Prostitutes in High Places
Who is the
highest-priced
prostitute in America today? At the moment, Barack Obama, but only
because it's his turn to occupy the whore house at 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue. Lesser whores, some five hundred plus of them, can be found
at the other end of that same street at the Capitol.
These big-time
courtesans
don't sell sex. It might be better for all of us if they did. They
sell our trust in them; they sell their power to make laws and
policy; they sell the country right out from under us. The procurers
on K street – they're known as lobbyists, though they're pimps,
pure and simple – set up liaisons between corporations and the
whores in the various houses who then put legislation together to
raise corporations above the law, and make it easier for them to make
money. The latest trick is to force people to give money to directly
to corporations. That's what “mandated health care” is all
about. Forcing us, not to give over money to the government in the
form of taxes, but money directly to corporations, for the purposes
of fattening executive salaries and shareholder profits. In the past,
this was mostly done by Congress, through legislation which would
transfer public funds to corporations. This is what the bank bailout
is. Laws are also made to make it harder for the people to get the
money back.
Now, these whores will
doubtless tell you that they're motivated to seek public office by a
profound sense of public service. In the past, I thought that they
were at least motivated by a desire to keep a cushy job. Now, I know
better. It is really to get on the high-priced Washington Stroll,
first as a whore, and later as a pimp – I mean, lobbyist. If
Democrats – or even Republicans – were really concerned with
keeping their seats, they'd pass a Medicare-for-all health care bill.
They'd be assured of being re-elected for at least a generation by a
grateful nation. In no country which has such a system is there any
widespread, grass-roots movement to get rid of it. If there is any
at all, it is from a right-wing fringe or some disgruntled doctors.
Politicians in those countries wouldn't voice a desire to do away
with universal medicare for a second, unless they were tired of their
jobs. Even a right-wing nut like Bush-loving Stephen Harper, Prime
Minister of a minority government in Canada, would not openly try to
do away with Medicare, even though it appears to be the most
cherished of his demented dreams. Yes, friends, our politicians are,
for the most part, only seeking public office to get in the way of
the K-Street Pimps and their money.
When these whores come
looking for your vote, tell them to forget it. Vote for a candidate
from a party other than the Democrats or Republicans. If you can't,
either because their isn't one to your liking on the ballot, or
because your local Democrats and Republicans have passed laws making
it impossible for other candidates to get on the ballot, go to the
polling place on election day, and take your ballot, and return it
without making a choice. You'll do this in different ways depending
on the way your ballot is set up. After that, get involved with ways
of effecting change in other spheres of public life. Remember,
democracy is much more than an election or rigged referendum. In
short, we've got to stop playing along in this game where we can only
lose.
The U. S. Supreme Court has made political prostitution legal. You might write the justices and ask that, when laws against prostitution come before them in the future, that they look as favourably upon sex-trade workers as they have on politicians and corporations.
Obama Gives Away the Store
I have said much about the crook in the White House. It is said
better here. The Republican and Democratic Parties are
simply the political means of shifting wealth from the people to the
corporations. The time to get rid of these institutions is
now. Take -- AND KEEP the pledge
NEVER TO VOTE DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN AGAIN. If you can't
vote for a legitimate political party, say, the Greens, than boycott
elections. Here's what you do. You go to your polling
place; have them check your name off as having come to vote;
when you're given a ballot, return it saying, "Why would I waste my
vote on these people? Where's real choice? What kind of
democracy is this?" or words to that or similar effect. It seems
to be truer than ever that, if voting changed anything, it would be
outlawed.
For those who voted for Obama as a peace candidate and the
reformer of health care, fess up: admit you made a mistake, or that
you've been duped. Then, get angry, and tell him that you
dislike being made into a sucker. This is the most devious
politician to come along in a long time -- maybe ever. Don't
worry about being lumped with Tea baggers. You won't be, least
of all by these tea-bagger idiots, who are in the pay of the same
people as Obama. Say no to government by and for the
corporations. Say yes to taking this country away from
corporations, and giving it back to the people.
Send 'em the bill
Americans are getting sick and tired of the Congressional battles over
health care reform, especially as it looks as though the
corporate powers, with the help of Republicans, the President, and the
Blue Doggies are going to win. I think I've come up with a way
to get some action from the Congress. Let's start sending
members of Congress our medical, insurance, and drug bills, whether
they are for true reform (single-payer) or not. The ones against
might get the message (though that may not be the case for the brain
dead); the ones for can use this as ammunition in the struggle.
Enough of this sort of thing clogging up their mailboxes may mean that
there is no space left over for the cash from corporate
lobbyists. See what happens. You have little to lose but
stamps and an envelope or box. Better yet, go together with
friends.
Yes: we CON
Obama conned the country into the belief that health care reform would
come with his administration. It's a lie. We'll be lucky if
things aren't even worse after he gets done cutting deals with drug
companies, insurance companies, and hospital chains.
The performance of this lying, cheating con man SHOULD be enough
to make all you so-called "progressives" out there think twice about
EVER supporting the Democrats again. Obama is a right-wing
stooge of corporate America. Take politics back into the streets
where things get done. Waiting for the Best Congress Money Can
Buy and Mr. Barack-the-Con-man to get reform won't work, now that they
don't need to scare any of us into electing them until next
November. Pound them and the President with the message:
Americans want single-payer, and if the insurance companies and the
drug pirates don't, too bad.
Better yet: stop paying for health care, drugs, or insurance
until there is change. Shred your bills, and send in demands to
get your co-pays back. Send your medical bills to
your Congress Member or Senator, especially if you have a Re-piglican,
or one of the Blue Dog sons of bitches (or Blue Bitches, as the case
may be).
The Democratic Party is, pure and simple, one half of the party
of corporate America. It is NOT the peoples' party. It does the
dirty work of thieves and scoundrels.
Create a no chump zone
It is time here in the USA that the people stop taking it. We've
seen the Congress and the President transfer wealth to the wealthy,
leaving little but no-interest bank accounts and unemployment for
everyone else. We see more and more war brought to us by the
"Peace Candidate". We have the same "Peace Candidate" in his
guise as the Health-Care-Reform Candidate selling Americans' health
out to the drug companies and the insurance companies, in spite of
saying
in 2003. Now he threatens people who support
single-payer health care, and is promoting a Big Pharma and Big
Insurance bailout scheme, that won't give everyone health-care
coverage. The politicians are not helping. They are in the pay
of people who have not one iota of our best interests at heart.
They are getting Congress to facilitate the further looting of the
rest of us. All that idiot effort to elect Obama and the
Democrats in 2008 was a waste. They are some of the leading hired
hands of corporate America. There are some other things that
could have been done, though, and could still do.
- You could have supported the Green Party, and made sure that the media covered them and other parties, and that your state's election authorities put them on the ballot.
- You could have hit the streets about the Wall Street bailout.
- You could have put the hard questions to Obama and company, especially as his positions on the Iraq occupation, health care, and the rest began to alter and look more like the Bush-Clinton-Bush positions.
- You could have been like Iranians, Ukrainians, and others who get really mad when they've been cheated or when they've been had.
- You can, even now, send a letter, e-mail, or bunch of flowers to your local, state, and national Democratic Party headquarters, and tell them that you will NEVER, EVER support, contribute, or vote for them again, because they are liars, tricksters, and frauds.