I'm edgy this weekend...

Well, I can be such a protectionist.

I think we have to admit that most of the people that are allegedly looking out for our interest (politicians) are bought and paid for by Corporate Interests. Our Corporate Masters are moving full steam ahead. Capitalism run amok.

They are all about free-market when our jobs leave and the class warfare begins….but watch how fast the tax-payer bailouts adjust the free-market for the Corporations.

Let's review what seven years of Pro-Business (Pro-Big-Business) has changed our lives and Country. The intent was to remove the Government imposed obstacles which impeded Business polices. Such as, pesky regulations, environmentalist/tree hugging policies, liberal "stuff", Nanny/Mommie Oversight, Safety Polices (such as FDA, OSHA, etc).

What are the results of the Corporations "having it their way"? We can't eat the spinach, carrots, feed our pets, or buy safe toys. Can you remember anytime in history there have been so many product recalls? E-Coli, Toxic chemical, leaded paints, botulism and much more seem to generate new recalls on a daily basis.

On the other hand, only a very small percentage of cattle are tested for Mad Cow. Technically, the only test a very small percentage of "downed" animals. We are assured the testing is a proper sampling size to represent the entire Food Chain (beef). The feds are suing (filed an injunction against) a private company because they, on their own, at their own expense, within their own labs, began test every Cow of theirs. A judge ruled in favor of the Private Company (which certainly seems to be the correct course of action). However, the Feds are appealing.

Yet, Industry continues to violate our privacies by requested intrusive bodily fluid gather and testing of applicants and employees on a regular schedule. Of course, they are testing for illegal drug use. A legitimate sounding justification! But the test's are not strictly for detecting illegal drug use during company time, the result will be altered by what occurred while a person was not at work (e.g. personal time). For the tests, detecting Marijuana is pretty much akin to detecting Heroin…but the reality is Marijuana can be detected long after any effects of the drug have worn off. Marijuana is not addictive. Marijuana has both medicinal and social properties which can be viewed positively. Marijuana usage cannot be directly related to inclinations of breaking other laws. None of those statements are true when discussing Heroin.

As we were assured the testing would never go beyond the limited scope of illegal drug testing, the practice is slowly expanding to determine other bio-metric information about an employee which might influence corporate costs (i.e. insurability and health care).

Corporations are beginning to dictate weight standards, cholesterol levels, legal tobacco & alcohol use; which are all factors influenced by a person's lifestyle not employment behaviors.

These cannot be justified as workplace safety issues when they are clearly geared towards Corporate Cost Containment. Cost containment and testing for potential liabilities trump the more logical testing of ensuring the Safety of our Food Chain.
Increasingly we are learning how the Food Chain is not being protected and has been compromised. All US Rice has been contaminated by genetic modification. The "oversight" agencies are issuing retro-active authorization without knowing the long term implications of biological and genetically modified experiments simply because the food chain has been accidentally compromised.

Corporations have active programs privatizing our Country and other's crops and are suing farmers for what have been century old practices of collecting and saving plant seeds.

Efforts to privatize water supplies are underway and very little is known about the overall plans.

Mines are collapsing because of "earth quakes" or "mountain trembles" NOT because of "Retreat Mining". Retreat mining is the practice of eeeking out the last and smallest remaining utility typically at the expense of safety. There are measurable favorable safety metrics for the very few mines which use union labor.

The recess appointment administrator over Mine safety is an Industry man and does not have experience in Mine Inspections.

Our bridges are collapsing, our electrical grids are decaying, our roads are being auctioned to private interests and converted for toll exchanges.

You can not board an airplane with a bottle of drinking water. Simultaneously, the border gates are being opened wider to escort in the Mexican Trucking Industry.

With lower cost Mexican Truck capability it's only a matter of time before merchandise flows into the Mexican Ports. These actions appear to be a gathering threat to our own few remaining Independent Owner/Operators and the Longshore Union men and women. The rough and ready patriots that are very much the strongest fibers of our Country.

Big Pharmacy controls FDA. Lumber Industry control the Forestry Service. The list goes on and on. Office after office appointment, many recess appointments, have been handed to an Industry Corporate Interest. The best and most fitting description….MR/MS Fox…please go watch, not just THAT Hen House, but YOUR Hen House.

And the China Imports keep on coming in……..

Congress won't start dictating proper country of origin labeling. Wal-Mart isn't going to lose business. The "programmed" American consumer doesn't realize they are voting (with their shopping dollars) against their own interests. The hard-core Republican's aren't going to admit they have been snookered and the party has been hi-jacked. The Democrats aren't going to admit they are as Republican as the Republicans.

We will continue to blame our decline into a third world country status on the "illegals" and oftentimes thinly disguised contempt of legal immigrants, the unwed immoral single mothers, BLACK people, MEXICAN People, Martians, MEXICANS, Me, Liberals, Poor People, Muslims, Terrorists, declining family values….

Yet, we should all be standing up and saying…we are declining into a third world country status because we are watching our treasury being looted in front of our very eyes. The looters are white, wear business suits and ties, speak of Democracy and Freedom.

The Defense contractors bundle up our hard earned dollars and laugh at us for eating ourselves over STUPID @#%$. The American people are being played like a fiddle.

Remind me…what company pulled up stakes and relocated to DUBAI? Let's bail out the "mortgage holders" Please note the working is a clever way of making it seem as if the recipient of our tax dollar contribution is the average person, when in fact, it is the LENDERS. Plus, the demonizing of the actual victims as people who were too stupid to realize they weren't really going to be able to join the Homeownership club just make some financial contributions to keep things fueled just a little bit longer.

How is all of this happening so easily and quickly right there in broad daylight? Because, the Tyrannosaurus Rex standing in the dining room of the "flip-it" house is very skilled at keeping us divided.

There is the segment of the population too concerned that some lazy worthless son-of-a-bitch might get a few hundred dollars a month of tax money HE SHOULDN'T BE ENTITLED TO.

Then there is segment of the population whipped into the tizzy because the MEXICANS might come here and take advantage of our EMERGENCY ROOMS, steal a JOB, HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY!!!!!!

And the tempest pot stirrer will make sure some are focused about the upcoming WAR ON CHRISTMAS.

And the marketing firms known as American Journalist will keep a dazzling steady stream of bright beads and light (runaway brides, Princesses, Idols, Terrorists in the Corners, Made-for-TV-Reality War, and much much more).

A very well organized method of dividing and conquering by playing the fears of each of the well identified and studied control groups.

The fears are being fanned, the dividing is working, the snarling and incendiary hate coming up like bile…American against American….fiercely grasping to fight those Hollywood enemies (not that the hate isn't as raw and real as it gets).

Yet the actual play on stage, creating real life sets, and actors gracefully moving in and out of position for some reason go unnoticed by far too many of us. Just a tiny glimpse behind the curtain (certainly not impossible task) exposes something much more frightening than we have dared to fear. An Abyss of unknown proportion.

America we must Unite! We stay divided we are going to fall.