Tea parties . . . town hall protests . . . inappropriate banners at health care rallies and outright rudeness . . . even toward the president . . . what is going on? Where are all these people coming from and what is their ultimate purpose? I remember when the Delphi Company cut their employees’ wages in half . . . no one took to the streets to protest. When an AT&T Executive ordered all department heads to offshore part of their staff, before the next meeting, no one stood with the laid off workers. By the way, that AT&T Executive, Ed Whitacre, (also known as Captain Outsource by his former AT&T Employees) who ordered those jobs off shored, is now the Chairman of the Board for General Motors. Ed guarantees the cars and trucks that we build or your money back. To the best of my knowledge, Ed has never built a car or truck and probably has never been inside an assembly plant. What the hell is he doing guaranteeing anything we do? And further, mortgage writers almost single-handedly crashed the housing market by writing bad paper and funding bad investments and no one held a march, tea party or anything in Washington. But just let someone (President Obama) step forward to amend these wrongs and the "Don't Tread on Me" crowd comes out of the woodwork. Well, let's just speak the truth here for a minute. These folks and the rest of us better hope that president Obama and his supporters in the government can help us all because the American business leaders have long since wrote us off. As an astronaut would say, talking about releasing space trash, we have been jettisoned. As we have found lately, even as consumers, we have been marginalized as the corporate global pirate’s lust after the 1.3 Billion shoppers on main-land communist China. Here at home, GM did not roll our retirees' health care into a VEBA to provide them with better coverage. Thank God the UAW has input into how this fund is operated. The Saturn Vue is not built in Mexico to help raise the Mexican Worker out of poverty and AT&T does not hire folks in India, who now accept your maintenance inquires, to make their service centers more user friendly; (please watch the movie Slum-Dog Millionaire to see who AT&T is hiring in place of your children.) All of these business decisions have been made to remove cost from the bottom line. All of these moves also put people on the street and in some cases into tent cities that are popping up around the country. This global thing is really working out isn’t it? Recently, our government sponsored a program called "Cash for Clunkers" that was supposed to jump start the American Auto Business and take some gas guzzlers off the road to help the environment. Our government representatives (bought and paid for by the business community) could not even bring themselves to keep this program for American owned Manufacturers only. In the end, many of our tax dollars went to foreign auto companies. Toyota even bragged about hiring 800 new engineers with the money that they made from "Cash for Clunkers." Where were the Tea Party Protesters on this one? My guess? . . . driving a Toyota. Now these other auto-building nations, Japan and Korea are planning “Cash for Clunkers” programs of their own. Do you think the American Manufacturers will get equal treatment?
Our country is in still in great trouble and the tea’s are trying to pull down the only person working on a fix. More bankruptcies of individuals and companies are caused by medical bills and insurance costs than by any other factor. We all need to stand with our president during this tough time and see this through to a better place. If you really believe that government programs don’t work just call and cancel your social security or tell your local township you will no longer require police protection and give them your address. If these government programs aren’t working why bother? Some of the leaders of this Tea Party movement have introduced legislation that would tax our health insurance as income. Now there’s a real fix. We need to move forward with a public option for insurance and get everyone covered. It’s the right thing to do. The people in the government were elected to lead . . . now is the time. Pass healthcare reform and then let’s take a look at some of these trade deals. Thanks for listening . . .Tony
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