Dec 12 2008

Do The Math #1

Thanks for giving me this opportunity to speak directly to America. I have a question that has burned my very soul in its need to be asked.

“Are you FREAKING STUPID or WHAT?”

I don’t mean to be insulting. Really I don’t. I’ve met many of you in my 45 and 10/12ths years functioning as an American Citizen. Individually, I have yet to meet one person in my years on this planet that doesn’t at least have a functioning clue what is in THEIR OWN INTERESTS yet, collectively you don’t seem to have a clue.

This isn’t being condescending. I am painfully aware of my lack of education, my inferior societal position as a middle aged, overweight housewife keying away on a minuscule lefty blog.

This is just utter confusion at how COLLECTIVELY you do everything in your power to act directly against your own interests.

I’m sorry. I asked it badly before. What I really should have said is this:



“Are you FUCKING STUPID or WHAT?”

Maybe I can help you out a little here. Let me help you do some very simplistic MATH!

Number ONE:

UNIONS ARE A GOOD THING.

Fair Pay=Good.

Safe working conditions=Good.

Reasonable working hours=Good.

How in the HOLY FUCKING HELL did you allow yourselves to be convinced that YOU, the WORKER are at fault for HIGH PRICES and LACK OF JOBS?????

DO THE MATH.

The old math was:

You made shit, worked hard to do so for fair pay.

You could afford to buy the shit you made.

You had employee Health Care.

The owner of the company made profit enough to be richer than you.

That was ok, for the relationship of job provider to worker/consumer was balanced somewhat.

You carried usually ONE man you KNEW, who usually worked with you to make his company a success.

The math you have bought into:

You make shit, work for less.

You cannot afford the shit you make.

You have no employee Health Care.

The owner of the company decided to sell little slips of paper representing a “piece” of his company called a share.

The owner of the company, and all the thousands of shareholders make enough profit to be richer than you.

The relationship between job provider to worker/NON-consumer skewed wildly.

You carry hundreds, if not thousands of people on the back of your work, all who DEMAND to make a HUGE PROFIT from your job.

DO THE MATH.

The thousands of faceless rich people want YOU to work like third world nations, so they can each make a BIGGER PROFIT on the sweat of YOUR BROW.

They don’t care if you can AFFORD your own well made product.

They make money off IMPORTING cheap-ass SHIT made by Chinese prison labor, and selling it to you at a MARK UP.

Then they blame YOU for not being Chinese Prison labor and making it cheaper for them to make shit, and make HUGER profits off of it.

Again:



“Are you FUCKING STUPID or WHAT?”

Do you really want America to be like Third World workers with no rights?

ITS THE PROFITEERS STUPID!

NOT YOU!

You say you don’t want anyone else, let alone a government controlling your life, yet you want to give up all rights to a bunch of RICH MEN WHO ARE FUCKING YOU?

You are not too EXPENSIVE, they are too GREEDY.

They want to own you.

After all, they can afford to buy the shit you make.

They can buy the good SHIT and sell you UTTER CRAP.

Go ahead, make them richer, make yourselves poorer, work two jobs at 5$ an hour.

They are LYING to you.

ARE YOU REALLY STUPID ENOUGH TO CUT YOUR OWN THROATS?

ARE YOU REALLY STUPID ENOUGH TO BUY THAT ITS THE WORKERS FAULTS?

HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN WALL STREET TYPES THAT PROFIT OFF YOUR ASSES?

HAVE THEY REALLY…. I MEAN REALLY…. CONVINCED YOU THAT ITS YOUR OWN FAULT AND TO “FUCK DEM UNIONS”?????

wow.

There. I said it.

I have never met one of you who wanted to be fucked over at your jobs.  I have never met ONE of you who didn’t bitch when you were fucked over at your jobs. You hate mandatory overtime, hate not getting a raise when the cost of living has skyrocketed. You wish your family had medical coverage.

I have never met ONE of YOU who would go to their boss and ask for a pay cut, so your boss can take a million dollar bonus.

You are smart. Hell, most of you are smarter than me.

Yet, COLLECTIVELY , as every year of my 45 has passed, I see you allowing more and more concessions. I see you not stand up for yourselves. I see you vote for the very people FUCKING you.

What gives?

I’m here to help. I will be doing a little MATH series for you to help you see whats happening to you. You won’t even have to get out your calculator.

THE MATH IS EASY.

Dedicated to Washington Union Busters fucking 1 in 10 of us out of jobs, while we do nothing about it. Bye-bye Big 3.

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    • Diane G on December 12, 2008 at 15:52
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    Nice Fucking Day, Stupid Fucks.

    heh.

    • Edger on December 12, 2008 at 17:39
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       Now it is the auto parts suppliers who want government money. They employ 600,000 people, more than work for the automobile companies themselves.

       If the standard for giving out money to companies is the threat of lost jobs, the auto parts suppliers’ claim is as good as that of General Motors. The argument against subsidizing money-losing companies to preserve employment is that it would be impossible to think up a more expensive way of helping people.

       There ought to be another way–and there is. Unemployment compensation should be expanded to ensure those losing their jobs will not lose their houses or their health insurance. Helping people on that scale will not be cheap, but helping them by propping up corporate losers is infinitely more costly: sooner or later people will find other employment, but the automobile companies will never turn a profit.

       They have been steadily losing money for a generation. Their predicament has nothing to do with today’s credit crunch or the stock market crash. It has to do with their being incorrigible foul-ups.

       Their record for money-losing is beyond comprehension. David Yermack, professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business, has calculated how much capital the car companies have destroyed over the last few decades.

       He writes, “General Motors and Ford…between them…destroyed $110 billion in capital between 1980 and 1990…. GM has invested $310 billion in its business between 1998 and 2007. The total depreciation of GM’s physical plant during this period was $128 billion, meaning that a net $182 billion of society’s capital has been pumped into GM over the past decade–a waste of about $1.5 billion per month of national savings. The story at Ford has not been as adverse but is still disheartening, as Ford has invested $155 billion and consumed $8 billion net of depreciation since 1998. As a society, we have very little to show for this $465 billion.”

       the rest is here…


  4. Consider though that it takes trillions of dollars a year to keep the morons under “their” rock.

    “Perception management” they call it.  Mind programming and control I call it.

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