel took action against Iranian Nuclear plants and her response 3 times was that U.S. shouldn’t second guess Israel’s right to defend herself. Earth to Sarah? Ever heard of diplomacy and mediation? When asked if Georgia and Ukraine should be a part of NATO, she gave a yes answer. To which Gibson asked whether we should intervene if another Georgia/ Russia conflict were to occur and her response was “perhaps so.” Adding that being a part of NATO requires you to help other nations in an event of a hostile invasion. Some pundits used the term “Saber-Rattling” to describe her answer. I call it irresponsible and dangerous for a would-be Vice President and potential President to bark like that. Her speaking of “Islamic believers” was a bit bothersome too. Imagine saying “Christian believers?”"Judaism believers?”
Why not call them Muslims or people of the Islamic faith? Sounds less tacky and like you know what you’re talking about. Charlie performed better than I thought but he gave her the answer when he asked her about the “Bush Doctrine.” Not only did he give her the definition, he let her off the hook by asking another question after she clearly fumbled. See interview below;
Forget the James Carville question about “What do you think about the Agreed Framework,” the Doctrine question went over her head and yet, could’ve easily been answered by any freshman poli-sci major from the University of Alaska!
And if you think that sitting next to a country or having peripheral knowledge of energy qualifies you to be Vice President with national security and foreign policy credentials then obviously those mad moose burgers are kicking in! But what’s even more spooky than Sarah is John McCain’s judgement and complete obsession with winning the White House. That he would risk the security of 300 million people by picking an inexperienced, former sportscaster who may be the next leader of the free frickin’ world is beyond insane!
Could this be an effect from his POW experience? Agent Orange? Whatever it was, his temperament and mental capacity to make calls and lead this nation raise serious questions. Both he and Sarah need to take their show off the road and into a ditch! Sarah in a Vice-Presidential position? Not. Perhaps the only useful position for this “pitbull in lipstick” is doggystyle! Are you listening McCain?
Many Americans erroneously believe that the President and the Congress can pass legislation that will affect them in the Several states; Article II of the U.S. Constitution spells out exactly what a President’s role is. I can assure you it’s not meddling in our lives. The President was essentially to be an agent of the People of the Several states. He can promote friendly and commercial relations between the states, United States and other countries. He is the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Miltia of the Several states. If, someone invaded Montana from the north, the President can rally troops to fight back such an incursion.
He can make Treaties but he needs 2/3 consent from the Senate. He can appoint Ambassadors, Consuls, Public Ministers and Judges, again with the advice and consent of the Senate. And uh, he basically informs the Congress on the State of the Union. Oh, yes, he also receives Heads of State and can adjourn or convene both Houses where there may be a dispute betwixt them. Last and certainly not least, he is to faithfully execute the Laws of the Union pursuant to his Oath of Office. That’s pretty much it, folks. What about the Congress? You say?
Well, According to Article I, sec. 8, clause 17, their exclusive legislative jurisdiction was limited to 10 miles square. In other words, all “Acts of Congress” could only carry the force of law inside their little enclave(s). Say, the state legislature of Indiana ceded a 10 mile territory to the Feds. If Congress passed a law stating that riding a bicycle without a license is illegal, it would only apply to the residents in the District of Columbia, troops and residents in the Indiana enclave. Not in any other state. Got it? Each state has their own Legislature, Courts, and Executive branch. So there is no need to have three more branches.
Now, if there is a dispute about trade between two states, they could take it to the Supreme Court to resolve the issue. Congress could then help to “regulate” commerce between the two. Regulate simply means to “make regular.” No more, no less. Meaning? Tighten legislation so states will know unequivocally what the rules of engagement with respect to interstate commerce and trade are.
See how simple life was intended to be? No ballooning of a paternalistic leviathan known as the government. The solution being the states alotting a pecuniary sum for its’ maintenance. Now that it has gotten out of the cage, it has flipped the script and reversed roles by tossing the Principal, the Free and Sovereign People, in the cage (enter 1million incarcerated) while they run rampant looting the country, selling off national assets and creating artificial persons to further trample upon us.
That is why Madison wrote the 1st Amendment so that we can speak freely, gather together to issue a grievance and put government on notice. We then have our respective Congressmen go to D.C. to clean up the mess and when that fails, the 2nd Amendment can be exercised. It protects all of the other Rights and should only be used when there is an egregious perversion of our sacred document. You see now why the Obama/McCain promises are increasingly, cryptically spooky? Paving a way for a dictatorship with an apotheosis who delivers us down the slope of despotism. Become a watcher of liberty for the sake of our offspring. That’s the least we could do for them.
Sarah Palin brings a big question into focus for Republican leaders: Should they hitch themselves to the powerful but volatile strain of populism she embodies?
