Monday, May 21, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
BAIN, Corporate Raider!
In the 1980's and 90's there were groups of companies called "corporate raiders". They would buy out supposedly troubled companies, chop them up into divisions and then sell off each division like scrap, for as much as they could, destroying the company and firing the workers with only a small severance package. They would take the employees retirement and insurance funds as huge profits, leaving the former employees out in the cold. Doesn't that sound like something we've been hearing in the news media quite a bit lately? To me it sounds like a dead on description on Bain Capital, the company run by republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who calls himself a job creator. Job killer is more like it!.
While republicans try to make Mr. Romney into a hero, I can't help but wonder how they would feel if it was their job that was lost in this manner and they were left without work and nowhere to turn. They, like Romney, haven't got a clue what it's like to live in the real world, to depend on a job for a living. That is why I'm so flabbergasted when I hear so many working class people voting for reublicans, believing all the garbage these guys keep spewing out. They keep telling us that Mr. Romney would make such a great president. Maybe he would, for them! But if you have to work for a living you had better beware, or you'll wind up with buyer's remorse... after it's too late.
While republicans try to make Mr. Romney into a hero, I can't help but wonder how they would feel if it was their job that was lost in this manner and they were left without work and nowhere to turn. They, like Romney, haven't got a clue what it's like to live in the real world, to depend on a job for a living. That is why I'm so flabbergasted when I hear so many working class people voting for reublicans, believing all the garbage these guys keep spewing out. They keep telling us that Mr. Romney would make such a great president. Maybe he would, for them! But if you have to work for a living you had better beware, or you'll wind up with buyer's remorse... after it's too late.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Republican War On The Public
The right wing "war on women" as being denied by repubs is really part of a larger war. The war is really part of the war on the public. Repubs constantly say that the government doesn't create jobs and vote down any jobs bill that comes out of the senate. While this country desperately infrastructure improvements and repairs, the repubs in the house of representatives keeps killing infrastructure bills. If the government doesn't do this important work, who will? It most certainly won't be the corporations! The last "works bill" the repubs killed would have provided tens of thousands of jobs for each state (upwards of thirty thousand for some states) which would have provided revenue for the government to pay it's debts from those who are once again paying taxes instead of having to rely on the government for assistance.
And what about the spinoff jobs that would be provided to the business community. Considerable materials and equipment would be needed for such a monumental undertaking. Private companies would, out of necessity, begin hiring again. And also there are the "green jobs" infrastructure which the repubs have refused to allow. They house repubs killed these bills so that they could repay the oil corporations by tossing the public a few measley oil industry jobs. And they have managed to convince many that the oil industry would provide more good paying jobs than these other industries. Anybody who believes that needs to have their head examined.
And let's not forget all of the corporate welfare that is going on. Corporations that are raking in record profits every year are continueing to be subsidized with no end in sight because the repubs filibuster every attempt to get rid of these humongous, unneeded tax breaks. And look at the out of control pentagon spending. At a time when the repubs are so loudly decrying the cost of needed social programs, the pentegon spends ten times in one year what the social programs cost for ten years. Yet they refuse to cut one penney from the pentagon budget. Let's not forget also that the repubs are passing laws to take the voting rights of anybody who doesn't agree their policies. Their is to give full control to the corporations. Heaven forbid that I should forget to mention the Bush tax cuts for the super rich which has the richest among us paying less percentage than the poorest among us. Can you say REPUBLICAN FILIBUSTER!? So no, I wouldn't call it just a "war on women". It is a war on all of the "working class people" of this country and every other country in the world in favor of the wealthy and corporations. Beware America!
And what about the spinoff jobs that would be provided to the business community. Considerable materials and equipment would be needed for such a monumental undertaking. Private companies would, out of necessity, begin hiring again. And also there are the "green jobs" infrastructure which the repubs have refused to allow. They house repubs killed these bills so that they could repay the oil corporations by tossing the public a few measley oil industry jobs. And they have managed to convince many that the oil industry would provide more good paying jobs than these other industries. Anybody who believes that needs to have their head examined.
And let's not forget all of the corporate welfare that is going on. Corporations that are raking in record profits every year are continueing to be subsidized with no end in sight because the repubs filibuster every attempt to get rid of these humongous, unneeded tax breaks. And look at the out of control pentagon spending. At a time when the repubs are so loudly decrying the cost of needed social programs, the pentegon spends ten times in one year what the social programs cost for ten years. Yet they refuse to cut one penney from the pentagon budget. Let's not forget also that the repubs are passing laws to take the voting rights of anybody who doesn't agree their policies. Their is to give full control to the corporations. Heaven forbid that I should forget to mention the Bush tax cuts for the super rich which has the richest among us paying less percentage than the poorest among us. Can you say REPUBLICAN FILIBUSTER!? So no, I wouldn't call it just a "war on women". It is a war on all of the "working class people" of this country and every other country in the world in favor of the wealthy and corporations. Beware America!
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