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-------------------------------------------------- From: "Mark Nash - Lists" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:38 PM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Free enterprise,sure, when pigs fly > Give the facts, give the opinion, leave the radical commentary for the > other > lists for people who share your views and want to hear it. Company Man. It's a term used at times to describe someone who is engaged by the top management to work among the producers, to make sure that nobody rebelled, everyone followed policy, and to give management notice if anyone tended to be outspoken or lead complaining about things ythat were wrong. Their job was to help squelch or otherwise shut down disagreement with the top brass. Often spies for management, to find out who to get rid of. Generally a derogative term. Used deliberately by me. Let's imagine, if you will, that instead of being a nation, we're just a big company. After all, the job of politics is little more than to force people to behave certain ways, spend the money they earn for what the top brass want. Today, almost 3 of every 10 dollars of income is spent by the administrations. That is, management consumes, without investing a penny in productivity, almost 1/3 of all the company revenues. This year, the company will spend almost twice what it takes in in revenues. The rest will be borrowed in the name of the employees. Every management function of the central office is duplicated by the state offices. They do not agree on the rule in the books that you must follow. Almost every management function of the state administration is duplicated at the central office, as well. Again, the rules are not the same. And in spite of all that spending, NOTHING IS INVESTED IN IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY. Nor has it been in at least a couple decades. Despite the fact that nobody in the "main office" produces anything, has any idea how to do anything the company does, and the hiring policy requires neither experience nor knowledge of what is produced, the main office has produced so many rules about how to run it, that their office building that houses JUST THE PRINTOUTS was in danger of collapsing under the weight. And that's just the paperwork about former employee medical benefits. ( google for story of VA offices threatened by the sheer weight of case files backlogged) The main office spends about 1 of every 3 dollars that the company takes in, and it controls additionally about 2 of every 10 dollars the company brings in, but it does so simply by requiring others to spend it - none of which is invested in productivity - almost all is spent to PREVENT productivity. In addition to that, the main office confiscates 17% of every employee's paycheck to spend, and promises that when you retire, it'll pay it back to you... in payments - if you live long enough. Further, it takes anywhere from 0 to 40% of everything you have left after that in your paycheck, to spend for you. With this confiscated money it will do such valuable things as buy viagra for people in jail for committing sexual offenses and study why wolves eat sheep. The main office determines, by vote, which groups of people it takes what percentage from. It has figured out that so long as at least half of the employees don't get money confiscated, the majority will be happy with benefits it gives away, having taken it from the minority of employees. The company is not well off, having accumulated debt and IOU statements amounting to approximately a quarter million dollars per person, for each family represented by an employee. The families ARE responsible for future repayment of this debt, and the main office continues to borrow and write IOU's amounting to 10's of thousands of dollars per family member each year. But, they promise, that it won't be anyone complaining who'll have to pay the debt back, they'll take it from "someone else". By the time you add up all the people who are hired in the main office, and all the other offices, plus the various contracted out services they hire, there are approximately 2 people who are management or hired by management to do stuff for management, out of every 5 people in the company. To summarize, this company has indebted every employee's family member by at least 1/4 of a million dollars. The average wage earned by an employee not in management is about 40,000. Those in management average almost double that. Yet, nobody in management is liable for a single dollar of company debt, their retirement and retirement benefits are fully secured and paid for. The employees on the other hand, are simply given company IOU's equal to less than minimum wage as a retirement plan, and the company has plans to confiscate all the employee's own retirement savings and replace it with more IOU's. Anyone who is paid by the piece is fined for excess production, overtime is fined, even excess contributions to your own retirement are fined, with the main office collecting all the fines. The company just took over all the decisions about health care, and have started the process to confiscate approximately 30% of the average take-home pay to go to the central office. In return, they promise you'll get whatever you need whenver you need it. Unless the company can't pay for it, of course. But, that'll never happen, of course. Or, so they promise. It sparked outrage, so they promised to take the money from only 30% of the employees, to give to the other 70. So long as a majority don't complain to loud, the polls the company takes will show great satisfaction. Now, each time one of the employees complains that this company is poorly run, is astonishingly incompetently managed, or otherwise comments what we ALL know is dead on true about the gross incompetence and generalized corruption that permeates the company, along come the "company men" to shush us up, threaten us with social stigmatism, or even some harsh physical or other vengeance. The company, mind you, has a charter. A contract, built into the bylaws, that govern what the main office does, what it can do, what it can't do, and it established the company on the notion that the company would provide direction, protection, and little else, and that the employees would and could profit from their own initiative. Heck, the main office was to be so small it was to be funded merely by a slight markup on products sold to other companies. The employees were to keep everything they earned, except for what they themselves voted on to fund the state, regional and local offices. And, the decisions about investment in productivity were made directly by the employees themselves. For nearly 200 years the company, and it's employees flourished and advanced at a rate that astounded the entire world. And then, during some hard times, some guys threw away the rulebook. Now it's all but bankrupt, the employees themselves are also bankrupt from the debt the company has obligated them to, including the IOU's that, again, are drawn and written on the personal fortunes of the present and future employees. Welcome to 2010. As I read your commentary directed toward me, I realized that I was supposed to be intimidated, and that I was supposed to feel shamed by your superior intellect and your "reasonable" positions. Oh, no. Hell NO! Not only am I NOT radical in the slightest, I'm merely pointing out the most simplistic, obvious, and most fundamental of the gross idiocy that's come to be. You're a great "company man". You definitely have sold your soul to parrot the company line. But hell, not a business man with two working brain cells is left who could be convinced that what you're defending is anything but colossal stupidity. I'm not radical, I'm just simply sensible. I'm sorry you are so threatened by truth, by something that withstands the test of time and every intellectual measure of truth. We were left with a charter, with founding documents, and a set of laws that describe how the place (country) is supposed to work. And, they followed those rules well for a long time and we have been incomprehensibly blessed, as has the whole world, by the fact that we did follow the rules. They are wise, they are prudent, they are very, very well drafted. They delegate responsibility to the individual for almost everything, and very, very little to the federal government. And, when we have deviated from them, we have the obvious and apparent results. So, suggesting we back to how things are SUPPOSED to be is "radical"? I think not. Defending how things are would be "radical". But, more accurately, utterly and hopelessly wrong or stupid. As, I have come to believe, ARE YOU, company man. Get lost. This nation needs no more of the corruption, stupidity, and gross incompetence that got us by pretending that those in DC were wise and inerrant. They weren't. And now we're all paying the damn price. Between the legal debts and the contractual obligations signed on our behalf, this nation has currently 74 TRILLION DOLLARS in obligations. That's the debt, the "social contract" spending like Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security (none of which is funded, it's all just IOU's), and all other legal obligations combined. After Obamacare ends private medical care by bankrupting the insurers and most providers, then that figure will likely go up by 50 to 100% overnight. As businessman, I find it utterly incomprehensible that anyone in business would defend the monstrosity we have created for ourselves. It's time to undo it. And to send the "company men" packing off to the land of irrelevance, on display in the Museum of Really Bad Ideas. Sure, there is no social club of "supporters" of such dull and boring advocacy. It would seem that even the dullest of the dull, this great experiment in the exercise of unrestrained power has been an epic disaster. Why, then are so many of you utterly afraid to open your mouth, to stand on principle? Why are the members of WISPA trembling in fear of the notion of having WISPA go to DC and say "Hey, you're way overgrown here, you need to get back to your proper boundaries of being a PRUDENT STEWARD, not an auctioneer of public assets to to the highest bidder!"? Is it because the wording is old fashioned, or the notion not "hip"? Or is it that you're so desperate for a few crumbs from the master's table, you''re willing to perpetuate the charade that they're the master and we're the servants, instead of being the other way around, which is THE CONTRACT WE HAVE WITH THEM???? Or is it that you've just grown comfortable with the way things are? Well, a currency collapse will definitely put the lie to that little bit of self delusion. Welcome to reality. Are we going to be responsible, or are we just going to continue letting the children play with the credit cards to the family fortune? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! 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