STOCK MARKET SOARS AS MIDDLE CLASS DIES

We keep hearing about this so called recovery; how everything is getting better, unemployment is falling and, if the GOP is to be be believed, all of us are only days away from becoming rich. All of these are total lies if you make less than $250,000 a day. For those people, the sun is shinning and life is good. For the other 99%, life sucks hard and is getting worse by the day.

We have had forty years of plummeting wages, mostly because the demonetization of unions have decimated them and led to corporations running rampshod over us. True, unions have become greedy in their own right but I'd rather have that any day than the slave labor we have been demoted to. We have got to stand up and start demanding better for ourselves because the end result is a fascist state where we will be told what to do, and how much we can expect to get, neither of which will make anyone happy, except for the overlords or course.

It now takes two incomes to even come close to a one wage salary of the 1970's. Unfortunately for feminists everywhere, a lot of this has to do with women entering the workforce en masse at the same time. Without a strong union to protect wages, demand outweighed supply and one of the direct results is the plummeting of wages ever since. If your workforce is bigger than the amount of jobs you have, employers can lower their salary concerns as they will always find someone to work for less than you, thus the sad state of today's working poor. Illegal immigrants within the work force also helped to a far lesser degree.

Let me get this straight: I AM NOT ADVOCATING ALL WOMEN TO GO BACK TO BEING BAREFOOT AND PREGNANT! That ship has sailed and there is no getting that genie back in the bottle nor should we. Regular readers of this column know I am a vocal supporter of women's rights. However, with data showing that our children are being raised by no one and crime rates spiking highest throughout the 70's (and still haven't gone down to anywhere near pre-1960's), the fact we have women working with small children at home, I do find a bit reprehensible. But as these women HAVE to work, lest starvation come into play, it's all moot.

Clinton gets a lot of the blame for this for throwing welfare mothers off the rolls after three years and forcing them to find work. What happened to the sanctity of motherhood that the GOP has been playing up all week after Hillary Rosen spoke the truth that Mitt Romney's wife wouldn't know a hard's day's work if she fell in it?

Is motherhood hard? You better believe it. Is it the same as coal mining, crab fishing, or even dealing with your dickish boss day in and day out? Not even close. And it is bullshit to even pretend it is. The GOP is using this as a springboard to try to get women back into their good graces and, for the most part, it's not working.

We need to have some sort of new welfare program so that women OR men can stay at home with small children. I don't see the problem with that but the Teatards of the US think that we should all work our balls off for the lowest possible wage available just because they think being a parent is lazy. THAT is the real obscenity here. Where's the outrage over that principle? Talk about double standards, not to mention the fact that Mitt Romney said exactly what Rosen said three months ago and no one said boo on the GOP side. Fucking hypocrites.

Real wages peaked in the 1970's at twenty dollars an hour. Today it is $8.50, or a 57% decrease. Here's a link to an article and graph that shows this disparity:

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11480568/1/us-standard-of-living-has-fallen-more-than-50-opinion.html?kval=dontmiss

As the government keeps tinkering with inflation data, and are still doing, we keep getting lied to as to what the real inflation rate. This type of fraud is cheating seniors and the disabled from Social Security raises that they are legally entitled to. If the government hadn't stolen the entire SS trust fund, it wouldn't be insolvent either and we wouldn't have the GOP trying to constantly solve a problem they helped create.

Now, due to economic reasons, we are experiencing even further wage cuts as corporations have all the power to do whatever they like with no oversight whatsoever. This is from globalresearch.com:

"In the months immediately following the financial meltdown in September 2008, US corporations carried out massive layoffs, using unemployment as a weapon to bludgeon the working class into accepting unprecedented concessions. Big business employed new technology (automation, computerization) as well as speedup to cut costs and rapidly return to record profits on the basis of a smaller work force, despite lagging sales and revenues.

Obama’s forced restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler in 2009 ushered in a wave of wage- and benefit-cutting throughout the private sector. The bailout of the auto giants was predicated on the agreement of the United Auto Workers union to impose a 50 percent wage cut and the gutting of pensions and benefits for all newly hired workers. This set a new benchmark of $12-$15 an hour for US auto workers, previously among the highest paid manufacturing workers in the world, reducing wages to near-poverty levels."

So, as I have stated numerous times, the unemployment figures not only mask the true levels of unemployment but the fact that wages have fallen across the board. Corporations are raping us daily and the Teatards and the GOP want thing to get even worse. Mind you, democrats are almost as equally guilty as this research from globalresearch shows:

"A Reuters article published March 15 provides statistical proof that when it comes to helping the top 1 percent at the expense of everyone else, Obama takes a back seat to no one. The article notes that the movement of US incomes during the Obama “recovery” contrasts sharply with that which occurred in 1934, during the Great Depression. The 1934 rebound saw strong income gains for the bottom 90 percent of earners and a decline for the super-rich (the top 0.01 percent). The year 2010, saw the opposite. The income of the super-rich ($23.8 million on average) rose by 21.5 percent over the previous year, while that of the bottom 90 percent fell by 0.4 percent. National income rose overall in 2010, but all of the gains went to the top 10 percent. Just 15,600 super-rich households pocketed an astonishing 37 percent of the entire national gain. The article further reports that the top 1 percent’s share of real income growth has increased with each economic expansion, regardless of whether a Democrat or Republican was in the White House. The top 1 percent captured 45 percent of Clinton-era income growth, 65 percent of Bush-era growth, and 93 percent of Obama-era growth, through 2010. These facts demonstrate the existence in the US of a plutocracy that controls the Democrats and Republicans and the entire political system. Its deadly grip can be broken only by an independent political movement of the working class, fighting for workers’ power and socialism." What this means is that neither the democrats or the GOP can be trusted to fix anything. So what should we do? I have a solution. First, vote out ALL of the GOP, every man or woman anywhere who follows these true fascists. Then, once they all done, we set our sights on the democrats and demand they do better or else they go the way of the GOP and the Whigs and a new party, not one beholden onto corporate interests, is born. Will this happen? Never in a million years because the US has way too many stupid people in it who will vote Republican or Democrat no matter what, even against their own interests. The end result is that we are probably so screwed it's not even funny. As long as corporate interests dominate our lives, we have no control over anything. And the day will come, perhaps very, very soon, where the government will control EVERYTHING; when that fascist streak comes front and center. We have two parties being dominated by the corporations which is the very definition of fascism. So unless you think Nazi rule is great, you better get out and start voting some of these idiots out there and shunning the people who think that George W Bush was the greatest president ever. The survival of this country is at stake and the Teatards are the lemmings leading us over the cliff. For those who want more links, here's one to the global research article I used: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30005