A friend just forwarded this to me: Over five thousand years ago, Moses said to the children of Israel, "pick up your shovel, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the promised land."
Nearly 75 years agao, Roosevelt said, "Lay down your shovel, sit on your asses, and light up a camel, this is the promised land." Now, our Congress has stolen your shovel, taxed our asses, raised the price of camels, and mortgaged the promised land! Furthermore, I was so depressed last night thinking about Health Care Plans, the economy, the wars, lost jobs, savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc. I called Lifeline, the suicide help line. Got a call center in Pakistan. I told them I was suicidal. They all got excited and asked me if I could drive a truck. Tom S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "RickG" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Was Pigs fly, now "company man" >I think he's trying to feed us ;) > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Jack Unger <[email protected]> wrote: >> Please don't feed the MDK troll. >> >> MDK wrote: >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Neofast, Inc, Making internet easy >> 541-969-8200 509-386-4589 >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> -------------------------------------------------- >> 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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