Heard the mating cry of the Future eaters yet? "We are the Job Creators!" Today, a greedy small group has found a way to sell-out and exploit the entire Nation. Today, rather than companies creating great American works, they are deliberately destroying America's future. The scam is to set US back to wages based on minimum wage, with no benefits, no environmental protections, insurance, vacation, ect. Too, indeed create poverty and induce a desperate and separate Nation.
Here are a few questions for you. How is giving money to people who already have more than enough, unlike welfare? 'Here, you have a lot of money', so "WE" think you should have some more to put with it! Bailouts to the wealthy, Too Big To Fail are failures. Indeed, it is theft! Does having more money force one to use it to create jobs? Does having more food force one to eat more? No, it is stored away. Like canned food on a shelf. Like dried beans and rice; forever until needed.
These Republican would be creators, create destruction. We see that 401k programs are utter and complete failures as retirement vehicles, so they attack the last of the pensioned people; those with promised retirement funding. They go even further by attacking regulation of their theft. Rather than fix the lie they push, that is, 401k is good for you. The truth, 401k is good only for their profit. Thus, future is denied US. For the profit of today. To believe killing Unions is good for the people of a Nation is another Job Creator lie. People know what people need to live, even in the simplest State. Time is the line of progress; Consistent, continuous and inclusive, for all. The Job Creators wish to stop people from gathering together to discuss and monitor the cost of living, the dangers of their jobs and the negotiable solutions. They wish not to face the trained, analytical eye of cost, profit, loss and Nation. When the people meet, they learn and share. Republicans need US to stop sharing and learning. For we may see why they hide money over seas and why they work to subvert the Democracy and the people of the United States of America.
Wage earners need not hide money in a foreign country, it is spent in their country, on their needs. The Job Creators do need to hide it, to exploit their country and forgo Civic duty. According to the Republicans for wage earners to exploit their country all they need to do is need help. Help in the form of Education, Health care or food. While the thoughtful Republican complains the working American wants to much and we should lower their wages and cut our Taxes. Lower wages create need, not jobs. Their lower taxes just more dried beans and rice. In fact lower wages kill growth, cause debt and destroy healthy family units. But these creative Corporate Citizens believe destruction is creation of profit so on they go; to where they do not know, but profit for themselves is assured, for they just lowered their tax bills.
How long can these Republicans believe that hoarding wealth against the future, creates a good future for them? How long can these Corporate Citizens believe that controlling Our money, Our economy, gives them power over US? A Nation is its people and its works, nothing more. Republicans have proven time over time that they work for themselves, independent of the Nation. That if war is good for them, for profit can be made, then war is what WE shall pay them for! These Corporate Citizens force US to stick to and Subsidize Big Energy; though we know for a fact it has a shelf life and is a corrupt force in the world. The future depends on NOW, government investments created Big Energy, oil, the electric grid, the ports, all of it! To believe investments today in tomorrows needs cost to much is a Republican lie! For they are skimming off all the profits from the investments of the past! Real success is possible and is measurable. When employees, employer and State and Federal needs are met and there is profit in both Capital and Community, that is success; That is to be rewarded. The Modern Republican Corporate Citizen does not believe this, for they produce nothing. They stand in the middle, a zone between Government and production, Speculating, Pontificating, and writing exemptions to the laws of our land, that leave the people poor and with no recourse. The Republican Corporate Citizen continues without regulation to steal the wealth, prosperity and future of Our Nation, rewarding themselves all the while for their clever theft, never seeing the Country they Kill!
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
"Some Are More Equal Than Others"
There it was staring me right in the face the whole time, The Pigs and Dogs have it really well.
This page title and the pigs and dogs line, for those of you who do not remember, is a reference to the book, Animal Farm, by George Orwell. I am referencing this because what we have for The State Of Maine, is the double standard of the Pigs. If you remember in the story the Pigs deserved all the apples, for their brain work was hard. The Pigs also controlled all the money, to use for the greater good (which turned out to be their greater good). Whenever the Pigs had a desire they changed one of their seven laws ever so slightly, that the animal population did not really notice. Today the Pigs still run the state and the Dogs have all the paying positions in the private state. The private state has changed with the Dogs in charge, the public state has not. No longer do Dog companies offer full pensions, no longer do their companies offer good health benefit packages. Most companies have some form of 401k, which is really just the worker saving money in a gamble that it will increase, or even be there, when that imaginary day of retirement comes. The Dogs companies have lousy overpriced health care offerings for their employees, where the employee shells out more than half of their earnings for marginal benefits, with high out-of-pocket costs on top of high deductibles.The Dogs also seek and get many tax breaks from the Pigs, who have always been thankful for the Dogs.
The State worker, the Public worker, the Administration, almost without exception make more in salary and benefits, than their private state counter parts. Why is this? Is it justifiable? What do you think? Perhaps at one point, we, the state, thought it was the model for business to follow. Perhaps at one point we followed an old business model. But that model is dead. In the private state only executive Dogswine get the benefits they deserve for their brain work. In the private state business uses outside contractors and independent sources for much of its labor to reduce cost and liability. In this way, the private state has power to negotiate its contracts, always reaching a lower price; thus a satisfactory outcome. Our state needs to find ways to create jobs with our tax money. I say contract out the work to the people in the state. Let more Dogs in. Why does the state need to pay a $40,000 salary plus benefits to a photographer in the state's employ? Are there no photographers willing to take the state's call, when it's picture day? Why must all the plowing be state trucks on state runs? Are they better, more capable of doing the job right? Are the state plows cheaper to run? Probably not.
The state has actually sucked away the jobs for itself. It only wants to invest in itself as well. Take for example, investments in subsidized housing. We artificially lower the rent, so the private sector does not have to pay the employee enough to rent. We pay the rent for them through the state taxes instead. Yet we already gave the low interest loan to the private LLC to build this beautiful new low cost housing unit. The Dog makes money, The Pig gets fat and Human Services keeps their low income clients. We get hit three times for this. Our money is continually wasted.
Another example, we have a huge mental hospital, Dorothea Dix (BMHI), which costs millions to heat, has minimal clients, could never ever turn a profit as a private business, and we pay state employees to run it with huge benefit packages. The Dogs would never own it. These things, and many other examples of this kind of thinking need to be addressed. We need to get some share of those apples back from the Pigs. Let's start saving the state money by creating a private, competitive jobs market. Everything from Accounting and Labor to Photographer and Priest should be outsourced by the state, to the state. No other business really tries to pay a livable wage. Why should we? Well it's all something to think about.
Talk to you soon, Ms. Paula Page
This page title and the pigs and dogs line, for those of you who do not remember, is a reference to the book, Animal Farm, by George Orwell. I am referencing this because what we have for The State Of Maine, is the double standard of the Pigs. If you remember in the story the Pigs deserved all the apples, for their brain work was hard. The Pigs also controlled all the money, to use for the greater good (which turned out to be their greater good). Whenever the Pigs had a desire they changed one of their seven laws ever so slightly, that the animal population did not really notice. Today the Pigs still run the state and the Dogs have all the paying positions in the private state. The private state has changed with the Dogs in charge, the public state has not. No longer do Dog companies offer full pensions, no longer do their companies offer good health benefit packages. Most companies have some form of 401k, which is really just the worker saving money in a gamble that it will increase, or even be there, when that imaginary day of retirement comes. The Dogs companies have lousy overpriced health care offerings for their employees, where the employee shells out more than half of their earnings for marginal benefits, with high out-of-pocket costs on top of high deductibles.The Dogs also seek and get many tax breaks from the Pigs, who have always been thankful for the Dogs.
The State worker, the Public worker, the Administration, almost without exception make more in salary and benefits, than their private state counter parts. Why is this? Is it justifiable? What do you think? Perhaps at one point, we, the state, thought it was the model for business to follow. Perhaps at one point we followed an old business model. But that model is dead. In the private state only executive Dogswine get the benefits they deserve for their brain work. In the private state business uses outside contractors and independent sources for much of its labor to reduce cost and liability. In this way, the private state has power to negotiate its contracts, always reaching a lower price; thus a satisfactory outcome. Our state needs to find ways to create jobs with our tax money. I say contract out the work to the people in the state. Let more Dogs in. Why does the state need to pay a $40,000 salary plus benefits to a photographer in the state's employ? Are there no photographers willing to take the state's call, when it's picture day? Why must all the plowing be state trucks on state runs? Are they better, more capable of doing the job right? Are the state plows cheaper to run? Probably not.
The state has actually sucked away the jobs for itself. It only wants to invest in itself as well. Take for example, investments in subsidized housing. We artificially lower the rent, so the private sector does not have to pay the employee enough to rent. We pay the rent for them through the state taxes instead. Yet we already gave the low interest loan to the private LLC to build this beautiful new low cost housing unit. The Dog makes money, The Pig gets fat and Human Services keeps their low income clients. We get hit three times for this. Our money is continually wasted.
Another example, we have a huge mental hospital, Dorothea Dix (BMHI), which costs millions to heat, has minimal clients, could never ever turn a profit as a private business, and we pay state employees to run it with huge benefit packages. The Dogs would never own it. These things, and many other examples of this kind of thinking need to be addressed. We need to get some share of those apples back from the Pigs. Let's start saving the state money by creating a private, competitive jobs market. Everything from Accounting and Labor to Photographer and Priest should be outsourced by the state, to the state. No other business really tries to pay a livable wage. Why should we? Well it's all something to think about.
Talk to you soon, Ms. Paula Page
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