Posted by PFANS on March 06, 2008 at 07:39:30:
The Great Debates between Obama and Clinton, and soon with McCain...... can rightfully be considerd as a SHAM on We, the People.
All the social problems which the two major Party politicians claim, promise to resolve..., jobs, impoverishment of millions..., the latest "War" for the resources of other societies, can all be traced to their origins..., the economic system, and its corporate autocratic ownership by dominant capital investors… Such control of our needed tools of social production, is used primarily, not for our societal use, but for the profits which accrue to private , capital investor coffers…, and to the exclusion of the needs of society itself.
In this arrangement, We, the People, are left out of any decision making in all matters that affect our lives. The Obamas , Clintons and McCains, make certain to reassure their corporate financiers that they are all for “ private enterprise,“ the euphemism for capitalism, and are committed to remain as corporate puppets, an allegiance which, if ever questioned by their big money supporters, will quickly remove them from the millions of money needed to cover the airwaves with their self serving propaganda.
The "Great Debate," is literally, a great sham concocted by the Presidential Debate Commission to continue the illusion that We, the People, actually live in a democratic society! Fact is, We don’t. We do not, cannot practice DEMOCRACY in our political government. We do not, cannot make decisions and have these implemented in our work places.
The ONLY moment We have input is in the election charade where We cast our VOTE to authorize our so-called “Representatives of the People” to carry out their legislative obligations to their big bucks private and corporate supporters.
Two significant Congressional actions should bear out how Obama, Clinton and McCain all suck up to private and corporate capital investors, whose private profits are always of the utmost importance regardless of how this affects the health and well being of our society.
One is the fact that it took ten, that’s TEN, years before Congress increased the minimum wage for the lowest paid working citizens of our nation, from $5.15 and hour to $6.55 an hour…, and then to a whopping $7.25 in 2009!!! Imagine ! 40 cents more…That’s a shattering $3.20 more each working day? And then the following year, a staggering 70 cents an hour increase in 2009! Why that adds a mind boggling $5.60 increase in “just” one day’s work!!! Now, that’s a real “people’s” Congress, wouldn’t you say?
The other significant Congressional obligation to the corporate autocracy is its authorization for the Bush Administration to invade Iraq for the sole purpose of acquiring its oil reserves…, an indispensable resource which corporate America needs in cheap costs and steady supply in order to compete globally. The continuing deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and Americans, both regular army and now State national guard…, is maintained, and considered by government and private spokespersons as a necessary price to pay for the security of our nation …, completely justified despite the thousands of deaths of both American military kids and Iraqi …, onsidered a necessary price to pay, still daily maintained as a “good” for the Mid East region because it had brought DEMOCRACY (???) to that part of the world, and the most fear ridden justifications always placed before us … that it is “…Better to fight them (the “Terrorists”) over there than “HERE!”
These two Congressional milestones in the service of our society’s capitalist corporations…, are necessary to recognize if we are to build the genuine democracy which we want and so desperately need, and certainly a requirement if we have any considerations for the well being of our future generations .., which we undoubtedly do!
To sum up…, the social content of the presidential “debates” is indicative of conditions remaining as they are…, with a few more reform promises already being prepared for the next generation of political pretenders who seek OUR support for their access to their corporate and private benefactors.
A social and economic democracy is our only way out of these repetitive depression and war results plague every generation. All the social problems which the two major Party politicians claim, promise to resolve..., jobs, impoverishments of millions..., the latest "War" for the resources of other societies, can all be traced to their origins..., the economic system, its corporate autocratic ownership and control of our needed tools of social production..., tools which we, as a society, do not own, rather, these indispensable economic resources are held as private property to be used, not for our societal use, but for the profits which accrue to their capital investors..., to the exclusion of the needs of society itself. And in this process, We, the People, are left out of any decision making in all matters that affect our lives.
The "Great Debate," is literally, a great sham concocted by the Presidential Debate Commission to continue the illusion that We, the People , live in a democratic society!
Every Presidential candidate We have been allowed to view in the corporate owned and controlled media, always reminds us that they are for the "Free Market," their synonym for capitalism, the system in which our socially operated industries and services are privately owned, controlled , managed and used for the profits of private individual and groups, to the exclusion of what is in the best interests of our society...
As serious adults interested in the preservation of all the positive human values we hold dear…we can do no less than examine one of the more vocal movements which are active in bringing to the national discussion table the question of how to bring about a peaceful and legal transformation of our society from the corporate and political domination of our lives …, which can be found at: