IT IS REVOLTING WE DON'T HEAR THE POSITIVE AND GOOD NEWS

We watch the news on television or the internet, and most of the time it is about disasters, mayhem, or stories about people who you would not want at your dinner table. It is not just the duty of the media to bring us the dregs of the earth but also to find stories that inspire us.
Why does the public have to watch two weeks of constant coverage about Anthony Wiener's wiener? The only admirable thing in that story is his wife and how she is dealing with his general stupidity on the issue. It is true great men have great flaws but small men can also have great flaws. The news media and congress also have great flaws for perpetuating this story. I often hear the cry that the public wants to know, but what ever happened to using good sense and taste in how things are covered Why does the media always want to get off the main issues?
Everyone who is middle class is hurting severely now. The public does not need to be guided by the media or congress off the road to recovery.
The problem with the recovery is that some of the money has been misdirected such as the bank recovery money. That money should have gone out to get all the homeowners who were not speculators current on their loans. If that was done the banks would not have been in trouble, housing prices would not continue to go down. The greedy banks could have paid this money back out of their profits. That would have been a winning situation for everyone. But the way it w done the banks were saved making record profits while not giving an inch on their mortgage holders. They would offer plans to get mortgages straight by making people pay more for each payment until if was straight and not really helping the hand to mouth economy we all are working in.
If the Republicans want to give tax breaks to big corporations let it be base on jobs in the US, jobs created and average improvement in wages, don't just give them a pass because they are a done to your re election campaign.
The media needs to look into why things are being done by congress the way they are why all the help goes to the big boys and not the general public. It would also be nice to get a story or two on people who are doing things right.

A MIDDLE CLASS REVOLT

It is time for the middle class to revolt. Not the idiots in the tea party who are the dupes of big business. Not the Christian right who are hardly Christian and seldom right. Since 2000 the middle class has been the group that has been squeezed, outsourced and abandoned by our congress.
Do we ever hear Congress talking about cutting their own pay, medical benefits, or golden retirement plans, I think not. But the new Republican plan for the budget cuts our benefits. They call unemployment benefits and social security entitlements. The truth is that both are insurance programs that we have paid in for years. Is it the middle class’s fault that the government has mismanaged these plans?
It looks like Congress is bought and paid for by big business interests. If you don’t believe this just look at the Republican budget proposal, they are ready to cut Medicaid and give people subsidies to give to the big insurance companies. Who will in turn raise rates so that the poor and middle class won’t get any benefit from the subsidy? If you don’t believe this just how much has your insurance gone up in the past five years.
The Republicans also want to reform taxes so the very rich who currently pay up to 35 percent will only pay 25 percent. After all the rich do need a break even thou history from the Reagan tax cuts for the rich shows they did not help the economy with the money they saved, they kept it instead. Nothing trickles down from the rich except when they are pissing on the middle class and the poor.
Corporations are also helped greatly from the Republican plan in the words of the plan itself, “Replaces the corporate income tax – currently the second highest in the industrialized world – with a border-adjustable business consumption tax of 8.5 percent. This new rate is roughly half that of the rest of the industrialized world. Replaces the corporate income tax – currently the second highest in the industrialized world – with a border-adjustable business consumption tax of 8.5 percent. This new rate is roughly half that of the rest of the industrialized world” This is a great deal for corporations but who do you think is going to pay for this? The middle class, at least that is the Republican plan. For further information on this idea contact the Koch brothers who are reported to be financially backing efforts to destroy unions in this county. There is good chance it was their idea anyway.
It is time to set up a guillotine outside the Capitol building and when these elected officials don’t do what is in our interest or threaten to shut the government down. Maybe we march the worst of them two by two from the right and left and show them how politicians were handled during the French Revolution when they did not do the peoples will. I don't endorse violence but Congress is not going to pay attention until there is a million people outside the Capitol demanding change.

A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WORKER MAY BE REVOLTING AGAIN

        
          I FIND IT REVOLTING THAT PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE WORKING MAN IN THE USA. RECENTLY THE GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN AND OTHERS ON THE RIGHT, INCLUDING A NUMBER OF REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS MADE STATEMENTS TO VILAFY UNIONS AND THE WORKING MAN OR (WOMAN).
          IF WE LOOK BACK IN HISTORY BEFORE UNIONS, WE SEE PEOPLE WORKING EXTREMELY LONG HOURS, IN UNSAFE, UNHEALTHY WORK SITES WITH NO RIGHTS TO PROTEST OR EVEN NEGOTIATE.  INJURIES WERE COMMON AND EVEN DEATH IN THE WORK PLACE WAS CONSIDERED A NORMAL COST OF DOING BUSINESS.
          FOR THOSE WHO STILL CAN'T REASON WHY UNIONS WERE AND ARE STILL NEEDED, IT SHOULD ALSO BE REMEMBERED THAT EVEN CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS SIX YEARS OLD WERE FORCED TO WORK AND WERE NOT ALLOWED TO GO TO SCHOOL. THE WORK DAY ON AVERAGE WAS BETWEEN 12 AND 14 HOURS, BUT THERE WERE CASES OF UP TO 19-HOUR WORK DAYS WITHOUT UNIONS.
         THERE ARE FEW BENEVOLENT COMPANIES WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING A BUCK.  IF UNIONS ARE SMASHED NOT ONLY UNION WORKERS WILL SUFFER SO WILL NON-UNION WORKERS. YOU NON-UNION WORKERS WOULD NO LONGER HAVE THE THREAT OF UNIONIZING TO KEEP YOUR EMPLOYER FROM CUTTING YOUR WAGES, HEALTH CARE AND VACATION. WE COULD EASILY GO BACK TO THE HORRIBLE DAYS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IF UNIONS ARE STAMPED OUT BY BIG BUSINESS AND THEIR CONGRESS CRONIES.
          UNIONS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR HAVE GOTTEN PENSIONS AND WORK RIGHTS THAT ARE OUT OF LINE WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR. UNION NEGOTIATORS GOT THE MOST FOR THEIR MEMBERS BUT THAT WAS THEIR JOB. PLUSH PUBLIC CONTRACTS WERE THE FAULT OF PUBLIC MANAGERS THAT NEGOTIATED WITH UNIONS AND DID NOT CONSIDER IT WAS PUBLIC TRUST AND MONEY THEY WERE REPRESENTING WHO WERE AT FAULT.
            I DO NOT DENY THAT WE ALL HAVE TO MAKE SACRIFICES IN THIS ECONOMY AND WORK TOGETHER. BUT SO FAR WHO HAS BEEN SAVED IN THE EFFORTS BY GOVERNMENT TO IMPROVE OUR ECONOMY?.  WERE MORTGAGE HOLDERS SAVED? NO!  WAS THE WORKING MAN SAVED? NO!  BUT THE BANKS WERE BAILED OUT AND ARE MAKING RECORD PROFITS. BIG BUSINESS GOT TAX BREAKS, LESS REGULATION AND IS MAKING RECORD PROFITS.
          THE MONEY DOES NOT TRICKLE DOWN TO THE WORKER, EVEN THOUGH BIG BUSINESS HAS PLENTY OF MONEY ON THEIR BALANCE SHEET. MOST COMPANIES ARE JUST LETTING THERE PUBLIC ASSISTED FORTUNES SIT AN JUST GATHER INTEREST. AMERICAN WORKER’S JOBS ARE NOT COMING BACK AS FAST AS PEOPLE WANT AS A RESULT OF BIG BUSINESS POLICIES AND WORKERS RIGHTS ARE ERODING. WITHOUT UNIONS WE WILL BE BACK IN THE DARK AGES FOR WORKERS.