Category Archives: CONgress
ALL FOR ONE & ONE FOR ONE
CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE, TOO. THAT’S CASE LAW IN THE UNITED STATES. SO, THAT DEGRADES ME, A PERSON, TO THE STATUS OF A ‘LAW CREATED’ ENTITY OR, UPGRADES AN ENTITY TO THE STATUS OF A HUMAN BEING.
WHEN IT IS CONVENIENT, A CORPORATION IS A PERSON, AND WHEN IT’S NOT, THEY AREN’T BUT, THE LAW SAYS THEY ARE, EXCEPT WHEN THEY’RE NOT.
COULD IT BE THAT, CASE LAW IS TAINTED BY, POLITICS? NO, WE WOULD NEVER ALLOW THAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
THIS IS VERY CONFUSING. DO I PAY A CORPORATE TAX OR, INDIVIDUAL TAX? DOES THE CORPORATION PAY AS AN INDIVIDUAL? ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE?
TO THINK, THESE PEOPLE NEVER SHOW UP TO VOTE BUT, THEY DO VOTE.
WE CONTINUE TO ALLOW FOR THIS. WE CONTINUALLY ALLOW FOR THOSE ‘PEOPLE’ TO HAVE THE EAR OF OUR REPRESENTATIVES EVEN AS WE DON’T. ‘THOSE PEOPLE’ DON’T HAVE TO VOTE. THEY HAVE REGISTERED THEIR VIEWS WITH LARGE CAMPAIGN DONATIONS WHICH THEY PREVENT, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE FROM BEING OFFERED BY, REAL PEOPLE.
HOW DO CORPORATIONS DO THAT? TREAT LABOR AS SLAVES UNDER THE SLAVE DRIVEN, ‘EMPLOYMENT AT WILL‘ LAWS. DON’T ALLOW THEM TO SHARE ENOUGH OF A CORPORATION’S PROFIT, THEY HELPED TO BUILD, TO MAKE ANY SIZABLE CAMPAIGN DONATION.
GREED IS A TRAIT WE MAY ALL HAVE TO SOME DEGREE BUT, ‘THOSE PEOPLE’ HAVE LOTS MORE. THE PROFITS SHOWN ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL UNLESS, THEY ARE CONTINUALLY GOING UP. THAT IS, AT ALL COSTS, THE NUMBERS MUST BE IMPROVED, DAY TO DAY, YEAR TO YEAR. NEVER MIND, THE CORPORATION WAS PROFITABLE YEAR TO YEAR BUT, THE PROFIT MUST FOREVER BE MOVING UPWARD.
MOST OFTEN, THE CORPORATIONS REWARD THOSE MOST, AT THE TOP OF THEIR HIERARCHY. A CEO MAKES MILLIONS WHILE THOSE IN THE LABOR FORCE MAKE ENDS MEET.
THOSE AT THE TOP OF THE HIERARCHY MAY BE DISMISSED FOR A JOB POORLY DONE BUT, MANY TIMES THEIR RICH CONTRACTS ARE ‘BOUGHT OUT’ BY, THE CORPORATION AT A PREMIUM.
WHO PAYS FOR THAT PREMIUM BUY-OUT? THE LABOR FORCE AS THE CORPORATION MUST GET IT FROM SOMEWHERE IN THE FORM OF WAGE FREEZES, AND BENEFIT REDUCTIONS. IF IT MEANS DELETING PART OF THE LABOR FORCE THAT CREATED THE PROFIT, SO BE IT. THEY ARE NOT ABOUT TO LOSE ANY PROFITABLE STATUS OVER SOMETHING AS TRIVIAL AS THIS.
LET’S ADD THIS ALL UP. YOU GO TO WORK, DO A GOOD JOB, AN EXCELLENT JOB, AND RECEIVE A WAGE FREEZE. THE CEO SOMETIMES GOES TO WORK, DOES A POOR JOB, AND GIVEN SOMETIMES MILLIONS ON DEPARTURE.
CORPORATIONS MAKE FOR STUPID PEOPLE IF, THEY ARE TO BE CONSIDERED AS PEOPLE. THEY CONTINUALLY WONDER WHY, THERE IS ORGANIZED LABOR, AND CAMPAIGN ACTIVELY WITH THEIR REPRESENTATIVES IN CONgress TO DESTROY ORGANIZED LABOR.
CORPORATIONS HAVE PUT THE WORD OUT TO THEIR REPRESENTATIVES DESIRING STRONGER ANTI-LABOR LAWS, AND THE CAMPAIGN FELL IN TO A ‘GO MODE’ AS A NEW, STRONGER SET OF ‘RIGHT TO WORK’ LAWS ARE POISED FOR DEBATE IN SEVERAL STATES WITH INDIANA BEING THE LATEST RECIPIENT OF ANTI-LABOR LEGISLATION.
WE CONTINUE TO ALLOW THIS, AND ‘THOSE PEOPLE’ ARE WONDERING WHY WE AREN’T GRATEFUL IN THE LABOR FORCE. WHO REIGNS AS MORE STUPID?
THERE’S AN OPPORTUNITY HERE FOR THE RIGHT PEOPLE WILLING TO LOOK FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY, WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE. AN OPPORTUNITY TO ELEVATE FROM WHERE WE SIT.
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BREAKING THE BROKE & BROKEN
OCCUPY WALL STREET CONTINUES TO OCCUPY, AND THE BROKE, AND BROKEN CONTINUE BREAKING.
THE OCCUPIERS HAVE THEIR OPPONENTS. THE OPPONENTS ARE, AND HAVE BEEN FOR YEARS ECHOING ONE SENTIMENT. IT IS THE ONE WE INDOCTRINATE OUR YOUNGEST CHILDREN WITH, FROM GRADE SCHOOL FORWARD. WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY TRAINED THEM TO BELIEVE, THEY LIVE IN THE GREATEST FREE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
THE UNITED STATES WAS BUILT ON THAT PREMISE BUT, WE HAVE NOT MAINTAINED THE PROMISE OF THE PREMISE. THAT IS WHY OCCUPY WALL STREET IS OUT THERE. THEY, ALONG WITH MUCH OF THE POPULATION WANT RESTORATION.
IT IS THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT THAT HAS CHIPPED AWAY AT OUR BASIC MODEL. THEY HAVE VEERED FROM WHAT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE, TO SOMETHING ELSE FAR FROM WHAT THE FOUNDERS HAD INTENDED.
SOME, WHO ARE THE ROBOT THINKERS OF OUR SOCIETY WANT EVERYONE BACK TO THAT GRADE SCHOOL INDOCTRINATION. THEY ARE INCENSED THAT YOU WOULD SAY ANYTHING OR, BELIEVE ANYTHING OTHER THAN THAT. TO THEM, WE ARE UN-AMERICAN. TO THEM, TO SUPPORT ANY POLITICAL PARTY OTHER THAN THEIRS, IS ALSO UN-AMERICAN.
OUR FOUNDER’S PAPERS, ALSO KNOWN AS THE U.S. CONSTITUTION IS DIVERSE TO THAT THOUGHT. IN FACT, IT SAYS, TO THE BOTTOM LINE, FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, AND PROTEST IS, AN AMERICAN RIGHT, THE AMERICAN WAY. THE RIGHT TO EXPRESS YOUR THOUGHTS REGARDING THE GOVERNMENT IS A MECHANISM TO KEEP THE GOVERNMENT FROM OVERREACHING, AND PREVENTING THE ULTIMATE RIGHTS GIVEN IN THE CONSTITUTION.
THE ROBOT THINKERS WOULD RATHER KEEP THEIR MINDS BURIED IN THE SAND. AFTER ALL, THIS IS THE UNITED STATES. JUST BECAUSE IT’S THE UNITED STATES, NOTHING’S WRONG. NOTHING WILL EVER GO WRONG, AND NOTHING NEEDS TO BE FIXED. IT IS, ACCORDING TO THEM, ALL THE REASONING YOU NEED TO KEEP YOUR MOUTHS SHUT. SOUNDS DICTATORIAL, AND VERY MUCH, UN-AMERICAN.
ALL OF THAT SAID, THE ROBOTS HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO FEEL AS THEY DO, AND SAY SO WITH ALL THE FERVOR THEY CAN MUSTER. IT IS, AFTER ALL, THE UNITED STATES.
THANK YOU TO THE ROBOTS, OCCUPY WALL STREET, AND ANYBODY ELSE WHO SPEAKS UP FOR KEEPING US ADVISED.
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THEY’RE TRYING TO KILL THE INTERNET
……Land of the free. That’s what we teach our kids from grade school, on up. They grow up, pretty comfortable, only to find CONgress hard at work defending that freedom (insert sarcastic laughter, here.)
Your CONgress cannot get their own house in order. Unemployment, Economy, Housing, etc. You know, little things. So, why even try? Go for something else, like killing off the internet as we know it. It is a comfort zone where information flows freely.
Your CONgress is going after that internet comfort zone. They are going to fight freedom of information in the name of Copyright justice. Congress can’t get control of important issues so, in the name of copyright, taking precedence over freedom, they will attempt a grab at control of information via the internet.
The United States already has sufficient Copyright Laws with prescribed penalties for violation. Enforce what exists, that’s why the law is there.
If the concern was truly with copyright, and how to protect it, a review of the current law would be in order. According to some of the ‘Related Articles’ below, the law may be based on false premise, unconstitutional, and that needs more attention than, the band-aid involving the internet, CONgress is proposing..
Why be so concerned over copyright law? Campaign dollars. Lots of them. They will argue it’s all about copyright law but, the legislation does much more by, letting Congress in to control the information. Controlling information is the first step to an efficient dictatorship.
The scales of justice, according to CONgress, tip favorably with copyright law being so much more important than, a silly principle like freedom. Freedom is a nice word but, bottom line, just a word to CONgress. If I was wrong, they couldn’t, and wouldn’t even consider this legislation.
Where does that put Microsoft, and GoDaddy? They have contributed most to legislators supporting these bills. One by percentage, and the other by, dollar amount. Both companies came out publicly against the legislation.
For those in both Houses of Congress aching for the passage of this anti-American legislation, you are demonstrating just how stupid we are for voting somebody equally as stupid in to office. Bundle it!
Don’t get to work on employment, the economy, housing or, anything trivial like that. Throw in a pornography bill with this internet bill. Oh, wait, we have pornography laws. Just trying to help. Bundle it with toothbrush design legislation. You can’t be faulted for voting on a toothbrush. Tell everybody, you couldn’t vote against a toothbrush. It is toothbrush legislation, and it had that other thing with the internet, attached. Come on, get in sync!
When CONgress is in session, It is usually pretty scary because, in the back of my head, I wonder what part of what used to be the United States are they chipping away at, now? What are they taking away, now….in the name of freedom, of course. How are they making the average wage earner’s life more difficult? It is what CONgress does, it’s what we allow them to do.
When do we finally put a stop to it? When do they truly have to become representatives in the true sense of the word? When we begin to change recall laws, making it easier to vote a representative who isn’t doing the job, out of office. Right now!
They need a surprise. Out, now. No, not November, right now……good-bye. When we get to that point in real life, we will have taken back our government for the people, internet in tact.
A couple of the many major web sites, off the net and/or with limited functionality to protest this proposed, brutal anti-American, anti-Internet legislation include our own WordPress, and Wikipedia.
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WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO…….
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? Your American citizenship via the U.S. Constitution.
Life is open to interpretation but, in this case, it is your interpretation of life. Your life. Not, life as you see fit for all. Each individual has a right to their life.
Liberty. Freedom to follow the life you envision for yourself without interference from your neighbor or, your government.
Pursuit of Happiness. Happiness belongs to the individual, and you have a right to be happy. The pursuit is the right, and the result is up to the individual. It clearly identifies the government to be a non-impeding factor of your pursuit.
Each of these tenets were meant for each individual American citizen.
We have allowed public opinion to dictate through our government what the boundaries will be for all. We have become the judge, and the jury. The dictators. You have those basic rights as long as you fall within the boundaries.
Those scoffing may ask, do we then have a free for all? The answer is no. You cannot blatantly deprive someone of their individual rights but, there has to be some rules governing societal behavior. Therein, to the extreme may lie a conflict.
Liberty is complete freedom but, if you have 100% freedom, each individual with criminal intent must be allowed their freedom. If that’s true, and we disallow their success, have we infringed on their rights? Truly, this is an extreme to illustrate a point.
In the end, there must be some boundary on societal behavior, and those outside the boundary will be infringed upon. In the original Virginia draft, a seldom mentioned right to safety exists.
So, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness are somewhat limited, and possibly conflicting. They have to be, and careful reading of the entire Constitution describes a necessary prescription for the possible conflicts on the surface.
Each time CONgress presents new legislation it, is usually a limitation. One more infringement on individuals, and their rights. CONgress has taken a right of infringement on each of us every time they enact a new law. They have taken their rights, and responsibility too seriously as they recklessly micro-manage this country in every aspect which was not the intent of the Founding Fathers.
It was the intent that, we do not suppress religion nor, does the government take a position of promoting religion except, that we do have the right to believe as we wish.
It was never the intent that government step in to the morality of issues like, abortion. Only that they are, safe, and sanitary as all health care. Otherwise, it would be between an individual, and a health care professional. There are aspects that we do not understand of the individuals involved, and have no right to become the Google of their very private issues.
In religious context, I understand there is only ONE judge, and if that’s so, who are you to pronounce judgement? Pronouncing judgement of your own accord puts you in a group of the non-believing, distrustful, and unfaithful.
Today, government has run way over their boundaries giving us case law to govern every step, and every breath taken by, each individual. The last few decades have been an exercise in unnecessary control. A part of business law illustrates the point.
How does America get back to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
CONgress must have members who subscribe to those rights, and not the rights of who can contribute most to their electoral campaigns. A group of real Americans who will pursue a de-legislating session to cut all unnecessary laws impeding those rights. A group who understands the only road to these rights is a minimum of legislation as necessary for society to act in a respectful manner toward one, another.
Occupy Wall Street?
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CARNIVAL SPORTS SEASON BEGINS
Tis the season…..Time for all Presidential candidates to sound Presidential an
d, risk being exposed for who they might or, might not be in real life.
This is going to be another merry-go-round!
Herman Cain was doing well until, he seemed to be exposed in more ways than one. Others have had items strewn through the arena, as the same team researches their opponents, on the same team, who disagree but, deep down really agree. However, they will say whatever they have to say to become the team’s lead off hitter.
It is America’s team sport. It’s not like the NFL, not like MLB but, a sport that goes beyond both. American politics. I call ‘em as I see them.
Many of us, don’t care enough to fix our system. Otherwise, this would be much more than team sports. It isn’t. We allow for lots of trash talking until, finally someone from one team who has obviously trash talked his or, her opponents on the same team the most, emerges as the best of the worst. We settle. As usual. Democrats, Republicans one in the same.
We laugh, and sigh with hope, knowing in reality that hope has no basis, here. If the last five decades is a licensed teacher for understanding, many testaments will arise for fixing the system. In reality, according to those making promises, and offering hope once arriving to take their elected post, will do a little back pedaling proclaiming, ‘there is no quick fix.’
Really? Again? Should have known. Not in my lifetime. But, what if, just once we dismiss the teacher because hope is still better. What if, just once we don’t settle for this teacher of experience, and instead make hope the new teacher. Why, not?
You see, the system goes nowhere from here without the consensus of the big money ‘vote’ buyers. The buck stops there. Wait! There are laws. Can’t do that, anymore. CONgress had to come clean with laws against lobbyists.
I’m sure glad about that. The big money was stripped from the game? Hardly. CONgress did write, and pass some new laws regarding the biggest money influences. An admission that, things weren’t right, and they were guilty of being bought. Otherwise, why the laws?
Well…..they needed to keep the general public at bay. The new laws did not forbid lobbying, and the residuals it provided. Only made for a different mode of accomplishment but, it can be done.
The reason so many people in high places scoff at Occupy Wall Street is, the core of the group is much too close, realizes all of this, and has had enough.
So, those in high places scoff out of fear knowing if ‘Occupy’ gets further, the ferris wheel will move them from the top to the bottom, the ride will be over, and they’ll have to get out. Lights out, carnival, over!
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CHOICE TO FAIL OR,………NOT
Dwell upon a failure, call it by its’ rightful name, and keep it for your own.
I have no intention of dwelling, and saving though I have easily had many that qualify.
Despite forces having a stake in my failures, I have every intent to succeed. To my dieing day, I expect to succeed, and will succeed. I am bent on success. Not only can it happen, it will. It’s a matter of when.
Failing lends much impetus to my intent to succeed, and since I have failed more than once I have much power to deal with my greatest success ahead of me.
So, with the Clowns of CONgress planting seeds in the class warfare contest to see me fail, I scoff at your temporary success of watching me fail. When the time is just right, this power I possess for success will far supersede any prescription from Washington for my failure.
I will not only join the frat the Clowns of CONgress, and their playmates wish to deny me membership but, I will own the frat along with 99% of the population who will welcome the other 1% for a just, and equal opportunity for success.
Damn scary for you members of the frat, isn’t it?
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PORTFOLIO STOCKS EATEN BY CLOWNS
Where are the stocks in my 401k portfolio? Where’d they go? The Clowns of CONgress had my portfolio stocks for lunch.
The Clowns of CONgress, acting on direction from rich friends in the biz have decided it is in their best interest to keep me, and others like me from joining the frat. Best way to do it? Put up a smokescreen, a decoy. Don’t change anything. The frat to CONgress: ‘We’ve got ours, here’s more for you, and we want more.’
Start pointing fingers! Spend all the time that could be used to do something to do nothing except…..blame! Focus on their focus. Elect a clown from your ‘team’ to replace the clown on the other team. Dems to replace Repubs, and Repubs to replace Dems. We’ll get a whole new group that will finally, get something done. Just like we did this time. Stop laughing! This is serious!
The sadness? It is very serious, and the best we can do is make it a team sport. No matter who comprises the teams, we always get the same result. It remains our Clowns of Congress turning cartwheels for those who can afford to pay for a performance.
Perhaps we could get a hit song reprisal by, Shirley Ellis to commemorate the event. How about, ‘The Blame Game?’ A long overdue follow-up to ‘The Name Game.’ Chubby Checker ‘twisted, again.’
If I, and people like me just want to be able to pay for our own retirement, and actually able to do so, it would somehow be less for them. It is best that our group is kept in its’ place. Nobody gets out. Otherwise, power, and control over our group is lost.
I sold my portfolio at open, today. So far, a wise move on my part, and to the Clowns of Congress; Enjoy your lunch!
To the true artists of Clowning, you have my respect, and I apologize.
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HOOP DAY
Today, we will visit several medical entities where dollars are due but, since there are no dollars that I can come up with, we will be jumping through hoops to find out where, and how I might come up with the dollars of desire that these medical entities would like to put in their coffers.
I was thinking perhaps we could pay it all off if, there is anything left in my 401k. It won’t be good enough. These people see the magic being worked by, the Clowns of Congress. They know there won’t be a balance in my 401k. That could happen as soon as today. They took a big chunk in 2008, and they’re about to take the rest
Well, I’ve got to go do what I can to save whatever is left in the account. Put it in ‘Money Market’ for the moment.
The pay-off? I’m not too sure. Keep it in a low yielding, Money Market fund til the wind blows itself out then, look one more time as in 2008 for some bargain stocks ravaged by, the wind.
Above all, allegiance to your political party as the Republicans, and Democrats attempt to do nothing for the United States, again like they always do.
It is that allegiance that gives them a free pass, over, and over to mutilate this country. Thank you.
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