Eat the Rich

July 24, 2009

It's been a while.

Wake Up Bovine Brains!

The insurnace and pharma companys are taking every dime you've got, and giving you mediocre coverge and overly expensive medications in return. And the sad fact is that you will continue to take it and take it and take it, totally unconcerned that you are only one paycheck away from having the electric hammer that is poised over your head, crack your skull open like the watermelon it is.

In other words, get off your ass and get mad! Turn off “Dancing with the American Idle” and get involved. This country is in BIG trouble and needs your help.

Your elected officials are a dead from the neck up lot who will maintain the status quo and change the way business is done in Washington ONLY if you make them. So make them change the healthcare system to work for you.

Your kids, my kids are going to drown in this healthcare mess unless we do somehting about it. I'm not ready to give up on what we can do here. I don't want to leave America to the greedy. But it's time for you to do something too, and I mean NOW.

Do you really want to be remembered as the American generation of lazy ass sons of bitchs who let it all slip away?

It's time you stopped measuring your dick by the car you drive or the watch you wear, and started acting like an adult.

More rants to come.

November 4, 2008

THANK YOU AMERICA!!

and Sarah....
thanks, but no thanks.

Face Facts! americans do NOT live in a democracy.

Our lives are run by the rich. It's their world. We’re just living in it.

There was a time when there was at least an attempt to create the appearance that with wealth and power came responsibility. But now, even that illusion is gone.

You have only to look at the present occupant of the Whitehouse to understand how truly corrupt we have let our government become under the influence of the all-mighty dollar. George Bush is merely symptomatic of the undercurrent that pervades the wealthiest class in America. Or, as George has called them, "the haves, and have more."

These people are addicted to money, and they will step over your burning corpse to get more. Need an example? How about a useless war with IRAQ that was never about anything but a desire for more, more oil, more money, more power.

I could spend hours enumerating the abuses and downright criminal actions of this administration; but it really does not matter what party is in office. The upshot is this — you are totally screwed if you are not part of the top one percent of American money.

We are living in a culture motivated by greed. There are no patriots in the boardroom. It's all about the Benjamins. American corporations buy their way into the government by way of K Street, and then move, what can't be sheltered, off-shore to avoid taxes and save on paying a decent wage to the American worker.

It's time you realize that these people do not even want to share the road or even the same sidewalk with you. They just want you to clean up after them, then have you go away.

So what can you do about it? Not much. For the simple reason that the vast majority of the people in this country are really, really, stupid; which goes along way towards explaining why things are the way they are. You can never change the rich. You can only eat them.

As long as greed can keep fear in your heart, you cannot change the world.

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In 1945 corporations paid 35.4% of the federal tax levy. Today they pay 7.4%.

The U.S. Senate voted 57 to 42 to reject an amendment to a bill that would have raised the minimum hourly wage from $5.15 to $6.25.

It has been 10 years since the Senate last raised the minimum wage. Over the same period, U.S. senator’s own annual saleries have increased by $28,000.

by the way...
Since 1900 the Dow Jones Industrial has seen an average annual return of 13.3% under Democratic presidents, and 6.9% under Republicans. A $10 investment would have grown to nearly $280 under Democrats and just $79 under the Republicans.

Two studies conducted by the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy say the chief executives of corporations making big profits from the war on terror enjoy far bigger pay increases than CEOs of non-defense companies. It focused on the pay of the CEOs of the 34 publicly traded U.S. corporations that were among the top 100 defense contractors in 2005.

The study finds that, on average, CEOs of corporations with extensive defense contracts are making double what they did before Sept. 11, 2001. During the same period, CEOs of large corporations without big stakes in the war have averaged pay gains of 6 percent.

The two groups calculated the pay packages based on salary, bonuses, stock awards, long-term incentives and the value of stock options exercised in any given year.

by the way...
Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, has won contracts worth more than $1.7 billion under Operation Iraqi Freedom and stands to make hundreds of millions more dollars under a no-bid contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to newly available documents.

The size and scope of the government contracts awarded to Halliburton in connection with the war in Iraq are significantly greater than was previously disclosed and demonstrate the U.S. military's increasing reliance on for-profit corporations to run its logistical operations. Independent experts estimate that as much as one-third of the monthly $3.9 billion cost of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq is going to independent contractors.

The Census Bureau reported that 37 million Americans were living under the poverty line last year, and the number of people without health insurance increased to 46.6 million in 2005. About 45.3 million people were without insurance the year before. The last decline in the poverty rate was in 2000, during the Clinton administration, when it dropped to 11.3 percent.

by the way...
Children represent a disproportionate share of the poor in the United States; they are 25 percent of the total population, but 35 percent of the poor population. In 2004, 13 million children, or 17.8 percent, were poor.

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Ford plans to slash 10,000 white-collar jobs and offer early retirement and buyout packages to all of its 75,000 hourly workers.

The new cuts would reduce Ford’s total North American work force by 29 percent, from about 130,000 now to about 92,000 by the end of 2008. The salaried job cuts represent about a third of that work force.

It also plans to close two more plants — bringing the total to 16 since a restructuring plan was first announced in January.

by the way...
Miles per Gallon of a:
1908 Ford Model T: 13 city, 21 highway
2006 Ford Explorer: 15 city, 21 highway

“Were dealing with the world as it is — not as it was 10 years ago,”
Mark Fields,
President, Ford Motor Co.

Exxon Mobil, the world's biggest oil company, said that its net income rose 36 percent in the second quarter of 2006 to $10.4 billion, soundly beating Wall Street forecasts. That all adds up to a net profit of $1,318 every second. It is the second biggest profit ever reported by a U.S. company, behind only the $10.7 billion Exxon itself earned in the fourth quarter of 2005.

by the way...
Shell Oil, ranked third after BP, said that its profit jumped 40 percent to $7.32 billion. Both companies exceeded analysts' expectations.

In March the Alaska region's largest oil accident on record sent hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude pouring into the Arctic Ocean after a badly corroded BPO pipeline ruptured.

One reason for the spill could have been that no one was in charge to do anything about proper maintenance. The job of BP’s senior corrosion engineer had been left unfilled for more than a year, according to an internal company audit.

Meanwhile...
BP posted a $7.3 billion second-quarter profit, a 30 percent increase from last year despite reduced output and rising costs.

The former head of pipeline-corrosion monitoring for BP in Alaska, Robert C. Woollam, who was transferred to BP's Houston offices amid concerns that he intimidated potential whistleblowers, invoked the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution in refusing to answer all questions about his role at B.P. from a U.S. House subcommittee.

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Bankrolled almost entirely by taxpayers, President Bush is roaming far and wide on Air Force One to help Republicans retain control of Congress and capture statehouse contests in high-stakes midterm elections.

In 15 months, including back-to-back fundraisers Wednesday in Little Rock, Ark., and Nashville, Tenn., Bush has collected $166 million for the campaign accounts of 27 Republican candidates, the national GOP and its state counterparts across the country, according to the Republican National Committee.

High-dollar Washington galas headlined by the fundraiser-in-chief brought in a big share of the total. The president also has scooped up campaign cash in 36 cities, travels that have taken him as near as McLean, Va., in the Washington suburbs and as far as Medina, Wash., 2,800 miles to the west.

All this to-and-fro presidential politicking is only expected to increase as November draws closer. And it is the taxpayers, not the campaigns or political parties, who foot most of the travel bill.