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Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
It’s Time to Fight Back
These unconscionable practices in the name of ever more profits are not only having a negative impact on the quality of life of the poor and middle-class, but often, literally, sacrifice their very lives, as we’ve seen in an increasing number of cases, as in the coal mine disaster in Kentucky that took the lives of 29 coal miners, and the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico less than a month later, that took the lives of 11 oil workers. Both of these “accidents” were avoidable, and due to reckless penny-pinching by the corporations.
What the corporate community is calling “unfortunate accidents” are not accidents at all. They’re actually the corporate community’s reckless response to the new global economy – and it’s having a devastating impact on the American middle-class standard of living, and an even worse impact on the poor.
What we once thought of as American corporations have now become international in scope. They have no loyalty to any one nation, nor do they have any respect for any geographical boundary. They’re now competing with countries that pay their workers less per week than many American workers spend on lunch per day. As a result, the American middle-class standard of living has become a liability and is under an aggressive assault by both the corporate and governmental establishment.
Something has to be done, so in response to this attack on our quality of life I’ve recently become associated with three gentlemen who share my belief that it is essential that the middle-class beat back this assault by every means at our disposal. These gentlemen include the following:
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Lewis Maltby: Attorney, author (Can They Do That?), and former president of the worker’s Rights Division of the ACLU. Lew is also current president of the National Workrights Institute.
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Dr. Steve Musacco: Therapist, author (Beyond Going Postal), occupational psychologist, and 30-year veteran of the postal service, retired. Steve was involved in the development and implementation of both the Voice of the Employee Program and the Employee Assistance Program for the U.S. Postal Service.
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Rick Owens: Publisher of the Postal Employee Network. Rick’s publication reaches the workforce of the postal service’s 600,000 employees.
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My name is Eric Wattree. I’m an author (A Message From the Hood), and I write a political column called Beneath the Spin. My column is carried in the Los Angeles Sentinel, New York’s Black Star News, and several other publications in America’s heartland. I’m also a staff writer for Veterans Today – a publication that is global in scope.
We’ve come together to establish a non-partisan organization called CARMA (Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse). We’re currently in the process of developing a database to increase our numbers. We intend to consolidate and flex the political clout of poor and middle-class workers in a way that will be impossible for politicians, unions, and the corporate media to ignore. We also intend to use our clout to address the reckless assault on the poor and middle-class through both political action, and in the courts.
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Posted by Eric L. Wattree on Jul 19 2010, With 0 Reads, Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Hi E. I look forward to responding tomorrow. Of course, it is my birthday so I’m not sure what time it will be. And I’m not talking about my age, so don’t ask!
Your friend, Tom Vet, First Cav
Hey Tom,
Happy Birthday, man. I hope you have at least forty more. May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.
Here’s to waking up tomorrow morning with the wisdom of a progressive. Sorry ’bout that – I just had to slip that in there:>)
Eric
Man, the thoughts that go through that closet Tea Party head of yours, E.
Hi Tom,
Thanks for joining CARMA. Now we can truly say we’re nonpartisan.
You said I was a closet Tea Partier. You’re just a wee bit off there. The Tea Party hates the Democrats. The C-Party (CARMA) hates ‘em all. We think the Republican Party is insurrectionist, the Democratic Party is weak in the knees, Rush is a dummy, Olbermann likes to hear himself talk, and FOX News is a propaganda machine.
So the difference between CARMA and the Tea Party is that we’re equal opportunity hell raisers. We think they’re all snake oil salesmen.
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Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
A BIG STEP FORWARD IS TO BRING BACK THE Glass-Steagall Act ,
Abolish NAFTA/CAFTA/ SHAFT-YOU.
GET OUT OF WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION ,
ABOLISH INCOME TAXES,
BRING BACK TARIFFS WHICH WORKED GREAT FOR OVER 150 YEARS !!
REPEAL FEDERAL RESERVE DICTATORSHIP ACT WHICH JUST PASSED.
ABOLISH DEPT. OF EDUCATION,A.T.F./DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE,FOOD & DRUG,
abolish FCC.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS DECLARED WAR ON FAMILY/MEDIUM SIZED FARMS/RANCHES!!
A.I.P.A.C. IS THE GREATEST THREAT TO THE MIDDLE-CLASS.
Well, Rick,
I don’t know. You mentioned one or two things I could go along with, but some of your other suggestions would take us back to the middle ages. Get rid of the Food and Drug Administration?!!! Who’s gonna make sure we don’t have rat piss in our Malto Meal?
Yep, I clicked Yes on this CARMA thing. And hear I have all this karma stuff going on with Yogi X and “what happens when you die?” Karma is all about how to be loving and hugging and equality and stuff, and now CARMA is all about “kickin’ booty.
Well, Sorta.
Karma is the Buddhist word for “action.” It indicates that a person’s actions determines his fate – and that is so true. So kickin’ ass is sometimes necessary too – ask any of our troops.
Who is going to make sure we don’t have Monsanto running the
F.D.A. ? , Who is going to keep the ASPARTAME out of the food?
Who is going to keep the toxic food dyes,msg,various assorted
neuro-toxic additives out of the food? Who is going to find out
why there is elevated levels of MERCURY in 5000 different food items?
Who is going to stop Regulator Fruit Cases from terrifying an Amish Dairy
Farmer and his Wife & Kids when they storm in at 4 a.m.
with SWAT Teams because they were selling RAW MILK ?!!
The RAW MILK TERRORISTS
Who will stop MONSANTO from contaminating the entire World supply
of Food Crop Seed WITH FRANKENSTEIN SEED ??
WHO WILL STOP THE F.D.A. FROM SIMPLY BEING PAID OFF TO LET
GIANT CORPORATIONS WIPE OUT FAMILY-SIZED,MODERATE TO MID-LEVEL
SIZED OPERATIONS ??????????????????????
IT WILL NOT BE THE F.D.A.
Go for it. It’s about time. We need this before there is no middle or working class people.
Rick and Coffeecream are going to love with the piece of CARMA stuff I come with in late September. Rick will do it poetic justice while Coffeecream runs to the nearest Starbucks look-alike, jumpin’ up and down with joy.
You and I get to watch ‘em E.
T.
Just make sure it legal, Tom.
we don’t want anyone going “Cav” on us.
Finally a group that will hold companies responsible for their efforts. Take it from me being a Postal Worker and now in a mental crisis situation (nearly went postal) no pun tintended. It is time o begin to realize and rein in the abuses that affect all middle aged workers across the board. I am hopeful this group will suceede. Thank You Mr. Wattree for your efforts to bring out a highly abusive Government agency out from the shadows and bring it to accountability.
That’s right, Lee
Come join the operation.