September 2009 archive

We know what we want.

Economic justice and opportunity, full equality for all, fair markets, fair elections, good Health Care for all, good education for all, a fair and equal system of justice, Peace. And a habitable planet.

What do Republicans want? Which is to say, what do the Republicans who have power want….not the good people, the poor middle and lower class chumps they con into voting for them want. Those poor chumps want about the same thing we want. IF it doesn’t cost them anything to have Economic justice and opportunity, full equality for all, fair markets, fair elections, good Health Care for all, good education for all, a fair and equal system of justice, and peace, they are all for it!

But how about the powerful Republicans, and the Reactionary Republicans of the Lower and Middle Class? You know, the ones in unruly mobs trying to shout people down in places like Town Halls….and Congress.

What do they want?

They want all those things too….IF you take out the “for all” part.

They want to make sure that THEY have all those things for themselves. And they feel they have to deny them to others in order to have them.

Republicans want an economic system that benefits those who already have money, The Ruling Class, because for the most part they are the Ruling Class. They fear that if there IS true economic equality and opportunity….they will lose. Because they know the current system is built on advantages for them that allowed them to win in the first place. Every advance in economic equality levels the playing field, and most of them made their money off of having an uneven playing field. Where a lot of folks didn’t even get to play until recently.

Republicans want equality for the people they look like, because they feel they can trust those who they look like. They are afraid of people that don’t look or act like them. They are afraid of them because they have spent their lives on that unequal playing field and are worried that folks who aren’t like them might not only do better than they do on a level playing field….but deep down in their tiny little hearts they are afraid that the “Others” will catch on to the fact that they DID get what they have as a result of an unlevel playing field. And that they might decide to take it back.

Republicans want fair markets too, as long as those fair markets still benefit them….as they have always done. They are, when pressed, willing to admit that perhaps markets need to be regulated. They are, after a bit of a tussle, just fine with that….as long as they get to write the regulations.

And of course Republicans want fair elections! republicans are all for fair elections…..if they win them.

September 1, 2009.

Bought a new unlimited MetroCard. $89 gets me all the subway and busrides I want for 30 days. Sweet. Expensive, but sweet.

Got me something else today too.

Look what’s on the flip.  

Love thy neighbor as you love yourself.

And while you are at it, do a better job of loving yourself!

Do not kill your neighbor.

Do not torture your neighbor.

Do not steal from your neighbor (especially his oil!)

Do not invade your neighbor’s country to steal her oil.

Do not loot your neighbor’s 401k.

Do not charge your neighbor excessive interest rates on her credit card.

Do not deceive your neighbor into a mortgage you know they cannot afford.

Do not deny your neighbor Health Care.

Do not deny your neighbor’s equality, in fact work for it. Because it is your equality you are really working for.

Do not deny your neighbor an equal chance to thrive and prosper because of the color of his skin, her religion, or their sexual orientation.

Do not deny your neighbor’s children a good education.

Do not attempt to make your religious beliefs part of your neighbors education.

Corporations are not human beings.

Money is not speech.

He who has the gold is NOT a good way to determine who makes the rules.

“If you can’t take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in the Legislature”

Since very few humans CAN take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and vote against ’em anyway, the Public should finance elections, so they can’t give politicians their money, whiskey and sexual favors in order to buy our government.

Greed is NOT good.

There are no luggage racks on hearses.

He who dies with the most toys…..is dead.

The earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth.

We are not a bunch of different races and tribes who need to kill each other to survive. We are  a bunch of different tribes and races who need to become THE Human Race to survive.

The survival of the Human Race is more important than your Hummer.

Might does NOT make right.

War is bad for children and other living things.

You are a child of the Universe, you have a right to be here.

God, Goddess, the FSM or Charles Darwin ….love YOU.

Every human life is important.

Every human is entitled to a modicum of dignity.

Dignity includes a warm place to sleep, something to eat, water to drink and bathe in, clothes on your back and a way to EARN those things. And not having to fear capricious government or law enforcement…and yes…Health Care.

Dennis Kucinich is still going strong, fortunately.  July 21st, during a meeting of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, he questioned Neil M. Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), about interest payments made to banks that keep their TARP funds and other government (taxpayer) bailout money with the Federal Reserve, instead of making loans to struggling Americans (the original intent of the TARP). The Fed is making generous interest payments to these banks for putting their excess reserves within Fed control.  

Oh, that Federal Reserve.  We can’t audit it, we can’t know who the major investors are, and we sure as hell can’t get in the way of their decision making.  Timmy Geithner said as much recently, “Audting the Federal Reserve is a line we don’t want to cross”, says Timmy.  He goes on to say that “we need to keep politics out of monetary policy”, and “we need to preserve what the Federal Reserve does independent of politics”.  That layed the groundwork for the completely explanatory statement: “it would be problematic to the country if you let politicians come in to shape monetary policy for the country”.

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I don’t know Timmy.  Seems to me the politicians represent us people.  And monetary policy seems pretty important, especially now, with the trillions given to banks and the jobs taken from the citizens.  You think it is problematic for we the people to know and be involved with what the fuck is going on with our monetary policy?  That just doesn’t make sense Timmy.  You’re better than that dude!  Maybe not though.  

So at least Dennis is still on the attack.  He explained how the purpose and application of the TARP funds has gone from “keeping people in their homes”, to “bailing out the banks to direct capital infusion”, to “the Fed paying banks not to use their excess capital to make loans”, i.e., the ole bait and switch.    

Ya, the Fed is up to something.  What monetary policy requires the tightening of credit?  It doesn’t seem to help small businesses and the average consumer.  It appears to be some kind of manipulation for the benefit of the few.  Are we headed for more deflation, inflation, or even stagflation?  Only the Federal Reserve knows for sure.  Because Timmy says it is best we don’t know.