Re: Amy Goodman gives her take on war and peace, and media — both old and new

surfer87501 — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:07:53 -0000

Mainstream Media = Corporate Media = War Media

Re: Assault on the working poor

surfer87501 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:08:51 -0000

The two national corporate parties are really all about CHEAP LABOR.

The price of labor is directly impacted by supply and demand. On the supply side, you have the native-born citizens of the USA, and you have three modifying factors: trade agreements (NAFTA / WTO), offshoring of production, and immigration.

The North American Free Trade agreement allows US corporate agriculture to flood Mexico with cheap grains, devastating Mexican farmers who become part of a huge unemployed pool that heads north into the US, willing to work for less than Americans.

Offshoring allows "American" multinational corporations to move their manufacturing and headquarters outside the US where they benefit from less taxes and cheaper labor, allowing them to sell their products as "made in America" yet avoiding taxes. and weakening America by reducing our manufacturing capacity, yet giving them unfettered access to our market.

And immigration policy, or the lack of it, makes it possible for foreigners, legal and illegal, to grow the labor supply and drive down the price of labor within the US.

It's basically a question of our government deciding how they want to modify the labor factors. However, our elected officials are more or less selected by expensive elections run by corporate money.

The corporate entities seem to only be driven by making profits for their management teams and their shareholders. They do not seem to have the best interests of their host nation as a concern.

American workers seem to not understand this, but accept hook, line and sinker the information fed to them by the corporate press. 95 percent of the media is owned by 5 major corporations. Surprise, surprise.

Two key issues that should concern American voters are media reform and campaign finance reform.

Instead of discussing these issues, the two corporate parties treat us to popularity contests.

Citizens are treated like cattle in a giant feedlot.
The big question is: Will the cattle wake up, and if so when?

Re: Go away you horrible human being

surfer87501 — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:28:32 -0000

Hillary is pulling a Joe Lieberman. And she's going to keep going as far and as long as she can, because she's basically supported by the war machine. And those folks don't care if it's Hillary or John, they just want to make sure that it's not Barack.

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