As most people who truly know me already have observed, I have a tendency to get on the political soapbox. In this election, this midterm that is truly as important as any other election in a major election year, there has been a paradigm shift. After the Supreme Nutcases... I'm sorry, the Supreme Court... decided that corporations have every right to spend as much as they want in an election and not have to tell anybody where the money came from but instead to "trust them" that they have safeguards preventing the foreign money they collect to influence our American elections, there have been a glut of advertisements focusing on Democrats and supporting Conservative candidates.
I can't call them Republican candidates, as many of them are "Tea Party" candidates that aren't truly Republicans. I'll allow others to differentiate between Republicans and Tea Party people.
This has never been so evident as for the "company" that labels itself as the U.S. Chamber Of Commerce. Everyone knows what their local Chamber of Commerce does, and this shell organization should NOT be confused with those wonderful organizations. Instead, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has offices in many countries besides the United States and mingles those monies they collect from foreign corporations with the monies they use to influence our elections this year. Their goal is to help businesses become bigger businesses - no matter where those companies hire their employees.
The "U.S." in their title is a misnomer - they couldn't care less about the United States. Instead, they use the "U.S." to get the average uneducated citizen to trust that they know what's best for our country. Most people buy in to the concept of the Chamber of Commerce and therefore buy in to the ads that they are running. Recently, they've been running anti-Barbara Boxer ads (and, consequently, pro-Carly Fiorina ads) showing that Boxer has stopped job creation in the United States with her policies.
Let me remind most of you out there that it was the pro-business administration of Dubya that caused the current economic recession out of the surplus Clinton had created. Our government allowed businesses to dictate what our government did in relation to regulation, repealing failsafes put into place after the Great Depression... in an effort to stop a repeat of the shenanigans that led to the last Depression. Considering that it was Obama's policies (and our choice as a nation to trust him over McCain) that stopped the Depression from happening, maybe he didn't do as bad of a job as many are claiming.
On a related tangent, this recession was not created in 2 years, and the solution will not be that short either. Patience is the key. Considering I'm completely unemployed, I should be one of the loudest voices bitching about the state of the economy. Instead, I'm supporting what's currently going on and believe if we give the reins back to the Conservative Party we'll watch them lead the horses once again to the chasm - as they really are there for the rich and not for the middle- or lower-class citizens such as myself.
Carly Fiorina, Barbara Boxer's opponent for the Senate here in Cali, was head of Hewlett-Packard. She shipped jobs out of California and to other countries, helping the stock price of her company. Not helping the economy of her country, but helping the bottom line of her corporate masters - the stockholders. Keep this in mind when you see commercials from the Chamber of Commerce talking about how Barbara Boxer destroys jobs in Cali... as Fiorina has done worse.
Other candidates are being attacked by this corporation that has no stake in the success of our country but has a stake in the success of the businesses and countries that give money to them in the form of dues. Whether or not the United States succeeds in coming out of this recession is irrelevant. The only master they answer to starts their name with a dollar sign. For now, anyways... the dominant currency could just as easily be the Yen, or the Euro... or the Chinese Yuan.
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