"He's An S.O.B., But He's Our S.O.B."--Cordell Hull

The above quote has been credited to FDR's secretary of state in a discussion about the Dominican dictator, Trujillo.
I hope that Obama's state dept. has progressed beyond this attitude. Our current S.O.B. in Egypt, feudal relic Hosni Mubarak, is a reeking piece of human garbage that should have been thrown out decades ago.
Equally odoriferous is Secretary Clinton's ridiculous claim that we will support only "peaceful and orderly regime changes."
Right, Hillary--like the regime changes forced by our peaceful and orderly bombings of Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua . . .

It seems to me that America's foreign policy promise of "spreading democracy" demands our full support for the Egyptian uprising. Here's a chance for us to get it right for once.
Don't count on it.

"He's An S.O.B., But He's Our S.O.B."

"Taking Back America"--For Its Richest 2%

Okay, I give up--what exactly am I paying Federal Income Tax for?
Our conservative patriots in Congress have announced that they will save the nation by cutting federal funds for: Education, Agriculture, Transportation, The Environment, Art, Radio&TV, Food Safety, Social Security, Medicare . . .
In other words, everything you'd expect a halfway enlightened government to fund right off the top--before indulging anything left over in some fun stuff like invading foreign countries or helping out wealthy swindlers.

Amazingly, we don't have enough money to pay teachers or air-traffic-controllers, but we can afford to give every American millionaire an average $125,000/year tax break.
Give me a fucking break!

"I Don't Care If My Family Has To Live On The Street--No One's Turning This Country Into Another Canada!"

I love it. The Washington lawmakers screaming the loudest about "job killing" Obamacare are the same folks who blocked the single-payer, universal coverage option originally favored by Obama and liberal Democrats.
That option would have ended the health-insurance burden and freed American businesses, from GM to the mom & pop corner store, to hire tens of thousands of new workers.
But, of course, it would have sent us down the road to becoming a nightmarish, socialist hell-on-earth--you know, like Canada, Sweden, or Holland.

" . . . Best Health Care System In The World"

Of course John Boehner loves our current health care system--because of his wealth and his job, he doesn't have to deal with it.

I'd like to see a 28th Amendment to the Constitution. It would consist of 2 parts:
1.) Government officials must only have the same medical coverage as the lowest-income Americans.
2.) The families of all members of the the 3 branches of the federal government will automatically be drafted into the military when the U.S. takes up arms against a foreign country.

This would suddenly be the healthiest, most peaceful nation on Earth.

"The Business Of America Is Business"

When Calvin Coolidge made this famous statement, business mostly meant producing goods in exchange for cash. Times have changed.

Unemployed Worker: "Glad to meet you. What do you do for a living?"
Wall Street Assclown: "I make money."
UW: "I mean, what do you do?"
WSA: "I told you, I make money."
UW: "That's a job, making money?"
WSA: "Sure."
UW: "But what is there at the end of the day that wasn't there before you went to work?"
WSA: "Nothing, just more money on my computer screen."
UW: "Wow! Can I find a job like that?"
WSA: "Sure. Go get an MBA from Harvard."
UW: "Where would I get the money to go to Harvard?"
WSA: "You borrow it from me, of course. Then I can put more money on my computer screen without getting my hands dirty. What the fuck's wrong with you?"

We used to have factories, now we have office buildings.
A corporation makes clavens that sell for $10, while paying 100 employees $20/hr. to sit in cubicles and push around information about the $10 dollar clavens--with money that only exists on computer screens provided by investors who produce nothing.

Yeah, I don't see why that won't work.

The American Worker, Proudly Feeding The Hand That Bites It

Is there no end to this insanity? Not satisfied with new laws allowing corporations to donate all they want to political campaigns, Republicans in Washington now want to ban labor unions from making similar donations. Beautiful! The land of the free and home of the brave--where management can influence political decisions but not labor. Why don't we dissolve Congress, turn the nation over to the CEOs of the giant corporations and be done with it?

And the truly sickening thing is that bullshit propaganda from the NRA, Tea Parties, and the Religious Right has American workers supporting the lawmakers that are screwing them.

What's happened to this country? Is blue-collar America really willing to accept lower wages and benefits in exchange for the right to buy a machine gun at the nearest 7-11 or have its children sing "Jesus Loves Me" in civics class?
The men who fought and died for the labor movement in this country have got to be spinning.