The Unlivable Wage Revolution Has Begun

During the last several weeks people from all walks of life who are mostly living as part of the "invisible class" have become visible. I believe we are witnessing the beginning of a true people's revolution aimed at upsetting the great and growing disparity between typical wages and incomes and the top scales of income and wages.The demonstrations that began on Wall Street are now spreading and the message is becoming clear. The protesting voices say simply that they will no longer remain invisible and unheard! They demand economic fairness. During the last 60 years, since the end of WWII we have emerged from a brief livable wage era (from about 1950 to 1970) and relative income parity to what is now an excessively unbalanced income distribution. The very rich have acquired Sheik-like wealth of Arabian oil barons, while the so called "middle class" Americans have seen their share of the "American Dream Pie" shrink to the smallest bite in modern times. At least 81 million American are now either unemployed, working part time while seeking full time employment, working for minimum wage of $7.25/hr, and sunk or sinking into poverty. These 81 million men, women, and children represent nearly 30% of our population. Their voices are generally ignored by many of us, and by most callous politicians who beckon to the call of their special money bag lobbyists and campaign donors. They will be heard loud and clear as their thousands will grow to tens of thousands and then multiply to the millions. Millions more who are one job away from foreclosure and destitution will join the swelling tide of protestors and become unstoppable. Politicians and others who dismiss this popular uprising against unfair economic conditions and unlivable wages will eventually learn that they are part of the minority and they, the politicians, will have to relent. Those of us who have been fortunate to have lived during periods of economic fairness and who now enjoy the benefits will also rally to the support of the "Wall Street Protestors" because we know that the protestors are speaking for all who have worked for a living. Financial institutions and their shenanigans finally were exposed at the expense of typical working American and their families who lost their savings, jobs, and health insurance as part of the present economic recession that mimics the Great Depression of the 1929-1939 period. The path from that Great Depression to now is a history lesson that deserves careful study and analysis. A separate series of articles on the latter subject is in my blog "Twenty-First Century Life on Earth". I for one am jubilant to witness the young and older American to join hands and demonstrate against the economic unfairness that has been the status for the last three decades, and to demand fair wages and incomes for all Americans. Hooray for the "Unlivable Wage Revolution"! Hold on to your seat. It is likely to be a bumpy ride and one that is long overdue.

The Joke's on US--Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell, Enjoy Your Laughs While you Can.

After the Tea Party/Republican Party succeeded to ransom the USA for a Debt deal, House Speaker Boehner joyfully exclaimed that he got "98 % of what he wanted". Whether or not the USA benefited mattered not to Boehner, he was overjoyed. Seems that the stock market investors are less than gleeful as the NYSE has plummeted since the Tea Party/Republican extracted there pound of flesh from President Obama and our nation. Now the world markets recognize the stupid action taken by the Tea Party/Republicans and the inevitable economic damage that it will cause. Millions of jobs will be lost in addition to the nearly 15 million Americans now unemployed. Consumers will be less able to spend their hard earned dollars as their incomes decrease, and social programs disappear.

Time has come to rally for the American people who work for a living and kick the Tea Party/Republicans and some wandering Democrats out of Congress and state governments also. They represent the most irresponsible self interested segment of society and must not be allowed to govern for the sake of our country.

House Leader Tea Party/Republican Boehner and his boundless happiness over sinking our country economically is itself self evident admission by Boehenr that he cares less for the American people than for his rabid and illogical money bag supporters. Sen. McConnell, leader of the Senate Tea Party/Republicans who filibustered all Democratic debt ceiling bills joined the joyous Boehner by stating they have established a standard plan to hold the American people hostage forever for all future debt ceiling bills. Seems that chaos forever is their idea of comedy.

Thanks "happy men" for your gleeful promises to screw up Democracy the genuine Tea Party/Republican way. If you were Abbot and Costello instead of Boehner and McConnell we might all have a belly laugh instead of a belly ache. However you and your lemmings and some Democratic fools pulled a joke on the rest of America as the economic downfall of our county will prove. Perhaps then we will upchuck you out of our system once and for all. If so the last laugh will be ours.

March of the Dead Brains

Like zombies emerging from a swamp, the Tea Party/Republicans march onward displaying Dead Brains leading the brainless and brain impaired masses over a cliff. Hooray for such an esteemed and enlightened segment of US politics. We should all be joyous as this display of brave brainlessness engulfs our entire nation. Eventually with a bit of luck we will be unable to think at all. This ultimate pinnacle of human achievement will finally restore total stability. No one will notice the difference. Let us all join the march of the dead brains, and bask in a glorious and brainless future.

Tea Party-Republican Deadbeats Rebuke Paying USA Debt

We all must know that when money is borrowed it must be repaid in accordance to our agreements with the lender or we become deadbeats subject to penalties and bankruptcy claims. Today the Republican/Tea Party Congress essentially opposes paying the debts that our country has incurred during the Bush Administration period of 8 year binge spending starting two unfunded wars and an unfunded Medicare prescription benefit. When Bush took office our country had zero incremental debt and a surplus, that was squandered by Republican budgetary negligence. Now the Republican/Tea Party advocates that our country become a deadbeat country and refuse to pay our growing debt. If the individual Republican/Tea Party member is ready to stop paying all their personal debts as a protest against any interest and principle payments due, than at least we might understand their opposition to paying our country's debt. They know if they individually refused to pay their personal debts that they would be subjected to very damaging financial consequences, and possibly be subjected to civil law fines and penalties. Their collective holier than thou arrogance aimed at defeating President Obama and the Democrats serve only their self interest and not the financial trust and well-being of our country.

If the Tea Party/Republican Congress blocks our country's repayment of our debt we will become the leading world deadbeat country, and our country's financial stability will be come sent into a downward spiral. Investors in treasury bonds will bail out and our debt will escalate. Interest rates will skyrocket in our country, as money flows out of USA Treasury bonds into higher interest securities. Stocks and employees savings will decline in value and all individual loans will carry higher interest rates.Inflation will spiral out of control as our dollar is devalued against more stable currency. Social Security and Medicare will be threatened as`will all federal and state government funding. We will begin to sink into a depression that will dwarf the 1930's Depression and unemployment will increase since most of us will have less money and our dollars will lose value.We will be unable to afford things that are beyond necessities. Unemployment will increase every where in our country, and roads and highways we depend upon will further disintegrate as government spending becomes curtailed. Home foreclosures will escalate and homeless will roam the streets unable to find a simple shelter. A Depression of unimaginable magnitude will soon grip our country and the lemming march to self destruction will become a steady march

Do the apparent delusional Republican/Tea Party Congressional members really want our people to suffer the consequences of being a deadbeat country? Or do they really want to change our course and responsibly work to eliminate the past excesses and rationally work with our President to solve rather than exacerbate the financial excesses that now threaten our country's future as the Earth's first Democratic Republic? The course that the Republican/Tea Party is charting will lead us into the perfect storm that will inevitably cause chaos and mass suffering that is unimaginable. The Republican/Tea Party mission is akin to the lemmings'suicidal death march that leads to their hypnotic self destruction. Are the Republican/Tea Party Congressional members following the lemming act? Will rational human intervention succeed in stopping their suicidal behavior? Or will the Republican deadbeats rule the day and lead the charge to self destruction of our Nation? You must take action if you care! Otherwise, ready yourself for the consequences of the Deadbeat Politics of the Republican/Tea Party.

Door County Roadside Wildflower Reprieve Has Ended--Next Year and From Then On Let Door County Roadside Wild Flowers Thrive!

Previously I explained how the interior roadside wild flowers of Door County had been spared the guillotine this spring and we residents and lucky tourists were greeted with wild grasses and wild flowers in all their budding glory. Now the pardon has been withdrawn and the Door County Highway Maintenance Department have begun their methodical destruction of all this beautiful enhancement of our roadways needlessly. We are told that this must be done for road safety reasons. Dear Town, Village, and County Boards who are responsible for the roadside mowing of roadside wild flowers how flimsy beautiful columbine, Indian paint brush, daisies, hare bell, prim rose, wild geranium, and so many other temporal flowers and willowy including rare lady slipper orchids can possibly be safety hazards?

These Door County enhancements are deliberately cut down during their peak blooming periods along dirt and gravel roadsides extending about 8 to 10 feet from the actual roadway edge. Except for a few high grasses growing at obstructed intersections it is impossible for these willowy relatively short stemmed flowers to obstruct vision or pose a safety hazard in any discernible way. When the growing season ends these flowers die back naturally and decompose, and subsequently any remnants would be severed during winter road plowing.

Meanwhile the beauty of roadside wild flowers would add to tourist incentives and used to attract photographers and travel groups who rarely have the opportunity to view wild flowers that grow in Door County along our roadways. The naturally growing roadside wild flower could become a tourist draw throughout the brief seasonal period that they grow.

Those of you who think that the roadside wild flowers of Door County should be a treasured asset that are allowed to bloom in all their glory and not be subjected to the County Highway Maintenance Department mow-down operations, please contact your local town and village boards and you county board representative representative. Speak up for an even more beautiful and self sustaining Door County by preserving the beauty of roadside wild flowers for all to enjoy during our brief flowering season.

The five lady slipper orchards (bright yellow spots) shown in this

along a portion of the roadside adjacent to our property have recently been mowed down after a very short but very appreciated life. Here is a close-up view of one of the five. Perhaps next year these treasures in Door County will be spared, and all roadside wild flowers can live for all to enjoy and treasure.

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Dances with the Daffodils

The roadside wild flowers abound in Door County! Thanks to the price of gasoline and the budgetary constraints in local and county governments we have been given a treat of a lifetime. As William Wordsworth wrote in his poem, "The Daffodils", we are given the pleasure of viewing myriad daffodils, columbine, daises, forget me nots, lady slippers, and numerous other roadside wild flowers that are normally guillotined by the Door County Road maintenance department. This year their premature deaths have at least been delayed by budget limits. Be it so every year so that the joys of spring, summer, and fall can become an annual event as we drive along the interior roads of Door County and view the wildflowers dancing.

Government Run by Indentured Fools for Corporate Puppeteers

The USA is a nation where Federal, State, and local governments have degenerated and are incapable of governing in accordance with the Preamble of the Constitution. We are constantly told what "Americans Want" by politicians who are bought by Corporations who tell the politicians, that we elect, what to tell us and do to us. They, the politicians, create laws and policies that force us to do what they are told do by their Corporate Monarchs. This form of government has evolved from September 17, 1787, when our Constitution became reality and was enacted for the purposes described in the Preamble and that was discussed in a previous blog.

The cultural, economic, and political changes that have taken place since 1787 are so enormous that we cannot imagine what the drafters of our Constitution would say if they were alive now. Our Constitution as written was for "the people", not for corporations and power brokers who dole out unlimited $$$$ to support their lackeys in government. "We, the people of the United States" are now subservient to Corporate powers and the politicians who are controlled by far reaching Corporate tentacles, including Multi-National Corporations headquartered in foreign countries, and often are exempt from US taxes. Governments of all types throughout our country are beholden to the strangle hold of Corporate powers, and those who obligingly serve their Corporate masters. "We the people" are caught in their stranglehold and foolishly allow the indentured political lackeys who govern us to do as they please, as long as it pleases their Corporate money bags to whom they are forever indentured.

We are without doubt becoming a country of fools who obligingly follow our favorite political leaders into their traps. Whether Republican/Tea Party or Democratic Party we are controlled by corporate $$$$$, since all politicians are beholden to $$$$$$ that flow from Corporations and very rich puppeteers as described in my previous blog under "Behind the Squeaking Door".

Can we, and will we cut the Corporate grasp that is about to transform our country into an Orwellian Dictatorship in which "we the people" are but pawns for the Ultra Corporations and their Lackeys to manipulate for their own purposes? Will we the subservient fools allow the indentured fools follow to the demands of their Corporate slaveholders, as we the people become disposable errata?

We still have an influence, albeit diminishing, and must awaken soon to avoid the fate that George Orwell describe in his book, "Nineteen Eighty Four", written in 1949, when I first entered UCLA to study Engineering. Much later in my life, after becoming a Corporate Vice President did I begin to realize how Corporations and Politicians become synergistic parasites that seek total control over all people not only employees. Since retiring about 15 years ago, I have witnessed the powerful growth of this parasitic synergy between Corporations and Politicians, and the reduced economic and political influence of ordinary people, and the extreme poverty becoming common for many millions of our citizens. I believe that we are on the cusp of Orwellian control, and we must confront and combat this impending threat to freedom, else we become totally enslaved.