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Everyone has a different take on the way they see the world and we all have unique perspectives based on our unique experiences. Sometimes someone will reflect on something and we might say "I never thought of it that way"

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Lou Dobbs- Champion of the people?

The outsourcing of American jobs does smell fishy. If it bleeds it reads and if it smells it sells.
Enter Lou "Superman" Dobbs to the rescue with his book "Exporting America". Personally I know how to read off a computer screen just as easily as I can from a paperback. In fact most public libraries now have computers on the net. I could save myself $25 if Mr. Dobbs put his book online for free. But no folks, this is America where everything is for sale, including so called "American values". Let me clear away the haze of American mythology for one moment.
America is not built on the backs of equal living but on the backs of slaves. Call it democracy, call it freedom, but know it for what it is. America is an imperialistic slave colony that the minority known as the wealthy possess. But don't blame them. The American system made it this way.

Stock market baren Warren Buffet anounced recently that America is more and more looking like a cropshare society. I believe it was always a cropshare society. It is just that now the land owners are no longer American. When slavery was abolished in America landowners came up with a new form of slavery called the cropshare. Low income white and black people were given tools and a small portion of land that they hoped would oneday be bought back from their owners. However the interest was so high that they never did. This was the so called "cropshare". But with mechanization and unionized labor the cropshare days were postponed temporarily. However the greed wasn't. Slaves could be found in other countries. Hence America's outsourcing.
Why are the borders open today? C'mon who's gonna turn away a hardworking wage slave. Now some may ask what has happened to the middle class? I believe computer and robotic automation, border jumpin wage slaves, outsourcing and a foreign policy cash cow government has killed the middle class. 8 out of 10 Americans won't be able to save a dime this century. So what should we 80 percenters do?
The answer is blowin in the wind. Empower yourelf and organize within your local community. Purchase at local mom and pop stores or local farmers markets. Don't buy on credit. Organize into buying co-ops for land and real estate. Don't buy at any of the corporate outposts like McDonalds, Starbucks or Walmart. Save your money through carpooling and local transit, find your movie entertainment at the local library, make you own lunches, get involved in community business events. Think local power. Remote distribution is a middleclass killer.
Cable televsion isn't your salvation. It only perpetuates the myth that people of fame, money and power are all that is relavant in the world. Are you a somebody if you are not an American Idol, a rich bachelor or a celebrity. By golly if you aren't then you should be in tears because you had your chance. I know it is has become a lonely world in the west. Seeing people on television has become a social outlet for our culture. It is addictive this way. People need to get out of the house and nourish the social needs with the community around them.

Real advice is free, critical and constructive. Lou "Superman" Dobbs is only critical with a money grubbin hand in your pocket. Hey Lou, careful of my *** when you reach down there.

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