Bashing Unions: Losing a Profound History to Ignorance

The United States corporate world has a long history of exploiting labor. We started with owning slaves and worked our way to child labor, paying more for mens work than womans and keeping pay to starvation salaries for blacks and people of color.
Today it is those same old white men who want to take away those protections earned and fought through the loss of lives and many injured to establish fair and equal employment for those in this nation.
I am 58 years old and I can still remember growing up in Detroit, my father coming home with huge gashes in his arm one day from working in one of the auto factories.
Protections did not exist for safety and it took another ten years for the auto unions to win those safety procedures and protect those on the assembly lines.
The unions not only provided protection for employees, fair wages for a days work, they kept the factories honest.
Today we have huge problems. As deregulation occurs, we have recalls of a myriad of products right down to larvae in Similac formula. It was removed from the shelves when my grandson was two months old. He is now 11 months old.
Baby cribs have been recalled. Children's toys imported by prominent American toy stores recalled because of lead paint. This, the result of "shipping" our production overseas to third world countries to exploit poor countries running the same kind of sweatshops outlawed in the United States.
Americans are shortchanged by an education system which gives short shrift to history, social studies and science lessons, all for the perceived notion we don't need those as much as we do reading and writing.
The results of our narrowed view of education is a narrowed view of the world, a lack of understanding and a mature world view.
Ironically, America is moving  backward as less democratic countries move forward.
It is exciting to see Egypt and other countries dominated by monarchies and dictatorships willing to die for a free and fair country.
It is sad to see such a world power as the United States continue to erode freedoms and protections such as unions, regulations to ensure safety, labor laws, and our very right to privacy (i.e. terrorist act).
It is  the ignorance of our general population which the wealthy corporations, banks and peoples prey upon to advance and promote the increase of wealth for themselves.
I have a history of watching those strikes in Detroit and the strikes did not derive from greed or exploitation.
I remember a country once proud of the protections and considerations citizens received and expected.
I see a country now steeped in ignorance and anger.
History repeats itself. I am old enough to see it. This history we are creating now is the past to the 1800's of Robber Barons and general poverty.
When we are willing to remove formula from a poor babies mouth (WIC) allow solo seniors to struggle and die alone such as the elderly man in Michigan whose power was shut off in the dead of winter and froze to death, , punish children for their parents choices, we are no longer a democracy.
We are no better than the lawless and brutal regimes of third world countries who kill, allow to die and exploit citizens, who are considered property and not fully free , self directed humans.
Video games and reality shows do not replace the important, no, critical need of our citizenry to learn  about and understand our history as it  is related to employment, workers, standards of living and corporate greed.
If the only way to teach our population about these events is through cable tv, cartoons, and video games, internet, You Tube and Tweets, let those brave enough to teach our population, please, do it now.

Bristol Palin, Republicans, , Black Friday and American stupidity

So Americans are going to show us, yeah they are, that nobody is gonna push us around, by golly, wink wink.
We're gonna vote a greedy, stupid, avaricious (look that word up-Sarahgrzzly), reality star who encourages her daughter to make a fool of herself on national tv,  quits her government job so she can  rake in the millions, and really doesn't give a shit about the US- to be our next president!

Yessir, no one is gonna pull the wool over our eyes-we showed "them" (whoever "them" refers to in the US)
we voted all those Republicans back into office-better to have our money blatantly stolen that have a "BLACK MAN" in office, eh?

Oh yeah, we know where we are going in this country-Back to the good ole USofA -
Where blacks and hispanics knew their  place and where God made sure women stayed in the kitchen.

 We don't have communists to fear anymore, but we have them there Arabs, and we are gonna get them-
why we have plenty of poor black and mexican boys who will fight our wars-
and if they refuse, why we'll just draft them to die.
Don't ever forget our Manifest Destiny
Our mission from God-

We don't need no good education to conquer the world-
Why, we'll just do what we always do-
steal from our own citizens,, corrupt other governments, invade countries, oppress our own and other countries citizens in the name of security, and stomp on anyone who questions the status quo-as "Unamerican"
Yep, we sure like our stupidity and ignorance-
makes us feel mighty powerful

Yeah, I sat outside target in my tent all night so I could buy the 46 inch no name tv-for 600.00
So what about it? It's the American way-got my picture in the paper..
I was first!!!

No more Pissed Off

 I have given up the PO'd routine. 
American citizens are proud of their vast store of ignorance.
I don't recognize this country -it has become a third world bastion of corruption, owned and operated by lobbyists and corporations.
The only Manifest Destiny the US can claim for fame  is the ability to destroy a huge country, once proud of its' melting pot, now stirring all kinds of prejudice, racism, anger, hate and stupidity.
I still have a teeny bit of hope we right ourselves (we did with McCarthy madness) before we implode.


Otherwise I am hoping I can lie low, live long enough to collect my retirement, fade off into some oblivious portion of the US that isn't full of the same scary people I live around today, and find a little peace.


Since when did this country worry about the national debt?
Since when did America worry about being fiscally responsible-at the expense of the lives of other citizens?
Since when did our citizens decide to establish a "worthiness" scale which will allow some to live and others to starve, suffer and die?
Since when did money become so much more important than the quality of life for all US citizens?


This country is ridin'  the wrong rails and there is no established track.
Of course, we refuse to pay to build one.
Growing old in this country is starting to look like one mean business.

Las Vegas ranked 55-dumbest city in the United States

The Daily Beast lists 56 cities from smartest to dumbest.
Las Vegas, as usual is one of the dumbest cities in the United States. (Number 55!) With only 7% of our citizens with Masters Degrees, 14 % with a Bachelors and a dismal high school graduation rate, we can proudly call Sharon Angle our own, can't we??

Randy Michaels-When Your Age Doesn't Get It..

At one time, former radio shock jock Randy Michaels was a maverick, just like McCain.
Their words were admired and actions tolerated.
People shrugged and said, "Hey, they make money(or policy).

What neither of them get is age IS a factor. Randy Michael's frat house  behavior was considered cute when he was-but as an old man- he is considered perverse in some way, immature and offensive. The old, "bare your breast " jokes may have been seen as over the top in the eighties but the Hooter's girls see a bespectacled old man holding a 100 dollar bill in his pudgy fist and think, "there are limits to this job, pervert.."

American culture looks askance (I am sure that is on Michaels list of 163 words not to use in journalism)
at men as they age-the jokes are no longer ladened with a" sexy masculine virility " they are viewed as repulsive, immature and a sort of expected male senior moment.

If you are a man over the age of sixty and still telling sex jokes let me give the picture in the brain of those under that age-a dirty old man fondling what is left of his balls.
Not a pretty sight?

Randy Michaels broke all the rules.Twenty years ago it was outrageous, cute and the generation loved it.
He forgets, his generation looks a lot like him now-with one exception-
they grew up.

Christopher Columbus A Fairy Tale

We Americans live in such a world of fantasy.  Trusting historical tales is tricky.
Christopher Columbus never reached North America. He landed on Haiti and Cuba. Spent time in islands off the coast of South America.
Why do we teach kids otherwise?
The roundness of the earth was established long before he took his three ships out to sea.

Paul Bunyan and Babe, Pecos Bill-acknowledged tall tales.
Columbus has historical significance in a small way.
But a holiday? A legal holiday?

Democrats lose majority in 2010 race!!

Open Letter to Democrats

June 18, 2009

Dear Democratic leaders,

What in the hell are you doing?

Harry and Nancy, can't you keep your kids in line?

You are going to give this country back to the crazies and the only reason will be the sheer disgust of supporters at your utter lack of cohesiveness.

An obvious flaw you all might not notice? No teamwork! You have members out there spouting off to the media to make a name for themselves -damn the teamwork. Every time I turn on the TV I see some red herring democrat vowing not to follow party lines.

What the hell!

You were elected to follow party lines.

Message to the egos-if you want to make a name for yourself-you are doing it-you will get voted right out of office. You don't think people notice backstabbing??-that's not independence-it's disloyalty and voters remember come election time.

Lately I am not a big fan of any party. Personally, I think the party is over for both sides.

But I am trying to give you a little advice here-you are going to lose your asses if you keep this up.

Citizens WANT affordable health care coverage, they DON"T WANT your sucking up and taking money from health care lobbyists and spinning it by calling it "independent thoughtfulness" on your part.

Voters want you to quit sucking up to the financial sector and get the country out of this mess.

Nail those credit card company extortionists.

US citizens voted for President Obama. Give US citizens what Obama promised. Quit undermining your own frickin party!

The Republicans party looks like satanists right now but you know something? At least they followed their leader-they got things done. Nothing voters wanted for sure-look at our country!

You are going to lose the opportunity to make this country whole again-or is that it? That is what you want? Your election is all about the money from the PACS, the lobbyists and your ego?

Keep this up and next election we will have a country comparable to any oppressive regime out there-and the Ayatollah (Gingrich). (Limbaugh),(crazylady Palin) or some other wing nut will be cramming their version of "Family Values" down our throats.

Get with the frickin program or you won't have a seat let alone a platform.

Follow the damn sheep and get something done up there!