Archive → September, 2009
American Military Coup
Why should it surprise anybody that the Right Wing would be the source of a military coup — fantasy or otherwise?
This right wing extremism is going to end very badly.
The right wing crazies will never accept that a black man is President — even if President Obama is one of the best presidents in the last 50 years, or more. The nuts on the right are multiplying. They have their own TV networks and are on the radio non-stop. They have training grounds and teach about using guns. They all love the NRA who have shown for decades that they can control Congress with their political donations.
Yes, this is going to end very badly. The greed and corruption that is today’s America has consequences and these consequences will be devastating.
America is doomed.
Gov Perry An Idiot — Texas Armpit of America
When America has a dirty industry — one that produces lots of pollution — but makes profits, they call on Texas. Texas is always ready to do whatever it has to, to book profits. The oil and gas industry is dirty and disgusting. Go to Houston. It is a filthy place. No wonder the worst President in America came from Texas — George W Bush. And, no wonder that their current Governor acts like an idiot on a regular basis. Remember when Gov Perry called for Texas to secede? Remember when Gov Perry decline the economic stimulus money — and then accepted it? This stupid, crazy idiot said there was no recession and changed his mind — it’s all a big joke to Governor Perry — supreme idiot.
After First Laughing Off Recession, Gov. Perry Admits ‘This Whole Country’s In A Recession’.
In Texas, zoning laws are for socialists. If you want to build anything on your land, go right ahead. There is no point in zoning. Put up a gas station next to a school. In fact, drill for oil there if you want. In Texas, everything goes.
The death penalty is big in Texas. If you have a minor you want to kill — Texas is your place. How about a mentally ill person — no problem, Texas will happily accommodate.
When you listen to the radio in Texas, you either get a country music station or a right wing talk show. Listen to the people who call in — they will talk about Obama being a socialist, Muslim, or Kenyan. They probably don’t even know what a socialist is — with their creationism 8th grade education. As one Texas person said to me, “If it isn’t in the Bible, I don’t need to know it”. Well, that pretty much sums up the ignorance of millions in Texas.
Texas is football crazy. Bible crazy. Never seen a job it doesn’t want for the state. It is the armpit of America and the mecca for irrational thought and the latest right wing crazy idea.
America is doomed.
Obamathon – It’s Getting Old – Clearly Not Working
President Obama thinks he can slide through his four years with just a lot of talk and little action. He seems to be all over the map with his message. Today he was on five talk shows with the same blah, blah, blah. How the greedy, hate Republicans are winning the day with health care when they literally want people — lots of people — to go without and die is unbelievable.
The TV Watch – A Sunday Morning Obamathon – Five Interviewers, One Message – NYTimes.com.
Are we a country of “me” or “we”. If it is “we” then why do we have a public option for the fire department, police department, and education? Why do we have Social Security and Medicare?
Why don’t we simply eliminate the age restriction of Medicare and declare that anybody can sign up for it if they want? What group is more uninsurable than seniors? It could probably be a one sentence law that everybody would understand. Sure, Medicare isn’t perfect — so let’s have everybody sign up and tweak it so that it is better. Tell Senator Baucus to go fuck himself with his gigantic piece of shit legislation that might as well been written by the medical insurance companies — and this asshole calls himself a Democrat. That piece of shit has gotten millions from the medical insurance companies and is clearly paying them back — again!
America is so completely messed up — in a way that has never happened before. There are not enough jobs and the jobless ranks keep increasing as unemployment — even the lying government figures — goes above 11% in many states. It is probably more like 25% if you count all the underemployed people. Meanwhile, stocks continue higher and Wall Street already has an erection for DOW 10,000. The S&P PE (Price / Earnings) is at 137 — the historical norm is like 14 — this indicates stocks are as much as 10 times overvalued. So, there is another big crash coming. The next time it is going to be much worse because it will be harder to print a few $TRILLIONs. As the dollar crashes against all the world currencies and the Asian markets try to find a way out of all of US Dollars, America is losing big — and quickly.
So, let the old white men in Congress keep taking money from special interests and eventually there will be blood in the streets of America. And yes, President Obama — you will be blamed as well for more talk than action.
America is doomed.
Demise of Newspapers and America
Michael Moore does an excellent job explaining how newspapers slit their own throats. True dat. But American selfishness is also slitting the throat of society.
The important thing about a society which particularly applies to America is that systems are interconnected. If you have a population of poor, uneducated people, they will not be able to survive. If you have a society that privileges the rich, the number of poor will increase. If there is no hope for people to move into the middle class, there will be no middle class. Eventually, society will fail just as many have in history — just as America is failing today.
The interconnected-ness of society if true in every aspect. For example, if people do not have health care then they will get diseases that will be passed through society. If there is no treatment, others will suffer. You will end up building walls around poverty to keep the disease contained — just as they have done in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There is really no alternative to health care for all — at least not in a society that wants to sustain itself and thrive.
But the selfishness of American society is breathtaking. More and more people think they can suppress the disenfranchised and still thrive. They think businesses can grow without a middle class that can consume their products. In fact, the very definition of the middle class is that they have disposable income that can be used on non-essential products. If society is reduced to only essentials then will be no economic growth. This is the reason that essential products should be available to everybody — there is no advantage of a poverty class. In fact, an ever-increasing poverty class will destroy the country. The rich Republicans should think about that when they vote against living wages and essential services for everybody.
America is doomed.
Georgie Bush — The Worse U.S. President Ever — It’s Official
The Bush record is the worse in the country’s history. This arrogant, stupid son of a bitch did a great job at causing pain and despair for millions of Americans — while privileging the rich — and deceiving the religious social conservatives into being against their own self-interests. Call it politics — I call him an evil sociopath.
Closing The Book On The Bush Legacy
While Bush was in office, the median household income declined, poverty increased, childhood poverty increased even more, and the number of Americans without health insurance spiked.
Dear Bush — I know you don’t care about anybody — your policies show that. You only care about keeping your rich buddies rich. Screw everybody else. Even your own wife has been speaking out about how horrible your presidency was. I suspect Laura knows things about you that would even shock me. Bush, do you cry yourself to sleep at night? Do you take your anti-psychotics? Do you long for your Daddy to love you? Bush, you are one screwed up corporation pretending to be a human being.
How this country could elect a George W. Bush is testimony to just how doomed America is. Bush got the U.S. into two wars. Bush watched as the U.S. was attacked and he went and hid. Cheney is the worse Vice President ever — corruption leaks from his every pore. There were so many lies and deception in the Bush administration. Yet, watch the crazy people at these Republican tea parties and they think Bush did a great job.
America is doomed.
Banks Failure Inevitable — Obama Has Accomplished Little
What better example of America Doomed could there be than today’s article from the Washington Post. Even though the federal government poured in $TRILLIONS to banks and financial institutions, these institutions are now bigger and even more vulnerable. Plus, there continues to be thousands of smaller banks which are on the verge of collapse. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve, Treasury, and FDIC are even less equipped to handle the collapse of these financial institutions.
There is no saving America. It is going to collapse — and as they say — great will be the fall. Yet, still people think the capitalism is a system endowed by god as the best way to run the economic affairs of mankind. Just as their belief in fake god, they are equally nuts believing in capitalism which is predominately based on greed — privileging the rich at the expense of everybody else.
Capitalism use to be better when it could produce plenty of jobs — certainly jobs for everybody who needed one. No more — there are just not enough jobs and many jobs can be eliminated or outsourced largely as a result of technology and greed based laws that promote outsourcing. Just as the experts are talking about a job-less recovery — as if there could be a recovery without jobs for ordinary America. What they are talking about is the silly movement on worthless paper as stocks, commodities, financial assets, and derivatives are manipulated. Economics is not just about markets and systems of commerce — it is about ordinary people functioning in the society and supporting themselves — it is about providing food, clothing, housing, education, health care, and transportation to ordinary people.
Obama just doesn’t get what is happening as he wanders off to New York to give another one of his talks to people that are so much into greed, they would rather look at stock charts than care for their families — much less the millions of other countrymen who go without every day. People who cannot get health care or housing or food or education … these are the real Americans who will one day get tired of living in poverty or near poverty and begin to take back the country.
Until then, there will be more people like Obama — saying much — and delivering very little. By any measure, you have to view Obama’s presidency to date as a complete disaster. Sure, lots of great speeches and ideas but in practice very little accomplished — much better than Bush, of course, but Obama still has not affected the lives of ordinary Americans to the extent that the election suggested. He won’t either. He has sold out to the corporate interests — he has drank the kool aid — and he is an embarrassment to his ideals.
America is doomed.
America Disintegrating — One Person At a Time
The NY Times ran a story about how not being able to pay a $10 car registration, sent a woman with a life off a cliff to homeless shelters with harsh realities. America has failed for millions of people already. There is no safety net. There is no help to keep a job with an emergency loan. There is only the harsh reality that without money — money when you need it — millions and millions of people are at risk of losing everything.
As Jobs Are Lost in Recession, So Is the Middle Class – NYTimes.com.
In rich neighborhoods, people drive horribly. There are many reasons for this. First, rich people feel entitled to act like asses and believe their money will buy them out of everything. But also, fines are not punitive for rich people. Run a red light in a rich neighborhood, and it will cost $400 — nothing to a rich person. To a poor person, it can destroy his life. All fines need to be calibrated based on ability to pay. To a poor person, a fine of $10 may be a monumental task. For a rich person, the fine may need to be $100,000 or more to get their attention.
In fact, if everybody paid fines appropriate for their ability to pay, there would be much more justice — and isn’t it justice that we are seeking?
When I read stories about how a $10 fee turns into a $1600 fee and causes a person to lose their job, home, and everything they have worked for, I realize that America is headed for a crash landing soon. How angry could a person be to lose everything over a $10 fee? What might this person do? Take it out on the people who caused it? Take it out on a system that would let a $10 fee translate into a destroyed life?
Well, multiply this by millions, because everyday more and more people are falling between the cracks of America society. A society that makes it clear at every turn, that without plenty of money, you are nobody. You don’t count. Nobody cares about you. There is no safety net. You are on your own and if you don’t play by each and every rule — even the $10 rules — you are risking everything.
This is one reason health care reform is so important. If you get sick enough, you will likely be wiped out. The vast majority of personal bankruptcies are because people got sick and couldn’t pay medical bills. And yes, people are going to get sick but the for profit health insurance companies, love to insure young, health people who don’t make claims. Once you are on the path of serious disease, these same companies will figure out a way to dump you. They are very good at dumping sick people — they excel at that.
I can hear it now from Limbaugh, Palin, Hannity, and a long list of asshole Republicans — well, the woman should have paid the $10 fee — $10 is nothing. Well, it is nothing for people who make millions spreading hate. It is nothing for many people in society, but for some people it is everything as they struggle surviving in a society where it is easy to drop through the cracks and to end up in such an abyss there is no getting out of it.
America is doomed.
Consumer Economy is Dead
Once again, somebody else is lining up behind America Doomed and declaring — this time — the consumer economy is dead. Of course, Wall Street is just cruising around with fake higher prices. The banks got loads of money and ordinary American citizens were fucked again.
A year after financial crisis, the consumer economy is dead | McClatchy.
President Obama needs to get out of his ivory tower and get real — this economy is for shit and it isn’t going to get any better — ditto for health care reform. Rich people are doing great and the rest of the country is in the crapper. Don’t forget — the rich people I speak of include considerable numbers of elected democrats. Let’s call them fake democrats — people who claim they are for the ordinary Americans but are only for policies that enrich corporations. Like Bush — a corporation pretending to be a person. Well, there are plenty of clones of that in Congress.
Michael Moore is right — American capitalism is about greed — it is dead — nobody has enough sense to bury the failed policies of the past. Instead, the Federal Reserve, Congress, Treasury, and even Obama keep trying to prop up a disaster — and one that will continue to get worse. Either the country wakes up or the ordinary citizens will have no other choice than to take their plight to the streets of America.
America is doomed.
Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” — Capitalism — Only a Mother Could Love Such a Bastard
Michael Moore is a great film maker, American, and humanitarian — now he has another great film — about my favorite subject — failed capitalism.
Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” Premieres In Venice To Great Reviews.
There is no doubt that American capitalism has failed — the private system has not created any net new jobs for the last 10 years — millions of jobs were even lost in the current financial crisis — these jobs are not coming back. It will take decades to just get back to the employment levels prior to this current crisis — not even accounting for the population growth.
America needs an entirely new economic model. The current one rewards greed and corruption to privilege the few at the expense of the many. Many people, increasing all the time, with full time jobs cannot survive in this economy. Young people cannot find jobs even after getting a high quality and expensive education. America is literally witnessing a melt down in the political and social fabric of the country.
Meanwhile, Republicans are the party of the status quo — no, no, no to any proposals. They don’t want to change anything because they are already rich and comfortable. The Republicans who are not rich are either stupid or religious — and frequently both.
If health care reform fails to truly reform a dysfunctional system, there will be an even greater outcry from the streets. There will be marches on Washington DC and every other large city in the country. People understand the consequences of no health care reform and they are going to be pissed. The Republicans are so stupid they think this will be a great victory to defeat health care reform.
America is doomed.
Working Families — More Food Stamps — Wages Drop — More Unemployment
America is having a “jobless recovery” — this absurd little phrase is the latest rich people idea of economic prosperity. So, with the headline unemployment rate at 9.7% which is a total deception, the real unemployment rate some say is near 17% but likely closer to 25%. Now, even the employed are so poorly paid, they are turning to food stamps for survive.
US families turn to food stamps as wages drop.
Let the country complain about socialism; however, make no mistake America is heading there at a rapid rate. When people cannot make enough wages to support themselves and have to turn to food stamps, this is clearly socialism. What is the alternative? Let them starve to death? Clearly, this would be just fine with the privilege, greedy and rich in America but as the numbers continue to increase among the poor, socialism is the solution.
At some point there will be minimum laws — minimum housing, food, health care and transportation. We need these laws now. But there is a last ditch effort to avert minimum health care as the Republicans try to keep the greedy, for profit health insurance industry — the very industry who literally kills people every day, in every significant city in America.
Obama’s Wednesday health care speech will be an opportunity for him to do something big. If I was him, I would point out how dysfunctional Congress has been with health care reform. I would say that enough is enough and propose a simple Medicare For All plan. It will be a very simple proposal — let anybody sign up for original Medicare that wants to. Let people keep their for profit private health insurance companies if they want. But, also let anybody sign up for Medicare who wants to. Everybody knows what will happen — Americans without insurance and millions and millions of people with health insurance will seek out Medicare. Meanwhile, original Medicare will get better — private health insurance will go away. The only real solution to health care is government run single payer insurance.
Let the greedy Republicans scream all they want. As the unemployed numbers increase, as the number of people on food stamps increase, the greedy rich will have to get more and more extreme. More crazies will emerge from the right with their stupid ideas about guns, religion and survivalism.
America is doomed.