Friday, May 12, 2006
Warning! Warning! Rant ahead!
When analyzing the recent disturbing trends in government surveillance; please remember this is a bi-partisan issue. Carnivore, the primary tool used by the CIA when conducting this surveillance, was started in 1994 by the Clinton Administration. This was even before 9/11 and The Patriot Act. They have been snooping on us for years and Clinton started the freakin program!! So I don’t understand why the Democrats are clamoring for George Bush’s head on a stick.
This just goes to show you, it doesn’t matter who is in the White House or who is in Congress, “their” agenda will not be undone. I believe if Al Gore had won in 2000 or Kerry in 2004 absolutely nothing would have changed. We would have seen the exact same events unfold in the exact same way, just different heads delivering the speeches.
I get angry at Bush for allowing our manufacturing to dry up and move to China, Mexico and where ever else labor is pennies on the dollar but, in reality, it was Clinton who signed NAFTA to kick-start this process. He could have vetoed it but he was on “their” team too. In fact, we really do not have any leaders on “our” team and we haven’t since FDR (maybe JFK).
As long as lobbyists are allowed to buy laws and big business is allowed to buy elected officials we will never have any leaders on “our” team. Remember when they say something is “good for America” they are not talking about good for us. They mean good the richest Americans. We are needed only to carry buckets of shit from point A to point B. At least until they can bring in the immigrants to carry them cheaper, then we’re really screwed.
We seriously have to start thinking about electing Independents. I would like to see a true Labor Party in America. We could have one but they would probably all be outsourced.
When analyzing the recent disturbing trends in government surveillance; please remember this is a bi-partisan issue. Carnivore, the primary tool used by the CIA when conducting this surveillance, was started in 1994 by the Clinton Administration. This was even before 9/11 and The Patriot Act. They have been snooping on us for years and Clinton started the freakin program!! So I don’t understand why the Democrats are clamoring for George Bush’s head on a stick.
This just goes to show you, it doesn’t matter who is in the White House or who is in Congress, “their” agenda will not be undone. I believe if Al Gore had won in 2000 or Kerry in 2004 absolutely nothing would have changed. We would have seen the exact same events unfold in the exact same way, just different heads delivering the speeches.
I get angry at Bush for allowing our manufacturing to dry up and move to China, Mexico and where ever else labor is pennies on the dollar but, in reality, it was Clinton who signed NAFTA to kick-start this process. He could have vetoed it but he was on “their” team too. In fact, we really do not have any leaders on “our” team and we haven’t since FDR (maybe JFK).
As long as lobbyists are allowed to buy laws and big business is allowed to buy elected officials we will never have any leaders on “our” team. Remember when they say something is “good for America” they are not talking about good for us. They mean good the richest Americans. We are needed only to carry buckets of shit from point A to point B. At least until they can bring in the immigrants to carry them cheaper, then we’re really screwed.
We seriously have to start thinking about electing Independents. I would like to see a true Labor Party in America. We could have one but they would probably all be outsourced.
posted by DarthImmortal at 1:39 PM
10 Comments:
"What? You'll give me a $300 check for the next few years if I let you do whatever you want with my government?... COOL!"
We're the ones being bought out by bullshit. We're cheaper too. Politicians just more expensive. All we need is a computer, some ridiculous MTV "reality" show, and some celebrities to gawk at, and we'll turn a blind eye to anything.
PS. I love that you're so passionate about this topic! Keep up the good work on raising some stinkage about our lovely politicians for sale!
Liz,
Thanks for your kind words. I just saw one of the Demo Senators blasting Bush for this surveillance and blew a cog. I appreciate you being so understanding in my moment of ranting and blogging weakness. The reason I choose to publish my blog here as opposed to myspace is because I figured to find intelligent people like you. Myspace users seem more interested in what Tom Cruise wears to Charlie Sheen’s divorce hearings. Let’s try to keep up the good fight.
Finally someone on a blog who isn't afraid to say what he thinks. It doesn't seem to matter who is in the White House. These days I can't tell anymore.
Kittenwtw,
Welcome to the blog, I'm glad you joined us.
Leaders are nothing more than talking heads in suits. I cannot tell them apart at all either.
Thanks for the comment. I welcome all comments even the negative ones.
HAHAH! That's so true about myspace. I've got a profile up, but that's only because I know some people on there. All my blogging is done on my blogger.com blog too!
Leaders take risks by definition, but this all seems to be more of the same...
I am disappointed in GW. Great performance after 9/11 but I don't like his porous borders and lack of reinvestment in USA. I think we should follow the Japanese hybrid capitalism model where goverment sees strategic places we could be more competitive (Alternative fuels, etc) and gives money to get it done. They could do all sorts of things from computers to TVs if people had some startup money. They could pay college kids mid-grade pay until they were profitable and then hire folks rather than Wal-mart. I wish I were in government, because I'd PO the left and right with this idea.
Kit,
I think GW is getting ready to strengthen the borders but moving the troops in to assist border patrol. This is just temporary until the Border Guards can bolster their ranks.
Japanese culture fascinates me and I know you have a Masters Degree in Japanese culture. They almost have a mixture of socialism and capitalism which is what I like too. Am I right about this?
Well, do you guys know where the money came from for the border patrol? A big chunk of it is coming from the NSF (National Science Foundation), which is the largest funder of higher education and grant money to academic researchers out there. It's been an under the table switcheroo for the last 2 months, but a lot of my own professors have lost their grants because the federal government doesn't have the money for the immigration stuff, so they're taking it from higher education.
I almost didn't have a job this summer because of it. My boss lost his $25,000 grant because of federal higher education cuts to pay for immigration reform from which he had planned on paying me. He did find funding from the National Forestry Service, which is the only reason I still have a job.
Darth,
Yeah, they have a mix of socialism and capitalism. The problem now is that the banking system is so corrupt that no one really knows who owes what to whom. Lots of under the table deals were made, so they leave things as they are. They need political reform. At least Koizumi has been working on this by restructuring the way bureaucracy and the ministries operate as well as privatising the postal system (Politicians fleeced the postal system to take money as needed...this needed ot become untouchable to allow other politicians a chance to run and compete with the fat-cats.)
One thing though, the China outsourcing happened largely under Clinton. Bush tried to fix things earlier on by raising heavy tarrifs on imported steel, but this actually raised the price and hurt American construction and manufacturing worse; we couldn't sell anything overseas either. It's a precarious position since everything is now so globalized. How do we go back to a semi-self-dependant model? IT's the next question that will be raised in the next 5-10 yeas.
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