tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534598933965521300.post1960277669356119254..comments2023-04-26T02:28:13.648-07:00Comments on Madame L Has an Opinion: Class WarfareMadame Ellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265879154586439823noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534598933965521300.post-45807458256789271962011-04-10T20:02:53.414-07:002011-04-10T20:02:53.414-07:00Dear Madame L,
I very much enjoy your blog and lea...Dear Madame L,<br />I very much enjoy your blog and learn so much from it, but I would like to make one suggestion. Don't use pink words on a blue background. It makes my eyes go a little wacky.Josie and Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182227576056415025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534598933965521300.post-53594011985945560212011-04-10T19:08:35.243-07:002011-04-10T19:08:35.243-07:00First of all, those aren't "TV News Chann...First of all, those aren't "TV News Channels". The most egregious is a thin and cynical opinion site, frequently propagating hugely false lies and provably false numbers to support self-serving opinions. This un-named but foxy corporation is paid by its advertisers to sell their product: to convince people who rarely read or think to be angry at another group... mainly by calling them names like "socialist". There are a fringe of racists out there that they just LOVE to pander to. (Case in point: who would possibly want to attack a new federal agency charged only with protecting consumers from rapist banks?)<br /><br />Second, please keep in mind that government and business, at least since the 1980's are pretty much merged: they are one and the same. Some people back in the late 1970's figured out a FAR better and safer investment than stocks. <br /><br />Third, keep in mind the #1 business rule: the Law of Supply and Demand. Thanks to an ultra-conservative Supreme Court, Corporations are equal to YOU, Dear Reader. The only problem is that they have vast wealth that they can pour into politicians' electoral war chests. For them, it's TAX-DEDUCTIBLE investment, and it generally pays off very handsomely - 10:1 to 1,000:1 (Case in point: the Gigantroid General Electric Corporation paid ZERO TAXES, and hired almost no one over the past two years. Now, let me ask: did YOU pay taxes? You chump. You didn't invest enough in your lawmakers! Why do you suppose GE could LEGALLY get away with zero taxes? Because laws were written to LET them. Who wrote those laws?<br /><br />Fourth: if you are a politician - and you just love the perks that come with it, and you don't mind making "just a little" rotten sausage - who do YOU work for? Do you work for that concerned citizen who writes letters? Or do you work for the Corporation that pays you HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars. Who REALLY counts in the Law of Supply and Demand? <br /><br />I wish I had a solution for this, other than requiring every citizen to watch more than one news source. <br /><br />But if you didn't even VOTE in the last election, then your instructions are to take a heavy black felt marker and write "CHUMP" on your forehead. <br /><br />A final comment: Alexis de Toqueville of France, writing about the new American nation he had just visited in the late 18th Century, commented that it seemed like a pretty good thing to him... <br />But he predicted it would fall apart exactly when people started voting money to themselves. In effect, it would become a giant Ponzi scheme. So if "Don't raise my taxes but keep my expanding Medicare" sounds familiar to you, then take a large felt marker, this time in red, and write an "!" after the word "CHUMP".<br /><br />Sorry. It's just so hard to watch this happening to the America I love.AskTheGeologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354833219992420022noreply@blogger.com