The end of the line

I fear the end of the fight is near. Headlines today included two things that made me cringe.
First home values drop again. Second the US government is now going into the business of policing the internet.

The home value thing really sucks. It says that class warfare is still going strong and that nothing that is being done to fight back-the protests, US/UK Uncut, the recall elections are going to change the fact that anything owned by the middle class (or what is left of it)-their time, their skills, their pensions, now most lately their homes is worth anything anymore. The things NEEDED by these people-food, energy, medical care, etc-well that is just going to keep going up and up.

And what can be done-the corporations have taken over the government. Now they are fighting hard to eliminate those eligible to vote. But even if you do vote, there is no saying that the election is going to be fair because they bought the courts (See Kloppenburg V Prossner). And that is at the state and federal level. Im talking about Thomas and Scalia of course.


And none of this would make news because corporations own all of MSM, so the only resistance people could show through their crippled unions was over the social networks on the internet. So here comes the government (read corporations) to police the internet. Anonymous warned that they were going after free internet access via piracy claims. Facebook is apparently closing down populist organizing sites.

So we can organize and protest to the ignoring masses or something real can happen. We need to shut the corporations down. Seriously. Nothing short of a mass synchronized walking away from the corporate overlords will do anything at this point.

Sounds cynical, and maybe I am just in a crappy mood about Kloppenburg's announcement today. But if anyone has a better idea have at it.

BTW I stopped blogging in order to join the Facebook exchange of ideas because I felt the need to get information out there in a format people would see. I do not know if I will blog again. There does not seem to be much that can be done with words and/or votes anymore

THE SKY IS FALLING

And nobody is paying attention.
Michigan has ceased to be a democracy. Already four cities have fallen to the financial martial law of Snyder.
Abortion and labor rights are under attack in many states being demolished.
And there is no Supreme Court to take them on because many of the "Justices" have been paid for by the corporations.
The crazy birthers have actually got legistlation in place to insure that Obama cannot be placed on the 2012 ballot there.
Again, unconstitutional but who is defending the constitution?
Who is defending the people of this country, those of us not brainwashed by the right?
We are defending ourselves, we have to. We have to educate those that have been taken in by corporate media and tell them the truth. There is no news on TV, well except a few cable channels and some weather and sports. That is why I post here now. I want my children to have a future, I want this to be the same America I grew up in.
I spend most of my time on Facebook trying to reach people.
Too bad nobody listens except for the choir

And the war goes on

Not the one in Libya, but the one in America, against the middle class. It is surreal what the new dictator is trying to do, along with dictators that took over other states. They want to rip money from the poor, the working, the schools, anything that is publicly owned and ran and give it to the wealthy.

These people are ruthless. It is not enough to be uber rich but they want power too. And they want everyone else to be poor. And they got us all fighting against each other so that not as many are fighting them.

But some are. A lot are. From London, to California, Ohio, Wisconsin, Canada (they threw their neocon out bless their hearts).

And so am I. In the last ten years my family's standard of living has plummeted. My husband is in the same job, took another job in fact, but we can no longer take vacations, buy a car, have birthday parties for our kids. But most of all we cannot even have time with our kids together since he needs to work so much. This is not the life we planned on. And now we do not even know if his pension will still be there and allow us a retirement.

But I am done crying for the life that was taken from me by the uber rich. I am fighting now, not for myself but for my children. Even as I must work hard to fight the tyrants leaving little time for them I am doing it for their future, so they have a better one than me. So it does not turn back into the baron robber nighmare America of the 1890's That is all that is left for me to do.

Madison and beyond

Yesterday I watched via live streaming internet the rally in Madison. I wished I could have been there. I wish that spirit of fighting and determination were with me here. But here I have doctors, family members, neighbors, my children's friend's parents that think that my husband is a lazy good for nothing greedy union member.

They did not think this last month. They thought he was an upstanding officer of the law. He did nothing different to change their opinion.

What changed was politics. Scott Walker got elected and although he vowed to make public sector employees pay more for benies, he said nothing about stripping them of their collective bargaining rights. So naturally there were protests. Okay, many many many protests that made me believe there was life in the working families of America after all. Then the rhetoric went insane.

That is how my hard working husband, who has to work two jobs by the way became a lazy good for nothing slob and hippie too.

Maybe it is the TV. I remember my daughter once watching commercials and asking for everything she saw. She asked for Dora's kitchen although she already had one. She even asked for a life insurance policy when she was four! If TV has that much of a hypnotic effect on people then maybe it should come with some warning labels.

But here in the real, non TV world I can only hope for the spirit of Madison to reach my community and go beyond before all public servants, muslims, liberals, gays, unwed mothers and ....oh I am sure this will go on until almost all people are lazy good for nothings unless you are a billionare and all the rest are stripped of all our money rights and dignity and what remains of the humanity of some of us

No I hate Scott Walker

I apologize to anyone who sees the picture of the evil dictator on my blog. I chose to monetize this site, but do not have control over who puts their bullshit on it. BTW, that Scott Walker poll is bogus and is a right wing viral thing that seems to be everywhere.

Anonymous can you make that go away?

Democracy is in serious danger

Today an extreme Governor took extreme measures to illegally pass an exteme and unpopular agenda against the wishes of the people.

This is not democracy. This is not the United States of America as called for in the Constitution. This is the first step of the last stages to complete fully the corporate takeover of America.

Tonight I will pray that people will do whatever it takes to win back democracy. I know they are tired, busy, disheartened, but if we do not we will not survive. Already wages are falling as prices are rising. In the last ten years my family's lifestyle has been drastically altered. Now with Walkergate it could be completely devastated.

I look at my precious children and want to cry. Why did I think that Russia and Guatemala were poor countries and they would be better off here? Now I wonder about their future, and if we will have to leave this country in order to provide them a better life

Protesters? What protesters?

It is funny that after the initial protest in Wisconsin the media is downplaying the protesters. Or worse, giving voice the legislators who call them slobs.
Think back to Obama's Health Reform Act. The protesters then, known as the "Tea Party" was a real movement, real people (paid for by the Koch brothers) You could not turn on a news station without hearing about Tea Partiers. They were a real political force. Politicians spoke for them. Also paid for by the Koch bros.
Maybe these protesters need to wear weird hats and give themselves a catchy name. Freedom party. Or Democracy party. Or middle class party.