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Low Minimum Wage Keeps the Rich from Draft

Why would Congress give the richest 1% fifty percent of the tax cut yet fail to raise the minimum wage for those that need it the most? It’s more than corporate greed. (National minimum wage last raised in 1997. It is not indexed to inflation so people are loosing about 3 % purchasing power a year.)

Congress depends on the wealthiest Americans for campaign donations. By cutting taxes for the elite it insures that Congressmen get large donations to get reelected and that many Americans stay poor. Why would Congress want a lot of poor people?

One of the quickest ways to get out of poverty is to join the military. If the minimum wage were raised fewer people would need to join, the draft would be reinstated and children of the rich and members of Congress might die in Iraq.

Best to keep the masses as poor as possible for as long as possible. Don’t raise minimum wage or index it to inflation and don’t provide health insurance. Keep Americans dependent upon the GI Bill to avoid the draft.

Unfortunately we don’t have a Government, we have a full blown DICTATORSHIP in Washington. To keep the general population off balance they shout TERRORISM to keep fear in
the face of Americans. This causes complacency eventually,
and then submission by the people. This is what the Communist governments do to their populace. This is why we are losing retirements, and rights in this Country. And this is why big businees, and the religious Christian coalition are in the ears of Republican politicians spewing hate and discourd thru out our nation.

Hillary Rod’em Clinton Played the Reverse Race-card on Barack Obama

It was no accident that Senator Hillary Clinton raised the specter of race into her competitive politics with Senator Barack Obama for the presidency. Hillary and Bill are masters at playing the political game, and at manipulating the political landscape.

Hillary’s establishing the racial divide between herself and Obama is a reflection of her true colors. This shows that she is not about change, but rather is about more of the same in regard to an Un-United States of America. How long must this madness go on? It also shows her lack of class and taste, and her alignment with republican values and ideologies. The clintonest approach of being all things to all people is lacking in integrity. This kind of behavior is down right shameful, and is detrimental to the Democratic Party.

In Hillary’s scenario, she was President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Obama was Martin Luther King. She essentially subjugated, marginalized, and disrespected Obama and African Americas in general by expressing that Martin Luther King was a marginal contributor to civil rights reformation. Her subversive message was it takes a Caucasian president to make things happen. The Ku Klux Klan and other supremely white groups believe this too. In a recorded conversation, President Lyndon Johnson referred to Martin Luther King as a “nigger preacher.”

Senator Obama will need to use some of his audacity to challenge Hillary more directly. There is an inherent risk in this approach because the perception of bashing a woman could backfire.

He needs to hammer on Hillary’s lack of true presidential experience because just living in the White does not count. She was not president; her husband was the real president. Barack needs to emphasize that Senator Clinton failed at reforming our health-care system, which is a much smaller project than being president.

I understand, based on the author of a recent book about Senator Clinton’s life—that Bill was going to divorce her at one time. She talked him out of it. A person that wants to stay in a bad marriage has questionable judgment, self-esteem, and questionable qualifications to become president. Monica Lewinsky and President Bill Clinton’s impeachment hearings proved his sleaziness, and spouses are generally homogeneous in this regard. People are like water, they seek their own level.

According to the author of this book, it was based on empirical research and 1st hand information (Bernstein, Carl. A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Knopf, 2007. ISBN 978-0375407666; and Gerth, Jeff and Van Natta Jr., Don. Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Little, Brown and Co., 2007. ISBN 978-0316017428).

Hillary should have been more involve in helping her husband see the long view of free trade. She could have helped him to craft legislation to regulate corporations doing business in other sovereign nations–to prevent them from savaging the local environments, economies, and labor forces of these nations.

I don’t know all the details of how President Clinton and Hillary contributed to the current credit crunch, banking system crisis, and housing market difficulties. Pundits have stated recently that the Clinton’s contribution had to do with their banking system deregulation legislation. Also, the allegation is the Clintons networked and brought their banking kings, queens, and princes to Wall Street. This merits more research.