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Is that all there is? Is that all there is? If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing. Let's break out the booze and have a ball, if that's all there is.
What does the crop of Republicans and their supporters tell us about that party, other than that it is disintegrating, that their little pet rattlesnake has come back to bite them? Anybody-But-Willard is one theme. They don't like Mitt Romney. Probably mostly because he's a mormon, and despite the recent propaganda campaign by the mormons, they're really not Christians, at least not like the southern baptist variety of the species, not like the evangelical born-again end-timers. So that's one thing. An Un-Romney is always the choice. Mitt Romney, somebody somebody, or "Other," a big crowd chooses "Other."
Romney is the rich white male with good hair, a predator, accomplished liar and plunderer of the nation, the perfect Republican candidate. But those damned born-agains, the teabaggers, the "values voters," they don't like him.
So who do they like? For awhile they liked Herman Cain, but I think they just liked him so they could say "see, we're not racist, we have blacks in our party too." Then Rick Perry had a few moments of hallelujahs, before he exited. The other mormon guy, supposedly the church elders told him to drop out. Ron Paul is not really a Republican so he doesn't count.
So we're left with Newt the Gnome, the most corrupt, lying, despicable, whoring, promiscuous politician we've seen in decades, a sinner with a one-way ticket to hell who changes wives like most men change socks, who changes religion like most women change hairdos. A man with no ethics, character or integrity. An ugly little troll. He was actually singled out in Congress for ethics violation. In Congress of all places! Everybody in Congress is corrupt and has no ethics. It's like being the one prisoner in Attica who's singled out for being a "real" criminal.
And Rick "Call Me Jesus" Santorum, a man who believes he is the second coming of Christ, who has made it his mission to rip the birth control out of the hands of America's (slutty) women to send them back into the bedroom to breed and be breeded by their husbands and masters. A moralist prig on a crusade, a man who always wears a sweater vest like some 90 year old, probably because he's afraid that without it, his nipples might show through the fabric of his shirt. That type of filth, body parts, disgusting, pornographic evidence of the forces of evil and temptation at work here on earth, Lord Hear Our Prayers. We know a lot about moralistic Catholic men who hate women. Our nation is littered with the victims of these men.
Apparently the born-again fanatic evangelical Christian end-timers would support a fanatic right-wing Catholic but not a mormon. Odd distinction, since those southern christians always secretly say that Catholics aren't "really" Christians. Maybe we're "Marys." You know -- for "worshipping" the mom. She was a virgin and she had a baby, so my hat's off to her. Not something you see every day.
Note that the one thing none of the candidates has articulated is a plan to save the country, create jobs, help the unemployed, provide our people with education and healthcare, fix our infrastructure, care for our elderly and disabled, end the wars (except Ron Paul -- he wants to end the wars). None of the candidates have a platform to do anything except talk shit (Gingrich), plunder what remains of our nation (Romney) and establish a forced-breeding program for all us females (Santorum). Lord help us.
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A business (or government) has five components: capital, creative, producer/workers, sales, customers. Each must have roughly equal say in what is produced, quality, price, and each should share roughly equally in the profits. Today, capital runs everything and takes most of the money, and sales (the least creative or productive) is elevated above all else. That's why our government and our economy do not work: two sectors have taken too much control.
A university teacher, for example, can be a fabulous teacher and writer with a great mind. But he is pressured to do "sales," i.e. fundraising, getting grants, and if he does not succeed in "sales," the area which is least suited to his talents, he will not be promoted or possibly even retained.
The biggest paycheck in a law firm does not go to the best attorney. It goes to the best salesperson. Bring in clients, promise them anything, guarantee you'll win, inflate your credentials and lie about your history, but land the client. Once you bring in the client, you will receive a big chunk of whatever they pay to have some other attorney in your firm do the actual legal work.
Most employees of wall street firms know very little about investments. They have charts prepared by the brains in their organization, computer programs, and they sit and fill in the information about age, assets, years to retirement, and the computer spits out the suggested allocation of investments. The employees' only function is sales: bring in the clients, promise them anything, get a cut of the commission.
I remember, not that long ago, when the salespeople were considered to be the low-end employees. Death of a Salesman. They're not creative. They make nothing. They often do not even understand the product. Their talent is in being attractive, glib, dishonest and persuasive. Why does your doctor prescribe a certain drug? Because the drug manufacturer sent him some hot young female in a low cut top and short skirt to take him to a special holiday lunch. That's it.
The people who create, invent, produce, do the labor, should be in charge, in cooperation with the customers. They should decide what to make, what quality, what to charge, and how to divide up the profits, fairly, so that everybody gets to have shelter, food, recreation, medical. When work is slow, instead of firing people set up a job-share and keep everybody working. Capital and sales care only about more money for themselves. Everybody else understands the concepts of loyalty, helping a neighbor, supporting your community.
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The job of unions is not to support democrats, but to force the democrats to support the working people of this country.
The job of unions is not to demand coffee breaks for workers in third world countries who are now doing American jobs -- it is to get those jobs back here.
The job of unions is not to make friends with Wall Street, but to tear it down, dismantle the system, and throw its leaders into prison.
The job of unions is not to get bigger pensions for their insiders, but to get jobs for the unemployed.
The job of unions is to get their members out in the street, to shut the whole country down if needed, to protect the jobs of American working people. It requires a commitment to action, which must be as radical as the economic conditions we face.
The job of unions is to organize working people to fight for their own rights, not to organize phone banks to get some millionaire elected.
The job of unions is not to have their inner circle spend two years out of every four in the national binge-drinking excuse they call "elections."
The job of unions is not to learn how to work with the fascists on the right-wing. The job of unions is to destroy the fascists on the right-wing and take away their power and their money.
The job of unions is not to debate the merits of the wars, but to demand an end to them. It is only the children of the working people who fight the wars, while the children of Wall Street learn to be just like their parents -- thieves, liars, murderers.
