Friday, August 12, 2016

Vote for me and I'll make America Great again!

It seems familiar. I know I've heard that somewhere before, hmmm let me think when...Oh yes I have it! THE LAST ELECTION. AND THE ONE BEFORE THAT, AND THE ONE BEFORE THAT.....

The remarkable thing is that some voters, propelled by their fears and prejudices (also fears) swallow it and vote for the candidate that employs that refrain.

 The implication that the candidate wants to us to swallow is, of course, that until we elect the candidate saying this in the current election, America will be remain a weak-kneed,  simpering shell of a nation instead of the only remaining superpower left on earth; the #1 consumption engine in the world;  one of the top polluters in the world contributing to global warming and the associated environmental meltdown; with the most expensive and inaccessible health care system in the world and outrageously expensive "public" higher education at more than $200 per credit hour where I live,  NONE of which, this candidate brings up regarding his plan to "make America great again."

 But as I sit here writing this I want to scream to the nation if only you will listen: THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES A NATION GREAT is how it takes care of and protects
citizens against real threats, not the ones made up by corporate America and it's minions (politicians) to scare us into following their agenda for profit and re-election.

So how does a truly great nation "take care" of its citizens? It's this simple: By providing laws, agencies and services that protect and safeguard and serve the greatest majority, running a real democracy which THRIVES on COMPROMISE between the two sides in the halls of government instead of avoiding it at all cost like they do in Washington these days.(For Chripes sakes, they remind me of the WWE up there!)

THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES A MODERN NATION great  is these things which this country for the most part now, in my estimation, LACKS:  affordable housing; decent paying jobs for everyone;  a welfare and health  system that is accessible to them, PLUS those who cannot work and take care of themselves; affordable, high quality education for our children, and the ability for everyone who works to put a reasonable amount away for our retirement.instead, we seen the steady rise in cost of aoll these things and more and the steady decline in quality, especially vital things like health care (by my observation, "the fight to find a cure for cancer" is just really an Industry like everything else) and the water we drink and the chemicals poisoning us in our homes and work places, (oh those crazy Californian's, they think everything is poison! don't then know that  that Corporate AMERICA has our backs and would NEVER sell us poisonous products!)

To achieve all these things, our jobs what we have left of them, need to preserved because for working people, our jobs are ours and our families survival and good paying ones are required in order to relieve us of enough stress to be able to think of other things like who to vote for in the next election.l.

Therefore none of us working people should vote for anything or anyone for any other reason but our families survival (our jobs). In other words, voting for the candidate that doesn't talk strongly about protecting our jobs (instead of abortion, gun control and a ground zero mosque, all the things they campaing on these days  that are not real threats to us) and how he/she plan to do that, and certainly not the one who promises to fight all attempts to in any way curb gun ownership ARE running on RED HERRING like "I'll make America Great Again."

PEOPLE  Gun rights got nothin' to do with your family's survival anymore.

In fact, why do I even need to inform  anyone that we are about 1 1/2 centuries past gun ownership
being a matter of survival for our families and therefore, the ability for candidates to gain high office using this as a platform, SHOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE, that is we are smart enough and adult enough to understand  that the candidate employing such false rhetoric  is SCRUPULOUSLY avoiding ANY REAL issues that actually affect us in our every day lives such as safeguarding our jobs, our health care, our retirement and our children's education.

 Postscript: yes I own guns and yet I am not afraid for their survival! AFTER ALL, they have their VERY OWN Constitutional RIGHT to protect them! And if that doesn't the trick, they still have me behind them using them on any SOB that tries to take them! So, YAY! I got only one thing to worry about at election time, the only thing that should count to a family person when voting: WHICH CANDIDATE WILL BEST HELP my family continue to prosper (protect my job and make it better for me).


So who should we vote for in this presidential race? This is who: The candidate that  most strongly opposes the Trans Pacific Partnership, which is the greatest threat to jobs in the USA since NAFTA, in fact has been described as "NAFTA on Steroids". Why? Because no nation with superior wages and benefits has any business entering a free trade agreement with a nation like China that pays subsistence wages (like we did with MEXICO  with NAFTA).

So who is the point man employed to push TPP through Congress and  the public? Barack Obama. And who has he endorsed for this election? Hillary Clinton!

And also wasn't Clinton's husband the point man on NAFTA in the 90s? yes. So what has she said about TPP? Well I'd say that with the credentials I just spelled out, IT DOESN'T MATTER, she is definitely not the one, no matter WHAT SHE SAYS on the campaign trail, who is going to protect our jobs (our survival).

But just to  conclude the subject, Clinton has said TPP "needs to be strengthened to protect US jobs.". So like I said, she's for it and I want to ask "so how is that done, madam, when the countries  we are entering the agreement with pay a fraction of our wages to their employees?"

 It isn't done just like it wasn't after her husband pushed NAFTA down our throats. So what's she up to? She selling lies from her corporate masters like her husband sold us with NAFTA.

So am I saying vote for Trump? Well,  Not exactly because Trump's opposition on TPP isn't inspiring either. All he's said is "it's bad for business." But what about me? What about it being "NAFTA ON STEROIDS" for the working class in the USA? Why hasn't Trump mentioned MY CLASS and it being bad for ME?

 Frankly, where Trump is concerned, the answer to the last question really doesn't matter for me and shouldn't matter to any working, voting person because
I all ready have a hard time voting for a candidate that thinks I'm so damn stupid that I'll fall for his"vote for me and make America great again" Bullshit!

Trump makes  NO mention about worrying how the TPP will affect the majority of voters in this country (working class people). Certainly I know all ready  that the TPP will hurt SOME American businesses but not all of them, certainly not the ones that make themselves count with their money to buy our politicians.

Instead, TPP will hurt  the small businesses ran by people in or near in my economic class. Cuz you can bet that the TPP, like the World Bank is the dream child of the 1%ers who run our governments through our politicians and want everything for themselves and us all to be their slaves. But in a free society they can't actually shackle us like they want to, so it's more complex a feat for them to accomplish.

 To do so, they have to get us to do the job ourselves by believing all the BS of the candidates they put up for election and vote for them and in my estimation, they've  DONE A PRETTY GOOD JOB OF it in this election, fielding candidates in both parties set and ready to enact their pet project for world domination, the TPP.

And how? breifly by honing this technique over the last few generations:  controlling the information and  excising out of it any truth about such things as teaching children what it truly takes to become a mature adult and substituting information about how to be a world class consumer while telling them  that "this is what you need to buy and how you need to act  to be an adult"

Of the candidate running for president, Only Bernie Sanders came out fully against TPP and has explained in detail why, it's a raw deal for the USA  all the way around. That Obama is the public point man for TPP now tells me he became our president for one reason only: he was bought and paid for and put there by the 1%ers for this task alone just as sure as Clinton was before him for NAFTA. But this is hindsight for me because I voted for both of those assholes twice each.

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