EVOLVE! (It's not just for fish on car bumpers.)

For those of you following things at Collapsenet.com and related web sites, you already know that Mike Ruppert has left his post as chief of the Collapsenet.com organization.   My first instinct was to say, "Say it Ain't So!".    I subscribed to the site in large part because of his feedback on current events - often pointed, sometimes quite funny, always fact-based.    But there's a lesson in that urge to say "Say It Ain't So!".    Keep reading….

Quibbles and Bits, Money is the Root of All (?) Edition

I return with this appetizer...

>> The Wisconsin Recall - I'm not surprised in the slightest.   Even when I heard about the 1 million signatures submitted, I knew that the more time that passed between those submissions and the election date, the more time Scott Walker had to spin his web of lies, made golden now with the millions in Koch Brothers, and like minded denizens, scratch to ensure he stays put.    It worked - Wisconsin is stuck with him now until at least 2014.    Moral of this story - ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

You better believe that the model Mr. Walker established will be exported elsewhere.    Labor unions of any kind are seen as distortions of the labor marketplace, and thus, must be removed - if you think like those who believe that Milton Friedman was the second coming of Jesus.   Fundamentalists of the Friedman and Hayek type are running things in the US now, and now that this is behind us, look out for more austerity packages developed by the successor to ALEC (see my comment below on this lovely bunch of fascists), and sold by political snake-oil peddlers like Scott Walker, Rick Snyder, Mitch Daniels, and the rest of 'em.    

>>Why do we need unions?   Because of people like Scott Walker.    Because of people like Mitch Daniels, Rick Snyder, and their ilk.   Because of people like Michelle Rhee (Waiting for Superman, eh?  Keep looking, Mrs. Johnson).   Because of the Don Blankenships, the Chainsaw Dunlops, and the Republican Party as a whole.     The fact that there were a substantial number of Wisconsin voters who voted for Walker puzzles me to no end - do they honestly think that he'll leave them alone?    To those people, and to all union members who get tempted to vote for a Republican:

The. Republican. Party. Does. Not. Give. A. DAMN. About. You.   

Repeat the above phrase as long as necessary, so that it become an automatic response the next time you walk into a ballot box.   

>>As for ALEC - at this writing, 19 businesses have left this sordid bunch.    I'm not jumping for joy - these companies have too much at stake, and in order to "protect their investment" in government, they will either turn to another, more secretive legislative clearing-house, or they will simply create a new one.  

More later - but remember my stolen-from-Ronniebaby mantra:

CORPORATE AMERICA DOES NOT HAVE THE SOLUTIONS TO OUR PROBLEMS. 

CORPORATE AMERICA IS THE PROBLEM.