Hightower Lowdown

excellent article

Same old story when things go bad the greedy elite's point the blame at the little people, instead of looking in the mirror.

writing of a union brother:
They see the Union as a structure, Something they can tear down and never have to see it again. What they fail to see is the union is people looking out for other people. You cant destroy it. It is a belief in the rights of others. It is a belief that things can be better then they are. It is a belief that we can all better our selves. We will not fade away into the darkness. We are hear today, tomorrow and in the future.

The voices of the masses (little people) must always ring out!

Bailout Blues

There's only one track that leads to the light at the end of the tunnel. And only one way to find the train: about half of the American citizenry needs to firmly grasp their butt, you know, the ones with "ignorance is bliss" tattooed on the left cheek and "greed is good" tattooed on the right, and then pull real hard until their head pops out!
Our country, the good ol' US of A, was built on a couple of wonderful and historically unique principles; that no person should have reason to fear another, and that "The People" were capable of creating a system of self governance to provide freedom, equal opportunity and justice to all. We've been fighting those "who would be king" to live by those ideas since Hancock and the boys penned their names at the bottom of the Declaration of Independence. If we still think that those ideas are worth standing up for, even standing in the line of fire for, then "We the People" better have the vision and the guts to free our minds from the Corporate Monarchy "life is a fairy tale of our making" propaganda machine and demand an ironclad investigation, arrest, prosecution and sentencing of ALL those guilty of misleading the country and American people into a bloody, senseless war and an economic train wreck, in order to stuff full their already bulging pockets.
The Kitchen

My, they're really looking

My, they're really looking closely at the union workers, their wages, what they do to earn that money. What I'd love to know is why nobody ever looks really closely at executives and what they actually do to earn their often ridiculously engorged salaries. I'm sure everybody has seen that commercial where the big executive is having his schedule run down for him by his secretary and it basically consists of him fucking around texting on his mobile phone all day with a meeting that ends up being rescheduled so it doesn't interfere with his wasting of time. That's how I've always pictured it, and why I feel nothing but abject fury whenever I hear about how much these wastes of skin make. Since it seems like it's the only thing America's interested in right now, why don't we make a reality show about it? We could closely examine an actual executive's pay, put in some hilarious Japanese gameshow type stuff where they run around getting shit done, and then the finale would be where they actually parachute off the 42nd floor of a high-rise with a (faulty) "golden parachute". I'd miss seeing martians land to watch that shit!

I know I should feel outrage

I know I should feel outrage and desire to actually do something when I read an article like this, but all I feel is despair. I feel like my future and the futures of countless others in this state have become what amounts to socioeconomic roadkill left in the wake of rich assholes speeding by...

Great Article

The nightly news should do such a good job of researh! Yeah ... right .. sure

Fight the Bailout — Plant a Garden

I cannot begin to fully understand all the machinations that got us into this financial mess, but I do understand that I am a LOT LESS wealthy than I was six months ago! It enrages me that the financial sector has so abused our trust with faulty mortgage devices and overly rated securities and that the Congress has given them carte blanche with all that money and credit and they have not fulfilled their mission to get credit flowing again to middle class people like me who need it. The auto industry needs to build electric cars — yes, but we need to be able to BUY them!! Congress needs to put the appropriate regulation in place instead of giving the banks free money and free reign.
I say that we must take control of our livelihoods — we need to plant victory gardens. We need to collect rain water. We need to collect as much solar energy as we can afford. Each person must consciously become as "GREEN" and "CLEAN" as possible to help undo all the environmental damage that Bush has done and to protect ourselves from as much of the financial meltdown as possible by doing for ourselves as much as possible.

Bailout(s) show the middle class isn't needed

These days "our" government's approach to governance is obvious and straightforward: just do your enablers' bidding and assist them with lowering wages or sending jobs overseas, and don't dare exercise even superficial oversight of their activities. When your enablers screw up, just put on a display of self-righteous indignation while accelerating the strategy of shifting the nation's wealth to them by blaming the victims. If your enablers' machinations result in a global economic meltdown and they can't support you in the manner to which you are accustomed, just do a bailout and run astronomical deficits. When you can orchestrate massive bailouts for your enablers, and your own salaries and benefits are guaranteed, then ostensibly you have eliminated the need for a middle class!

However, be sure to ask nothing of your enablers in return. When giving them public cash, just hand it over to the same incompetent cronies that are responsible for the problems and don't demand any accountability on their part. Instead, blame the victims even more loudly while insisting that the problem is TOO MUCH government oversight. A large number of the victims are so gullible they'll even believe it and vocally support you- for now.

tlpresn

Game Over

Unless there is swift and direct action taken by the workforce of this country to stop the transfer of wealth from them to the elite, they will continue to bleed us dry for their own personal gain.

They've even brainwashed some of the working class to think that all of the things they are doing in D.C. are good for them.

Tidal Wave of Corruption Trumps All Others

With the puppet Bush a lame duck, the current tidal wave of corruption in DC dwarfs any other in history. History will show this as the End of the Merrikan Empire and the absolute worst and most rapacious looting of a nation there has ever been. Bush is so stupid he thinks he will have a legacy. Maybe I'm the stupid one as he WILL have a legacy. He brought America down in only 8 years.

And it is Class Warfare of the worst sort. Read Animal Farm again. Once the draft horses are dead, who is there to do the work? illegal aliens? Even Mexicans are bailing out as things are better South of the Border than here.

Canada looks better all the time.

Bailouts Won't Save a Global Economy That's Breaking Apart

Everyone is screaming "Save me!" while damned few are examining the flaws in the thinking that got them into this mess in the first place. It is a shameless and embarrassing spectacle, a sign of a society gone insane.

The auto sector has, like most of American industry, been transformed into an appendage of the financial sector. From the bankers' perspective, Detroit's main product is the car or truck loan, with the manufacture of the vehicle more of a necessary by-product, similar to the way homes were built mainly to create mortgages. Feeding the debt machine was job number one.

With its frequent styling changes and planned obsolescence, the U.S. auto industry was designed to maximize turnover, and thus the creation of debt. Through the auto companies' own bond sales, and through the sales of cars, the sector provided a steady stream of cash to Wall Street.

The domestic auto sector is dead, and the major manufacturers bankrupt, killed by the high price of gas and the collapse of the financial system, and by their CEO's own greed and stupidity.

WILL RECESSION KILL THE ELECTRIC CAR?

congress and bail out

Bush and congress seem to be helping jobs leave this country and destroying the middle class.
WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO BUY THE CRAP FROM CORPRATIONS WHEN THERE IS NO MIDDLE CLASS????