I was happy to learn about a few things that came out in news:
- Obama is cracking down on over-paid CEO’s on Wall Street who received Bailout Bucks from taxpayers (of course, you know the tea party people will complain about THAT part of Obama’s policy – not about the CEO’s getting too much money – but the part about Obama doing something about them to begin with – I can almost hear them chanting it… “Let them eat cake! Let them eat cake!”)
- A bill to protect people who’ve been raped by their employers got passed (Al Franken’s baby). Namely, Halliburton – which is protecting their babies from being sued by the women they gang-raped, locked in a storage container, and left her for dead. Over 30-right wing Republican Senators were against the measure, saying that it was unfair to vilify Halliburton like this in public. Nevermind the woman who was gang-raped… let’s worry about the mega-billion dollar conglomerate who is sucking our treasury funds into a black hole every singled g-damned day. It’s almost too hard to believe why a bunch of psyco-path senators want to protect Halliburton at all. Including KBR.
On the bright side – someone is finally doing something about it. That someone is: Senator Al Franken.
But my favorite story was this one:
The activist group – called the Yes Men – a group which makes fun of – and creates awareness of – corporate greed in this country – pretended to represent the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at a fake new conference, and announced that because they were losing so many members have decided to reverse their position on Climate Change. (The Chamber of Commerce is *against* Climate Change legislation – because they represent Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Agra, etc etc)
All of this was reported as a REAL story on Fox Business News Channel. Then the real Chamber of Commerce caught wind of the story (which I’m sure has plans to sue “The Yes Men”) and interrupted Fox’s broadcast by stating that they were NOT reversing their position on Climate Change.
So why is this such a big deal?
It basically puts the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in a VERY bad position. They are indeed losing many, many of it’s members.
Why?
Because the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is nothing more than a GIANT lobbying group for companies that only wish to screw the average Joe Workingman.
They can’t handle the idea that someone like me might benefit from making $19/hour again. Nope. They want to keep things the way they are: an “Employers Market” – Where they can pay you whatever f*cking low wage they want.
Hell, they’d LOVE the idea of being able to rape you, leave you for dead in a storage container, and then have a White House and rightwing administration PROTECT you from prosecution.
But, they don’t have that anymore.
Law and Order is finally cool again.
The Chamber of Commerce is finally being bumped – by their constituents: The Consumer.
What’s basically happening is:
Obama has been meeting privately – individually – with the many executives who have been relying on the Chamber of Commerce for representation. Obama is cutting out the middleman and going straight to the business owner.
He’s convincing them that:
- Healthcare is a VERY good way to bring jobs back to this country
- Happy employees = Happy profits and loyal customers
- Happy customers = longterm prosperity
It seems that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been VERY baaaaad under the Bush Administration. And it’s time to finally CLEAN HOUSE.
It’s a good day 
