103587 by John Borowski on 9/30 at 4:31 am

Hate to say this Mr.Borowski, but you have posted a rather simplistic, very partisan view of the “trouble.”  There are those who bemoan the “feminism” which allowed women the “freedom” to go out and pursue careers. I’m not one of those. Are you? 

There are those who bemoan the fact that the upper standard for building a new house in 1950 was to have a Two Car garage, it is now a four car garage. I’m not one of those. Are you?

There are those who bemoan the fact that most (more than 50%) of the US families of the 1950’s had one car.  More than 75$ of US families today have more than two cars. Is this a good thing? Personally, I’ll allow the people with more than one car decide this. I have 2, but one is a 1963 Buick which I drive only for pleasure in the summer. It has a bay in my two car barn.

The average floor area of a new home in 1950 was 2000 sq feet. The average home today is twice that.  The average family in 1950 was 5 people, the average family today is 3.5 people. The Beav shared a room with his brother, and Rickey shared a room with David.  Today TV children all have their “own space” but we still tell them “learn to share.”

Sorry, but the Republicans didn’t do this.  The right-wing xtians Think a woman should stay home barefoot and pregnant. Many conservatives believe “a woman’s place is in the home. I’m not one of those. Are you?

You know, come to think about it, you’re pretty prejudiced for a “liberal”  But then again I never heard you say you are a liberal, so maybe you are not. Maybe you are just a self-hating conservative doing penance.

A while back there was a comment by a participant lamenting the fact that milk wasn’t delivered to our homes anymore. The milk companies discovered that if they left the milk on your doorstep it would spoil because no one was home to put it in the refrigerator. They sent it to stores so that it would be refrigerated properly. No one home, who is caring for the children, (The juvenile delinquents on your block are helping out). Where are the parents? Both of them are working because they are up to their “bippies” in debt and sentenced to life in the debt prison. Because the Republicans (Aka Conservative right-wingers) cut their overtime pay, they are suckered into part-time jobs. How can this be, the Republicans (Aka Conservative right-wingers) are cutting the working man’s taxes? Depending on the working man’s salary the Republicans (Aka Conservatives right-wingers) gave him 3 to seventeen cents a day and for the rich two hundred and forty seven thousand dollars. If the families are so rich why are they both working?  They are desperately trying to have the same standard of living their mothers and fathers had when the Do-Good Liberals were in office and taxing and taxing. In them days the father worked in one job with good pay, benefits, and job security. The mother stay at home to rear the children properly. Where are the Republicans (Aka Conservative right-wingers) getting the greed baited money to cut their taxes? From the only cash cow that exist in Washington at the present, which is Social Security. If they milk the cow dry what happens to Social Security in the years 2010 thru 2020? The Republicans (Aka Conservative right-wingers) will tell them sorry folks the Social Security is broke. They do have one option to restore Social Security and that is to borrow from the Federal Reserve (A cabal of wealthy Europeans and British that own our printing presses and all the money that comes off of it). There are trillions and trillions of dollars stolen from Social Security since the thirties on up to the present plus the concomitant interest. Will the cabal lend the US government this amount of money? Yes, they will instruct their ink-stained wretches the US Treasury to start the presses rolling. What will the US government use for collateral? What the US government has done in the past, give the cabal (The Federal Reserve) the right to receive all of the tax money to satisfy the collateral.

103409 by John Borowski on 9/29 at 6:00

“These Republican (Aka Conservatives right-wing fascist) regard the working man as something less than an animal.”

Hummm this “Republican Conservatives right-wing fascist, is a working man.  AND many many people who worked with me over the years at Amoskeag, Essex, and Arlington were also Republicans….

Working folks usually hate taxes.

103257 by purplewolf on 9/28 at 9:38 am

“I have lived in Flint, Michigan”

If you had said NOTHING other than this, every Union worker, and every former union worker would know what you were talking about!!

Many of my family members and friends worked in Textiles.  If you are old enough to remember those cool 100% cotton sheets which lasted forever, and were used to escape from prison, then You are remembering Essex Mill sheets from Lawrence and Lowell Massachusetts.

If a person attempted to put his weight on a poly-cotton narrow-loom, 180-per-inch (incorrectly called Percale) sheet, they would fall to their death.  This is good for prison guards, but bad for consumers. 

Essex no longer makes sheets. Their buildings sit crumbling on the banks of the Merrimac and their workers are scattered. Most of old Lawrence has burned, and what’s left is impoverished.

This in the State represented completely by Democrats.  Don’t bet on them for help.  The old Democratic party has gone the way of the true Percale sheet!

Many years ago in Linden, NJ my brother worked in the assembly plant for GM. They had swinging over-head tools to do the work. One day a swinging tool hit him in the head and he was bleeding like a stuck pig. He asked the foreman to go to the infirmary for medical attention since so much blood was pouring down he could hardly see what he was doing. The foreman sarcastically told him to keep working until a replacement will come. He decked the foreman and walked out of the plant. He told me that the line was going so fast that if a bolt had a burr on, it you had to let it go down the line without the vital bolt. These Republican (Aka Conservatives right-wing fascist) regard the working man as something less than an animal.

I was surprised one day to find a quiz in a magazine that wanted you to choose which cars are made in the US. Is the correct answer GM, Ford, Chrysler, European, or Japanese products? The answer is Japanese cars. Many people believe that Japanese car makers are smarter in making cars and their workers are more dedicated. This not true, they simply put more quality in their cars for the money. The reason they can do this is because they don’t pay their executives the kind of salaries, bonuses, and golden parachutes (Aka pensions) that American companies pay. When I buy a Japanese car I know it is probably made in the US by American workers. Does the money I pay go to Japan? No it doesn’t, it goes to a US bank and then to US bonds. The reason the Japanese do this is because if they sent the money to Japan and exchanged it for Yen it would make the Yen stronger. By-passing the dismal science of economics, this would be the worst thing they could do for their exporting country. Countries that lose a World War are forced into doing it this way because they had to sell their soul to the victors, the British and their colony the US.

These folks got some explaining to do. First, Reagan broke all the unions. Then, Clinton sent our jobs off in these free trade agreements. Now, these boobs want to privitize the very next leak we take. They want us to have to buy everything. Only corporations can get welfare these days.

The problem is nothing is made in America anymore. We don’t even grow food here. Everything is shut down to be made overseas. Ford closed a plant in our area and sent most of those jobs to Mexico. My son trained the kid from India who would be doing his job there. The poor kid lived on my playroom sofa for seven months before he found another job. He had to take a second gig in a call center at night before he could afford to pay rent anywhere else.

I hear all this talk of these Congressmen and Senators keeping company with Wall Street. It scares me. I worry because I don’t have a golden parachute, and Unemployment Compensation is not enough to cover my house note. There is just no such thing as saving any money. We’re blessed to live from check to check without falling through the cracks every 14 days. My elected representatives in DC all have 6-figure incomes with great benefits and no worries. I don’t think they quite appreciate my last new dress being purchased at the Good Will. Everybody in my house has a job, just so we can pay keep the utilities on and the water running, here and in DC.

A person can’t get much more blue collared than this. Not much more broke either. I need to know that these promising-me-the-world Democrats are going to make some changes for me for the better. I want my government to work as hard for my interests as it does for business and industry.

My family has been 100% UNION since the Bread& Roses strike. I believe that HONEST union representation is the best protection a worker has.

BUT

Honest Unions, and representative union membership have gone the way of the Dodo.  A poster above mentions Otis Elevator and this is a good reference, I recommend anyone not familiar with this screw-job check it out. BUT Otis is not alone. US Steel promised a retirement benefit. The Union had it in writing. Ask any former US Steel worker about their retirement benefits….I recommend you do it by phone.Enron, Holland America, Studebaker, Bethlehem, Chrysler, World Com, Global Crossings all had great agreements with their workers. Agreements worth nothing.

ALSO equating the Democratic party with justice for the American Worker is laughable at best.  The two front runners have strong connections with low-pay no-health-benefits Walmart. Hill was a board member, and Obama’s wife was a board member. What did they do for workers there?  Pretty much the same thing they will do for workers when they are in the White House.

You are right what a good idea you get the corporations off the list of people who will demand national healthcare and shift the burdens to the unions.If the idea that the fund could take care of itself was so widespread why did Wall Street upgrade GM stock when it learned of the shift in health care responsibilities.If GM wants to compete on the world market the guys who are getting the big bucks should try something novel like making cars that people want to buy.The American worker is the most productive in the world and deserves a better break than having middle class jobs wiped out too have companies abuse free trade agreements to bolster the bottom line.Here is where it gets tricky it is up to the Government to make it so that companies earn less and pay American workers decent wages because it is good for the country as a whole.If an American Company makes 10 billion and all of its workers are overseas is that better than that company making 5 billion and paying Americans a decent wage.They are American companies protected by United States armed forces and getting all the help they need from American politicians is it asking too much to pay the American middle class decent wages.