I Am Pissed And Sarah Palin Got Something To Do With It
Yesterday night, while watching CNN, AC 360, and saw a 37-year-old mom talk about her support for Palin and her blog, Moms4SarahPalin. I became livid. No, not because I don’t want moms to support Palin, but because I wrote a post supporting and thanking Hillary and Palin and I got nothing, no attention at all.
As a matter of fact, by reading all negative posts about Palin I started doubting my support. While I am the first one to tell you, “Don’t let anyone discourage you. Go with your gut feeling!”
I became discouraged myself. I told myself that I do not know enough about any of the candidates, nor do I know enough about politics to make further arguments. (I am 26, and this is the first year ever, I have been involved in politics). But, who knows enough? Even the politician themselves do not know enough. Can’t you tell by their answers during the debates?
God, I can’t believe I doubted myself. Ugh!
My brother told me that I should somehow reach out to the media if I got something positive to say. He said that it is what the media is looking for. My respond to that was, “I do not know how to do that.” And that was it. The fact is, while I am building a business, I am still trying to figure out how to reach to the media. I have not been very successful with that just yet.
I am just ashamed of myself. I am always the first person to say, “You can’t just say I don’t know, you got to find answers.” I however, did not look for answers. Media seemed to be out of reach to me, and I did not even bother.
I am kicking myself in the ass right now for not being active enough.
I still, can’t believe those negative posts discouraged my support for Palin. I though I was good at ignoring negativity and discouragement and do what I believe in. I guess even those that walk the talk, can sometimes falter.
And yes, I do believe that as fellow working mothers we should support Palin even if we do not agree with her. I am not the only one.
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my site moms4palin is now getting a ton of traffic from this interview and i had no clue why! Thanks for posting this I now know people are just getting my blog confused.
Sarah Palin is a lovely woman, isn’t she?
All of these Government billion dollar bail-out plans, may prove to be too little, too late. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that that doesn’t turn out to be the case. These Governments around the world are obviously panicking because they can see the whole system come crashing down before their very own eyes. Like everybody else, they too don’t want tomorrow to be the dawn of a new stone-age. Couldn’t these so-called experts have seen this coming before this tidal wave seemed to be right on top of us? Couldn’t they have prevented these times of drastic measures for drastic times long before they started heading in the direction of the current circumstance? They were obviously pre-occupied with issues which may prove to have been totally unimportant, if we continue in the direction we are going.
What has caused this economic crisis?
I have a few theories which I would like to put forward.
Why did the world’s industrial production base suddenly shift to China? There are cheaper countries in the world you know! Let us not forget that the Government of China is Communist. Communism is even more unpopular in America than Socialism, isn’t it? The ‘C’ word! That didn’t prevent the USA from investing in people enslaved under Communism. In other words, Communism may be evil, but investing in it and making a quick profit from it, isn’t, apparently.
Looking back in retrospect, all of that cheap labour under the control of a totalitarian Government, suddenly on sale to the world, was too much of an irresistible bargain to the profit seeking capitalists. Who would have ever imagined at the time that this very act would result in becoming the very cause of the collapse of the world economy?
So all of these greedy rich people, with visions of things like, ‘just imagine if we can sell each Chinese person a tooth brush’, were free to go and pursue their own desires in China. Soon enough for sure, factory after factory was being built there with foreign investment.
Even countries like Japan, who don’t historically like China so much, saw the China gold-rush as a situation giving no alternative but to participate in, if not to go under. The implications of not jumping onto the China band-wagon, were sure to spell certain doom. In other words, it was too late. There was already no choice. If your competitors were producing western products using modern production techniques and cheap Chinese labour, how on earth could even Japan compete with that?
As a result of all of this, China has been growing at an incredible and unstoppable rate, until very recently.
So why is the world economy in its throws of death right now?
Isn’t it obvious? If you take away the jobs of the middle and working classes in developed countries, only to give similar jobs to Chinese ’slaves’ at a fraction of the cost (which is what you are in effect doing if you invest in China), who exactly are the people who will remain being able to afford buying these products from China? The forever increasing unemployed American or Japanese might no longer have a choice on being able to buy anything but made in China products. Wal-Mart is a good example of this. If the general public aren’t saved by their Governments very soon however, they won’t be able to buy anything from anywhere.
If you look at the rhetoric of USA Republicans, UK Conservatives, or Japanese Liberal Democrats, they are more or less saying the same thing. Reducing taxes for businesses and industries will result in more jobs for the people (they say). They don’t mention that these people are in fact Chinese though.
Let’s take Toyota or Panasonic as an example. They have been benefitting from low tax rates for many years. They are also world leaders in their fields even though times are not good at all right now. Have they been increasing pays of their employees or creating jobs in their home economies to any significant extent lately? The answer is most probably not. In fact it is more likely that they have been cutting pays and jobs. The point I am making is, if the leaders in business are not doing so, how can we expect any business to be doing so!
The trickle down theory of the centre right is a lie. The truth lies closer to trickle down into their Swiss bank accounts.
The Toyotas and Panasonics protest profusely that if they don’t do what they do, they can’t stay competitive or profitable. This may be true in the short term, but in the long run, they must be made to understand that the incomes of their employees represent the buying power of their very own customers, the life blood of their business. Has anybody checked lately how much capital these companies have been accumalating and salting away? How much have they been investing in China lately?
The centre right Governments of the world don’t make industry responsible for giving jobs to the people. At the same time, as unemployment rises, they allow these same companies to give more jobs to the Chinese. At this rate, before long, everything will be produced in China, but no one in the rest of the world (having all been made unemployed) will be able to afford this produce.
The Chinese have been very pleased until just recently. Their plans on taking over the world have been going just fine. Having said this, even they are now horrified by what the world economy is unveiling to them. They realize now (a little too late) that they may have just about help kill the goose which lays the golden eggs (the world economy itself, that they too feed off).
Even though, what is being said, doesn’t put the Chinese in a good light, and maybe promotes racism towards them, let us not forget that the greedy unregulated capitalists who invested their (our) money there are more to blame. The average factory worker in China lives a hand to mouth existance with working conditions not far above slavery. Are they now the people who we want to crucify for this economic failure? I would strongly reccomend that we are very careful to even consider going down that path. Let us not forget how much of the world economy is now invested there. We certainly don’t want to now piss off the work-force or the government that is in control of all of this production base. If and when the world economy stabalizes again, there needs to be serious agreements made between all governments and businesses concerned as to how the buying power of the general public in developed countries can be preserved without any further deterioration. There needs to be like no time ever before, government intervention that enforces this. The livelihood of the the middle and working class (the life blood of the world economy) needs to be revived again.
Over the eight Bush years, apparently, the salary of a CEO in the USA has gone up from 42 times that of the average employees’ to an astounding 400 times!!! This suggests that the salaries of upper management and above are also disproportionately too high. That means they have become ten times richer than they already were whilst your salary (if you are very lucky or even still have a job anymore) has maybe doubled (just keeping up with inflation). The rich have been allowed to get very rich at the expense of the disappearing middle and working class whilst putting the world economy into jeopordy. These come recently super rich are probably as we speak in the process of selling up and running off to Dubai or Qatar to their safe havens where they can continue their tax-free spectacular life-styles under guarenteed security to sit this one through. This is another example of how the true trickle down is only into their own bank accounts. The working and middle class in effect are only just a resource to exploit when the times are good. Could it be this very disproportionately high income of the ruling class that has caused this economic crisis? I would say that it is very much at the root of the cause. The world economy couldn’t sustain or support such a parasite. If the world economy was a cow, I would say the mosquito which it constantly suffers, has now grown to the size of a dog!! Not a very happy or healthy cow!!
Think of your own salary and multiply that by 400. Isn’t that more than what the President of the USA earns officially today? Do you think that these individuals’ intelligence, skill, or qualification levels are 400 times higher than yours? They certainly weren’t able to prevent the world economy from slipping into crisis. I would go so far as to say, they are just greedy criminals benefitting through corruption, and their self-appraisals of what they think they are worth are just totally unrealistic, unlinked to the profitability of their companies or economies.
So, what do we do now? Barrack Obama becoming the US President is defenitely a step in the right direction. The rich who have become richer than their wildest dreams recently, need to be taxed considerabley more. Government intervension must prevent businesses from going bankrupt. The salaries of CEO down to upper management must be reduced to sustainable levels. The world economy needs to be kick-started with cash injection (again and again) until the engine starts and keeps running. This is what needs to be done now. Also, legislation which will prevent this mass corruption and mismanagement especially in the USA from ever being allowed to happen again, must be implimented and put into effect.
All of this raises another question. Now that we have seen how unstable the US economy is, and how much it affects all of us when it defaults, should we allow ourselves to be in such a vulnerable position anymore? Does the world economy equal what can or cannot be sold to the USA? Why should the value of the Euro, the British pound and almost all other currencies go down when a financial problem occurs in the USA? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? The incompitence, corruption, corporate fraud and malpractices are occuring in the USA. Shouldn’t it be the dollar that is depreciating? Can anybody tell me why this isn’t the case?
Most of the world was originally in support (or should I say, not so much opposed to) the invasion of Iraq. I assume, since it was true for myself, most of us beleived that it would reduce the price of oil. To the shock of the world though, oil prices did quite the opposite and sky rocketted. Is it therefore strange to assume that the very people who we beleived were the ones who would reduce the price of oil for us, turned out to be the very ones who decided that they could lavishly profiteer off it, now that they had seized control over more of it. Extortion! It would appear that corruption has prevailed over justice or concern for the well being of the world economy under the Bush administration. The colosal gains of a very few have again taken priority over preventing the world economy slipping into oblivion. There is a fact that most people around the world are unaware of or have chosen to conveniently forget about. When Saddam Hussein was still alive and in power, he wanted much cheaper oil prices for the world. All other OPEC members were totally opposed to this plan at that time. It must have been this very unpopular plan of his which inspired and spurred on the eventual invasion of Iraq and his ultimate downfall and execution.
The McCain camp and therefore the Republicans are arguing that Obam’s policies are socialist. They say that the ‘American Dream’ must be maintained and Socialism must be kept at bay. Having said this, (socialist style) Government bail-outs of banks and financial institutions are ok. In other words, bailing out the rich and corrupt is ok but the same does not apply to the rapidly increasing poor. Socialism for the rich only is perfectly acceptable. At this rate, they will soon be telling you that a vote of a CEO will be worth that of 400 ordinary people’s!
What is the American dream? My understanding of it is, being extremely rich, being able to flaunt that wealth, and not feeling guilty about it. Do I have the right impression? When that American Dream can only be achieved through organized legal corruption at the expense of others, should everybody be proud of it? In most countries it is just called corruption. When Marcos of the Philippines became extremely rich at the expense of his country, nobody ever refered to that phenomena as the ‘Philippino Dream’! Perhaps Robert Mugabe’s wealth must be attributed to the ‘Zimbawean Dream’!
Why shouldn’t the working and middle classes be assisted and preserved by socialist practises by Government? Why is that bad socialism, when bailing out banks and finacial institutions isn’t? That is like saying, ‘Let’s use everyone’s tax dollar to keep the rich rich, but of course that doesn’t apply to everyone else because it’s bad.’ (!!)
Some people find it laughable concerning the plight of Zimbabwe and how Robert Mugabe continues his life-style of a King. What is not so amusing though, is when it dawns on you that the USA and the rest of the world is not so different from Zimbabwe! In fact, that’s exactly the same place where we are all headed! All of these so-called ‘American Dream’ Super Rich are all merely varying versions of the Robert Mugabes of the world. They would all rather surround themselves in luxurious fortresses and military protection rather than provide you with a job or livelihood, now that they have successfully sucked you dry of any of your remaining wealth and destroyed the world economy through their greed and corruption.
Foreigner in Japan’s analysis is interesting to read, but the fact is that the USA is still rich, unemployment is still low, and even our welfare recipients are still more comfortable than the middle class of most countries. There are some very rich people here and in every other country. But in my opinion, that doesn’t matter as long as the regular folks have roofs over their heads and the opportunity to try for more.
It seems to me that, looking back, government intervention was behind the each of big problems that are occurring in our economy right now. I don’t think anyone can really separate the impact of capitalistic “greed” versus socialistic government actions.
As for CEO salaries, Americans can vote with their pocketbooks. They don’t have to enrich these people by buying either their stocks or their products. There is a lot of publicly available information on most big corporations, and for those who choose to buy stocks, there are shareholder rights. If US CEOs are rich, it’s usually because US consumers have chosen to make them rich. So I don’t see the problem with that. If some are rich because of flawed government intervention, capitalism isn’t the problem.