Face it. The Republicans want to run America like a sweatshop.

[Fire Walk With Me]

And they're doing a damn good job of creating it.

Impeach and prosecute NOW.

[Pierre.Suave]

1. YEAH!!!!

NOW DAMNIT!!!!!

:mad:

Actually, I want to get rid of an awful lot of people in DC, even the complicit Dems...

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. You may find yourself better served by gaining some seriousness where it truly matters

just as I may be served by gaining a touch of levity. Perhaps there can be a middle ground, AND we get to remove the problems that we face?

[Pierre.Suave]

24. trust me Peake

My comment was said in complete sincerity and awareness of the situation.

I said it, I meant it.

[GreenTea]

2. Just look at what Bush & six years of TOTAL republican rule brought us...........

the republicans controlled the Congress, Senate, Presidency, the Supreme Court and Attn. General (who won't do shit, won't enforce nor prosecute laws Bush constantly breaks) and the republican contributing, owned and edited corporate media (the Big 5 control 90% of our television news what we see & don't see - Murdoch, GE, Time-Warner, Viacom & Disney)....uncontrolled republican ideology & agenda clearly brought us corporate fascism and these same racist, elitist, selfish, lying, hateful, greedy Nazi republicans, they truly adore fascism. Why?

It's quite obvious....

Six years of absolute republican control has brought us huge deficits, biggest government ever, more spending ever, infringement on States rights, war for OIL and corporate profiteering, domestic spying, infringements on personal freedoms, corruption, republican sex scandals, torture, the dollar falling to record lows, gas prices near $4.00 a gallon before the 2006 election, pollution at an all time high, no regard for our environment ONLY about business profits... as the workers are paying higher taxes each of the last seven years, while the rich & corporations pay less taxes each of the last seven years....

Republicans corporate ideology is that all taxes are meant (including all workers taxes) only, for the rich & the corporations....not the workers, the slavery they want is from you and me.

Republican ideology hates and must destroy unions, they despise having to pay workers wages and salaries...they hate paying for health insurance, minimum wage, vacation pay, sick pay, a 40 hour week and eight hour day, over-time, pensions.

Most are so blind they don't even realize they are the ones whom the republicans and the rich and their corporations would love to have as slaves...no back talk...just work until you die, for their profit, gain and lifestyle, the "elite" republican pigs!

Republican ideology certainly doesn't want to be accountable to the common man, the worker or the environment...it's ALL theirs for the taking and their pleasure...with no regulations nor accountability ever!

The American military is already as close to slavery as there is, the republicans and corporations (and the rich) would love it if the military was enforceable upon all of us, complete slavery to enhance their world fascism & imperialism....It's no different than from any other slavery based empire in past centuries!

We are ALL just peasants in their eyes...

[BadgerKid]

7. We're living sub-feudalism.

From Wikipedia:

Every man was the vassal, or servant, of his lord. He swore homage to him, and in return the lord promised to give him protection and to see that he received justice. In theory, then, feudalism was the expression of a society in which every man was bound to every other by mutual ties of loyalty and service. In fact, feudal society was marked by a vast gulf between the very few, very rich, great landholders and the mass of the poor who worked for the profit of the nobility. (The nobility included bishops, for the Church was one of the greatest of medieval landowners.) At the bottom of the social pyramid were the agricultural laborers, or villeins, and beneath them, the peasants, or serfs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism

Class separation. Check. Now note that the plot of land ruled by the feudal lord was primarily self-sufficient, with (I believe) trade between feudal plots possible. Today, due to outsourcing, our country has little, if any, means for self-sufficient manufacture. We're dependent on the world. (Related thought: How did Japan, historically being fairly resource-poor, manage to rebuild post WW2? It manufactured goods everyone else wanted and made them better than others'. If only the US could do that with renewable-resource manufacturing, for example.)


NOTE: I'm a little hungover and irritable.... :)

[calimary]

3. There's another GREAT response line.

Good to remember, and hopefully, to use!

[lonestarnot]

4. No shit!

A stinky ass sweatshop!

[Crazy Dave]

5. Wages are down, you work harder for longer hours, etc.

A lot of people I know who are still working say they now have do the same amount of work two people did ten years ago but with a pay cut, no health care and they're not allowed to take vacations anymore or they get fired.

If they even complain or act irritated they're told: "There's 200 applications in our office waiting to take your job!"

[dajoki]

15. I learned this lesson...

during Raygun's first term, when, through his union busting tactics, I lost the best job I ever had. In 1983 I was making $14/hr. as a heavy equipment operator, it was enough money so my wife could stay home and take care of our young children. By early 1984 our job shut down because of the union being busted. A new company bought the job and I went back to work at the same place with a $4.00/hr. paycut, no health insurance and triple the work, if you said anything you were told that you could be replaced.

[Crazy Dave]

16. Reagan destroyed the middle-class

Folks like yourself and factory workers back then made good money and the goal was always to make a better life for your kids. That's a promise a lot of people just can't keep anymore. Even if you can afford to send them to college these days what do they get with a diploma? $A 9 - $12 an hour job if they're lucky? I know several registered civil engineers with over four years of college and ten plus years experience out of work right now and would take a job at Wal-Mart or Home Depot if they could get it. Add them to the dozens of other people I know who were making $35k plus five years ago and whose un-employment benefits are running out and you can see why there's not even enough jobs at the daily labor places anymore.

[dajoki]

25. Back in Raygun's days...

I used to think that it couldn't get any worse, well I was wrong. I am now disabled and my wife is working, but it is now almost impossible for people in the workforce to put food on the table and gas in the car, not to mention everything else that goes along with raising a family.

I often think about what I made back then and what people earn now and wages have gone down, if your lucky enough to even find a job. My heart goes out to everyone trying to support themselves or raise a family, I hate to say it, but its almost hopeless for the average person.

[johnaries]

6. They want a return to The Jungle.

They read Upton Sinclair and get nostalgic.

[1776Forever]

8. Please read my post on this issue - If the idiots who vote Repub do so this time they deserve this!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3456265&mesg_id=3456587

[havocmom]

9. Been sayin for decades that the GOP wants to make US a Third World nation for their patrons

oligarchy and peasants, no middle class, no craftsmen class, no merchant class. And for decades, small business owners have dismissed me as a nut case. Now, they are seeing the truth. The ruling class doesn't want them to exist either. NOW they notice as the ruling class has ruined the economy and the small business owners along with it.

[Greyhound]

10. Been warned for decades, only now are a few begining to see. K & R n/t

:kick:

[kenny blankenship]

11. Unfortunately Americans are conditioned to be economic masochists

They tend to think that the suffering deserve to suffer and if they are suffering then this will make them better people and eventually they will be rewarded for patience and loyalty.

What they get instead is the heel of the boot.

[Itchinjim]

12. I faced it in 1980 when that SOB Reagan was elected.

Fuckers busted my union in '82 and shut us down in '86. I wasn't until '94 that I finally got back to where I was in '81.
Fuck republicans.

[Raksha]

Can there be any doubt about that?

I mean for anyone with even half a brain who's been even halfway paying attention.

[Fire Walk With Me]

21. Some are choosing to NOT pay attention, and things are getting worse as a result of their inaction.

And inattention. It begs to be repeated until we regain our freedom, and actually use the Constitution to stop such trouble from regaining position and influence.

Impeach and prosecute NOW. I'll be the broken record until freedom is restored.

[bluerum]

13. So - what else is new? Whatever they say, whatever they do, that is in fact their goal.

The plebes are the workforce. They are expendable. They are poor, smelly, uneducated and simply unfit to be allowed to make any important decisions or to rule themselves.

But it seems like every 12 years or so, we as a country forget. We elect one as president or give the congress and senate to them. We then spend many years gnashing our teeth as we watch the country slowly tailspin into a chaotic mess where the rich entertain themselves by deciding who lives and who dies.

[CanonRay]

14. A return to the dark ages

They live in castles in walled cities, and we surfs beg for food and work.

[90-percent]

17. Almost

Almost a viral bumper sticker moment. One syllable too many.


-90% Jimmy

[DailyGrind51]

18. If you want a clue as to the mindset of the Bush administration,

read Ayn Rand. It is about rapacious self-interest at the expense of everyone else.

[Jakes Progress]

19. Neocons think that the highlight of America

was during the late 1800's. Robber barons behaved without conscience and beyond the law. The wealthy class lived in opulent decadence while 95% of Americans toiled 60-80 hours a week, fearful of losing a job because there was not safety net. The rich could hold that thread over average people and prosper. The wealthy elite were pious and religious in public but led lives of extreme debauchery in their private clubs. This is who dick cheney and donald rumsfield and grover norquist want to be - the godless barons of the roaring nineties.

[Edweird]

20. And many here are cheering it on.

Hooray for illegals driving down our wages!
Outsourcing is GOOD!
YAY!
Lost your house? It is surely ALL YOUR FAULT.
I GOT MINE, so eat shit and die.....
:puke:

[alfredo]

23. They saw how well Pinochet did it, so they want the same thing.