POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

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REPUBLICORP ANTHEM "WE WILL OWN YOU"

"The Supreme Court Sold Out Our Democracy - How to Fight the Corporate Takeover of Our Elections", by Joshua Holland, October 25, 2010
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THE FUTURE OF THE FREE WORLD IS IN YOUR HANDS

Hey,

I just got this video about you. Seriously, you're in it, so you really need to see it. Basically, the future of the free world is in your hands.

See Olivia's message for you

Sincerely,

Clevelands Secret Club


Oh P.S. Olivia Wilde is in it, too.
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"The Supreme Court Sold Out Our Democracy - How to Fight the Corporate Takeover of Our Elections", by Joshua Holland, October 25, 2010

SUPPORT FOR STIMULUS DWINDLING? BEWARE OF AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY AND CONSERVATIVES!

Read recently that American support for the stimulus was dwindling. They sited a poll from the Pew Research Center. The Americans who are now questioning the stimulus have been brainwashed by the "chatter" of Republicans, the conservative Americans for Prosperity and others, and polls from "think tanks" like the PEW Research Center .

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I don't want to call those Americans [who listen to chatter] ignorant, but anyone who listens to a Republican, whose entire mission in life is to embrace a laissez-faire attitude towards business (whether its oil, weapons, health insurance companies, financial services corporations, or corporations that pollute the air, etc.) and pass laws so that Big Business flourishes [and then they cripple labor by opposing fair labor laws], is being misled every step of the way.

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Republicans are so concerned about government becoming too big and tightening spending, they never get around to addressing the deep-rooted problems facing every American and their children.

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They never addressed global warming, which is now in crisis stage ... allowing Big Business to pollute our air ... giving them tax breaks even though they were and are killing us and our children.

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Republicans screamed "hands off" when it came to health insurance companies; and therefore let abuses and greed go unchecked while American's health suffered and people died because they could not afford health insurance and/or medicine. If you couldn't afford health insurance or the high cost of your life-saving medicine, well too bad ... not their problem.

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Republicans came up with laws that gave the financial services industry carte blanche ... and we see where that got us. [PHIL GRAMM, GRAMM-LEACH-BLILEY ACT] Democrats eventually went along with Gramm-Leach-Bliley.

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Republicans hate regulation. They believe in letting the markets take care of themselves. This laissez-faire attitude allowed derivatives and credit default swaps to go unrestrained and unregulated. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which allowed corporations to get bigger and bigger, and the lack of regulation, allowed a company like AIG to spread and entrench their tentacles multi-nationally so that now we have little idea how to untangle this "multinational economic ticking time bomb".

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And this is part of Republican ideology people ... and it can be a life threatening ideology. Whenever you hear someone oppose the President's plans, look at the companies and people behind the opposition.

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The President wants this Nation to move into the 21st century and a "Green Economy" ... what everyone (world-wide) recognizes that this is the direction we have to go. The Big Oil/Natural Gas corporations don't want you to do this. So, I'm going to ask you to look at who's behind the PEW Research Center. Who do you see? Right, big oil ... Sun Oil. Who's behind Americans for Prosperity? Guess who's opposing "cap and trade" and their spurious reasoning behind it?

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Wake up ... Wake up ... Wake up People!

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090211/pl_ynews/ynews_pl242;_ylt=AjPHYjlfSK5jm__5TRQo45kDq594

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THE LABOR MOVEMENT IS ALIVE AND WELL AND GROWING -WATCH OUT MR. STEELE!

The Labor Movement is alive and well and growing all over the world; and they (the people, the worker) have been left out of any dialogue or discussion in the restructuring of the economies of their countries. This does not bode well.

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Again, the Labor Movement is spreading.
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Do you think the Republican Party knows? They might not have known before the election; but I bet they do now.

They were absolutely stunned with the election of a Democrat named Barack Obama.

I think it even scared Bill Clinton, champion of corporate globalization (although maybe he’s not so much for it now – don’t know).

The election of Barack Obama definitely horrified the Republican Party, the Party of the “exploitation of the worker” for the benefit of corporate management and the 2% of the population that control a majority of the wealth.

Man, I don’t believe it, but I’m starting to sound like a card carrying member of a labor union.
Look, the corporations have screwed the worker; they’ve been doing it for a long time. It’s gotten so bad that the workers, the little people around the world, are forming labor unions.

I was doing a little research about the differences between Democrats and Republicans (see previous post) when I came upon article after article talking about the growth in labor unions around the world. The Internet has definitely helped their movement. They’re growing across the globe and they’re really fed up with corporate globalization (of which the Republican Party are defenders).

I was shocked to discover that labor unions were growing rapidly in Iraq, Germany, France, China, Egypt, throughout South America, etc.

The corporations have intertwined themselves in the economies of so many countries, that when one of these companies fall, they can cause great damage to the economies of that country and affect the lives of millions of people (most of them lower and middle income people) – the “working class”.

Corporations have controlled or tried to influence foreign policy for a long time; problem is they need someone to help push their agenda. The perfect Party in the United States… the Republican Party, in Britain the Torys, etc. etc. ATT last year was the Republican Party’s biggest contributor. Yes, ATT the ones who are listening to your conversations over the phone, and monitoring your
email, etc..

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/index.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy

There is a growing resentment towards big business and global corporations whose agenda is to make a lot of money for management and their major stockholders (those who own the majority block of shares) who control the majority of the wealth, but only represent 2% of the population. It’s corporate management’s job to pay you as little wage as they can get away with.

That’s why they seek to plop themselves in countries where the people have literally no real power.
They consistently vote for Republican Party candidates; Republican Party -defenders of their way of life.

So the backlash and unrest you see all over the world is that growing resentment towards these companies and their agenda.

The American worker (the low and middle income blue collar and white collar worker) wasn’t totally aware of it when they voted for “CHANGE”; but, they were really voting for the labor movement.

Look, when you lose your job or see your paycheck shrink who do you blame? When you lose your home, your pensions, your health care (or have no health care) who do you blame? When you can’t afford to send your child to college or trade school to be educated to get/compete for a job or be a self-employed professional whatever (so they can earn a good wage or salary), who do you blame?


The election of Michael Steele (RNC chairman) is no accident? The more moderate members of the Party who wanted to re-energize the party and take back the power from Democrats thought an African American could weaken Barack Obama’s power (the power of the “working class”); however, the person chosen must be a champion of corporate globalization. Well, Michael Steele is definitely a champion of big business and corporate globalization. Read his biography on Wikipedia.

Yes, the Republican Party is scared that their Party is weakened and that means big business is weakened, that the people who control the corporations and the majority stockholders are weakened; but guys, they no longer control the government. The “Working Class” (blue and white collar labor) and a few upper class moderate Republicans made the decision to embrace the people’s movement (the labor movement).

The Huffington Post captured a conversation by some bailout recipients talking about how they were going to defeat labor bill.

Bailout Recipients Call to Defeat Key Labor Billhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/27/bank-of-america-hosted-an_n_161248.html?page=103

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/


President Obama’s pick of Treasury Secretary is a little scary. His friends are those guys who have 40% to 50% of the wealth, but only represent 2% of the population. Heck, Geithner's replacement came from Goldman Sachs

Now their argument for having that 40% to 50% is that they work harder or have sacrificed or gotten advanced degrees. I’m not going to take that away from them although I’m going to challenge them on the “work harder”; and, shouldn’t you be pursuing a career not because of the money, but because it is your passion?

Well, we can debate that later. What is important is that the “Working Class/Middle Class” drives this country. When you erode it, you cause governments to topple and economies to go to hell … so who is really worth more, and who is more important, and who should possess more of the wealth?

Here I go sounding like a “Socialist”; however, Abraham Lincoln (who the President admires) at his Gettysburg address said these radical words: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
Gettysburg address/Abraham Lincoln

Why wouldn’t the Republican Party (again, defenders of big business –corporate globalization) want to make government smaller? It’s in their best interest.

I think the reason I didn’t want Geithner having an input into how the TARP money should be used is that his buddies are those very people who seek to exploit labor. Can you really trust him with our “TARP” money? Hell no.

"Working Class" people (and all people), those people who have lost their jobs especially, stop killing your neighbors, friends, family and stealing from them. Instead, organize a non-violent labor movement.

My suggestion to us/the government: (you’ve got to do this quickly or Geithner is going to draft a plan fast to make sure his buddies keep their 40% to 50%+ of the wealth).

1. Demand that that TARP money is given to the workers who would then buy the company or have a controlling interest in it.

2. After the workers get control of the money, the workers would form their own business structure; and they hire managers from within their own ranks, or if they hired outside their company, all workers would have a choice in the pick and determine his/her salary.


3. Whatever decisions that are made, should be to benefit the worker.

I really need help here people. Post your comments and call your representatives and the President.

By the way, the "Working Class" loves business, just not the businesses I described.

Update November 10, 2010
How the Wealthy Organized to Rip Everyone Else off -- And What You Can Do to Stop It | | AlterNet by Maria Armoudian



Conservative Parties around the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism

Unionshttp://www.uniondemocracy.org/AUDLinks/officialunionsites.htm

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/31/labor.stern/

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Michael Steelehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Steele

Republican Partyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Republican_party

http://vodpod.com/tag/radical+right-wing+agenda

http://www.swans.com/library/art12/rgarci03.html
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=6164
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89736
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=15827
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/wkrs-f22.shtml

THE AGE OF OBAMA

I was watching "Meet the Press" and "Face the Nation" this morning and the content and the guests really pissed me off.

The power is shifting in this country and around the world and those who are currently in power "just don't get it". When the people voted for "CHANGE", they were voting to take this nation back from those who were trying to keep power and wealth in the hands of a few. They wanted this nation to be about true democracy; that when the majority spoke, the people who represented us listened and did what the majority asked.

When I watch programs like "Meet the Press" and "Face the Nation", I want to see the ordinary citizen represented. Instead they present the same old people who represent the same old powerful few, who we allow to speak for the majority of us.

Obama is reaching out to the common man ... asking and listening and including him/her in the discussions that ultimately impact the common man's future.

Obama understands that this nation was built from the "ground up" and not the "top down". A true grass roots movement helped create the United States of America; and, without workers, you have no businesses.

Big Business would have you believe that without them we could not exist. Excuse me, we are the reason why THEY exist. If we don't do the work, THEY don't exist; if we don't buy the product or service, THEY don't exist; if we don't deposit money into banks or pay taxes or vote, THEY and the government don't exist.

Last ... don't be fooled by people like Carly Fiorina who feign interest in tax cuts for small business. President-elect Obama has already addressed these concerns [http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/08/smallbusiness/smallbiz_taxes.smb/index.htm?]postversion=2008120810#. Ms. Fiorina and her cronies real goal is tax cuts for the wealthy minority and Big Business.