The Appeal salutes Russel Brand for his stand against the forces of inequality that are raging around the world by the Free Market Frankenstein Monster and have seen a constant attack on workers and the poor and the economically disenfranchised, as well as on Mother Earth, and continues unabated in favor of the plutocrats and corporations. Mr. Brand is one of the few celebrities willing to go out on a limb and speak to the truth of these immoral matters in defiance of the corporate owned media. We find Mr. Brands candor and comedy to be of much needed assistance to the cause. When elites stay silent in the face of such cruel and inhumane policies that exploit the poor and working class, their silence is akin to complicity in the greedy economic policies. The working class, the poor, and the economically disadvantaged have been exploited in the Free Market Frankenstein Monster economic system, a hyper-capitalist fundamental financial free-for-all, that has seen the rise of the Too Big Too Fail Banks, Hedgies, profits over people, and the merger of the political and corporate state. Doctors, who see themselves as primarily losers in the new Affordable Care Act, due to enhanced competition brought upon by the Federal Government, which ends the privatized insurance monopoly that made American Health care many times more expensive for the exact same procedures as anywhere else in the world, are now experiencing the debilitating and marginalizing economic effects of free market competition that American workers and small business owners have for decades now. The difference being that Obamacare actually helps the American people while Walmart acts as a vampire sucking up American profits while it zombifies the American consumers who do not even realize they are victims in this immortal Free Market bloodbath of American jobs, wages and benefits. The less expensive healthcare being offered by Obamacare, due to its more expansive competition and governments large purse, which is akin to your local Walmarts cheaper wares and outsized monopoly advantages, enabled by its ability to offshore its operations to China, exploit workers for as little as $1.00 a day there, for much longer and dangerous work days, as well as paying poverty wages to its American workers at home, despite its garnering of massive profits, all due to their immoral business practices. Immoral business practices that have enabled Walmart to create a monopoly on prices that small competitors simply cannot match as the dirt cheap consumer goods from China have proven to be irresistable to the American public despite their debilitating effects on American workers. One free market solution marginalizes American workers, the other American doctors. One acts as a social program assisting the general public who are not covered by any healthcare coverage from their employers to obtain the valued benefits and the other acts as a vampire in the name of corporations and Big Business and Big Rich sucking off American jobs in its insatiable lust for profits. Doctors on the whole have not spoken out against this system when in the previous decades the brunt of its inequities have fallen on top of the heads of the working class. Now that Obamacare has brought the free market and open competition to their shores a majority of them do not seem to have taken the same shine to the Free Market Frankenstein Monster policies that they previously have. It seems that their Free Market Frankenstein Monsters Bride has turned into a Witch altering their perceptions of which they had previously thought of her as beautiful and elegant. The Free Market mantra of profits before people has seen corporations move operations overseas to exploit foreign labor, escape paying U.S. taxes, garner all kinds of tax breaks, lopholes and even corporate welfare, hire illegal immigrants, attack and lower working class wages and benefits, as well as enact a coordinated effort to destroy unions and collective bargaining for workers, as they rack up record gains in the exalted Free Market Frankenstein Monster profits are king economic system. Enhanced competition is a hallmark of Free Market Frankenstein Monster economics. Where money and profits are considered in this economic system, anything goes, as seen in the exploitation of the foreign workers to include unkempt and unsafe conditions, appallingly low wages, exploiting young children, none of it seemingly having any real effects on American consumers. One that American Labor is well used to as it has meant moving corporations overseas and gutting good American jobs. It has meant a willingness to hire illegal immigrants and looking the other way to obstruct reforming the broken and immoral immigration sytem. Instead of helping to level the playing field by fixing the crooked path of hiring illegal immigrants that corporations and plutocrats illegally undertake, there has been only political squabbling, accomplishing nothing, which serves to keep alive the status quo, as it has proved to be fruitful for American businesses and elites in lowering good American salaries and benefits. It has meant enacting laws in favor of Big Business and Big Rich and against unions and working people. It has meant corporate lobbyists stuffing politicians in their pockets to ensure pro-business and anti-worker policies even some as patently ridiculous as the Citizens United ruling which deemed that corporations are human. It has meant sending young Americans to war in the Middle East and elsewhere for the interests primarily of the military-industrial corporate-pirate complex that does the bidding of the multi-nationals and elicitss enormous profits from the spoils of war. It has meant the complete non-oversight by American democracy of the CIA and the cover-up of much of its heinous and criminal clandestine operations all throughout the world. It has seen the overwhelming saturation of consumeradvertising, the costs of which, in the trillions of dollars, by the corporations, would make their Gross Domestic Products to be larger than most countries of the world, promoting Snookie celebrity fame in the gladiator arenas of celebrity, sports, and CEOs. Working as an opiate to the masses, who are so drunk on the populist advertising propoganda, that they willing fight, push and trample each other on consumer high days, such as Black Monday, for more boob tubes and electronic devices and populist information feeders, which will only ensure more ad addled celebrity infused brains to be engineered in its wake. It has seen the rise of a zenophobic political party, the Republican Tea Party, which primarily serve the business and elites interests and is paid for by the Koch brothers, that have embarked on such a destructive campaign of obstruction and ugliness, that seeks to combine a religious and patriotic fervor, that is reminiscent of, and seems to wish to conjure communally, trancendant spiritual and political beliefs of the sort that were visited upon by certain innocent women of Salem, Massachusetts. It has promoted a society of Haves and Have Nots, the Haves bolstered by the political Ayn Rand individual greed is good psuedo-philosophical demagoguery of the day, which in turn condemns those who are suffering or barely making it, as unworthy and even worse unholy. It has created a class warfare that have seen all forms of society to include education, legal, political, social and economic be sucked into its vortex spiiting out an ugly and disparate wealth distribution that has seen the 1% flourish while the 99% flounders. The days of the Robber Barons are once again ascendant and it is good to see a celebrity with the temerity to join forces with the so-called riff-raff. You can only kick a dog for so long before it decides to bark. And bite back. Or Fight Back!
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:27:40 +0000
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