“Cut it or shut it”

I totally agree Tea Party I totally agree! Government shutdown now!

HOWEVER that means we shut down the TSA, the military, coast guard, national guard, social security, medicaid, medicare, homeland security, agricultural subsidies, pork spending, etc.

SO if your all for that than indeed lets SHUT ER DOWN!!

HOWEVER don’t start carving stuff out and proclaiming your disgust with government!

HOW ABOUT We pullback the security state being built by the CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, and private security firms along with the Military Industrial Complex? That would save a boat load of money! How about we step back from being The World’s RoboCop? NO? Why?

Well I am all for scaling back the depth and breadth of government spending in the areas of bloat and hubris, but to say “Cut it or shut it” remember what that comes with? NO MORE SPINACH………BUT NO MORE CAKE AS WELL!

Inside Job?

I love this movie! Finally, a leveling of the playing field. Not in a, “Look what you’ve done! We’ll get even!” sort of way, but in a, “Now we know everything,” sort of way. I’ve been fleshing out an argument in recent AdPopulum posts that the world we (of a certain generation) grew up in no longer exists. There is no American democracy: we’re not even a country, we’re a corporation. There is no equity: there is only the hot potato exchange of debt. Nobody was even remotely punished for the actions in this film, and the very actions this film examines continue to this day fully unabated.

The world isn’t changing: It’s changed! There is no going back now. Wasting breath on regulation – or whatever else one might propose – seems completely flimsy and futile. The fact of the matter is the masters of the market have rebuilt the markets in their own image, and nothing will ever change that. Organized crime at its finest? You damn sure better believe it! But, notice that your president is in collusion, notice that all of the academic institutions, legislators, regulators, and sundry government agencies are complicit. Notice that we, too, are implicated with our relentless need for credit and consumption.

Inside Job relieves us all of the burden of having to wonder how the system actually works. No more conspiracy theories and elaborate charts of secret societies and obscure organizations (Masons, Bilderberg Group, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, etc.), the banking and MIC cabals have completely taken over society, and there is no longer a need for secrecy on their part.

Where does that leave the rest of us? I propose we take the information presented in this film – whether it be the stunning panoramas of global metropolitan areas or the explanations of derivatives – and figure out how to exploit the system that takes so much joy in exploiting us. Do what the system does: ignore protests and work proactively to build a better life for your share-holders. There’s seven billion hungry mouths to feed on this planet, so let’s hang up the Tea Party, and Liberal Agenda, and Constitutional Republic, and righteous indignation nonsense and get to work.

These are the people that run our lives. How does that make you feel?

In Defense of Public Broadcasting

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Loveless Regret Monster

America’s 2010 mid-term elections have come and gone. Much ballyhoo has been made over the Tea Party’s supposed seizure of corrupt government, but exactly which appendage of the enormous loveless regret monster have they actually attacked? Read the rest of this entry »

He Is Black Get Over It!

I haven’t posted in quite a while and I am compelled to do so not as a devotee of Barack Obama or an apologist for the DNC, but as someone who is fed up with a couple of misnomers being promulgated in the media and society today. First the F_ _KING Tea Party is not a group concerned with government overstretch because if they were they would have come out of their hypocrisy closet a long time ago when we began our Imperial Overstretch or more recently the Moral and Home Life Overstretch of their conservative and born-again brethren on the social right. Oh yeah and there has not been a president more intrusive in our personal communications in the name of a poorly orchestrated and lied about war than Bush, Cheney, and Co. They forced Verizon to bend over and take it, although knowing what we know of Verizon I don’t think it took much coaxing. They spied on Quakers, Friends, Peace Activists, and they thoroughly beat the shit out of many of us that dared to confront them in the streets of St. Paul in 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

The Tree Party Ethos

We can no longer accept Big Government. We can no longer accept hysterical and divisive politics. We can no longer accept societies which rationalize and justify wanton greed and destruction. We can no longer accept the shiny red apples lacquered in poison, or the oceans filled with garbage. We can no longer accept the ambivalence, recalcitrance and obstruction. We can no longer accept the petulant religious conflicts or the endless wars. Read the rest of this entry »

Bespoke Economics

So I am pasting below a comment I left regarding this amazingly one-sided and in my opinion just out in left-field piece from Michael Boskin (Excuse the first point as I know it is petty but had to make it cause you would never someone like this call Bush, Reagan by their last name only!): Read the rest of this entry »

Cut & Paste

I remember when Michael Jackson was still alive there was this joke that went around about never having seen him and either of his sisters in the same place at the same time. You decide!

I am wondering if that is the same case here.

Sarah Palin

Candidate for Delaware’s senate seat vacated by Joe Biden.

We’re Not Your Problem Mr. President!

I have known for quite a while now that the vote I cast for you in November of 2008 – my first ever vote for a member of The Big Two – was one that I would not regret, because I am still a huge admirer of your intellect, but would come to view with a great degree of disappointment and anger. Read the rest of this entry »

RE: The Tea Party Ethos Crystallized

I feel compelled to respond to The Tea Party Ethos Crystallized, a recent post by one of our regular contributors.

If you are going to go as far as to say, “Until the Tea Party purges itself of hate speech there is no need for a right-left discussion,” I shall go equally as far and say, “until liberals are able to recognize satire when they see it, or to drop their blindness to hypocrisy, there is no need for a right-left discussion.”
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