“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

JFK, 1/20/1961

“Ask not what your corporation can do for you ask what you can do for your corporation.”

JP 2/6/2010

This country has come a long way since 1961. We have all given much to our country. I know I have and I know my father has and I know my grandfathers have. Nowadays it’s my wife that gives the hardest.  It fact statistics show that for the first time in this recession women are employed in higher number than men. They say that that is because manufacturing jobs have been hit the worse and these tend to be men’s jobs but I have a different theory on that which I will get into in the future.

Statistics show that the middle class has eroded since 1961. Those salaries in terms of buying power have turned from increasing year to year to decreasing year to year causing despair and a lack of motivation among the middle or working class. We know that the upper %5 of the population has seen their compensation increase exponentially. Nobody in 1961 was making any kind of salaries like the ones CEO’s make even adjusting for inflation.

We have only recently become aware of what economists have kept secret for decades and that is the concept of boom and bust.  We are driven like sheep to feed the economy by maintaining menial jobs that pay just enough to keep us working from day to day. When we lose jobs it is devastating because we just had enough to survive or we naturally up scaled our lives to be in line with what we could afford on a monthly basis.

We are so programmed to purchase products and deal with our cash flow on a month to month basis that we don’t even realize we are being controlled by not the government but the real power of America, the corporation. The corporation gets anything they want while the people get nothing. We don’t even get a decent education or health care anymore. We are supposed to pay for all that ourselves from the meager wages of the corporation. Since there are so many of us we claw and destroy each other just to rise up in the great corporation. The corporation has no problem replacing us like cogs in a machine if we get in any kind of credit problem or health issue. They can basically use their rules to illuminate us from their work force legally whenever they want.

I’ve held many jobs and I’ve worked as both employee and contractor to large and small corporations across many industries.  My opinion is they hire fresh new young ambitious and idealistic talent that they can mold themselves and run them all into the ground until they find that one tough character that happens to fit what they are looking for and try to keep them while paying them as little as possible. Notice how the corporation always says that they don’t ever want anyone to discuss salaries with each other. That is because they don’t want a hard worker to find out how little she is making compared to a lazy one.

They preach team work and productivity out of one side of their mouth and fire productive members of the team if they don’t like them for one reason or another and keep the ones that communicate with them. So what does this mean to you and me? Why bother bringing up potentially emotional subjects without having solution for them? Is the solution to the economy really to get it back on it’s feet so we can begin buying and selling products again? Everything regarding the news is the we need to buy houses and iPods so that the economy can hire people and we can get back to our lives of higher monthly payment. This merely puts money back into the top %5 of the countries pockets. No the answer lies in the other %95 of the work force including the unemployed. We are not lazy and not trying hard enough to find a job, even though that is what the rich will tell you. We need to organize and take back control of the natural resources of this country. The corporations have destroyed our beautiful country.  Let’s take this world back.  Let’s begin a discussion here about how to do this. Let’s organize as people and figure out a way to take this world back before it is too late.

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