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End the Rule of the Rich! VOTE the 261 millionaires out of Washington!!

June 3, 2011 in Economy, Stingy Billionaires

But if 40 years of tax breaks for the rich; 40 years of you or your parents working their asses off and not being fairly compensated for their production which has built this nation for the past 40 years; paying on average 25% of our income in taxes while the rich pay on average 17.5% of their income in taxes and many corporations like Exxon Mobil and GE not paying a dime; it you think that it’s a little extravagant to “loan” Goldman Sachs billions and also ask them to only pay 1% of their income in taxes; if you are fed up with rich little jerks like Paul Ryan, a born multimillionaire, who instead of paying his fair share of taxes, mooches off the taxpayers and on top of that wants to cut the lifelines of many Americans [What people like Ryan, Rand Paul and other wealthy nut jobs in Congress are advocating is nothing short of murder.]

We need a taxpayer’s revolt alright, but it is not quite the one that David Koch was hoping for.  We need a tax revolt that will close tax loopholes for billionaires like him. Ironic, isn’t it to think that his whole Tea Party thing may blow up in his face.  I hope to see that day soon–that day when the ordinary citizens of the Tea Party awaken and realize that they have been had.  When that happens, it will really be pitchfork time in the good ole USA.  The American Spring is coming folks.

If we allow the rich in Congress to have their way, the divide over the past 40 years will only widen. Rich slackers like Alan Simpson (Mr. Pig Man) imply that the American workers “lazy” but they are liars.  It is our labor and our under-compensated payment for it for the past 40 years that has built their unjust wealth and our resulting poverty today.  The American worker has been dancing in place like the organ grinder’s monkey for the rich for the past 40 years.

Freedom?  It’s time we gave the rich the “freedom” to be responsible and pay their fair share of their taxes instead of continuing to freeload off the backs of American workers.  ”Nice” is not going to get us anywhere  with these people.  I hope that ordinary Americans are beginning to wake up to this. We are going to have to start treating them with the same harshness that they have been meting out to us for 40 years–otherwise, NOTHING will change, except to get worse for the majority.  Being polite to them puts us at an extreme disadvantage. Being “polite” and “civil” is part of their propaganda to keep us dancing in place.

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FORGET THE MYTH OF THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM!

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS ON THE HYPOCRISY OF THE RICH FROM BOTH PARTIES

If you are still among those who think that this is a Tea Party Republican vs. Democrat issue you are mistaken. Our nation is currently controlled by the leadership of the wealthiest people in our nation.  They are somewhat equally divided between the Republican and Democrat parties. The rich from both parties joined together to form their own 501 corporation in 1987 so they could more easily (with the assistance of Wall Street donations) control the presidential elections. What more proof do you need to show that the leadership of the two parties are nothing more than the rich playing the rest of us for suckers?  The Commission on Presidential Debates was called by Walter Cronkite the biggest fraud ever perpetuated on the American voters in the history of our nation. He was right.

If there is a modicum of difference between the wealthy leadership of both parties, it may be one degree of separation:  The Tea Party/Republicans want to take the entire cake while the wealthy Democratic leadership still have a shred of conscience left and would leave us with a few crumbs.

But, as I’ve said to you before:  What good are crumbs if they are not sufficient to sustain life?  Right now, the minimum wage that the plutocrats in Congress have determined is “sufficient” for American workers is not even enough for a worker who puts in 40 hours a week to cover the rent of a simple one-bedroom apartment in any major American city.

 

 

Proclaim the Queen!

    HAITI WANT AMERICANS TO STAY AND THEY WANT ARISTIDE

    February 4, 2010 in Class War, Corporate Greed, Corporations, Foreign Affairs, George Bush, Globalization, Obama, Obama Administration, Political History, Stingy Billionaires

    The following video is one that comes from Narco News and so I trust it to not be a piece of propaganda.  I find it interesting that the people of Haiti are saying that they want the American soldiers there when in fact it was the Bush Administration that removed their beloved leader, Aristide.

    I’m not surprised that they want Aristide back.  Like Zalaya of Honduras, Aristide represented the people and stood up for them against the business interests of the USA.  Like the people under the leadership of Zalaya in Honduras, and that of Chavez of Venezuela, the lot of the poor people in Haiti saw great improvement under the rule of Aristide.

    I want to tell them:  “Fat Chance under the current administration, with Hillary Clinton in charge of the State Department, that a leader like Aristide who is so unfriendly to Wall Street to be reinstalled.  Look what she did in Honduras.  Not only did the US state department support the illegal Honduran coup, the Clintons sent their PR pal, Lanny Davis, down to Honduras to assist the crooks who had taken over in improving their image.

    The real truth of Honduras was that Wall Street business interests in the USA, supported by the current US State Department, wanted Zelaya out.  They considered him to be anti-business–after all he, like Chavez and Aristide raised the minimum wage–we can’t have that!  Hell our own Congress forestalled such actions for the people in our own country for 10 years!  Imagine–goods and other living expenses continued to rise–but for 10 years our Congress did not raise minimum wage in our own “democratic” nation.  However, you can bet your ass they raised their own salaries numerous times.

    SO WITH HILLARY CLINTON IN CHARGE AN IN VIEW OF OBAMA’S DO NOTHING TO UPSET WALL STREET STANCE, THE PEOPLE OF HAITI ARE GOING TO BE DISAPPOINTED IF THEY THINK THAT THEIR BELOVED LEADER WILL BE ALLOWED TO RETURN. Oh Washington will come up with some excuse, but it will just be another lie from the White House.  No apparent change from George Bush.

    In a 2006 interview with Jean-Bertran Aristide he summed up what the USA did in 2004 with that illegal coup:

    “So you have people who were financing misinformation, on the one hand, and destabilisation, on the other, and who encouraged small groups of hoodlums to sow panic on the streets, to create the impression of a government losing control.”

    That is exactly what was done under the Bush Administration.  They orchestrated this entire lie with the backing of Wall Street.

    THE REAL STORY OF HAITI HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BY OUR CORPORATE SPONSORED MEDIA.

    Bush regime change brought a bloodbath to Haiti, with the attendant massacres and human rights abuses. It’s hard to believe that the UN occupier’s disregard for Haitian life has just turned on a dime in a matter of days and they are just firing warning shots into the air now. The UN specializes in head shots. Their intent is not to maim, but to kill.

    “And then when it comes to 2004-6, suddenly all this indignant talk of violence falls silent. As if nothing had happened. People were being herded into containers and dropped into the sea. That counts for nothing. The endless attacks on Cité Soleil, they count for nothing. I could go on and on. Thousands have died. But they don’t count, because they are just chimères, after all.” -jEAN-Betrand Aristide 

    To be fair when the UN occupiers first came in June 2004, they just bore silent witness to the killings by the Haitian police and the goons who served the oligarchy. It was not part of their mission to stop the carnage, so they did not intervene to stop it. It was not until April 2005 that the UN began to systematically brutalize the Haitian population. The terror intensified in July and December of 2005 when Brazilian troops leading the “military component” of the UN mission committed bloody massacres in the shantytown of Cite Soleil.

    Proclaim the Queen!

      ABOUT TAX INCREASES FOR THE RICH–NOT NECESSARY. JUST CLOSE THE LOOPHOLES AND MAKE THEM PAY THE TAXES THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO PAY IN THE FIRST PLACE!

      January 13, 2010 in Class War, Stingy Billionaires, The Rich

      In a recent article titles “Obama Supports National health Insurance Exchange, the author states that:  “The House-passed bill included an income tax increase on individuals making more than $500,000 a year and couples making over $1 million.”

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      This suggestion is so damn lame that it sucks dead frogs to hell and back. First of all suggestion of the passage of such legislation implies that the upper5% are paying their fair percentage of their income in the first place–WHICH THEY DAMN SURE ARE NOT.  Following this suggestion provides the opportunity for the abusers to position themselves a “victims”.

      Most studies indicate that millionaires and above along with corporations, pay ON AVERAGE, 17.5% of their annual income in taxes while the average American is forced to pay between 25 to 30% of their income in taxes.  A couple of years ago Warren Buffett pointed out that he pays about half the percentage of his income in taxes than does his administrative assistant.

      FORGET ABOUT MORE TAXES FOR THE RICH–JUST MAKE THEM PAY THE FULL PERCENTAGE THAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO PAY NOW WHICH IS 35%–not 17.5%.

      REMOVE THE LOOPHOLES FOR THE RICH, THEN OUR NATION WILL HAVE PLENTY OF MONEY FOR HEALTH CARE–IN FACT, WE WOULD HAVE ENOUGH TO FUND SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE.

      DID YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT IN 2008 Goldman Sachs paid 1% of their earnings in income tax?  1%!  They rob the American people blind and then Congress and the Federal Reserve gives them a free pass on taxes.

      REMOVE THE LOOPHOLES FOR THE RICH NOW.

      People from private equity fIrms like Henry Karvis rob Americans blind and destroy neighborhoods and schools in the offing.  They should be stopped.

      Learn how they do it.  GET SMART!  DEMAND THAT THE JACKASSES IN CONGRESS START REPRESENTING  YOU AND NOT SPECIAL INTERESTS OF THE RICH.

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      Proclaim the Queen!

        Journalists and the homeless–mainstream responsible journalism is almost dead. It’s up to the Citizens now.

        January 4, 2010 in Class War, Inspiration, Is Poverty a Forgotten Issue?, Stingy Billionaires, Wall Street

        Mainstream, responsible journalism is dead.  If you had any doubts about that, consider the reaction of the LA Times to this photo that was taken below.  It shows a homeless man taking a photo of Michelle Obama serving soup to the homeless. [Of course, they are all shiftless no-goodniks like this guy with the cell phone taking a picture of Michelle Obama.  They are not so bad off.  The rich say things and believe things like this about the homeless because then they are absolved of their greed. Ronald Reagan with his Welfare Queen lies was a master at this dialogue..."they could do something about if they really wanted to-which is why the rich hang onto the mythology of Reagan's presidency.]

        If this unidentified meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cellphone?”. – from the LA Times, where you might expect  more awareness from its journalists in a city with over 40,000  homeless.

        Noah Jennings offered comments and challenges to citizen journalists in 2010.  I agree with his suggestions and would offer that citizens carry this involvement even to a higher degree by running for office. Only until decent, non-greedy-Wall-Street-owned-multimillionaires run for and seize back our government can we establish a true democracy instead of the oligarchy that we currently have.

        Jennings juxtaposed this crappy cynical photograph against the photographs that photojournalists like Dorthea Lange took of the homeless during the Great Depression.  Ms. Lange gave her photographs away to newspapers so that the truth could be told in photographs.

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        HERE IS JENNINGS CHALLENGE:

        Talk to a homeless person on the way to work. Ask to take her picture. Post the picture on your cubicle, Facebook page, wherever. Field the context questions your co-workers ask as they walk by and wonder about it. Look up the answers to what you don’t know. Ask why the person is there at all and without a home. Asking questions: that’s what citizen journalism means.

        HERE IS THE QUEEN’S CHALLENGE:

        Run for U.S. Representative.  Run for U.S. Senator.  Run as an independent against the good cop/bad cop arrangement that rich Democrats and rich Republicans have had in place ever since 1986 when they conspired together to control presidential elections.

        KICK ALL THE MULTIMILLIONAIRES OUT OF OFFICE!   OVER HALF OF ALL OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TODAY ARE MULTIMILLIONAIRES WHO ARE HEAVILY INVESTED IN WALL STREET AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

        DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT THEY REPRESENT US?

        It doesn’t matter if you have never run for office before.

        It only matters that you care–about the MAJORITY.

        Proclaim the Queen!

          More and more we see the face of the real Obama and it looks more like George Bush by the day

          November 30, 2009 in 2011 Blue Dog Pasture, 2011 Republican Pasture, Bipartisanship, Corporate Greed, Corporations, Obama, Obama Administration, Stingy Billionaires, The Rich

          Selling Out Democracy in Honduras: The U.S. and the Honduran Election

          Honduras’ November 29 election has been rightfully scorned as a sham by political leaders across the hemisphere. With the exception, that is, of President Obama.

          Barack Obama has sold out the people of America on:  Wall Street, Health Care, Afghanistan Iraq, land mines, and now Honduras.  He is a damn liar.

          The coup leaders, who along with their allies such as the Latin American Business Council have spent at least six hundred thousand dollars on Washington lobbyists and lawyers, count amongst their supporters several prominent congressional Republicans, including South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint.

          The US taxpayers even paid for Jim DeMint and other right-wing jackasses from Congress to fly down to Honduras a month ago to show their support for the illegal coup and corrupt government.

          The Obama administration succumbed to this pro-coup Republican pressure, announcing that it will after all recognize Sunday’s election.  What a sick farce!  You can thank the Clintons and Hillary’s “state department” assisted by Lanny Davis for this charade.

          FACE IT FOLKS:  THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS JUST AS CORRUPT AND EVIL AND MONEY GRUBBING AS WAS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.  They are just smoother talkers.  That’s the only difference.

          IT IS A CLASS WAR AND THE ONLY WAY THAT THINGS MIGHT CHANGE IS TO KICK AS MANY MILLIONAIRES AS POSSIBLE OUT OF CONGRESS IN 2010.

          RUN FOR OFFICE.  DO IT.  GET TOGETHER WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND RUN FOR OFFICE IN 2010.  If we want representation in Congress we have to elect people who are in touch with MAIN STREET–NOT WALL STREET.

          Proclaim the Queen!

            Goldman Sachs is so accustomed to welfare they think they are entitled to H1N1 vaccine too

            November 16, 2009 in Bailout, Banks, Stingy Billionaires

            Tell Goldman Sachs: Hands off the H1N1 vaccine

            This is beyond outrageous. While pregnant women and children with respiratory problems struggle to get access to scarce doses of the H1N1 vaccine, bankers at Goldman Sachs enjoy a stockpile of 200 doses — the same as allotted to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.

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              HERE IS THE PART THAT RAHM EMANUEL AND MULTIMILLIONAIRE CENTRISTS LIKE HIM DON’T UNDERSTAND ABOUT WALL STREET

              November 4, 2009 in 2011 Blue Dog Pasture, 2011 Republican Pasture, Obama, Obama Administration, Stingy Billionaires, Wall Street

              They mistakenly think that the prosperity of Wall Street is tied to the prosperity of Main Street. (or perhaps they know and still don’t give a damn)

              The prosperity of Wall Street is tied to the prosperity of people like Emanuel, the Clintons, the Axelrods, the Bayhs, the Ben Nelsons, etc.  You betcha.  These people all have millions of dollars tied up in Wall Street investments.

              They don’t want to see privatized corporate health insurance to go the way of the dinosaur as it should because they have some of their fortunes tied to these Wall Street death factories.

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              When corporations fire thousands of Americans to improve their bottom line–this does not hurt shareholders like Rahm Emanuel, the Clintons and other centrists.  In fact it increases the size of the dividends that they receive as shareholders.  As for Main Street, it means more potholes on our streets, more of our citizens downsized to another career in the world of the under-employed.  I have two friends now who are working not one, not two, but three jobs to barely break even at the end of the month.

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              The other thing about these thieves is that they don’t even pay the taxes that they are supposed to pay.  Ordinary Americans with our measly salaries pay between 25% to 30% annual income tax.  Corporations and the upper 5% pay on average 17.5% and many of them pay nothing, absolutely nothing in taxes to support the nation.

              If you don’t understand how people like Emanuel and other Centrists use loopholes, here is a lesson for you from Larry Loophole.

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                MORE TRUTH THAN JOKE TO THE YES MEN–Yes Wall Street has no morals.

                November 2, 2009 in Corporate Greed, Corporations, Stingy Billionaires, The Rich

                PERHAPS IF MORE SHAREHOLDER KNEW MORE ABOUT EXACTLY HOW THEIR DIVIDENDS ARE EARNED, A FEW OF THEM MIGHT START LOOKING TO MAIN STREET AS A PLACE FOR INVESTING–AT LEAST ON MAIN STREET ONE COULD MONITOR ONE’S INVESTMENTS.

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                THE YES MEN ARE SIMILAR TO THE “BILLIONAIRES FOR WEALTH CARE” that we saw this August and September at various health care reform town halls.

                Although definitely on the side of Main Street, these pretenders act as if the are members of the upper 1% and CORPORATE OWNED WALL STREET.

                In the clip of the YES Men pretending to be representatives of Dow Chemicals shown in another iflizwerequeen post, you may have dismissed the comment:

                “$500 is plenty good for an Indian” was made by a real Dow-Carbide public affairs spokesperson Kathy Hunt  in 2002.*

                DOW-CARBIDE PAID the family of Joshua Herb, a child who became brain-injured after being exposed to their pesticide, Dursban, $10 million in an out-of-court settlement. Brain-injured victims of its Bhopal gas leak got around $500 to last them the rest of their lives. When asked if this was not a blatant example of double standards, Dow Public Affairs Leader Kathy Hunt made the remark quoted above. Dursban has now been withdrawn from household use in the United States, but Dow still markets it as safe in India. More double standards. Don’t Indian children’s lives matter? Well, Dow has already told us what it thinks about that.

                TO READ A FACT SHEET ABOUT THE DIRTY DOUBLE STANDARDS OF DOW, GO HERE

                FOR MORE ON THE DOW AND INDIA STORY

                www.bhopal.net
                www.corpwatchindia.org
                www.bhopal.org

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                * DOW did officially retract the “unfortunate” statement made by their spokesperson.

                (1) On December 3, 1984, Union Carbide – now part of Dow – accidentally killed thousands of residents of Bhopal, India, when its pesticide plant leaked a vast cloud of lethal gas over the city. Since that date, at least 12,000 more people have died from complications, and 120,000 remain chronically ill. The Dow Chemical Corporation hereby expresses its condolences to the victims.

                (2) Union Carbide was originally forced to pay US$470 million in compensation to survivors, which amounts to about US$500 per victim. (Note: Dow hereby wishes to retract the 2002 statement of Dow PR Head Kathy Hunt as to US$500 being “plenty good for an Indian.” The poor phrasing of this statement has often come back to haunt us.)  SOURCE

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                  Proof that charity, as suggested by Cantor, is a bogus “let them eat cake Republican solution” that does not work.

                  October 16, 2009 in Bailout, Banks, Health, Healthcare, Is Poverty a Forgotten Issue?, Labor Struggles, Obama, Obama Administration, Stimulus, Stingy Billionaires

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                  You may recall that Eric Cantor suggested to a woman who asked what could be done for a friend who had no insurance and who had stomach tumors and needed an operation now.  Cantor suggested that there are a “lot of charities out there who might help her.”  Of course he didn’t name any specifically–that might have been helpful.  He just threw it out there–like so many other Republican generalizations–as if that solves the problem and absolves him of any further responsibility.

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                  REAL AMERICANS NEEDING REAL SOLUTIONS
                  NOT CHARITY

                  For example, how about if Goldman Sachs pays back ALL the money that they have taken from the American people? Then we might be able to return a little bit of it to Americans like these:

                  As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post ran a list of the latest stories of how the charity plan isn’t working out for many Americans:

                  One woman, suffering from the late states of cancer and breathing with the help of an electrically-powered oxygen machine in Houston was notified by “Freedom Power” that her electricity will be shut off.

                  Another couple were are just $28,000 away from owning their home and now they face foreclosure.

                  One woman is 97 and homeless, living with her two sons in a Chevrolet Suburban in Los Angeles.

                  Funding for homeless shelters is is dwindling in New Haven, Conn.

                  FOR THE DETAILS OF THESE STORIES, GO HERE

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                    Citigroup is fined amid tax crackdown–Could you make the crumbs a little larger?

                    October 11, 2009 in Bailout, Banks, Stingy Billionaires, The Rich, Wall Street

                    from Financial Times - posted here at 11:28 CST Oct 10

                    Citigroup is to be fined over derivatives transactions that were partly designed to help foreign clients avoid taxes on dividends in a move that could herald a wider crackdown against Wall Street banks that used similar strategies.

                    The $600,000 fine by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees broker-dealers, comes after the US authorities hardened their stance on offshore tax operations with a series of actions over the past few months.

                    The IRS on Sunday said it was examining “numerous transactions” but declined to comment on specific taxpayers or cases. The inquiries focus on whether financial institutions failed to withhold tax on payments made to foreign clients who may be liable for US taxes with respect to dividend payments.

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                    Queen’s comments:
                    I’m sorry, but if $600,000 is an example of a “hardened stance”, could you please make the crumbs that you throw to those of us not at the banquet table for the upper 1% a little larger?

                    Proclaim the Queen!