We should not be isolated. They attack us in our separate groups to isolate us. First Latinos, then Gays, Then Seniors, then Unions, then Women! But this is not a war on Women or a war on Workers. No. This is a War of Conquest and Exploitation, a Crusade by people who worship Money to conquer and enslave working people in the U.S. and all over the World!

Ross Perot when he ran for President said that NAFTA would cause a “big sucking sound” that would be our jobs flowing out of America. But the big sucking sound we hear now is Trillions of dollars of wealth sucked out of peoples Pensions, 401ks, Home Values, College and Personal Loan Debt, Banking Fees and Health Insurance bills!

We are being enslaved in underpaid jobs with no benefits. We have no ability to move to higher paying better jobs in other areas because millions of our homes are “under water” and we would lose our shorts if we sold them. Many with no Homes who rent and are out of work are too poor to even drive to job interviews! All this while not the 1% but the 1/10th of the 1%, about 200 multi-Billionaires control our elections and pressure OUR elected Congress people into keeping everything exactly the same! No help for the Hungry. No help for the Swindled Foreclosed Homeowners, No help for the debt enslaved Students, No Help for the uninsured sick, No help for the abused women, No help for the many millions of unemployed, No help for ANY OF US!

ALL BECAUSE WALL STREET BANKERS OWN OUR GOVERNMENTS!
And until We The People RISE UP and KICK WALL STREET OUT of OUR Governments and put the People back in the Peoples Houses Of Government we will all continue to be enslaved. There will be no lottery ticket to save us. There will be no rise to Fame or Fortune for the 99.9% of us. Just more suffering and death unnecessarily because of their unquenchable Greed and our inability to Join together in Solidarity and turn them back. So brothers and sisters I say fight!
Come together! Stand! We are not alone. We are Strong! No matter what language we speak, color our skin, our way of worship, gender, sexual orientation, we really ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!

What are we worth?

What is our value? What is our value as people in our society?

How should people who work and contribute to a business enterprise be fairly compensated, and should they be allowed to volunteer to work for free without a clear upfront disclosure stating that this is what they are agreeing to do?

Do we want to create and sing the praises of businesses that create or extract massive amounts of wealth from society, that purposely chose to create a small number a jobs because they found a way to create hundreds of millions of volunteers?

Even if these volunteers are happy volunteering because they find fulfillment in connecting with and meeting other volunteers is this the direction we want to take the whole “Free Market” concept in our society when so many millions of people are currently struggling to have a decent sustainable standard of living and be valued as human beings?   Right after we allowed the biggest transfer or extraction of wealth from the few Wall Street Corporate Capitalists out of our society costing millions of us our jobs, homes, and sense of self worth and dignity is this the kind of economic reality we all want to keep buying into?  I thought about these questions after the recent IPO of Facebook and after reading about employers who are offering Unpaid Internships to unemployed workers willing to return to work.

And I posted {Tweeted}… Facebook has us voluntarily plugging into the Matrix where we are data-mined exploiting our isolation and need for tribal connection.

My FB Friend- “And? — I ♥ fb – and i ♥ meeting interesting people…my life is an open book anyways; way full growed n don’t care lol – big brother been watchin since day one Anyways, so….let him watch, go ahead n mine those data fields; maybe he’ll learn somethin good – tribal connection is what it’s All about…jus sayin…Peace…”

My Reply-

Hi {friends name redacted}, yeah I knew people would take this as an attack on their use and love of Facebook like you clearly have so please allow me to answer your question “?” as twitter really only gives me 140 Characters to make a statement.

When we are not paying for a product but publicly using it every day adding our words like you and I are now, adding our friends, adding our pictures and so on then we ARE the product. All of our “likes” are presented as a product to advertisers, all of our Checking In to locations packaged for advertisers and all of our thoughts and shares packaged for an IPO yesterday that made Facebook 16 Billion Dollars.

Americans need a solution as BIG as the size and scale of our greatest challenges!

I think the way to get what you want in todays adversarial political system visa vi the Republicans is to ask for more than twice what we actually want from then. That is what they do. They start out saying they want to make unmarried sex illegal and then settle for outlawing abortion just as an example to illustrate what they do.

I believe President Obama should come out with a Big Bold Plan that is the Size and Scale of our National Challenge. He should announce a Race To The Top for American Energy Independence that awards the winner 100 Billion Dollars if they can create an electric car for under $10,000 and National Recharging Grid System. Then after the Repubs go crazy and balk we can come down to a 50 Billion dollar award.

This is a matter of National Security and Energy Independence and the result would also create a huge economic boon to U.S. industry and job creation.

The new vehicle, which has been road-tested, will be based on GM’s popular Spark hatchback, which

“General Motors, one of the world’s biggest carmakers, and the Bangalore-based company behind the G-Wiz electric car have announced a joint venture to produce “affordable” electric cars in India.” 

The article continues to describe how these cars would get 200 Killometer range which is far more than the average US driver drives in a day said to be about 40 miles a day at the most.

“Murad Ali Baig, a motoring columnist, said the new GM car would be able to travel “about 200km” without recharging. He added: “Delhi has one electric charging point used by a fleet of buses. There’s nothing difficult about setting up a network of such points, but you need politicians to get on with it. In London electric cars get free parking and free power. Any wonder that Reva sells more cars in London than in India?”"

There is such a compelling interest for our National Security to be energy independent that I believe America’s local municipalities and Federal Government should take immediate steps to find what’s working in other advanced Nations such as in England and duplicate it here.  We must create a much higher public demand if we are to create a higher supply and that is where we can work hand in hand with our Government.

Everyone can do the following;
-Go Test Drive an Electric Car. You might be so impressed and fall in love with it that you’ll trade your car in for one. The least that would happen is you would help create the appearance of a high demand at Dealerships.

-Write to your City Council to inquire about and even demand that your city add electric car charging stations.

-Write to your Congress Person and ask them to sponsor legislation to increase subsidies to buy electric cars.

-Call and Write the White House and Suggest a “Race To The Top for Energy Independence with Affordable Electric Cars” contest with huge prize awards for the first company to create and market Electric Cars for sale under 10k dollars each that have a sufficient range for most commuters.

Write the White House here http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments/old2

Call the White House here Comments: 202-456-1111

We need a non-violent preemptive strike on the Big Banks, Insurance-OIL-Telecom Monopolies, to evict them from our Government #justice

We need Economic Sanctions on the Big Banks, Insurance-OIL-Telecom Monopolies, to evict them from our Government #justice

We need to serve Foreclosure Notices on Big Banks, Insurance-OIL-Telecom Monopolies, to evict them from our Government #justice

We need to bar Congress from economic ties to the Big Banks, Insurance-OIL-Telecom Monopolies, to evict them from our Government #justice

“Do your little bit of good where you are. It’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”-Desmond Tutu #justice

We need to be more excited to rush the Voting Polls than to rush the Sneakers Store for the latest Nike Sneaker or we will all soon be barefoot. #justice

Americans can have $1.00 a Gallon Gas!-Buy an all electric car and your fuel cost equivalent dollars per gallon is approx $1.00/gal #justice

In “Joe’s World”:

Every child would receive 10,000 dollars in a Trust fund invested in either Municipal Bonds or a Full Market Index Fund and that money could be progressively drawn on as the fund and child matures to make sure they have less of a chance of falling through the economic floor of society and have basic needs met like food and shelter.

Higher Education would cost nothing up front. Instead a 5% income tax would be added onto the graduates income tax allowing the cost of Education to be paid off over their working lifetime and paying for the next generation of Students Education.

There would be a National 4 Day Work Week with government subsidizing the loss in wages of the 5th day by tax credit or other means like using unemployment insurance. This would allow more workers to enter the workforce to take up the room of available hours and need for productivity and bring the Country closer to a “Full Employment” model that should be our National goal.

Entrepreneurs would be allowed to crowd fund for capital investment and pay no income tax on their first year of business. Entrepreneurship would be taught in K-12 Public Schools.

The Government would fund a Billion Dollar “Race To The Top” contest for the Private Sector given to the first company to sell 5 million cars that get the equivalent of 100 mpg fuel efficiency.

The Defense Department would be tasked with defending America from the costly ravages of diseases like Cancer, Diabetes, and Aids that all kill more Americans yearly than any other form of “terror”.

All income would be taxed the same regardless of if its investment or labor derived. Creating jobs that paid a Living Wage would receive a tax credit lowering a businesses taxes because workers earning living wages create more jobs in their communities.

Corporations would be stripped of ALL Constitutional rights which are reserved exclusively for WE THE PEOPLE!

Corporations must by their operating Charters put providing value to consumers, employees and society on an even par with creating shareholder value.

There would be public financing of elections and elections would be a 3 day National Holiday.

Medicare for All.

Government subsidies for nutritious foods like vegetables, greens, fruits to lower the cost so people who have less money wont have to poison themselves on high calorie low nutrient “fast” foods. This would lower the National cost of health care as well.

Okay thats all for now in “Joe’s World”.
What would you envision in your view of a just and good society?

So much of the republican agenda is backed and paid for by big oil. That is why they are spending so many millions saying that green energy and climate change are scams.

The Conservative movement in the form of the Republican Party is a political wing of a financial consortium bent on stripping all wealth from Americas middle class.
If we want to stop the hard right wing from completing their LBO Leveraged Buy Out of the American Commons ie our public assets, then all of us must make getting off fossil fuels and onto renewables a life or death struggle. Because it is!

We should find Mutual Funds that focus on Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind, Electric Cars etc and put our money into them. Contact ones Union and or Pension Manager and ask them to divest of Oil & Gas stocks and Invest in such Renewable Portfolios instead! We MUST defund this Right Wing Cabal which is tearing the heart out of our economy and Democracy. We must Fund instead the industries that will not only create good paying jobs but also help to save the very land and planet our childrens children have entrusted to us!

Solar and Renewable Energy is not a cool trendy fad, it is our salvation from the ravages of the greedy vulture capitalists who wrap and disguise themselves with the flag and the cross.

ASK PRESIDENT OBAMA TO REPLACE THIS BUSH ADMIN FAILED WALL STREET BUREAUCRAT
AND REPLACE HIM WITH SOMEONE ON THE SIDE OF HOMEOWNERS!

Please Sign This Petition and Share it with your friends!

Meet Edward DeMarco. As director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, his job is to do everything in his power to help Americans avoid foreclosure. But DeMarco seems to think his job is just the opposite. In fact, in our fight to get justice for homeowners across the country, Edward DeMarco might just be enemy number one.

DeMarco is a holdover from the Bush administration. He has a very powerful position: he oversees Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which hold half the mortgages in the country. DeMarco has used his position to repeatedly side with Wall Street, and he’s blocked requests by Congress and the Obama administration to help struggling homeowners by reducing principals on loans. Principal reduction — which means resetting underwater mortgages so they’re closer to fair market value — is an essential solution that millions of families need, but DeMarco is dead set against them.

Now here’s the good news: Next week, during Congress’s recess, President Obama has the opportunity to make a recess appointment and replace DeMarco immediately. Let’s ask the President to do just that.

Tell President Obama to fire Edward DeMarco this week and appoint a new director that won’t stand in the way of relief for homeowners.

DeMarco has come under harsh criticism from members of Congress, and for good reason. He is absolutely opposed to principal reductions on loans, a measure that’s been touted by economists and U.S. government officials as the best way to help homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages.

But it doesn’t end there.

A recent news investigation revealed that, under DeMarco, Freddie Mac invested billions of dollars in Wall Street securities that bet  against homeowners’ ability to refinance their loans, while at the same time raising fees that made it harder for homeowners to refinance.

Let’s be clear: DeMarco isn’t just doing a bad job. He is actively working against the interests of American homeowners and the government’s efforts to help them. That’s an outrage, and it’s time for President Obama to fire him.

Sign the petition and demand DeMarco be fired and replaced immediately.

The President made a strong recess appointment when he installed Richard Cordray recently as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, selecting someone we could rely on to serve the interests of people over Wall Street. We need a similar leader at the helm of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Edward DeMarco isn’t it.

With enough signatures, we can send a message to President Obama and remove a major obstacle in our mission to get justice for homeowners.

Thank you!