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MAINTAINING OUR VALUES

by Open-Publishing - Monday 6 March 2006
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Un/Employment Governments USA Peter Fredson

MAINTAINING OUR VALUES

By Peter Fredson

March 6, 2006

The give-away of our Port Maintenance by G.W.Bush has threatened the jobs of many thousands of port workers by giving them to foreigners. We understand this is part of his neocon strategy for world dominance through globalization, in which individuals are pawns in his plutocrat empire.

Our objection is about his denigration of American labor, genius, energy, and industry for purposes of gaining power and wealth.

Once Bush becomes Emperor of the World, then outsourcing will no longer be a problem. There will be NO labor problem, no strikes, and no safety regulations worth spit, no minimum wage, no pensions, no wages and hours nonsense, and no weary legislation to keep Bush from doing whatever it is that he wants to do.

There will be no congress, no judicial system.

Yes, there will probably be firing squads or cheaper equivalents (perhaps cyanide capsules), concentration camps or reeducation camps, huge jails with lots of wonderful Bush torture and abuse for recalcitrants, in which the Bush warhawks may have live target practice on whomever they designate as “terrists.”

But, you see, this helps solve the ever-pressing population problem. The Bush concern for Life does not encompass murder for corporate profit, for oil, for bases, for power.

Bush tries to cast this present port issue as some sort of racist disapproval of hiring Arabs, or as misguided security concerns. This is deceitful, as is usual with most of the Bush proposals. It really has to do with outsourcing our country for corporate profit and power, bypassing an already compliant Congress, and arrogating extra-constitutional superpowers to the Bush cronies.

I tried through Googling to get at the beginning of the Port Problem. The quest led me through the colorful history of the teamsters, the dock workers, the stevedores, the longshoremen, the pilots, the tugboat operators, the dock maintenance people and 200 years of putting ports on ocean shores and river sides. But several days of research left me with more questions than answers.

U.S. labor relations were extremely complex, with the colorful contestants of the Kennedy’s vs. Jimmy Hoffa, the vigorous and sometimes vicious labor unions, the corruption and grand theft of entire cargos by the Mafia, the good pay and the pay-offs to local bosses, the hundreds of specialized jobs involved in receiving, unloading, and discharging cargo, the eternal quid pro quo to local political machines.

I realized the task of finding definitive answers would be too much for my failing years. I did not find how or who smashed the unions and brought in foreigners as subservient workers. I never found any authorization for George Bush to outsource our resources, our property, our vitality, our honor. Like Topsy, it just kinda happened.

I didn’t find the inception of the Bush push to outsource our industry, our mills and factories, our skilled workmen, or how ports like New York came into the hands of the British. Many strings were pulled, many dirty legislative maneuvers succeeded, huge sums of money transferred hands, graft and corruption remained the same as before, and new people became millionaires or billionaires.

I wasn’t able to trace any money trail. It must be there but nobody seems interested in tracing where the money went or how the British and American corporate interests had barbecues and cocktail parties or gave New York away as a side-bet on golf.

I would like someone knowledgeable with the Kennedy’s, Jimmy Hoffa, Labor unions, port maintenance workers, the Mafia, to tell us how complex the maintenance of our ports was, how many employees were involved, how much money was involved, who pulled the strings, and who got most of the money. How did Bush dispossess us of our ports?

Did the graft, corruption and violence of the Teamsters lead to disenchantment or was it tolerable? Did the graft, corruption, violence and theft of cargo by the Mafia organization become intolerable? Which of our Presidents decided to smash the unions? Was Bush the first to outsource all of the jobs of port maintenance to foreigners?

When foreign countries and foreign corporations took over port maintenance was it done by bidding for contracts, or, as in Iraq, were the jobs simply given to some corporation like Millennium because a vice president by strange coincidence was also once CEO of Millennium. How much money was first involved to get such a contract, and who has ever traced the money trail? Who got the money?

Was any investigation ever made, up until today, of the bribes or quid pro quos to the Bush neocons by lobbyists, foreign and domestic, to get those very lucrative contracts? Why cannot some US corporation buy up the contracts of the unwilling British owner? Who would actually get the loot? With billions of dollars up for grabs, we know that as sure as God made little green onions he also made greedy big-shots.

One of my points is that if you are going to wave the American flag to cover up flawed legislation, then you might as well go all-out AMERICA FIRST. Stick to our own country, get out of other countries, and stop other countries from taking over our land, our jobs, and our economy.

How much trade deficit do we have and is anything at all being done to bring it down to null zero deficit? Neither national deficit or trade deficit or the immense amounts of interest we must pay to foreign countries seem to worry our carefree smug swaggering President.

How many bases do we have in foreign countries and what is the total sum of money and total troop strength involved in those foreign deals which suit only the purpose of preemptive strikes? For some people force is the best answer to world problems, and diplomacy must be tied directly to nuclear bullying.

Our children will be in debt for generations, with no end in sight if the present trend is allowed by stupidity to continue.

We know absolutely that the neocon goal is world domination by aggressive means. We know that the neocons do not believe in pity, compassion, trust, humane procedures, or diplomacy. We know that the Bush strategy is to go it alone, if others cannot be bullied into sycophant behavior.

We know absolutely that the Bush people, before Bush even became President, were scheming to rule the world and that part of the plan was to invade Iraq, Iran and Syria. The first part of the plan was successful and Bush used lies and misinformation to invade Iraq, tying our nation to failure for many years to come, and billions of dollars down the drain.

All of the immense burden that Bush has put on Americans is due to his neocon conspiracy to dominate the world. He doesn’t care about individuals as long as the right individuals assume total power.

He then can take care of individuals on an individual basis by generously giving them 6 feet of sandy or rocky soil to inhabit until some project bull-dozes them up again.

Perhaps Dick Cheney will come up with a Soylent Green solution for humanity as befits his blood-thirsty personality.

Or, as Bush may allege, God will judge and Satan take the hind-most.

Humanity does not matter, if a profit can be made and allow a triumphant smirk to cross the arrogant lips of a petulant, irritable, irresponsible, impatient, carefree, egomaniac.

Morals may be mentioned frequently, as is Bush’s alleged heroism before and during 9/11, but in practice they are non-existent and used only to sucker in the gullible ignorant masses that are yearning for final liberation of their weary earthly load, which they firmly believe Bush will grant them.

Forum posts

  • Bush does not care about America or Americans.

    Look at the billions wasted and stolen in Iraq, in New Orleans, in huge tax cuts to the wealthy. Look at the windfall profits to the oil companies. Look at how Bush will pay Halliburton any price it desires for ‘services’ rendered. Look at how he does not flinch about the deficit growing to epic portions. Look at how he ignores the weak and poor, many threatening environmental and health crises, and disappearing billions of American money. The renewed Patriot Act is not to protect against terrorists….it applies to all Americans and takes away nearly all of our rights. Bush does not care about homeland security. Assistance was turned away during Katrina. For two years he ignored the pending threat of bird flu epidemic ---precious time that could have brought us a vaccine and/or medicines to prevent a potential threat. Our borders are still open to illegal immigrants in order to hire cheap labor. Our ports are still insecure to invite terrorists to come and plan another attack. Another terrorist event or disaster and then he can implement the martial law he wants.

    He wants chaos, panic, and anarchy to ensue so he can implement totalitarianism. Bush cannot allow democratic elections to take place---he has committed way too many crimes to survive what would come of him should democracy return to America and he would have to face international and national courts. Crimes such as allowing 9/11 to occur in the first place, for illegal spying on Americans that do not support him, for torture and inhumane treatments, for authorizing use of illegal weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, for killing journalists who have evidence to reveal to the public, for stealing elections, looting our treasury, making ultra-rich his friends, etc., etc. He is the worst criminal ever in American history and perhaps in all of history. Remember how he could not stand Kerry’s criticisms in a simple national debate….how do you think he would fare facing lawsuit after lawsuit, with public scorn abound. How do you think this imbecile would hold up under multiple cases of litigation with the entire world accusing him of endless counts of treason, lying the world into war, the responsibility for thousands murdered and tortured, for a nation (Iraq) destroyed, for an American city (NO) obliterated? He could never, never face the public critique, so he must implement a dictatorship so no trials take place, no truths are found out. The way to do this is to have chaos (invite Arabs into our country to control our ports) giving rise to martial law.

    Where is the outrage from Republicans---even those who sold their souls in order to win ‘elected’ positions by Rovian manipulation of the vote? WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE and DECENCY OF THE REPUBLICANS WHO SWORE TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION? Just a few honorable Republicans doing what they know in their heart is right and this pending nightmare could be stopped.

    Stop listening to the lies upon lies. Think for yourselves. This regime is NOT INCOMPETENT. Think about it—no one can be that incompetent even if they tried. They are treasonous beyond imagination. Wake up Congressmen, Senators, and public figures. You can no longer keep your fingers crossed that this too shall pass. Stop kidding yourselves and help the people of this country. There is no way Bush, jr gives a hoot about what happens to America or Americans.

    • Allowing 9/11 to occur? He allowed his cronies to do it, not some "terrorists" they invented. I’m sure that, if he has to leave the White House, he will disappear to some country that will welcome his money, and has no extradition agreement with the USA. In that case, only "extraordinary rendition" will get him into a court room.

    • All of the activities since Sleepy Reagan,NO,make that , Franklin D.Roosenfeld,oopps! Roosevelt(which is Dutch for Roosenfeld) are straight out of "the protocols of the elders of ZION".
      ...get a copy off of ebay and read up...I have and it ALL fits perfectly...Henry Ford was right!!
      .....................celticcanine