TigerSoft News Service   4/20/2008     www.tigersoft.com  
                                  by William Schmidt, Ph.D.  -   What The Corporate Media Won't Tell You.

                                                                    
                                            http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/03/truckers_protest_high_diesel_p.html
                                 

                                   A caravan of horn-honking truck drivers rolled their rigs through Washington.
                                   protesting rising gasoline costs and demanding that Congress impose caps on prices
                                   at the pump. 
                                                http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042800787.html?hpid=sec-education
                                              

                                           "YES",   PEOPLE ARE BITTER! 
                                           Bush's Vanity-War goes on and on.  Socialism is only for the rich
                                    and Congress.   Real wages go down and down.  And gasoline
                                    goes up and up.  But CEOs make ten million a year while their stock
                                    drops 80%.  It's time for a big change.   Right wing taunts to "shut up,
                                    stop whining and worker harder" now just make people angrier.
                                    Obama "caught hell" from the media for telling the truth.  But Clinton
                                    did make me laugh when she called Obama an elitist. 

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                                                                             "I am the king"

                                                       
                                     In late "2005, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with
                                  President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act,”
                                  writes Doug Thompson for Capitol Hill Blue. “GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore
                                  push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives
                                  still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet
                                  Miers to the Supreme Court.”
                                      Thompson reports the following exchange:“I don’t give a goddamn,”
                                  Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”

                                      “Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions
                                 in this law undermine the Constitution.”

                                       “Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a
                                 goddamned piece of paper!”    “I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day
                                 and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution ‘a goddamned
                                 piece of paper.’” Thompson comments
                                 (Source: http://www.infowars.net/articles/december2005/121205neocons.htm )
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                                 A BITTER DISCONTENT IS GROWING
                                                                                      by William Schmidt, Ph.D.
                                                           
                                            Obama is EXACTLY right about that.  The media make him
                                                out to be an extremist because he says people are "bitter".
                                                They make Obama's words the focus for the first 35 minutes
                                                 in an hour-long debate instead of getting to the trillion dollar
                                                 issues of Iraq, Afghanistan, jobs, inflation and foreclosures.
                                                 The big corporate US media are very much part of the problem.
                        
                                                    Long frustration does make people  grow "angry" and "bitter". 
                                                That bitterness has been brewing a long time about  the
                                                choices made by Washington and corporate elites that affect
                                                most Americans in the political and economic realms.  The
                                                prolonged, hugely expensive and unsuccessful wars in
                                                Iraq and Afghanistan wars are  just the most obvious sources
                                                of the discontent.  The disquiet ranges from job losses and
                                                declining real incomes to the sense that all the existing
                                                political elites are dishonest, corrupt, self-serving and arrogantly
                                                unrepresentative.
                                                 
                                                     How would you feel if your job and home were taken away and
                                                companies like Hewlett Packerd, which are making billions,
                                                skirt the laws with impunity and hire permanent employees as private
                                                contractors through employment agencies, like  Kelly's.  The
                                                rich get absurdly and obscenely rich, but real wages are lower
                                                than they were in 1971!   People read about the bale-outs of
                                                big banks with hundreds and hundreds of billion dollars from
                                                the US national Treasury.  Yet, 40 million Americans can not
                                                afford health insurance.

                                                   Republicans expect a balanced budget from their kind.  Bush
                                                gave them record-sized deficits and nation-building far away.
                                                McCain who has been the beneficiary of socialized health care
                                                his whole life, won't back it for the rest of America.  Democrats go
                                                out and vote in the primaries, only to discover that the Democrats'
                                                system of super-delegates can over-rule the Presidential candidate
                                                chosen by the majority in the primaries.  Frustration is non-partisan. 
                                               
                                                   Will the Democrats really help average working people?
                                                Don't hold your breathe.  Both Clinton and Obama have just
                                                promised they won't raise taxes on people making $250,000/year.
                                                In what world do they live if they think that someone making
                                                $250,000/year is in the middle class?   The median US income
                                                is now $36,000/year.    Inflation, because of the falling Dollar,
                                                is rising much faster than median income.  So, real income and
                                                hope are diminishing.  The gains of the last 37 years have gone
                                                nearly entirely to those at the economic top of American society. 
                                                The chart from the University of Maryland below compares
                                                incomes of the top 20% with the bottom 20%.

                                                                      
                                     ( Source: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/vanneman/socy441/trends/ratio15.html )
                                               

                                                    CEO's, like  Killinger of Washington Mutual, arrogantly gouge
                                                shareholders and pay themselves and their cronies on the
                                                Board of Directors tens of millions a year.  Stockholders shout
                                              and scream once a year.  But in the end, they can't fire their twenty
                                                million dollar a year CEOs, despite  the collapse of their stock.

                                                   Bush and Cheney have cost America $3 trillion dollars.   The
                                                money has been wasted,  stolen and disbursed to Republican
                                               campaign contributors.  America is not safer because of
                                                Iraq.   But its government is all but bankrupt, financially, diplomatically
                                               and morally.  And it has made enemies of millions of Arabs. 
                                                No one I talk to feels anything but contempt for Bush.  His
                                                approval ratings are 28%. Yet, the Democrats are too cowardly
                                                to stop his madness by voting down more war appropriations. 

                                                           Cowardly Nancy Pelosi and Cowardly Democrats

                                                    With good reason, Congress is disliked even more than Bush.
                                                Nancy Pelosi took impeachment right off the table.  She has refused
                                                to end Bush's vanity-war by denying it appropriations.  She has
                                                refused to allow Rep. Kucinich to bring articles of Impeachment
                                                against Cheney.  I wrote last Fall she fails to appreciate that she is
                                                in office with a Democratic majority precisely because Americans
                                                want an end to the Iraq quagmire.  I suggested she should read
                                                the US Constitution and study what the founding fathers like
                                               James Madison wrote in the Federalist papers about how Congress
                                               must use impeachment to stop an out-of-control jingoistic President
                                              -Tyrant,   who creates false and exaggerated fear to start an
                                               unnecessary war, all the while spreading a false nationalism to
                                               fool the gullible and easily fearful to make his cronies rich with
                                               war-time profits while and better intimidate his critics.

                              


                        Sky-High Gas Prices and Un-Regulated Mexican Truckers in The US
                    Have Caused An American Truckers' Revolt

                              "American truckers plan to circle the White House and state capitals in a "rolling blockade"
                       to protest a federal government plan to allow Mexican long-haul rigs to operate throughout the U.S.               
                       Drivers who participate in "Truck-Out" also are being asked to run their rigs at the minimum speed
                       permitted by law.  The protest is scheduled for April 23-25 to coordinate with the
                       "Hold Their Feet to the Fire" rally and radio talk show marathon in Washington planned by the
                       Federation for American Immigration Reform.   "American truckers are going to have their jobs
                       undercut or vanish into the hands of Mexican truck drivers as this Department of Transportation
                       pilot project gains permanency," said Frosty Wooldridge, a writer and talk-show host who drove
                       18-wheelers for two decades. " ( http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55199 )

Truckers protest diesel prices by MONICA VON DOBENECK, Of The Patriot-News Saturday March 22, 2008 "Angry truckers gathered at a truck stop off I-81 Saturday to protest the high price of fuel and plan how to get the country's attention. They agreed to send a convoy to the state Capitol March 31 during morning rush hour as a start. A convoy to Washington, D.C., might follow and, if that doesn't work, a strike, some said. "Three weeks ago I set out on a mission ... to protest the ridiculous price of fuel," organizer Mark Kirsch, an independent trucker from Myerstown, told a couple hundred truckers gathered at the Gables truck stop near Harrisburg. "We have local governments' attention; now we need national attention. We need big numbers." Kirsch got near unanimous cheers and pumped fists when he asked how many would be willing to join the Harrisburg convoy. "We need to tell the greedy oil companies we won't stand for this anymore," he said. "We can't let government walk all over us." http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/03/truckers_protest_high_diesel_p.html

President James Madison "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." Federalist Papers 47 "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it, we have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." "It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?" Federalist Papers 62 "Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property "[The Constitution preserves]...the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. . . [where] the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." - U.S. Constitution ratification convention, Massachusetts, 1788 "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war . . . and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." -   April 20, 1795     (Source: http://www.truthusa.org/quotes/M-R.htm )

                                                

             There are much harsher indictments of Nancy Pelosi on the internet.  Below is
       one from                                                                               
       http://democraticnationusa.blogspot.com/2007/11/cowardly-nancy-pelosi-democratic.html

             See also:
        http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/lets-call-american-elections-what-they-are-rigged/
        http://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/reagan-conservative-impeach-bush/
       
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