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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 2026 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 2ing 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 awedience 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?
Now that you've retired comfortably
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 300,000 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. 

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

I RESEARCH SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO

                I RESEARCH SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO 
       The pain of being burned to death never ends in hell, you get that, right? The Founding Revolutionaries of 1776 are being punished in HELL for mocking god in the case of Thomas Paine; considered an atheist, who described Christianity as “a history of wickedness”.             Jefferson is certainly in Hell being torn apart by iron maidens and poked by a million demon pitchforks for talking about his pagan  “god of nature” in the constitution. Not one word from the Bible in all the founding documents… god was pissed. 
    "I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another."
Source: Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799.
         Our Constitution is about liberty, not dogma, and that's why there's no mention of the Bible.

Who is the  god that the Tea baggers want running this country? The  god they want in our schools? This train wreck of a deity who tortures people in Hell? 
This is the god that gives us our validation says glennbeck!! A leap of faith, or reason?
       In an essay from Time Magazine, Barbara Ehrenreich explains the reason for the separation of Church and State. 
"The government that the Founding Fathers designed could levy taxes and raise an army, but it could not do these or any other things in the name of a higher power. By stripping government of supernatural authority, the Founding Fathers created a zone of freedom around each individual human conscience. They demystified government and reduced it to something within reach of human comprehension, protest and change” Barbara Ehrenreich

          
        Men have always been men and I can’t imagine many of them willingly going to church. Therefore, Religion held an iron grip wherever they could, even requiring mandatory attendance in the early days of the colonies. AND, let’s face it, these were tough pioneers who weren’t big on kissing up to these pesky preachers always looking for a handout. This country was built with an ax and not a Bible and many were loath to give their hard earned income to the machinations of clergy. 
           This is why fear has worked so well for 1600 years, fear was how to break the resolve of the peasant. If you saw your church father stringing up Quakers in 1650, you sure as hell wouldn’t be the one that was going to challenge him. By the 1720's, when hanging Quakers and witches became illegal, the religious right stridently scared people with Hellfire and doom during the 1730's "The Great Awakening", to hold onto their fraudulent authority. 
our constitution under assault


        Were most people cowering wimps who had to pray as much as possible to keep demons away back in those days? Richard Hofstadter wrote a book, 'America at 1750'. In it he quotes someone who was there, "Hector St. John de Crevecour, after observing sects in the middle American colonies, and the feeble religious instruction of the children, thought this a world of waning zeal,” de Crevecour writing, "religious indifference is imperceptibly disseminated from one end of the continent to the other…persecution, religious pride, the love of contradiction, are the food of what the world commonly calls religion. These motives have ceased here.’” The Bibble had become irrelevant by 1776.
      The Germans and Scots were hard working farmers who pushed the boundaries of the colonies hard westward and they were reluctant to give their hard earned profits to some lazy ass preacher who was only out to scare their children. This is how they talked; it wasn’t Little House on the Prairie. Real men love Jesus sure, (you've seen the bumper sticker) but Jesus only puts food on the table in their imagination. They kept the pastors at bay till the 1930's when radio became popular.


       Let me go get my bible and randomly pick something, it must be time to bring out the good book again. 
       Maybe a commentary or analysis relevant to this discussion. That's the fun of the Bible; close your eyes and point to a random verse, kind of like
astrology, and make the quote something to live by.


         Or like Tarot and the 10th card of a Celtic Cross spread, the summation of all the cards or an end result, does it please the goddess? 


       Well here goes, Proverbs 5:9-11
 Give your honor to others and your years to the merciless. Let strangers take the fill of your strength and your labors go to the house of an alien; and at the end of your life you groan when your flesh and body are consumed and you say ‘how I hated discipline.” What this verse says to me is that if you put your hopes in the unknown, you will regret it. 
But verse 6 continues with the solution to our woes, stating how the meek will someday overcome the evil lying Republicans and their era of greed, 1981 to 2011. Verse 6:12-15 states, "A wicked man goes about with crooked speech (Sean'half-truth' Hannity), winks with his eyes, (Sarah Palin) scrapes with his feet(Santorum), points with his finger (Nitt Romney) and with perverted heart devises evil, (Newt G),continually sowing discord: (Pat Robertson):therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

      Don’t worry all you cowering fearful children, there is no hell.
        gOd told me tell you to pursue happiness, and not to fear an eternity of torture. The afterlife that Christians try to scare everyone with would seem to portray god as a mass murdering evil god. A notorious galactic despot with rage issues who is not happy that your life sucks beyond your wildest dreams, in the poor countries and regions of the world, but also promises you an eternity of Halloween the 13th type of scary hellish torture after you die! ?….and your pledging allegiance to HIM?
Glenn Beck is sadly rewriting history, brainwashing the population and people are bobbing their heads thinking he is such a history expert, but compared to Hofstadter he’s not much more than a rhetorician and …well…a rodeo clown. I intend to fight this misology, zealotry and bigotry with another way to look at our history to give people a more fair and balanced outlook. I’m here for ya baby! I research so you don’t have to.
It’s very frustrating to christians that they can’t kill those who disagree with them anymore and now there are so many books there never will be enough time to burn them all. Instead, they have embedded themselves in the political system.  Reject these religious notions that the afterlife is one horror after another if you don't believe what the clergy may say.
Life is not some made up game with a puzzling rule book (bible). For instance, people are gambling with their eternal salvation when they don’t go to church. “Missing church is a mortal sin,” my mother would say. “Your soul becomes all black and you don’t get to go to heaven.” The truth is that The Great Architect created souls so s/he could share the joy of being alive...... Sharing joy and creating life, that's more like it. That's a god I can like. There is no hell and to believe this fairy tale is nonsense. 
Think about this my friend, if that pastor, preacher or priest had no audience, he’d have to get a job, right? Bearing false witness to beat the band, it’s his or her job to keep you coming back to give to the building fund. Religion is an easy product to produce -rhetoric and brimstone; “Showtime,” says the evangelist as she straightens out her wig, time to be authentic.

       People who say this is a Christian nation are bearing false witness; most Christians therefore break the 9th commandment. Spreading lies, half-truths, and defying the spirit of the 9th commandment while they pass out NObama stickers at Bob Evans.

       Then there's the fear of Islam and someone is building a mosque near the twin towers, but the Moslems at the ground zero mosque are Dervishes I found out recently. The Dervishes are the most opened minded and reasonable sect of Islam and Dervishes appreciate the freedom of religion our country offers.  
       Christian preachers are no longer legally able to gather up a mob to carry torches and pitchforks to terrify a social adversary, such as these Moslems. Even the Sikhs were getting harassed because they wear turbans.  
   The difference is that today the pitchforks are psychological, and the scars are on the inside. There are Chritians targeting people for harassment as we speak, or typing to somebody encouraging them to keep buying as many bullets as they can, because fighting for gods honor is going to take a lot of ammunition. 


         There are dangerous people with too many guns in my estimation, but I optimistically predict that a general rising tide of enlightenment will drown the meanness, prejudice and hate of the mislabeled greatest generation, sinking the whole mess into the fetid mud of the bigoted and hateful authoritarian despots that they bow down to. But it will be a photo finish and I truly fear Christian violence.
You’ve been so very much lied to and so have your ancestors throughout history. The people that wrote down the history were the only ones that knew how to write and as people began t0 learn to read they were only allowed to read the Bible. Histories of all the conquered peoples were burned and destroyed. You need to fully understand that there is a point of light leading away from the darkness. The light of the Statue of Liberty. The lamp of Libertas.
Like Orwell’s 1984,  Big brother has been here all along with christianity and islam. Now in 2011 it is still here. Christians and Islamos---they have their eye on you and if we allow heretics to be harassed, it’s over. There is no hell and to Satan I say “In your eye with a custard pie.” Satan is a lie and there is no hell my friends, Kiss my ass Satan. We cannot base public policy on 'the devil'and the machinations of evil. There is enough evil right here on this sphere of reality.
          I’m going to quote conservative historian Richard Hofstadter from his book, ‘America in 1750‘ about the original Great Awakening to start educating you about it.
Richard Hofstadter, “The end of religious wars and extreme persecution, and the rise of mercantile cosmopolitanism, a more affluent and luxurious life had taken the terror out of existence."
        "In America, it had not been long since (slaveholder and witch executioner Cotton) Mather had seen the Protestant Vanguard as leading a direct assault on Satan’s wilderness bastion."
     " The cooling of religion could be felt, and men, even clergymen, leaned unmistakably to Enlightenment heresies. A society that was beginning to produce deistical leaders would soon affect the solid middle class, whose members wanted the best and latest of everything, including freedom of thought.”
          Freedom of thought is One of those pagan virtues that was enshrined in our constitution. Our founding revolutionaries were conservative, but didn’t allow religious bugaboo to cloud the clarity of their thought. This is what right wing Christian conservatives aren’t getting, that the founding fathers were masons, and the rigors of intellectual elasticity and natural curiosity allowed them to perceive that there was a reason there were so many goddesses in Greek mythology.
                   Here is Richard Hofstadter describing the conditions of the 13 colonies at the time of the Great Awakening, a dangerous time. “New England pastors, growing desperate, would even hope at times that a smallpox or diphtheria epidemic or perhaps an earthquake would prod the people into a revival.” Americans continue to become more logical and educated but still we have to live with this Christian fantasy of a great battle between good and evil. All the other religions are not talking about war but Dharma, Harmony, Community, and maybe we need to give them a listen. 
Get lost ya mugs, and just remember fellow patriots
---Liberty will always be in ascendance over religion in the United States, or there will not be a United States.