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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?
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