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Friday, January 17, 2020

The Parasite Class


The Parasite Class
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DEMONIZING THE POOR ///Yer darn tootin’ I call it class war
          I’m speaking for those who are told to pull yourself out of poverty by “pulling yourself up by the bootstraps”. They have this puzzled look on their face that says “but I got no boots.”
          Facebook battles from people who accuse us of being jealous of illegitimate wealth will never end. Mike Mysterioso says “bullshit, our democracy is called the plural-elite system. Depends on whether or not you are willing to work and sacrifice. People with a class problem in America are total losers.
 These people have been isolated from most of their fellow Americans and this will be the first DEPROGRAM 2020 TOPIC.
        My response to him was this, “I’m going to guess you have been isolated from most people in your work and haven’t had many experiences with the lower middle class people in this country. People with far greater talents than you or I, people caring for a disabled person, people who have gotten few raises in the 2010’s toiling away for one Simon LeGreed or another. People reeling fromabuse at home.“
           Needless to say, “Mike” turns out to be a trust fund baby who failed at most of his attempts to hold a job. Ex-military of course, turning wrenches in Greenland to get the benefits of the military socialism that is nearing a trillion dollars a year in its expenditures. The military that is a honeypot for entitled white people and I’m willing to bet one third of Rush Limbalks awdience falls under a similar demographic.    
    
           
The mantra from the golden microphone during the years 1992 to 1996 was “the rich are the job creators”. I was a listener during the Roger Ailes era when Roger was Program Director for Rush the Tush. Every afternoon his audience would relate how the Clintons are responsible for lots of deaths and horribly rude characterizations of Hillary were a daily fare. He constantly played a clip with Bill Clinton saying “I loath the military” while his roided up audience would call and say “I took Bill Clintons place in Vietnam.”
It’s got nothing to do with Mexicans, but everything to do with the system. In the dying world of Manifest Destiny. the capitalists have harnessed the resources to dominate markets and have reduced humans to be cogs in their machine or an underpaid Brick in the Wall.  
Thousands of people I have worked with on twenty five jobs on hundreds of job sites have shown me the lower middle class as a rule are extremely industrious people. Libertarian Social Darwinists have not worked with these people and it shows. Bossed them, hired them, fired them, but never with them. Grown up spoiled brats showing open contempt when their every need is not met. “Use that bottle of ketchup from the empty table sir”.
        Where is our mass transit system so everyone can get around to care for children or parents or both?  Everyone has to have a license and a car? What! We are all supposed to go to night school and become fiduciaries? Well, how else are you going to invest in stocks like Boeing Raytheon Grumman and the others that produce weapons of mass destruction so you can retire in comfort?
Capitalism has created an economy on top of the people who do the actual work. The people who cook and serve the food, the ones who clean the houses, the driver who puts 30000 gallons of gasoline in the big tank next to the convenience store. Let’s not forget to mention the minimum wage CNA caring for your dying parents or the underpaid and inexperienced child care worker holding your crying child for an hour. Then to hear Nit “corporations are people” Romney or Newt Skintrich calling for poor kindergarteners to stay after school to sweep floors to earn their lunch money, you really have to wonder where the hell have these people been all their lives? Now head hunters and lawyers and other white collar parasites and medical fraud functionaries are the upper middle class of America.
 Half of America are considered worthless slugs and layabouts because they get tax breaks? You’d think so from the Libertarians who make too much money and the sheltered trolls who inherited money like the person in the quote at the beginning. I’m setting out to prove the lower middle class that has expanded by 30% the last 40 years are the ones who do the work.  Once upon a time they were the middle class but today, only upper middle class incomes and above have increased dramatically.
Down here in the underpaid working world we have adjusted in many ways to the vagaries of the market. Capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich is the system we have. Bankruptcy and foreclosure, aw too bad say the bankers who are gouging the American worker and depressing the small market economy with outrageous interest from loans. It’s not like the 1800’s when banks hired stagecoaches and security to move money across the western states. Should be a crime, used to be. One mouse click and another sap has a 35 overdraft fee.
For instance, in a world awash in excessive clothing manufactured by 25 cent an hour workers from Bangladesh and China, we go to thrift stores now to buy much of our clothing in 2020. I buy three dollars shirts and pants on the regular and they are normally only nominally worn.  I got storm shoes and a nice pair of shorts for less than $5.  We go to Dollar Stores and church rummage sales and reliable second hand exchanges. We love bargains, but let the buyer beware with the guy who has the frozen shrimp in his trunk, we all have our particular discernments.
The whole scene is changing from below.  There are more distribution sites from groups that are taking in food.   If you can turn over tons of food with volunteer labor in thousands of sites, we can begin to lessen the reliance on government programs and eliminate as much waste as is practically possible. The problem with the bush and t***p tax cuts for billionaires, was that the wealthy were theoretically supposed to step up with more charitable donations, and of course a handful have, but the dark heart of capitalism always says, “no thanks not today, the guest house needs new furniture.”
 
The system is big and its loyalists redrew the maps of the middle east to acquire the oil it would take to make Americans dependent on their cars, and of course this created many more problems. This is the system that unconstitutionally allowed a central banking criminal cartel to control the money supply that added 5 trillion to our national debt in interest alone, when the constitution says we should coin our own money.
Instead a corporation loans the US money. Unconstitutional. Convince me otherwise.
This is also the system that erased the criminal war records of many Nazis after WW2 who then immigrated to America and implemented the anti communist initiatives that aided right wing operatives such as John Foster Dulles.  A system that has destroyed the small business community in nearly every town and in most cities. Wall Street devoured Main Street and now capitalism is shitting itself .



        WETKO VIRUS ABD TGE INFUGEBOUS TASMANIANS HERE
I noticed on my 3300 mile journey to find America, most local gas stations were now selling local products. I bought a Pumpkin Turnover to die for and Apple Butter somewhere else at a reasonable price. I noticed home made items standing near the register in many places.  The Apple butter was so good I drank that shit right out of the bottle when I needed a snack while I was driving.
My point being is that we are drifting back towards buying locally sourced products again, Market Socialism, if we possibly can. We are buying hand made quilts for xmas presents. We buy reconditioned bicycles. The over credentialed, over certified white collar world isn’t going to rule us with their stuffed and mounted academic validations forever. We can and are creating a Market Socialism structure, the triumphant successor to Capitalism and Communism.

  To implement market Socialism, I would have each person exempt from taxation for the first 10,000 dollars of income, and $25,000 for small business.  In addition, we would lift the cap on social security from $106,000 to $a gazillion. Let everybody make a little money … for crying out loud, and give them food stamps if they need them and every person who has a social security number, a basic income. Make the Republicans fill the social security fund back up. Let the billionaires give back what they stole from the languid, complacent, servile, no longer unionized American. See how that works?
  Socialist Eugene Debs actually went shoulder to shoulder with the workers and spent nights in jail as needed.  Progressive, ‘fightin’ Bob LaFollette, in his role as governor of Wisconsin in 1900, actually implemented Progressive Pro Worker ideals into action and reform.
There are no other theorists for the workers revolution? Maybe someone who goes outside once in a while and recognizes an impending environmental disaster when they see it. Another thing I noticed about people I’ve worked with is that people simply don’t talk about marx. I’ve worked and taken breaks in three corners of this country with plumbers and gardeners and property managers and security guards and administrators and store managers and even homeless people I find sleeping in the bushes. Not a one of them talked about Marx. The working people don’t talk about Marxism, they talk about what is going on in their life. They articulate the problems with the system however, usually better than your average politician.
The maids, the sandwich makers, the floor polishers, the CNA’s, your finishers your starters, the kitchen crew and clerical staff. Gardeners get around, we are usually the last to go onto a project and people unload their problems on us. The ferry captains, the car washers turned computer techs, the vegetable growers and organic chicken egg producers. I can’t ever remember talking about marx, but we did talk a lot about unions.  I saw a union go in where I was working in 1975 and I discuss this time period in the article “Taboos Exposed” chapter 10.
  America IS different and no longer exceptional with the right-wing coup eating us alive like a tapeworm and we need more than Marx to stem the tide.  Small business has been destroyed and a minimum wage for all will be the final nail in the coffin of small business. We could have a minimum wage cap for small business as I mentioned previously. Call it an apprentice wage.
Progressives, Greens, and Independents are poised to lead the world out of its miasma but the left/right tennis match (back and forth back and forth) Marx or Mussolini? The billionaires have shown their hand, and they don’t care if we all die and everyone knows it now. So what has been undone will be put back together twice as strong.  They are stripping the earth without regard to the trillion people that will be born on this planet in the next 50000 years. Leave it in the ground.
  Make a showcase for ending government intrusion of the market place with these market-based community centers. Really, why can't I sell produce from my house? Land of the Free? It doesn't sound like it. We are strangling from an over-tweaked, law debilitated paralysis that destroys too many small businesses and keeps communities separated socially.  We are dependent on 8 companies to feed us, fuel us, fleece us and forget US. The four F’s.


 I remember the Hardware stores and the lumber yards, (my dad was a bit of a carpenter) and along with his full time and part-time jobs, he had a 1000 square foot vegetable garden. I watched my folks canning every summer and have vivid memories of coming indoors and the pressure cooker was hissing and steaming and weaving and bobbing and I was told “stay back in case it blows up.”
The oldest seed nursery in the United States was near my paper route. The furniture place down at the intersection on the way to the church sold American made I’m sure. Richards Donuts and Puritan Maid and many others thrived before the mass production of Dunkin Donut Shoppes. Having a successful small business model with multiple stores is capitalism. Destroying small diners and coffee houses and Homestyle restaurants because you can, is not. 
Paying minimum wage with no benefits while stockholders reaped the fruits of our labors tells me that NEO FEUDALISM HAS BEEN RECREATED IN THE UNITED STATES. Relatively few people have more money than they need.
I could have been an accountant, school aptitude tests showed a distinct talent along with 95th percentile math skills. I could have spent 30 years in a cubicle and now I’d have a 30-foot boat sipping daiquiris complaining about “service has gone to shit in America” and every other goddam grumpy bubble busting thing. Nope. I didn’t want to be a white-collar parasite. Fuck that BMW.
American service has gone to the stockholders who insist on lowering wages for the workers. That employee selling the propane, running the register handling cranky customers is regarded as a machine that does work that’s all, stockholders and owners see us as work units, not humans. This is a system devoid of looking out for people's dignity. 
Eugene Debs “to whom do the Wall Street Junkers in our country marry their daughters? After they have wrung their countless millions from your sweat, your agony and your life’s blood, in a time of war as in a time of peace, they invest these untold millions in the purchase of titles of broken-down aristocrats, such as princes, dukes, counts and other parasites and no-accounts. Would they be satisfied to wed their daughters to honest workingmen? To real democrats? Oh, no! They scour the markets of Europe for vampires who are titled and nothing else. And they swap their millions for the titles, so that matrimony with them becomes literally a matter of money.”

NIXON fucking with the gold standard and making health care profitable during second term kept his wallet full during his post-resignation time. So who are the participants in this parasite, white-collar, white bread, white sugar, white people economy? It’s the real estate people at Orchid Island becoming millionaires while being reluctant to even spend 10,000 to do mainstream environmental efforts. I proposed over and over to remove Brazilian Peppers from the property. The Pepper Tree is an invasive tree and in Florida, a combination of government and environmental groups eliminated 750 million acres of them.
It’s the salespeople for many years in doctors offices selling the prescriptions that made many people illegitimate millionaires and billionaires. The System is everyone who overcharges on medical equipment and services. It’s the lawyers making 300000 a year who consider themselves as valuable as the three maids, the landscapers, the plumber there to check the leak, the cabinet maker making new kitchen cabinets. The person cutting the marble and the person delivering furniture for the guest house are all making one-tenth of what the lawyer makes.
IS THERE ACTUALLY A PRODUCT BEING PRODUCED BY LAWYERS? Physical objects to repair? Handcrafted goods to hawk? Like religion, they are basically selling air. On the other hand doctors seem like hard workers but why do they make five times what anyone else in the operating room makes. Nurses seem to know five times what a doctor knows with regard to patient care.    THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING THE WORK AREN’T MAKING THE MONEY.
 Class war? Yer darn tootin’ its class war.