Now we know why Issa wants that List of FOIA "Names"! (See Below yesterdays Blog on Issa)

Where is the Major Media concerning this? Other then this blog, Nothing!

Our liberties are being threatened here - where is the outrage?

I called my Representatives and Senators yesterday. They were not even aware of this!

Here is why Issa wants the "Names": to give to "Big Business" who in turn will use them against those who filed requests under the FOIA. Plain and simple. That is what you call the Inquisitional ferver coming in via a "Back Door" under the rubric of 'We just want to streamline the process and make it better'! Complete hooey!

Big Brother is coming and he Corporate/Wall Street led and paid for - I suggest that the American people wake up before it is too late. Once the "Oppressive Machinery" is up and running it will be very difficult to dismantle. The Corporate/Industrial/Plutocrats have way more Trillions than any single citizen or group of citizens.

And I suggest to the Right-Wing and Tea Party advocates that they are making a "Devil's Bargain" with the Corporate elite. They are being "Used" and "Bought" and lied to by the Corporate Billionaires in order to attain their complete Corporate power. Do you actually believe that once this Plutocratic/Oligargic/Corporate conglomerate once in power will let go of their power willingly in the future (Look to Egypt right now - an 82 year old despot willing to sacrifice 1000s of his own people so he can retain power for a few more months)?

The Right-Wing and The Tea Party advocates are being "Duped": the corporate billionaires are using emotional "Wedge Issues" to galvanize the Right to elect "Corporate “Bought” Politicians" who will in the short term satisfy the Rights' issues, but who in the long term will be entrenching their power in Washington and Wall Street. This is not a conspiracy theory, but what is actually happening with our Democracy right now. The "Devil's Bargain" here is that once the Corporate elite have attained their objectives, the duped Right will be left by the wayside and discarded like so much refuse.

It is one thing to protest in the streets for less government and less taxes, etc, it is another when those very actions then create an oppressive Corporate/Political Conglomerate that will eventually take those freedoms away from you.

Be careful what you wish for!

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Corporations seem to think that their profits are delivered via the stork. They seem to be hell-bent on persecuting the very people/human beings that provide this profit: the consumer. the taxpayer, and the worker. (And destroying the planet, where are we expected to live?) Unless they have some magician that comes in with a magic wand to create their product and they expect the wealthy 1%, no let's be generous 2%, to purchase all that product, I don't know how they think they can continue to make money and stay in business. After all, what does business have without product and consumer?

What's wrong with the Henry Ford model? Pay workers living wages (that allows for disposable income) and make good products they can afford to purchase. Everyone is happy. Henry Ford was still plenty rich--his heirs are still plenty rich.

Does anyone notice that all the news stories about rising prices include the phrase, "due to rising labor costs in China"? Labor was taken to China in the name of cheap labor and keeping costs down, but costs to consumers did not fall; they stayed the same. Now that these costs are going up, outrageous profits are being cut into by those pesky labor costs and consumers will be expected to take the hit. I knew the Chinese would eventually smart up.Where are corporations off to now Africa?

We need a global human being movement to curb the control and destruction of the planet by corporations. We need to take the influence of money out of our elections. I know I sound like a broken record on this blog, but I feel that this is the ONLY way we can stop the complete corporatization of the US and global economy.

Thanks. It is good to finally find a like mind. At least no one here is calling me a liberal puke or suggesting that I might gain an education by reading Milton Friedman's crap. I edit business and econ textbooks for a living, at least I did until Bush and his thugs cut almost all education funding and created All Children Left Behind, For the past 15 years, I have read about the bad/destructive practices being taught in our high schools, colleges/universities, and business schools. It is a shame.

Now if we can get at least 60 percent of the population on the same page. I talk to people about this all the time. People have fear about losing their jobs or standing up to corporations. I keep trying to tell them that they are an important and powerful 2/3 of business. Without the consumer and the worker, all business has is ideas; it has nothing to sell and no one to purchase it.

We, as consumers, can be very powerful. In my house, we don't give our money to bad companies like BP and Valero (Koch Brothers) or to Red Lobster, a past favorite, because of its advertising with Fox and who most likely doen't care that much about bad industrial fishing practices. Instead we eat at the excellent local Mexican eatery, which employes hard-working immigrants. We don't feel deprived; we feel empowered by our thoughtful and reseached choices. Democracy is not a spectator sport.