Protective tariffs, which leveled the playing field between the deservedly advancing American worker and the squalor entrenched Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese (yes, Vietnamese, those who "aggressively" obliterated our destroyers with their sail boats in the Gulf Of Tonkin and who lived in the land in which 58,000 Americans died), Korean, Taiwanese, Malaysian, etc., etc., those tariffs were Hiroshimaed and the patriotic American private sector tossed aside those "important" American production workers for the more "accommodating" Chinese workers. They found the Chinese acceptance of $1.44/hour much more to their liking as well as the devil may care Chinese attitude towards the Orb which we continue to rape and continue to choke to death. They can literally work Asian and African workers to death without improving their standards of living and flaunt their newly found freedom to bring the sh*t that was produced back into The FUSA.
At first, people loved it, right? Wal-Mart sold shoes that used to cost $40 or $50 at 2 pair for .99 sales. All this because there were no workers to include in work decisions, to whom to pay a living wage, to whom to give a reasonable amount of paid time off to rest and recuperate and these are just the workers who man the stores in The FUSA.
I don't know when the last time was that I walked into a Wal-Mart, but I am sure, judging by his professionalism and demeanor that the older man, not old man, who said "Welcome to Wal-Mart", had an important job with Monsanto or Dow Chemical in his recent past. I can only assume that he was paid at least $60,000 to $75,000 a year for that position when they downsized, rightsized, delayered or otherwise corporate sweet talked him into the unemployment line.
Are we still keeping in mind that there is, today, no government? I hope so. This is anarchy, right?
Then who's sending troops to Afghanistan to stop the people who are daily being born and raised in Afghanistan from being Afghanis? Isn't it the government?
The front men, the mouth pieces say the words, but The Corporatocracy, the so called private sector, is demanding that soldiers, preferably soldiers hired by Private soldiering corporations like the corporation formerly known as Blackwater, are demanding that the mouth pieces say the words to make it happen. The power they derive from the money they make, I mean literally create, creates offers that can't be refused.
If a front man is overcome with an attack of conscience, he or she is sent out to pasture on magic carpets macramà �d from papers which are called derivatives and credit default swaps.
Even if all Americans were to have a collective epiphany and begin to realize what taxes mean to a civilized society and that the word "society" means "we", not "me", we still couldn't raise enough to combat The Corporatocracy. They'd simply invent more of what they call "financial instruments", place values on these "instruments" and convince the rest of us that these "instruments" are, indeed, worth the value that they pulled out of their asses. We, as obedient consumers, would say, "Wow, that guy's really rich", when, in fact, all the wealth he owns consists of numbers in a computer database and in his, and our, minds. Pull the curtain back on these "instruments" and you'll find - nothing. That's right. There's no foundation for the claims that people make millions of dollars on credit default swaps or derivatives. It's a mind game.
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