Anyone That Works for a Living and Votes Republican Is an Idiot

Anyone That Works

for a Living

and Votes Republican

Is an Idiot

Clyde Coughenour

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CONTENTS

Preface

1.   Power Struggles

2.   Competing Ideologies: Business Versus Labor

3.   The Last Republican

4.   The Pig Party Identified

5.   Secret Power Groups

6.   Money Manipulation

7.   Class War

8.   Controlling the Vote

9.   Voting, Distortion, and Dirty Tricks

10.   Divide and Conquer

11.   Character Assassination

12.   Taxing and Spending

13.   Terrorism, Democracy, and Pigs

14.   Secrecy

15.   Federal Government Size

16.   US Government Agencies

17.   Religion

18.   Constitution and Laws

19.   So Many Voices

20.   The Ronald Reagan Myths

21.   Single Purpose and Objective

22.   George (Dubya) Bush

23.   Worker Unions

24.   Minimum Wage

25.   Health and Safety

26.   Health Care

27.   Welfare

28.   Retirement

29.   Social Security

30.   Immigration or Invasion?

31.   The Oil Cartels

32.   Military

33.   Torture

34.   Education

35.   Guns

36.   Foreign Control

37.   Communist China

38.   Things to Do

39.   Conclusion

This book is dedicated to the memory of Joe Hill (Joel Hägglund, 1879-1915), a labor organizer who became a symbol of the labor movement for the oppressed workers confronting heartless, ruthless barons of industry, transportation, and manufacture, and it is further dedicated to the US working class and to the uniformed and military personnel upon whose backs this country was built, both in war and in peace, and whose blood was shed to keep it a free land of promise, fighting against both domestic and foreign terrorists, and criminals and ruthless exploiters.

PREFACE

This book aims to provide an overview of the political plight of the US worker, primarily over the last century. It is intended for those citizens of the United States who work for a living in times of peace and war, and for those who wear a uniform and bear arms to support the nation’s efforts in times of peace and distress.

The worker has little to no power individually. Because he must spend so much time earning a living and trying to survive, he retains little time for investigating the truth, especially when it is so obscured by the media. The claims, counterclaims, and professionally drafted hype disseminated during political and policy campaigns are a mere charade. Collective action—through organizations such as unions, political parties, or votes at the polls—represents one of the few remaining powers. The only hope for turning things around in this country is to evict the Republican Party and to establish an organization of, by, and for the people (i.e., a labor or workers party that would be as concerned with the principles of equality, equity, and justice for workers as the Republicans have been passionate about profiting big business and the top five percent of the citizens who control the wealth of the United States).

This book attempts to summarize and outline the gimmicks, deceits, fabrications, and propaganda used primarily by members of the Republican Party to exploit the average citizen. They have been heartless and ruthless in their efforts to profit, while believing and, to a great extent, proving that the workers are stupid and gullible enough to have their votes manipulated or purchased. Like a jury limited in what they are permitted to know before making a decision, the workers are force-fed an unlimited amount of hype, undergoing brainwashing to con them out of their votes. This book intends to show that such efforts are part of a real and overt master plan. The Republican Party has been totally inundated by greedy power seekers (and the Democratic Party, once the advocate of the worker, has been infiltrated by similarly-minded members to the point it can no longer be depended upon). The Republican Party has a small army of investigators, pollsters, spinmeisters, psychologists, and propagandists operating on the principle of fooling most of the people most of the time. Their contempt for the law, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights is made obvious by their conduct, especially the conduct exhibited when they control all three branches of government, as they did during the 1920s and at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Their gimmicks and deceptions and fabrications are frequently designed to influence target groups considered essential to win an election. Afterward, they turn these groups into pawns in their quest for profit, often with political payoffs.

I have set out to illuminate and expose this divisiveness, hypocrisy, and ruthlessness. The original Republican Party is gone forever; it disappeared at the beginning of the twentieth century. The party of that name in existence today has become the primary threat to the United States, to the Constitution, and to the Bill of Rights. It has been so corrupted by big business, including the military/industrial complex, that salvage appears impossible. Republicans are so irresponsible and arrogant that they have even transferred control of much of our natural resources, our military, and our economic security to private entities and overseas. They have done more to accommodate than prevent terrorism and illegal drug use, while using our vulnerability to create fear and intimidate us into believing that they are the solution to the problem rather than being the cause. All the while, they enrich their wealthy buddies.

I’ve made an effort to ensure the accuracy of the contents of this book. There is much subject matter included that is just touched on, some of which is not widely published or disclosed, in an attempt to make a point and paint a complete picture of the forest without the details of each tree.

Chapter 1

POWER STRUGGLES

Ever since large groups of people have interacted, there have arisen individuals and groups that wanted to dominate and control others. The result has been that the world and its geographical areas have been ruled by the three M’s: military, money, and morals. While the most visible of these is the military, there are interactions between the three. Money is primary, since money is required to support a strong military. Moral issues can dominate, but morality is the least stable, due to the necessary emotional involvement and limited tolerances that get involved.

The power-hungry make good use of intimidation to get their way. They employ weapons to bully and destroy; they use economic control, for access to money, shelter, and food, in order to gain and maintain control of people. They also rely on powerful figures, such as royalty or religious authorities, to spread beliefs, prejudices, and hatred. It is common to see a combination of two or all three of these at play.

Throughout history there have been the haves and the have-nots. Serfs and peasants have made up the majority in almost every country on earth throughout recorded history. The laws and principles expressed in the founding documents of our country were established to bring about a semblance of equity and equality for all, but that equality has never been fully realized.

These basic protections have enabled the growth of a large middle class with its high standard of living. There are few workers throughout the world who enjoy the standard of living of the average US citizen. However, to assume the laws and their enforcement in the courts are equitable among different groups is to misunderstand the distinctions among the classes in this country.

Since the industrial revolution brought the farmers into cities, where they joined immigrants looking for work, there has been a struggle between employers and employees. These confrontations have often escalated into wars that frequently resulted in bloodshed and death. No worker should be ignorant of the heroes who sacrificed life and limb to bring about improvements in working environments, safety, and wages, which in turn brought about a higher standard of living for following generations.

Competing Philosophies

There are two basic philosophies that guide and dominate our government. While they originate from individuals, political parties now implement them. These underlying principles are not always expressed, but a little insight usually reveals them.

The first philosophy states that government exists to serve the people. Teddy Roosevelt announced that government should be the great arbiter of the conflicting economic forces in the nation, especially between capital and labor, guaranteeing justice to each and dispensing favors to none. The second philosophy considers that government is the slave of business, and that what is good for business is good for the country.

Under the provisions set forth by the Constitution, the primary power lies with the president for both internal and external decision-making. Congress controls the purse-strings and makes the laws that involve both people and money. Trying to do what is right and doing it in the open under public scrutiny helps provide protection against mistakes. To provide uniformity and central control, government agencies are headed by presidential appointees, usually with the advice and consent of Congress.

Unfortunately, serious problems arise when secret deals are made, or when one branch of government surrenders its duties to another branch. Serious legislation must be honestly debated publicly, or the necessary checks and balances will fail to occur.

Business

It is very difficult for one person working alone to survive, never mind get rich. On the other hand, if you can have many people working for you, each making a relatively small amount of money for you, it is easier to accomplish large tasks and accumulate wealth.

Most businesses in the United States are small businesses. The small business can be anything from a mom-and-pop store to a large association that has less than five hundred employees (by statute). To most people, five hundred employees is not a small business. For example, Canada has more realistically redefined a small business as one with fifty employees or fewer. The more employees, the more difficult it is to encourage good cooperation and mutual respect. Still, whatever the tenor of the relationship, it is usually determined by managements’ attitude toward employees.

This is not to imply that big is necessarily bad. There are big businesses that are fair and honorable. There are small businesses that are corrupt and harsh. Businesses of both kinds can be good to their workers but steal from the government and/or other entities. If you are fortunate enough to work for a good employer, big or small, be appreciative and do a good job. They need and deserve your respect and support so that you both can be successful and profitable.

While there is no obvious, single point in our history at which the Republican Party became the enemy of the US worker, it can be reasonably set forth as beginning at the end of Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency. Before that time, however, during the nineteenth century, individual barons of business and industry did create a trend of controlling the workplace for their own benefit.

There is one overriding force in politics that must be recognized: those persons who control the Republican machine today are the greedy, rich, and corrupt big-business stooges—not all being necessarily US citizens—and as such the American citizen’s welfare is not their primary concern. To quote one of their own perverted phrases, they will do anything and say anything to get elected. In order to be able to abscond with your tax monies and exploit your labor, it is critical for them to be in control (get elected).

Chapter 2

COMPETING IDEOLOGIES:

BUSINESS VERSUS LABOR

When we compare the peoples of the world, the most amazing things we find are their similarities. The average person merely wants the opportunity and ability to have adequate food and housing with reasonable health care and security. People in general are willing to work for what they need.

In most underdeveloped countries, where most people produce almost everything they require, there is little need for assistance, at least in the absence of problems with exploitation or mother nature. Most developing countries need a government with fair rules and regulations for business and industry. When there is a master-servant relationship, though, the potential for friction develops. As long as the relationship is of mutual benefit, the parties are reasonably satisfied.

However, when one party takes advantage of the other (whether real or perceived), friction and animosities develop. The master-servant relationship becomes a problem when lust, greed, laziness, paranoia, desire for power, a sense of superiority, or another driving force takes precedent over the fulfillment of responsibilities. All too often, as time passes, discrimination divides the haves and have-nots. The interests between the haves and the have-nots, between the strong and the weak, between the satisfied and the wannabes, have been competing as long as civilization has existed.

The employer-employee relationship in the United States is as much a part of our capitalist society as are our Constitution and civil rights. As such, it is not to be condemned and ridiculed. A good working relationship between workers and employers, or the appearance of one, has made the country admired around the world. Responsibility for conflicts, to one degree or another, must be shared by both parties; since neither business nor the worker wants to fail, there must be sensible negotiations and idea exchange, a workable working partnership. To follow up on that, we must ask what constitution, laws, and morality exist in the international business order, and what input the individual worker has.

In the United States this struggle is too often an ongoing battle between business and labor. Few working-class people are aware of the extensive, intricate establishment that exists to stick it to them. Those who do have an inkling of what they are up against feel helpless and overwhelmed. The system that existed throughout the twentieth century, in which labor and business openly squared off against each other, has been exacerbated by shifting the power base from primarily the national to the international arena. This has further complicated knowing who owns what; who is responsible for what; where it is grown, manufactured, or constructed; whose laws it had to comply with; where to send complaints; where to look for redress, and so forth. Under the New World Order (NWO), what input does the individual worker have? Since business has both financial and political power, it can do anything it desires—the US laws and workers can be damned.

Our automobile industry provides an example of this struggle. In the 1960s, the auto unions saw Japanese companies outstrip their own sales. Workers realized that they had to get into the small-car business. Management told them they were just employees so butt out, that it was a management decision. Of course, the industry overall paid the price for the arrogant authoritarianism of management in lost revenue. There was no cooperation, so both parties suffered.

Chapter 3

THE LAST REPUBLICAN

The Republican Party is often referred to as the party of Lincoln. He may have been its first president, but to associate today’s Republican Party with Abraham Lincoln is an abomination. What does the Republican Party really stand for and work toward? Their own Teddy Roosevelt illuminated how far the party has moved from Lincoln’s attitude and ideology. In the 1912 presidential election he showed what needed to be done to establish a government of, by and for the people. Teddy Roosevelt had become president in 1901. He left the US presidency in 1909 to safari in Africa; at that time he hand-picked William Taft as his successor. In 1912 he ran again as the Republican candidate for president, but the leadership wanted Taft as their man in the White House. Teddy laid out a grand platform, preaching economic reform and corporate regulation and stressing protection for the urban poor. He ran against Taft in the primaries. The primaries differed from state to state: some states held elections, while others were under the control of local party power brokers. Roosevelt won almost all of the elections, but the power brokers refused to let him be their candidate denying him their endorsement in the states they controlled. As a result, Roosevelt decided to run as an independent in the presidential election as the Progressive Party candidate (later nicknamed the Bull Moose Party). The platform of that party is as relevant to our current problems as it was a century ago. It showed, by implication, how morally corrupt the Republican Party was then and how it was an instrument in the hands of the not so visible power brokers then just as it is today.

Roosevelt’s Beliefs

The old Republican Party ceased to exist when it evicted Teddy Roosevelt for his worker oriented beliefs:

The government is of the people, by the people, and for the people.

The people are the masters of their Constitution, striving to fulfill its purposes and to safeguard it from those who by perversion of its intent would convert it into an instrument of injustice… to establish and maintain equal opportunity and industrial justice.

The country belongs to the people who inhabit it.

The public welfare should be set in first place.

Political parties exist to secure responsible government that can execute the will of the people.

Roosevelt Betrayed

A considerable amount of ink has been spent describing Theodore Roosevelt as a champion of the Republican Party. The most exploited image of him is as a Rambo type adventurer charging up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. Overall, however, Roosevelt deserved his reputation; his courage and leadership speak for themselves. His political demise was triggered by his concern for the working people.

At no single time in history has the true bias and strong-arm tactics of the Republican Party power brokers been demonstrated more clearly than when it evicted the people’s choice to be their presidential candidate. Corruption favored big business and contempt for working class families even then; the only change over the years has been the increasing ability to spend vast sums of money and time painting a facade to seduce ignorant, idealistic voters.

There has been a deliberate betrayal of trust in principles by the Republican Party. Instead of promoting the general welfare, they have become the tools of corrupt interests serving their selfish purposes. Behind the visibly displayed government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive Party Platform

The worker-focused platform is as applicable today as it was a century ago. These key points are taken from the1912 published objectives:

To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politicians, is the first task of the day;

A covenant with the people unhampered by tradition, uncorrupted by power, undismayed by the magnitude of the task, the new party offers itself as the instrument of the people to sweep away old abuses to build a new and nobler commonwealth;

The fixing of minimum safety and health standards for the various occupations, and the exercise of the public authority of state and nation, including federal control over interstate commerce and the taxing power, to maintain such standards;

A prohibition of child labor;

Minimum wage standards for working women, to provide a living scale in all industrial occupations;

The prohibition of night work for women and the establishment of an eight-hour workday for women and young persons;

One day’s rest in seven for all wage-workers;

The abolition of the convict contract labor system, substituting a system of prison production for governmental consumption only; and the application of prisoners’ earnings to the support of their dependent families;

Publicity as to wages, hours and conditions and labor; full reports upon industrial accidents and diseases, and the opening to public inspection of all tallies, weights, measures and check systems on labor products;

Standards of compensation for death by industrial accident and injury and trade diseases which will transfer the burden of lost earnings from the families of working people to the industry, and thus to the community;

The protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use;

The development of the creative labor power of America by lifting the last load of illiteracy from American youth and establishing continuation schools for industrial education under public control and encouraging agricultural education and demonstration in rural schools;

The establishment of industrial research laboratories was to put the methods and discoveries of science at the service of American producers.

Their objectives were accompanied by their beliefs and demands:

We favor the organization of the workers, men and women, as a means of protecting their interests and of promoting their progress.

We believe that true popular government, justice, and prosperity go hand in hand… fostered by equal justice and by sound progressive laws.

We demand that the test of true prosperity shall be the benefits conferred thereby on all the citizens not confined to individuals or classes.

We therefore demand a strong national regulation of interstate corporations. The corporation is an essential part of modern business. The concentration of modern business, in some degree, is both inevitable and necessary for national and international business efficiency, but the existing concentration of vast wealth under a corporate system, unguarded and uncontrolled by the nation, has placed in the hands of a few men enormous, secret, irresponsible power over the daily life of the citizen—a power insufferable in a free government and certain of abuse.

This power has been abused, in monopoly of national resources, in stock watering, in unfair competition and unfair privileges, and finally in sinister influences on the public agencies of state and nation. We do not fear commercial power, but we insist that it shall be exercised openly, under publicity, supervision, and regulation of the most efficient sort, which will preserve its good while eradicating and preventing its evils.

To that end we urge the establishment of a strong federal administrative commission of high standing, which shall maintain permanent active supervision over industrial corporations engaged in interstate commerce, or such of them as are of public importance, doing for them what the government now does for the national banks, and what is now done for the railroads by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Such a commission must enforce the complete publicity of those corporation transactions which are of public interest; must attack unfair competition, false capitalization, and special privilege; and by continuous trained watchfulness must guard and keep open equally all the highways of American commerce.

Thus the businessman will have certain knowledge of the law, and will be able to conduct his business easily in conformity therewith; the investor will find security for his capital; dividends will be rendered more certain, and the savings of the people will be drawn naturally and safely into the channels of trade.

Under such a system of constructive regulation, legitimate business, freed from confusion, uncertainty and fruitless litigation, will develop normally in response to the energy and enterprise of the American businessman.

We favor strengthening the Sherman Antitrust Act by prohibiting agreements to divide territory or limit output; by refusing to sell to customers who buy from business rivals; by selling below cost in certain areas while maintaining higher prices in others; by using the power of transportation to aid or injure special business concerns; and by addressing other unfair trade practices.

The time has come when the federal government should cooperate with the manufacturers and producers in extending our foreign commerce… and not in consideration of political expediency.

It is imperative to the welfare of our people that we enlarge and extend our foreign commerce… their policy of cooperation between government and business has in comparatively few years made them a leading competitor for the commerce of the world… controlled not by the national government but by forty-nine conflicting sovereignties. Such a policy is utterly out of keeping with the progress of the times and gives our great commercial rivals in Europe—hungry for international markets—golden opportunities of which they are rapidly taking advantage.

We believe in a protective tariff which shall equalize conditions of competition between the United States and foreign countries, both for the farmer and the manufacturer, and which shall maintain for labor an adequate standard of living.

Primarily the benefit of any tariff should be disclosed in the pay envelope of the laborer. We declare that no industry deserves protection which is unfair to labor or which is operating in violation of federal law. We believe that the presumptions always in favor of the consuming public.

We demand tariff revision because the present tariff is unjust to the people of the United States. Fair-dealing toward the people requires an immediate downward revision of those schedules wherein duties are shown to be unjust or excessive.

We condemn the Payne-Aldrich (i.e. tariff) bill as unjust to the people. The Republican organization is in the hands of those who have broken, and cannot again be trusted to keep, the promise of necessary downward revision. The Democratic Party is committed to the destruction of the protective system through a tariff for revenue only—a policy which would inevitably produce widespread industrial and commercial disaster. We demand the immediate repeal of the Canadian Reciprocity Act (i.e. free trade).

The issue of currency is fundamentally government function and the system should have as basic principles soundness and elasticity. The control should be lodged with the Government and should be protected from domination manipulation by Wall Street or any special interests.

We are opposed to the so-called Aldrich Currency Bill [establishing a central bank, the Federal Reserve], because its provisions would place our currency and credit system in private hands, not subject to effective public control.

The natural resources of the nation must be promptly developed and generously used to supply the people’s needs, but we cannot safely allow them to be wasted, exploited, monopolized or controlled against the general good. We heartily favor the policy of conservation, and we pledge our party to protect the national forests without hindering their legitimate use for the benefit of all the people.

We believe that the remaining forests, coal and oil lands, water powers and other natural resources still in state or national control (except agricultural lands) are more likely to be wisely conserved and utilized for the general welfare if held in the public hands.

Under such a plan, the destructive floods of the Mississippi and other streams, which represent vast and needless loss to the nation, would be controlled by forest conservation and water storage at the headwaters, and by levees below; land sufficient to support millions of people would be reclaimed from the deserts and the swamps; water power enough to transform the industrial standing of whole states would be developed; adequate water terminals would be provided; transportation by river would revive; and the railroads would be compelled to cooperate as freely with the boat lines as with each other.

We demand that the canal shall be so operated as to break the transportation monopoly now held and misused by the transcontinental railroads by maintaining sea competition with them; that ships directly or indirectly owned or controlled by American railroad corporations shall not be permitted to use the canal, and that American ships engaged in coastwise trade shall pay no tolls.

We demand also that extortion or monopoly in transportation shall be prevented by the prompt acquisition, construction or improvement by the government of such railroads, harbor and other facilities for transportation as the welfare of the people may demand.

The Progressive Party, believing that no people can justly claim to be a true democracy which denies political rights on account of sex, pledges itself to the task of securing equal suffrage to men and women alike.

We pledge our party to legislation that will compel strict limitation on all campaign contributions and expenditures, and detailed publicity of both before as well as after primaries and elections.

We pledge our party to legislation compelling the registration of lobbyists; publicity of committee hearings except on foreign affairs, and recording of all votes in committee; and forbidding federal appointees from holding office in state or national political organizations, or taking part as officers or delegates in political conventions for the nomination of elective state or national officials.

The Progressive Party, in order to secure to the people a better administration of justice and through it bring about a more general respect for the law and the courts, pledges itself to work unceasingly for the reform of legal procedure and judicial methods.

We believe that the issuance of injunctions in cases arising out of labor disputes should be prohibited when such injunctions would not apply when no labor disputes existed.

We pledge our party to establish a Department of Labor with a seat in the Cabinet and with wide jurisdiction over matters affecting the conditions of labor and living.

We favor the union of all the existing agencies of the federal government dealing with the public health into a single national health service without discrimination against or for any one set of therapeutic methods, school of medicine, or school of healing with such additional powers as may be necessary to enable it to perform efficiently such duties in the protection of the public from preventable diseases as may be properly undertaken by the federal authorities, including the execution of existing laws regarding pure food; quarantine and cognate subjects; the promotion of appropriate action for the improvement of vital statistics and the extension of the registration area of such statistics and cooperation with the health activities of the various states and cities of the nation.

We recognize the vital importance of good roads and we pledge our party to foster their extension in every proper way, and we favor the early construction of national highways. We also favor the extension of the rural free delivery service.

We believe in a graduated inheritance tax as a national means of equalizing the obligations of holder of property to government, and we hereby pledge our party to enact such a federal law as will tax large inheritances returning to the states an equitable percentage of all amounts collected.

We favor the ratification of the pending amendment to the Constitution giving the government power to levy an income tax.

The Progressive Party deplores the survival in our civilization of the barbaric system of warfare among nations, with its enormous waste of resources even in times of peace, and the consequent impoverishment of the life of the toiling masses. We pledge the party to use its best endeavors to substitute judicial and other peaceful means of settling international differences.

We pledge our party to protect the rights of American citizenship at home and abroad. No treaty should receive the sanction of our government which discriminates between American citizens because of birthplace, race or religion, or that does not recognize the absolute right of expatriation.

We pledge ourselves to a wise and just policy of pensioning American soldiers and sailors and their widows and children by the federal government. And we approve the policy of the Southern states in granting pensions to the ex-Confederate soldiers and sailors and their widows and children.

We condemn the violations of the civil service law under the present administration, including the coercion and assessment of subordinate employees, and the President’s refusal to punish such violation after a finding of guilty by his own commission; his distribution of patronage among subservient congressmen, while withholding it from those who refuse support of administration measures; his withdrawal of nominations from the Senate until political support for himself was secured, and his open use of the offices to reward those who voted for his re-nomination.

To eradicate these abuses, we demand not only the enforcement of the civil service act in letter and spirit, but also legislation which will bring under the competitive system postmasters, collectors, marshals and all other nonpolitical officers, as well as the enactment of an equitable retirement law, and we also insist upon continuous service during good behavior and efficiency.

We pledge our party to readjustment of the business methods of the national government and a proper coordination of the federal bureaus, which will increase the economy and efficiency of the Government service, prevent duplications and secure better results to the taxpayers for every dollar expended.

The people of the United States are swindled out of many millions of dollars every year through worthless investments. The plain people, the wage-earner and the men and women with small savings, have no way of knowing the merit of concerns sending out highly colored prospectuses offering stock for sale, prospectuses that make big returns seem certain and fortunes easily within grasp.

We hold it to be the duty of the government to protect its people from this kind of piracy.

We, therefore, demand wise carefully-thought-out legislation that will give us such governmental supervision over this matter as will furnish to the people of the United States much-needed protection, and we pledge ourselves thereto.

Corruption

The corruption of the Republican Party today has been in existence for over a century. Most of Roosevelt’s guiding principles are the direct opposite of the Republican Party’s practices today. It is easy to understand why they felt he had to be stopped. For a century now they have been resisting his reforms and working to impose discrimination and fraud on workers.

Present Republican policy involves an invisible secret government comprising: corrupt business and politics; lax safety and health measures; inequitable consumer taxing powers; child labor (imported items manufactured by slave and child labor); the lack of a living wage; opposition to unions; prosperity benefits being conferred on individuals or specific classes; concentration of wealth in corporations; unguarded and uncontrolled yielding to powerful corporations; irresponsible power over the lives of workers; failure to guard and conserve national resources; failure to prevent unfair competition; failure to use protective tariffs to maintain an adequate standard of living for workers; failure to have government control of currency; no strict limitation on campaign contributions; no control or restrictions over lobbyists; lax federal appointee involvement; limited federal responsibility over infrastructure upkeep; reduction of graduated inheritance taxes; involvement in the welfare of other nations while allowing the impoverishment of US workers; civil-service law violations with refusal to punish the guilty among them; and lax regulations and punishment for those engaged in corruption and piracy through worthless investments.

The Last Republican Falls

Roosevelt’s running as an independent split the Republican vote, all but assuring a Democratic victory. Woodrow Wilson received about 6.3 million popular votes and 435 electoral votes, Teddy received about 4.1 million popular votes and eighty-eight electoral votes, while Taft received about 3.5 million popular votes and eight electoral votes.

Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy is that of a steward of the people and an arbiter of economic forces, particularly between capital and labor with no favoritism toward either, and busting trusts that strangled portions of the US economy. Being a friend of the workers made him an enemy of the Republican Party. Roosevelt did not go out a Republican; he ended up like so many workers, an American casualty of the Republican Party.

Chapter 4

THE PIG PARTY IDENTIFIED

During the Cold War, the communist Soviet Union referred to the United States as capitalist pigs. Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production, distribution, and exchange are privately owned and operated for private profit. The law of supply and demand supposedly controls the economy. A capitalist is someone who owns capital stock used in business or who has accumulated wealth from business. The definition of pig includes a greedy, dirty or selfish person. It would be impossible to come up with a more accurate or succinct definition of the special interest groups that have taken over the Republican Party. To avoid confusion, for purposes of this book, the term Pig Party is used when referring to those who call themselves Republicans (or conservatives) today.

The communists were only half right in their implication or designation; they were wrong about capitalism. The capitalist system worked, primarily because it was based on personal ambition and a strong work ethic. They were right, however, about the greed. (My apologies to a maligned and noble animal, but the term does have a fitting reputation and connotation. However, this reputation and connotation is not half as maligning as that heaped upon the majestic elephant by these Pigs.)

Capitalists can be divided into two camps. The first comprises those who apply themselves and work within the capitalist system, employing workers and providing goods or services. They pay their workers a reasonable wage or salary for a reasonable work performance; in return they receive a reasonable profit. They value their employees, treat them with respect, and are fair and share benefits and profits. The second type has the attitude that workers are pawns to be exploited and discarded. They exploit their workers to get as much as possible from them for as little compensation as possible, while charging as much as possible for the goods sold or services rendered. The CEOs of these corporations can be incompetent and yet still get millions of dollars in rewards. Because of competition and the erosion of antitrust laws since 1980, under Reagan, it is harder for the first type of corporation to stay competitive. To the latter, manipulating the market, laws, politicians, and ethics are considered morally acceptable as the cost of doing business.

The Pig Party spends more money, conducts more surveys, and employs more people (including psychologists and advisors) to control the workers’ money and minds with their propaganda and spin, than any big business, short of an independent government. They are very hard to identify because they operate clandestinely, like the Mafia, rather than as a big business—secrecy having been found to have its advantages.

A summary of the US economy, military strength, debt, and reputation in the world since 1980 reveals that the Republican Party today, under the auspices of the NWO, giving credence to big business, free trade, and lack of law enforcement, is the greatest threat to the United States government on earth. The threat is not as instantaneously destructive as a nuclear bomb, but is instead a slow, economic strangulation death that has now accomplished more than half of its goals.

Corporations

Corporations function primarily under uniform and/or state law. They function differently depending on size and ownership; there are close, small businesses, and there are large businesses with a president, board of directors, voting stockholders, nonvoting stockholders, and so forth.

The most memorable of the abusive capitalists historically were the robber barons of the latter part of the nineteenth century. These business leaders got rich from the exploitation of labor and control of a business. They provided an example for all the capitalist pigs that came later: build a business by controlling everything from the raw materials to the finished end product. They flaunted their wealth, building large mansions and living in luxury, while their workers lived in squalor and worked in hazardous environments. Railroad magnate William H. Vanderbilt encapsulated their approach with the phrase: The public be damned.

The heyday of the Pig Party began in the nineteenth century and continued through the first thirty years of the twentieth century, with a resurgence since 1980 and, in particular, at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Because of increasing farm production and immigration, labor was plentiful. For the robber barons the image of what workers should be had its roots in slave labor on the pre-Civil War plantations. Laborers voluntarily flocked to factory doors, were let in, and, like the forced laborers of the Soviet Union gulags and the Nazi labor camps, worked until they became sick or were injured or died. They had no sick pay, no workman’s compensation, no hazardous-work benefits, no retirement benefits, and no effective grievance procedures. The courts, the police, the military, and the politicians provided the business owners with total control of the situation—a Pig Party utopia.

The Big Wars

There was no clear US favorite when the First World War began. Emotions ran primarily along ethnic lines, but because of loans and product markets, business was able to push America to favor the Entente Powers. German submarine attacks by the Central Powers were denounced, while the nation turned a blind eye to the British search and seizure of US ships, one of the Entente Powers.

During World War I, America enjoyed economic prosperity, producing more with fewer working hours and higher worker salaries. Workers could invest and purchase goods previously not available. With the end of the war came an end to the wartime boom and growing dissatisfaction with the ailing incumbent Democratic president and the Republican Party turned its back on the progressive, and still popular, Theodore Roosevelt, who died in 1919. This resulted in the consecutive election of three Republican presidents who asserted firm control over the US government creating a mini Pig Party utopia. The 1920s brought about a legislative and executive conspiracy for high tariffs, restrictions on immigration, restrictions on labor rights, repeal of the excess profits tax, reduction of personal income taxes (called tax avoidance, with the IRS providing business leaders with tax loopholes), lack of enforcement of fair trade practices, and no regulation of big business. The high tariff was meant to exclude foreign manufacturing competition so as to exploit both the work and income of the local markets (labor force).

With the initial increases in production and wages came industrialist propaganda touting domestic prosperity and promoting deficit spending. An indebted, possession-rich worker resulted. Life had become easier, especially for the housewife who had new products to help her with her tasks. Cars became available using credit to cover the $300 price tag. One of the election propaganda mottos, for example, promised, A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage. However, this governmental domination by the Pig Party directly brought about the Great Depression due to a lack of reasonable controls. Over half of corporate profits were made by a quarter of one percent of the largest corporations.

While unions made some gains during this period, union membership overall was reduced by about twenty-five percent, mostly due to the anti-union campaigns by employers. The small wage increases gained were almost entirely consumed by price increases. By 1929, even with the prosperity of the 1920s, a third of families lived below the poverty line, with unskilled workers unable to afford proper nourishment for themselves. At the same time, however, eighty percent of dividends went to the top five percent of investors.

Even though wealth speaks for itself, the ego wars between new money and old money continue today. The new kings of the hill may be the drug lords; their profits are enormous and their control of their labor force is absolute. The amount of money held by criminals may be enough to breach the superiority ego barrier. With all the secret combinations there may never be a complete disclosure of who pulls the most strings in the big business NWO. One thing is for sure, though—it won’t be the workers.

Chapter 5

SECRET POWER GROUPS

Throughout recorded history there have been references to secret societies, some of which never existed. Today, our most prominent (and no longer secret) one is the Mafia, or the world of organized crime. It would be a mistake to omit any mention of such organizations in light of the changes in the world in the twentieth century, particularly the rapidly approaching demise of the United States, its Constitution, its Bill of Rights, and everything it supposedly stands for. We are not just being lulled into an acceptance of these changes we are being brain-washed into welcoming them. The changes are best summarized and incorporated in the concept of a new world order. Inherent within this concept is the belief that the United States is subject to a higher power than the one we now believe exists. It is a new philosophical economic concept to replace the military conquests prevalent in the past (noting that a standing army can be expensive).

Whether the changes coming about so rapidly are being controlled by secret groups or societies is irrelevant; regardless, the results are the same for every US citizen. Since so many of our leaders seem to be associated with these groups or societies, the main, secret groups are being mentioned here, with only a brief summary of their existence due to their trying to subvert US sovereignty. The Bilderbergs, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and Skull and Bones, in particular, are all directly or indirectly interrelated, but there are other groups of note such as the World Federation and the Chamber of Commerce. They and their members are prominent in both major political parties. For example, in the 2004 elections, both the Republican and Democratic candidates were Skull and Bones members. The Pig Party is loaded with and dominated by members of these groups. Workers are not their concern, except when votes are needed.

The Bilderbergs

The Bilderbergs were established (or came into being) in 1954. They take their name from the hotel in Holland where they first met. The meetings are attended by about 120 people of influence, invited from around the world. The meetings are held under extremely heavy guard with subject matter kept secret. The names of attendees are said to be available, as is the location of the meeting, after the fact.

The group comprises primarily intellectuals, bankers, and affluent individuals who consider themselves the elite of the world. They believe they should be running the world through an extra-governmental organization; their aim is to eliminate national and state borders and implement a global treasury along the lines of the International Monetary Fund, with one currency, one department of health, one law, and one central power for enforcement. This new global order would exist under a world-controlling aristocracy. They envision unelected persons in charge that would expand democracy without Congressional approval or US voter interference.

Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones was established in 1832 at Yale University as a secret student society. They initiate fifteen new members each year. How can such a small group place so many of their members in positions of power and influence? They certainly don’t do it in the open with fair and balanced competition, and they don’t use their positions for the good of the worker. The worker does not benefit from this clandestine placement of the privileged and powerful in charge of the government and corporations.

Council on Foreign Relations

This group was founded in 1921 as a nonpartisan think-tank by publishers, businessmen, bankers, and lawyers who wanted to keep the United States involved in the world. At their meetings they address foreign policy issues the United States is involved in and make recommendations. There are about 2,500 members who are permitted to attend meetings, half of which are open and half of which are kept secret to encourage membership openness. They have little or no concern for US sovereignty.

Trilateral Commission

The Trilateral Commission was founded in 1973 by citizens of Japan, Europe, and North America to provide cooperation between democratic industrial areas with shared leadership in a wider international system. They theorize that the United States is no longer the only world leader and that shared leadership is necessary to overcome major challenges encountered in globalization. As power becomes more diffuse, leadership tasks need to be carried out by other world powers, not just the United States. There are about 350 to 400 business, academia, media, public service, labor unions, and other non-governmental groups involved.

Open Conspiracy

The camaraderie of these groups is not always obvious. It was not unusual that George W. (Baby) Bush overstaffed his administration with Bones members and members of these organizations, but how likely was it that two Bones brothers would go head to head for the presidency of the United States? How obvious was it when they did not spend much time flattering each other and, in particular, when Baby Bush didn’t hesitate to use dirty tricks to win? It would be hard for any person to believe that Baby Bush and John Kerry were part of the same clandestine group. Does this give you any solace, or does it scare you that so few should be so influential over so many?

If the concept doesn’t concern you, then you had better check out just how many members of these organizations have dominated and controlled the White House, Congress, and almost all positions of power in our government for the past century—Baby Bush appointed eleven Skull and Bones brothers to positions in his administration. Members of these organizations have not all been working as lobbyists, but have been the power brokers within our government as well. This applies to both the Democratic and Republican parties, regardless of the stones they throw at each other. The odds of this being a coincidence, despite the limited number of these organizations and the limited number of power brokers in the White House and the US government, are extremely slim; we cannot ignore the fact that the goal of almost all secret societies is to control people and money. Of course, members will deny any overt schemes the same way they deny the very existence of organized crime (remember, there is not now and never has been a Mafia). But these groups exist, and they are agitating and scheming for their own gain. They want to eliminate the middle class, break down borders between countries, and control everything and everyone. Consider: what has the UN, for example, done lately to prevent genocide and wars, and who is pulling the strings there?

Rumors Only?

There are reports that the CIA and big business joined forces in the 1970s to manufacture a super-rich minority in the United States in the ongoing class war. The apparent success of this venture can be gleaned from the fact that the top 1% of the wealthy held 22% of the US wealth in 1975; that same 1% held 42% of the wealth just fifteen years later. The CIA has a reported priority list of threats that need to be addressed. The interesting thing is how the reported list coincides with Pig Party ploys and enemy lists developed within the United States.

Is there anything to the great right-wing conspiracy or any other conspiracy to control the world order at this point? You may think you have your own opinion, but who twisted your head to have you come up with that opinion? Was it the Bilderbergs, the Trilateral Commission, Skull and Bones, and/or the Council on Foreign Relations—or their mind-bending propagandists—who assisted your otherwise ignorant, incompetent, uniformed, or misinformed thought process?

The fiasco suffered by US workers from open borders and free trade, under a corrupt Wall Street and an incompetent UN, should be enough to stop a movement toward an overarching international government. Just compare the efficiency and success of UN peacekeeping troops to their mercenary counterparts. In Sierra Leone, tens of thousands of terrorist rebels were defeated by three hundred mercenaries, who then turned the country over to seventeen thousand UN troops who proved totally ineffective at preventing resurgence, even though the people of Sierra Leone were completely against the terrorists. The UN troops did manage, however, to run through up to a hundred times more money than the mercenaries charged. Rather than hiding their heads in shame the UN bad-mouthed the concept of using mercenaries.

It should be the duty of every loyal citizen to see to it that not one of these conspirators is elected to office or permitted to occupy a governmental position of authority.

If Elected

Every oath of office should include an affirmation that no other oath or commitment has now or ever been taken that would preclude or require preferential treatment of any person or group or organization when carrying out the duties of the office involved. Anyone violating or falsifying such oath should be subject to prosecution for perjury with long, mandatory prison terms.

New World Order (NWO)

World domination has been undertaken periodically throughout history, usually by military force. The NWO has been directly associated with the rumored worldwide conspiracy of the wealthy and powerful to take control of the world. It would be a modern takeover; the methods resemble those of the Roman Empire or the Nazi Party but without obvious overt bloodshed. The goal is reportedly a worldwide fascist government with no nations or political divisions, ruled by the elite. Anyone who doubts this should review the World Court’s judgments such as that the state of Texas has no right to execute foreigners who come into the state and are found guilty of kidnaping, rape, and murder. Of course the Pig Party, Baby Bush, and others sided with the World Court.

The big business NWO will be a dictatorship along the lines of the Chinese communist regime. It will have one government with one monetary system, one military, one system of law, one court system and, as a result, total control.

The sorry thing is that there has been little clash over or opposition to the NWO concept in the United States. The millions of dollars spent brainwashing US citizens about the glories of globalization, open borders, and free trade have been far too successful. Anyone who has lived through the Reagan bust and the Baby Bush bust but who does not smell a conspiracy against US workers by corporate Wall Street and the bank cartels, is too ignorant and/or cowardly to deserve any more than they are getting. There is no difference between the tactics and propaganda used by the Pig Party and the NWO pushers (if in fact there are different entities involved). The fear factor—exploiting emotionally sensitive issues—has proven to be successful. The current decline of the world economy should serve as a warning as to what can happen under greedy banking and loan practices. US citizens, being humanitarians and proponents of justice, are all but totally under the control of the media portrayal of atrocities. Little is done to investigate the reasons behind the atrocities and suffering. Who caused it? Who is paying for and supporting those causing it? Who is benefitting from it and what are the long-range objectives of those behind the scenes?

It is the duty of the responsible citizen to ask why the United States spent a trillion dollars subsidizing white-collar schemes (such as the recent bank bailout) when reasonable regulations, coupled with strict enforcement and a billion dollars to prosecute the criminal activities, would have been more effective than rewarding scams, fraud, and incompetence ever can be?

It is, or should be, common knowledge that it is easy to start a fight but hard to stop one once started, whether in a family or between nations. How many countries around the world are occupied in part by US and UN troops? How much does it cost? Who is paying the bills? The control of money, the military, national resources, and politics should all be viewed carefully. Workers should focus immediately on the equitable distribution and control of wealth within the United States. The establishment of tax shelters, legal and illegal scams, and phony charities are all middle-class destroyers and future economic slave-makers.

Some Things You Can Check Out

World trade organizations are in part behind globalization. They are intimately involved in forging agreements dealing with free trade and open borders that include everything from automobiles to food. They consider farm export subsidies to be just another trade barrier. It is not going totally unchallenged, though, as evidenced by the anti-globalization protests.

How much competition is there? How have costs declined? Was it a breakup or just an opportunity for new mergers? Again the anti-regulator quacks scream for no government intervention, claiming the market will regulate itself. Oh, just as the Mexican drug cartels are doing? Who is doing the maneuvering and how much is the worker benefitting?

The Free Trade Zone includes the Americas from Canada to Argentina and involves everything from goods to jobs to immigration to natural emergencies; it includes tariffs, farm subsidies, and a goal of boosting the planet’s economy. The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) met opposition because of, in part, weak labor rights provisions for workers and farmers and the environment. US agricultural imports increase as two hundred thousand family farms go down the tubes every year. The Democrats opposed these dealings as they allowed child labor and led to the destruction of organized labor and added to the US trade deficit and loss of jobs.

Is it already too late to save US sovereignty and the Constitution?

Satan does not have horns or a forked tail. He is the handsome, well-dressed, smooth-talking religious or corporate cheat espousing phony causes and issues, ready to seduce every citizen out of