Privatization : The Silence Of The Poor

December 20, 2011 in Uncategorized

Have you noticed everything is getting privatized these past decades?

Ever since Margaret Thatcher in the U.K, and Ronald Reagan in the U.S of A, everything was/is getting privatized. Lawyers and Bankers are continuously gaining ground and power, even though less and less people in this ”equal world” can afford Bankers and Lawyers. Their fees which keep going up are like privatized healthcare… or simply privatized anything. We the People are giving  Corporations, freedoms they themselves require us to disvow, supposedly in the interest of all. And since Free Market Capitalists never ask themselves if these issues can be used to do wrong… we thought we would answer that for them:

From: http://newsjunkiepost.comThere is a certain naïveté on both sides. Anarcho-Capitalist think they are the real deal, even though their ideas came out of the same school of thought as George Bush, Greenspan, Reagan, Bill Clinton, George Bush j.r/s.r, and straight out of the Austrain Elite’s Mises Institute. Alan Grenspan shares pretty much the same ideals as Ron Paul, and his prefecessors.  Have we ever asked ourselves why Austria has been doing so well? Why their Socialist Country has been recorded as one of the best places on Earth to live. Well they certainly haven’t been privatizing everything, and getting shit for it. American Political Elites have been privatizing everything, with the Corporate wallet at hand to spend money generously while our Nation’s our AAA status is revoked. We are near Federal Bankruptcy not Socialist France, not Socialist Austria… oh yeah! Thats because rich people like Socialism for themselves and their companies. Basically,  the same entites/Corporations America has learned to hate because of their malevolent actions, on both sides of Politics. And here they are making their come back with Ron Paul. Not a surprise, just because America was mislead time and time before, doesn’t mean it will do right this time. The ”Don’t tread on me” slogan, was paid for by the Koch Brothers (who like every other Corporate fool will never be against privatization, just take Bill Gates for that… and what he said about what American Public Education should do), who also funded the Tea Party, is an example of this deceitful/manipulative distortion,  the rich invest in against the poor. Instead of just giving the people what they need.

And the wealthy Left seems to be ignoring this. It simply accepts these Free Market policies, just as Bill Clinton and Obama did, as a just centre. America is Capitalist after all.. right??? Actually that can be disputed, several of our founding fathers were against the same forms of Capitalist oppression we are seeing today. As they saw over seas in the U.K, remember Charles Dickens? Well many of your ancestors ran away from the U.K for that, not simply because it was too religious. NO, Americans didn’t want to pay the high taxes,brought upon by British Corporations. That was the origin of the Boston Tea Party. Which makes us have to rethink America’s past, who distorted it and how… that is how we learn from the errors of our past.

Americans have forgot what their ancestors really fought for, through distortion, and now they are being lead down an even more distorted path. Americans are being indoctrinated in an idea that says that too much state does this… Yes too much… or not enough State does this. Laws are like a Bible without a God, lawyers are free to interpret the law… as unethically they see possibly fit.

Privatization closed down public schools across America, under Obama. Hacked away by Bush/Reagan (reinforced by Obama and Ron Paul’s Greenspanish objectives, which is privatizing education/chartered schools). Don’t you wonder why State Budgets are being bankrupt, and the Federal Budget are being held hostage, by the same Corporations America built with its own sweat and hard work?The Corporatocracy surrounds us and if everything is private, they can prosper from their monopoly when they are big; and in a few decades, when they need Corporate Welfare Checks as they always end up needing, who do you think those Corporations will ask? Not the poor. Who will refuse their Corporations, and the truck loads of money, handed to a few key positions,  in exchange for a corrupt Fascist initiatives? WHO?

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Who can pay for things when they are private? The same 1% (and 3% of their indebted/embedded/educated underclass) Those who will not want poor American getting a College Degree. Poor people to the rich should always beg for their chance, so that when the rich offer them that chance, the poor (or anyone else given the opportunity), is quickly indoctrinated not to go whistleblowing., or even think themselves deceived. Because by then, elites will be disenfranchised, as they always become.

Privatization creates a classist society, which allows for the wealthy to change Laws. The19th Century U.K bosses/owners/Corporations, could tell their workers who to vote for. If we do not watch out, humanity can go as far back in History… as we allow our rich, back to a place, where nothing is public. The people’s voice can be silenced by the loud powers above. Next time Fascism will be just like under Pinochet, Queen Victoria, Franco, Mussolini, Hitler (all backed by Corporatocracy and Bourgoisie of the time), but without an America to come and save us, and indebt us. NO! Next time it will probably be for a very long time. These people have been studying us for thousands of years, Elites do not prosper from equality.

This cycle will perpetuate, the rich will get wonderful rights and freedoms, so many poor people have died for. And the poor will be property less, indentured slaves. Just how 18th Century America was, when it was run by rich U.K Plantation owners (financed by the same racist International bankers who later stopped slavery to make U.K more civilized than its counter part; although the U.K could no longer compete with the production of slavery, and it was already very badly seen by high British Society by then. The British like to be different if they can.

Remember that the Fabian Society was created by a wealthy Middle Upper Class; the doors of equality are slowly closing onto the poor. Just as the Church of Scientology does, to indebt followers to Scientology programs. Those who try to leave have no other alternative but to be stripped of all wealth, and shamed to never come back by their Scientologist family members and friends…

Inflation is occuring around the World, because the Corporate Monopolies have privatized and profited from many things which used to be Free. Or at least cheap (maybe a headache to the Government but cheap). And so one day those same monopolies will come back to preach, Corporate Socialism, and maybe the people by then will be against all Socialism except Corporate; because that folks is the reckonings and the life in a day of an International Banker!

 

The Anarchists Of Chicago

December 18, 2011 in Uncategorized

On November 11, 1887… 7 Anarchists were executed in Chicago:

Source: To-day, November 1887 —
” The meeting was peaceable and orderly. The speeches were of the ordinary political kind. Upon both these points the testimony is unanimous, and includes that of Mr. Harrison, the mayor of Chicago, a man strongly opposed not only to Anarchism, but to the working-class movement. Just as the meeting was breaking up, the police issued forth, armed, from the station, marched across the Haymarket, straight upon the small crowd in the street on the opposite side, just as the police at Mitchelstown marched upon the crowd there. The evidence is conflicting as to whether the police did or did not fire before the bomb was thrown. The balance of evidence appears to be in favour of their having fired first. A bomb was thrown. The evidence as to whence it was thrown is conflicting. From the alley said some witnesses; from a point some yards nearer the Haymarket said others. The balance of evidence is in favour of the latter statement. No evidence has been adduced as to who threw the bomb. Not one of the accused has been directly or indirectly connected with it by evidence. ”

” One man, challenged by the advocate for the prisoners, confessed that he had made up his mind as to their guilt before the trial began. Judge Gary disallowed the objection and allowed the man to serve on the jury. ”

” The feeling in Chicago is very intense. Among the wage workers the condemned men are regarded as being sacrificed to popular clamour and the yells of the capitalist press. Among the mercantile class it is considered that their safety demands the carrying out of the sentence. By everyone it is felt that it is no longer a question of Anarchism but of the classes against the masses. The sentence is a class-sentence; the execution will be a class-execution. Chicago is in a state of siege. ”


PHOTO: A sympathetic engraving by Walter Crane of the executed “Anarchists of Chicago” after the Haymarket affair. The Haymarket affair is generally considered the most significant event for the origin of international May Day observances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Crane

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

H1N1 Conspiracy Proof?

December 17, 2011 in Uncategorized

‎” In June 2009, the World Health Organization declared the new strain of swine-origin H1N1 as a pandemic. This strain is often called swine flu by the public media. “

VIDEO FROM: Apr 11, 2009… Chilly!… :

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Truckers Unwittingly Used to Transport Dangerous Avian Flu Materials?

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From the Health Freedom Action eAlert of April 8, 2009

 


1 In 2 Americans Is Poor Or Low-Income

December 16, 2011 in Uncategorized

” If it weren’t for food stamps and other government money for families who need help, we wouldn’t have been able to survive. ”

                                                                                                                                                                                      - Zenobia Bechtol, 18
NPR -December 15, 2011

Zenobia Bechtol, 18, and her 7-month-old baby girl, Cassandra, play in the dining room of her mother's Austin, Texas, apartment, where they moved she and her boyfriend were evicted from their apartment.Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income.

The latest census data depict a middle class that’s shrinking as unemployment stays high and the government’s safety net frays. The new numbers follow years of stagnating wages for the middle class that have hurt millions of workers and families.

“Safety net programs such as food stamps and tax credits kept poverty from rising even higher in 2010, but for many low-income families with work-related and medical expenses, they are considered too `rich’ to qualify,” said Sheldon Danziger, a University of Michigan public policy professor who specializes in poverty.

 ”The reality is that prospects for the poor and the near poor are dismal,” he said. “If Congress and the states make further cuts, we can expect the number of poor and low-income families to rise for the next several years.”

In a U.S. Conference of Mayors survey being released Thursday, 29 cities say more than 1 in 4 people needing emergency food assistance did not receive it. Many middle-class Americans are dropping below the low-income threshold — roughly $45,000 for a family of four — because of pay cuts, a forced reduction of work hours or a spouse losing a job. Housing and child-care costs are consuming up to half of a family’s income.

States in the South and West had the highest shares of low-income families, including Arizona, New Mexico and South Carolina, which have cut back or eliminated aid programs for the needy. By raw numbers, such families were most numerous in California and Texas, each with more than 1 million.

The struggling Americans include Zenobia Bechtol, 18, in Texas, who earns minimum wage as a part-time pizza delivery driver. Bechtol and her 7-month-old baby were recently evicted from their apartment after her boyfriend, an electrician, lost his job.

“We’re paying my mom $200 a month for rent, and after diapers and formula and gas for work, we barely have enough money to spend,” said Bechtol. “If it weren’t for food stamps and other government money for families who need help, we wouldn’t have been able to survive.”

About 97.3 million Americans fall into a low-income category, commonly defined as those earning between 100 and 199 percent of the poverty level, based on a new supplemental measure by the Census Bureau that is designed to provide a fuller picture of poverty. Together with the 49.1 million who fall below the poverty line and are counted as poor, they number 146.4 million, or 48 percent of the U.S. population. That’s up by 4 million from 2009, the earliest numbers for the newly developed poverty measure.

The new measure of poverty takes into account medical, commuting and other living costs. Doing that helped push the number of people below 200 percent of the poverty level up from 104 million, or 1 in 3 Americans, that was officially reported in September.

Broken down by age, children were most likely to be poor or low-income about 57 percent followed by seniors over 65. By race and ethnicity, Hispanics topped the list at 73 percent, followed by blacks, Asians and non-Hispanic whites.

Even by traditional measures, many working families are hurting.

Following the recession that began in late 2007, the share of working families who are low income has risen for three straight years to 31.2 percent, or 10.2 million. That proportion is the highest in at least a decade, up from 27 percent in 2002, according to a new analysis by the Working Poor Families Project and the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit research group based in Washington.

Among low-income families, about one-third were considered poor while the remainder — 6.9 million — earned income just above the poverty line. Many states phase out eligibility for food stamps, Medicaid, tax credit and other government aid programs for low-income Americans as they approach 200 percent of the poverty level.

The majority of low-income families — 62 percent — spent more than one-third of their earnings on housing, surpassing a common guideline for what is considered affordable. By some census surveys, child-care costs consume close to another one-fifth.

Paychecks for low-income families are shrinking. The inflation-adjusted average earnings for the bottom 20 percent of families have fallen from $16,788 in 1979 to just under $15,000, and earnings for the next 20 percent have remained flat at $37,000. In contrast, higher-income brackets had significant wage growth since 1979, with earnings for the top 5 percent of families climbing 64 percent to more than $313,000.

The new survey of 29 cities points to a gloomy outlook for those on the lower end of the income scale.

Across the 29 cities, about 27 percent of people needing emergency food aid did not receive it. Mayor Michael McGinn in Seattle cited an unexpected spike in food requests from immigrants and refugees, particularly from Somalia, Burma and Bhutan.

Among those requesting emergency food assistance, 51 percent were in families, 26 percent were employed, 19 percent were elderly and 11 percent were homeless.

“People who never thought they would need food are in need of help,” said Mayor Sly James of Kansas City, Mo., who co-chairs a mayors’ task force on hunger and homelessness.

New Drug Testing Targets the Poor

December 14, 2011 in Uncategorized

New Drug Testing Targets the Poor – Media Free International

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Recently many states have been putting into law required drug tests to receive certain financial aids.  In this past year alone, at least 30 state legislators have considered bills that would require people to pass a drug test to become eligible to receive welfare benefits. Some states have even discussed going further and extending this mandatory drug testing to the collection of “unemployment, Medicaid and food stamps.”

At the federal level the act which was introduced is known as the Drug Free Families Act, if put into place this “would require all 50 states to drug test all Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program applicants and recipients.” The Florida has already begun the drug testing administration and screening. Republican Gov. Rick Scott said “while there are certainly legitimate needs for public assistance, it is unfair for Florida tax payers to subsidize drug addiction.”

In Florida, each applicant must pay for their own tests, but if they pass the cost of the drug test will be reimbursed. For those who do not pass the drug test, they will not be reimbursed.

Other states, which have introduced drug-testing requirements are Indiana and Missouri.  Indiana has begun requiring “drug tests for unemployed people participating in state sponsored job training programs. The law in Missouri states that “if there is reasonable suspicion that a TANF recipient is using illegal drugs, a drug test can be ordered-but the law offers no guidance as to what constitutes reasonable suspicion.”

Historically, Michigan was the only state to ever force TANF applicants to submit to drug tests. The policy was struck down as unconstitutional in 2003 after the American Civil Liberties Union successfully argued that it violates the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches.

The current ACLU Communications Director in Florida did claim that the new law is clearly unconstitutional because “without having individualized suspicion… the government cannot drug test, especially wide groups of people cased on other criteria” such as their economic status.”

Title: New Drug Tests Target the Poor
Publication: In These Times; August 24, 2011
Author: Rania Khalek
URL: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11786/new_drug_tests_target_the_poor

Student Researcher: Chelane Beavers, Sonoma State University
Faculty Evaluator: Sheila Katz, Sonoma State University