Years ago, back in the early 60’s the International Corp that I worked for would go to Taiwan and Singapore and find a head of household that had skills in Manufacturing.

The company would set him up as follows:

We would furnish him everything he needed to make simple widgets for us.  All he had to do was furnish
the place ( usually his house) and the labor.

We would send him the equipment, the materials, and the packaging.  He would put his wife and children to work and if he really got to going he would get cousin, aunts, nephews and nieces to work.

The labor was what I at the time called “table wages”.  If the wife and kids worked they got to eat.  U S workers couldn’t compete with this.

Immoral business outsourcing became a flood of long gone jobs ( the menial jobs) but later the white collar jobs followed.

Now the American worker can buy the same widget they used to get paid to build at a cheaper price, but since they no longer have a job the price seems to be higher than it was then.

The only way to reduce deficits and debts is to be working and paying taxes.

The rich and powerful no longer pay taxes and the jobless can’t pay any taxes so the Government and especially the Republican Party wants to cut out any benefits the poor and unemployed have - so that the rich and powerful don’t have to forgo that second Yacht.

That Singapore worker at least had table wages.

This is not your traditional shell game. The issues are not hidden beneath nut shells. The problem is that many of the gamblers are too blind or too stupid to see the obvious slight of hand. The hucksters are aided by real and de facto shills. The de facto shills tell those with vision and intelligence,” don’t play, the game is rigged, let the blind and stupid lose their shirts.” Meanwhile, the hucksters walk around in the finest apparel, while the de facto shills get to be smug, while looking down their noses at the shirtless blind and stupid. If these de facto shills could see beyond their noses, they would notice that they’ve lost their pants.

Agree Jim C

I suspect Party Loyalty figures into this.

I have for some time spoken out that Party loyalty is what keeps the common man shackled into being mastered over by Corrupt Government.

“My crook is better than your crook” = Political Slavery

The fact that 43% still supports this toady is rather troubling . If the public really grasp what Walker and his ilk are up to his polling should be in the single digits .

Support MoveOn—or organize something better.  So far I don’t see anything else out there, sorry to say.

What else could lying Republicans say after a big loss to the
Democrats? 

I understand Republicans in 2012 are going to make their lies bigger
by blaming Democrats as the political party that was trying to get rid
of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, instead of Republicans,
who are going to say that Republicans did their best to keep the
Democrats from destroying Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
—— only Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons believe Republicans lies.

People don’t see the big picture and either vote for what looks good over the next week or vote on mushy-headed “principles”.

Rick Scott’s being a crook was out there for everyone to see.  He ran HCA, the company chaired by Sen. Frist’s big brother. Tommy Frist got rid of Scott because of his aggressive in-your-face attitude that could have been deadly for HCA. (with a nice golden parachute) Scott is another Richard Scrushy, only a little more polished.  Frist is no angel but there’s no love lost between Scott and the Frists.

Yet he said “lower taxes” and Floridians flocked to vote for him, not realizing the loss in home values would FAR exceed the tax cut.  Think about it: If the schools in your community SUCK, and in the next community are good, you will have to discount your home price for the shitty schools.

Roads’ quality, public spaces, schools, crime rates…all these government responsibility items affect housing prices drastically. They aren’t the ONLY components, but they are essential one.

Every one of the “terrorist” governors is doing the same thing: Scott, Walker, Kasich, Christy (here in NJ), to name a few.  Compared to this monsters, Schwarzenegger was an angel of mercy—far too left of TeaParty Right or even Mitch McConnell to be a “good” Republican.

You get the leaders you deserve. And we sure have!

I have always said that when given enough rope Republicans will always shoot themselves in the foot. All verbal confusion intended.
Unfortunately, there is no longer a viable Democratic Party to step into the breach. Or rather, they are there, and will step in, but it will not affect the downward spiral set in motion by the Republicans, because the Dems have jumped on the money train and follow the same policies.

gerard, May 28 at 8:07 pm

“Support your local MoveOn.org.  It’s about all there is at present”

You mean support the Quisling Democrat(ic) Party by proxy? Because Moveon.org
is subsidiary of the party apparatus, which is a subsidiary of the DLC, Blue Dogs,
and now the ‘New Left’

Last thing you want to do is continue supporting the status quo, unless the lesser
evilism straw man is trotted out in which case, yeay, let’s offer up all of America in
a fire sale to the Oligarchs. Indentured servitude demands less servility when the
Dems run it!

... The Tea Party would impose ” an extremist ideology that most Americans reject.”  I doubt that most Americans would reject it. In fact, I think most Americans (without a counter-organisation) probably would buy into two-thirds of it, expecially if it is packaged attractively (no matter the lies) and broadcast incessantly over prime time TV as a kind of “political entertainment.”  That’s what scares me.

“Small government” attracts people (no matter how false a promise).  So does “lower taxes.”  And “supporting small business opportunities” even though most of the support goes to big business.  And “America First” fist-pumping foreign policy, no matter how disastrous, murderous or unjust. And “be afraid of those crazy foreingers” of the moment (xenophobia).  And what about “welfare cuts” and “getting rid of public school incompetency and waste.” 

Such charges don’t even have to be true to win.  Why?
Because they push people’s buttons when they are shouted loud enough and often enough—which means for the last fifteen years, hourly, weekly, daily by all-pervasive media who don’t even intend to tell the truth; only say what their owners want them to say.

Sorry, but an unrelenting grassroots educational and organizing campaign of, by and for the working classes will do the job of turning things around toward equal rights and justice for all.

Neighborhood meetings, pressuring local and state representatives and senators, influencing local newspapers (ads and letters to editors), penetrating local chambers of commerce, Kiwanis, etc., and tying the whole thing at inter-region, inter-state, national levels—and in a non-threatening way, to boot. 

Penetrate local media and demand equal time. Be clear, simple and sticking to essentials in setting up goals. Cut the three-syllable words to the minimum. Talk to your church, talk to your club.

(Support your local MoveOn.org.  It’s about all there is at present, and the head people seem to be pretty smart and effective communicators. They need support to re-gear and get to where they were several years ago.)

The voters of Florida, Wisconsin, and Ohio can suck a fat one.  They are getting
exactly what they deserve; and I hope it burns real bad.  Thanks for setting us
back 20 years douche bags.

Unfortunately, nothing at all will change when the Dems return to power next
cycle.  You’ll just be disappointed all over again.

DBM - that is a big IF, but I will say that in my 79
years on this planet very few issues have actually
moved the electorate to follow through at the polls and
kick out the bastards who take a side which will
negatively affect the lives of voters. 

The threat to privatize Medicare seems to have become
an exception, as of now anyway, and if the Dems can
keep it ‘alive’ the issue could very well decide
election outcomes in 2012.  Let’s hope.

This might be a good time to look at what I posted as a comment on the Libya situation this very night.

Please take a look at what I posted on “Russia Changes Its Stance on Libya” about an hour ago.

And I couldn’t agree more with you about BIS and the Fed.

BIS controls the majority of the Worlds Money Policy and Currency.  It is owned by approximately the 50 Richest Families in the World.

It Controls our Federal Reserve and just about every other “Central Bank” of every Nation in the World.

It does not have to report to anyone including the Country in which is located. It sets the Nations Money Policy and controls the issuance of its currency.  Who’s interest might be subordinate to the interest of the BIS?

You may have noticed that the Fed Chairman Bernanake became the first ever Fed Reserve Manager to give a report to the United States.  The Bank has been here since America was founded always a bank owned by private International investors.

PatrickHenry, May 27 at 3:24

The Arab Spring, much like the Greek and Spanish ones are essentially non
political. System failure is how they see it. They are united in their indignation,
opposed to Oligarchs and Plutocrats. And they’ll need to focus through the
government on the ECB and BIS in Europe, while we focus on the FED and Wall
Street here.

If the government has become hooked on cash, remove the cash by insisting on
removing the dealer, and if they resist then the only option is a popular
revolution, otherwise we’ll be slaves to the Global Banking Cartels until we do
mount a revolution.

It’s all very stark and clear, I just don’t know (i do) where all the confusion arises
from.

http://mosquitocloud.net/

Of course there is voters remorse.

The people voted in a Charismatic Democrat who promised to change the wreckage of the Bush Administrations.  I think the people would have stayed with Obama if he had at least tried to keep ANY of his promises.  But he didn’t even try.

So the people swung back and clutched at the very bastards that had brought their country to its knees.  How, one should ask, could the people have been so stupid?  Does a Leopard change its spots?

Couldn’t the people realize that when the Republican mantra was to work to cause Obama to fail, that the same Republican party was planning to prolong the misery that the Republicans had caused.  And they promised the people more of same if they were voted in.

There is an old saying “Be careful what you wish for, it just might come true”.

Well, for the American people, their dream has turned into a nightmare.  We have found out for certain that neither Party gives a damn about the common people.

Will we wake up from this bad dream and do something about it, or will we just continue to whine and blame the other party?

You don’t need to be told that we must have REAL change and you don’t need me to tell you it won’t come from either party.

What I would like to hear from you is a plan to bring REAL change.

Guess Conason, just doesn’t seem to have noticed the remorse people are
expressing about Obama. Nor for that matter that both Legacy Parties are loosing
voters left and right.

Then again, what else would one expect from a boot licking foot soldier for the
Oligarchy…

http://mosquitocloud.net/

Figure it out:  Pollsters probably never pose poll questions to members of Boards of Directors.  They also probably never question people in transit at any given moment, or going through dumps looking for something to eat or sell.  They also ask questions less frequently from people 18 to 21 or people living in shelters and old people’s homes.  That leaves your “random” sampling of lower/upper middles, age 25 to 65, with very mixed educational backgrounds and political interests to “represent what people think.”

Also, how many of them at the time they were polled were preoccupied with problems more important to them, were zonked halfway out of their minds on “performance enhancing” drugs, or just pulled their answers out of a hat, so to speak?

When “... 50 percent said yes and only 47 percent said no”  it doesn’t indicate anything much. In which case, the word “only” takes on undue significance any way one chooses to interpret it.
Does it mean “expectations disappointed” or “expectations gratified”?  And in any case “whose expectations”?  Yet in spite of all such interpretive questions and doubts, people thoughtlessly take polls seriously in a vain attempt to “be on the winning side.”

“IF Democrats can at long last learn to explain how they differ from their right-wing adversaries—and if they stand fast in protecting the middle class—then the election of 2012 will be theirs to win.”

IF…

Therein lies a serious problem.  They may differ from Republicans in important ways but “protecting the middle class” is far less important to them than protecting political donors ... if the last few decades are anything to go by.

With a back stabbing president and chicken livered members of Congress, I don’t doubt the dumbocrats ability to snatch defeat right out of the gaping jaws of victory.

Time for an ‘Arab Spring’ here in states at the ballot box computer screen.