Stephane Hessel - Nincompoop

Stephane Hessel is a 93 year old nincompoop. His little book, “Indignez-vous!”, actually a screed pamphlet, has been the Best Seller in France for 2 years. One loses all respect for the French when you see how much nonsense and how many errors and falsehoods crammed into 29 pages of text the gullible French suck up as truth. Have they no common sense? Now the pernicious pamphlet is invading the U.S. in an English translation entitled “Time for Outrage,” surely destined to be popular among elite faculty and mindless students. The core of the rant is hatred of capitalism as best expressed by the United States; the other lunacies in the screed are too innumerable to comment on. Hessel feels it is better to suck up to the Evil Empire than think the people of the world would be better off with a Wal-mart in every town. Hessel opines “...—and even as we had to lend a favorable ear to communism in order to counterbalance to American capitalism–.” He calls for “peaceful outrage” by the loony lefties of the world. Has he never heard of an oxymoron? Outrage by lefties throughout history is defined by deaths and followed by oppression.

What is it about lefties, socialists, liberals and academics that they justify the death and poverty caused by socialism as better than prosperity and growth under capitalism? In addition to the “favorable ear” to communism by Hessel, we have Neil Clark writing in the UK Guardian about Vaclav Havel’s good struggle for freedom:

“No one questions that Havel, who went to prison twice, was a brave man who had the courage to stand up for his views. Yet the question which needs to be asked is whether his political campaigning made his country, and the world, a better place. Havel’s anti-communist critique contained little if any acknowledgment of the positive achievements of the regimes of eastern Europe in the fields of employment, welfare provision, education and women’s rights. Or the fact that communism, for all its faults, was still a system which put the economic needs of the majority first.” “Positive achievements” of communism - is this man insane?

And the morally blind Simon Winchester says of the evil North Korean dictator:

“The State’s founder, Kim Il Sung, claimed that all he wanted for North Korea was to be socialist, and to be left alone. In that regard, the national philosophy of self-reliance known in North Korea as “Juche” is little different from India’s Gandhian version known as “swadeshi”. Just let us get on with it, they said, and without interference, please. India’s attempt to go it alone failed. So, it seems, has Burma’s. Perhaps inevitably, North Korea’s attempt appears to be tottering. But seeing how South Korea has turned out — its Koreanness utterly submerged in neon, hip-hop and every imaginable American influence, a romantic can allow himself a small measure of melancholy: North Korea, for all its faults, is undeniably still Korea, a place uniquely representative of an ancient and rather remarkable Asian culture. And that, in a world otherwise rendered so bland, is perhaps no bad thing.”

Is Simon Winchester justifying starvation in North Korea because the country was saved from Wal-Mart?

How quaint that Materialists can protest about too much materialism in society. Now that’s another oxymoron.

Three complaints not political

Locally, two different businesses - a mattress company and a body shop - consistently utilize 'false advertising' to solicit business. The former hypoctirically bashes the competition and their products to profile the superiority of their own only to reverse direction, selling the very product they bashed in previous ads. The latter also demeans and accuses the competition of shady tactics only to use daddy's little girl to preach, preach and preach purity of motives and performance by his shop.
In an unrelated outrage, California now mandates car seats for children up to 8 years of age and 4 ft. 9 in. In only 3 or 4 more years, however, California girls can abort babies ( not human) and boys can fornicate ( either the gay way or straight) as a natural right.

Thirdly, I wish to complain about the elitist newspaper, the WSJ which routinely prints erudite letters to the editor because writers use phrases like 'inceptive conflagration,' rather than a Strunk and White word, fire.

So where do normal Americans like me go today? To an early 'auld lang syne' traditional sniff and sip of brandy, recalling the good old days.

Pelosi, Midnight Mass and Wal-Mart

Is Nancy Pelosi more of a Catholic than I having attended midnight Mass in a distant land as opposed to a small,local late afternoon church service? Is Nancy more Christian in following Jesus' teaching about those who are 'poor in spirit?' Nancy's favorite word, remember, is 'the Word.' Is Nancy, the advocate of abortion on demand (having had her 5 children easily and early in married life, attached to a wealthy man) more moral than I who believes human life begins with conception? Well, while Nancy Pelosi vacations in Hawaii at our taxpayers' expense of $10,000 a night, I took my one day post-holiday discount trip to Wal-Mart. 50% off led me to splurge to the tune of $15.00. Is Nancy more equal than I in the eyes of the Lord or the world? Ridiculous impossibility. The same sun falls behind Ohio trees as over dark, tropical water. The devil wears Prada year round, not just at Christmas. I inhabit an anti-Pelosi world, rich in conservative choices, free from the financial support strings of my fellow Americans.

THE MORAL BANKRUPTCY OF LIBERALISM AND SOCIALISM

Recently two men died. One promoted Liberty and the other Despotism. One was mourned by people of conscience and the other justly descended into Hades. Unfortunately many Liberals and Socialists, unable to distinguish between good and evil, attacked the light and justified the darkness.

Consider first Neil Clark writing in the UK Guardian, who informs us regarding Vaclav Havel’s good struggle for freedom:

“No one questions that Havel, who went to prison twice, was a brave man who had the courage to stand up for his views. Yet the question which needs to be asked is whether his political campaigning made his country, and the world, a better place. Havel’s anti-communist critique contained little if any acknowledgment of the positive achievements of the regimes of eastern Europe in the fields of employment, welfare provision, education and women’s rights. Or the fact that communism, for all its faults, was still a system which put the economic needs of the majority first.”

These comments are, of course, repulsive beyond belief, in addition to being historically illiterate, but as far as Clark is concerned, no good will come of Havel’s death if people like Clark cannot use it to lie about history.

In praise of evil, Kim Jung Il, the morally blind Simon Winchester says of the evil North Korean dictator:

“The State’s founder, Kim Il Sung, claimed that all he wanted for North Korea was to be socialist, and to be left alone. In that regard, the national philosophy of self-reliance known in North Korea as “Juche” is little different from India’s Gandhian version known as “swadeshi”. Just let us get on with it, they said, and without interference, please. India’s attempt to go it alone failed. So, it seems, has Burma’s. Perhaps inevitably, North Korea’s attempt appears to be tottering. But seeing how South Korea has turned out — its Koreanness utterly submerged in neon, hip-hop and every imaginable American influence, a romantic can allow himself a small measure of melancholy: North Korea, for all its faults, is undeniably still Korea, a place uniquely representative of an ancient and rather remarkable Asian culture. And that, in a world otherwise rendered so bland, is perhaps no bad thing.”

Let’s give the mike to Brian Micklethwait, for a reply. “No bad thing? Competition for commenters: concoct morally disgusting sentences which begin with ‘For all its faults …’. You’ll struggle to top that one.”

As I interpret, at least tyrant Kim saved the Korean people from Wal-Mart by starving them to death. As Liberalism and Socialism proudly proclaim, ‘Let us all be poor together.’

Obama Lies

Shortly after hearing prevaricator in chief, Barack Obama, hold forth in the White House presenting evasions, half-truths and outright lies about the Social Security tax cut shell game, I happened to read Gorbachev’s comments on propaganda in the old Soviet Union:

“Propaganda of success - real or imagined - was gaining the upper hand. Eulogizing and servility were encouraged; the needs and opinions of ordinary working people, of the public at large, were ignored. In the social sciences scholastic theorization was encouraged and developed, but creative thinking was driven out...Similar negative tendencies also affected culture, the arts and journalism, as well as the teaching process and medicine...At some administrative levels there emerged a disrespect for the law and encouragement of eyewash and bribery, servility and glorification.“

When even a dedicated Communist can finally speak the truth about how government interference corrupts economics, morals and reason, is it too much to hope that the truth could come from Obama’s forked tongue?

“Perestroika” a book by Gorbachev contained an unsparing indictment of the socialist system over which Gorbachev presided. He said that Soviet society has suffered “a gradual erosion of...ideological and moral values.” If only liberals could also learn to speak the truth. We unfortunately hear daily about Green Jobs and Green Energy as the future and salvation of America. Obama hectors Americans with false pieties and outright lies about the cost of these Green Projects. Electric cars are an article of religion among Obama and lefties but what do they really cost us, the poor taxpayer? Does each Chevy Volt, a General Motors’ plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, cost taxpayers up to $250K? According to James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether. Hohman looked at total state and federal assistance offered for the development and production of the Chevy Volt including 18 government deals featuring loans, rebates, grants and tax credits. The amount of government assistance does not include the fact that General Motors is currently 26 percent owned by the federal government.

Government and politicians, especially Obama, lie!

Oh that war!

Oh that Civil War that paid tribute to true courage whenever found, even in 48 lines from the poem "The Old Canteen," which concludes: "Then away in some garret the cobweb may screen/ My battered, old, cloth-covered,tin canteen."

Oh that Civil War after which no military service was forgotten. The Sons of Veterans, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Ladies Aid society, all felt that the glory of a nation was its young man and to perpetuate the memory of veterans, local organizations ( which became national) were formed to foster these 2 principles: 1. A firm belief and trust in Almighty God, and a recognition of His beneficent guidance in the preservation of the life and integrity of the Nation. 2. True allegiance to the Government of the United States of America, a respect for and fidelity to its Constitution and laws, and opposition to any system or power that in any manner tends to impair the efficiency and permanency of our National Union.

Oh,in that Civil War when 3 million, three hundred thousand patriots left home to defend the flag of Union. (300,000 from Ohio, my home state, 3rd largest contingent). Over 107 battle were fought, which did not include occupations, assaults, captures, sieges, repulsions, raids, invasions, attacks, bombardments, massacres or surrenders.

Oh that Civil War when a chronicler of camp-fire chats could wonderfully describe a normal spring when: "The man of brainwork and the man of business each again could brush back the ruffled locks from his forehead and, drawing a long breath, plainly see his blessed vacation in the distance of a short month or so; while the rested burly plowman could husk himself from his winter haunts, circulate in the fresh, free air of an American field, and bend to his labor in the full hope of a beautiful and abundant harvest."

Oh that Civil War and subsequent years when it was still possible to gather round a camp-fire and swell the chorus in
A HYMN OF PEACE
The echoes of war now have traveled
The valleys the last time for aye;
And the hills and the forests are silent,
As the Angel of Peace wanders by;-

While the unknown now sleep where they suffered-
In the land where brave charges they led;
Where the moss droops her tendrils in mourning,
And the mocking bird sings to the dead.

Unmarked are the mounds where they slumber,
Their names are unsung and unwept;
But their deeds are not lost nor forgotten,
For they're to eternity kept.

And while nature's monuments freshen,
In merry spring over each grave
Of the loyal sons of the nation,
May her emblem in gratitude wave.

And, too, while the bosom of ocean
Bears the harvests away on her tide,
May the olive branch bend in the sunshine,
And brotherhood ever abide.

Then let all the hearts that are heave,
Be cheered by the smile of the glad,
And every one who may be happy,
Make happy all those who are sad.

A Christmas Peace

"The sad effects ( of war) are felt in, alas! too many American homes, even at the present time - now! ( 1887) twenty years since the war! Twenty summers have shed their glowing warmth over the old battlefields! twenty autumns have shifted their melancholy smoke and sunshine above the sacred cemeteries! twenty winters, with their chilling snows and rains, have iced the tree boughs that droop over far away graves! twenty springs, with their cheering bird-calls, have spread their smiling floral covering, like Charity's peaceful mantle, over all the wide country where the campaigning was; and yet the heart strings then broken will remain unstrung until the soothing hand of death shall softly entwine them for all time."

Our warriors have been home from Iraq only a few days but will these poignant words from a writer after the Civil War still ring true twenty years hence? Who will pen such eloquence a score into the future. Will we still be a divided America?

Echoes past?

"The preservation of these...archives ... furnishes to youthful minds a far better class of reading that the mass of exciting and pernicious literature thrust upon them from all sides."

"When the signs upon the horizon of our beloved Republic indicated her dismemberment, men though not of toil, danger and privation; but sprang to her rescue with one consent, cheerfully giving all that life could afford as their individual offering upon a common altar s the price of her salvation."

"They might torture us with cruelty, they might kill us with starvation; but compel us to swear allegiance to a band of traitors whose purpose it was to destroy the best government God ever gave to man, they could not."

To what record and heroic patriots do these quotes refer? Camp-Fire Chats of the Civil War recorded in 1873 by veteran soldiers themselves. Let us sympathetically return to the 'days of yesteryear' before the upcoming election of 2012 and remember what we are fighting for, opposed to our country's death.

A good teacher

A Professor of literature and humanities feels that many crops of university students fall short. Mark Edmundson feels "sorrow about their foreclosed possibilities." He believes a good teacher should inspire a student, drawing out(educating) each person's special interest, talent or quality. The teacher's first job is eliminate the cant to which young people are exposed. The second to pursue truth. Do you agree?

A good teacher

A Professor of literature and humanities feels that many crops of university students fall short. Mark Edmundson feels "sorrow about their foreclosed possibilities." He believes a good teacher should inspire a student, drawing out(educating) each person's special interest, talent or quality. The teacher's first job is eliminate the cant to which young people are exposed. The second to pursue truth. Do you agree?

Where's Waldo?

In 1962, sister of a posthumous Medal of Honor winner reminded Americans "that no matter... how desperate our situation is, somehow, somewhere, in this great melting pot, there arises a great American to give life and hope to a tired and weary people, and to inspire and lead them from the bitter depths of despair to the heights of victory by his shining example of raw courage and dedicated devotion to his country."

Phyllis Basilone might have been referring to John, but her words echo today, immersed in the Obama presidency and preceding 2012, our next Presidential contest. Perhaps, Phyllis could not conceive of a man leading us out of darkness but the question is still valid, "where's our next Waldo?"

Down for the struggle

..."But before I would see it dishonored I would tear it from its place, to be set on the perilous ridge of battle as a sign around which her bravest and best shall meet the harvest home of death."

WHO knows that this was Jefferson Davis speaking about the star of Mississippi on the day before Lincoln's election, 1861. Did Davis as President of the Confederacy get down for the 4 year struggle? Yes,indeed. His life,liberty and ideals were on the line even though they included the evil preservation of the institution of slavery.

Davis uses a Biblical allusion to the 'harvest home' proving we were a Christian nation before the Civil War even though he ignored the tenants of Christianity regarding human rights. But are we still? Black politicians and activists who claim to be Christian including our President, use the historical fact of slavery to distort and pervert present conditions in America. Victories are ignored; grievances constitute their agenda. Why? What struggle are they down for other than the fight to re-create a racist country again? This is not politically correct. This is anti-Christian. Victimization is not a reality. Their alienation is just a state of mind. Liberalism and socialism will not improve our beloved land. The chip on Obama's shoulder metastasizes at an alarming rate.

We fought the Civil War for this?

Obama's Mythical "Dreams of My Father"

I just finished a great read, Bill Ayers' poetic memoir of 1995, called "Dreams from my Father." The ostensible 1/2 black man behind this ghost-written production believes the future will be a "combination of advancement and collective decline," if we do not fix America. His relative Auma says: "Without the white man, we might be able to make better use of our (black) history." How many words were penned by the subject of this lyrical and well-written myth? Pages 406 - 425 contain a straight narrative recording of Obama's Old Man and Grandfather by Granny. Probably a research assignment by Harvard student Barack Obama, these recollections are his only dry, boring and unsophisticated contribution.

" Dusk washing blue over the city, ... "moon-washed streets empty," ..."grimy mock-shutters." ... "floorboards beneath bucked and dipped like welts in a meadow," ...
"a creaky conveyor belt slowly disgorged luggage," ..."their faces broken into smiles," ..."shadows of moths fluttered," ... "a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality," ... "wilting, widely space corn,' ... "a solitary mountain rose like an island in a silent sea," ... "with mournful heads and humped shoulders," ... "their hoofs beating against the earth like a wave against the shore," ... "massive walls peeling like papier-mache in strips of pale orange and green and rose, its dormant cannons pointing out to a tranquil sea where a lone fisherman cast out his net," ... "his big, wrinkled face like a carving of stone," ..." two manila-hued daughters," ... "beached in a world she knew little of," ... etc., etc., etc. Paragraph after paragraph of figure-of-speech ridden descriptions, unique turns of phrase, philosophical musings, literary and historical references - could any of this have poured forth from Barack Hussein Obama?

Obama's father had no 'dreams' and the story of race and inheritance is just that, a fictional history. In conclusion, one word used in the book, "sh.." pretty much summarizes the truth to power from now President Obama who carries a large white chip on his shoulder and a lifetime of hypocrisy in word and deed to back up his liberal, socialist animus.

Thanks Bill Ayers' for superb command of the English language; no thanks, Obama for shameless dishonesty.

Hickstead, forever shining star

He burned brightly for 5 years. Bright stars B.C. and A.D. have lit the world - great people, great animals destined to share their special gifts with appreciative and understanding audiences. In 1996, Hickstead the star was born. It was not until mid life that he crossed paths with and was purchased in 2004 by a hopeful and patient rider, Eric Lamaze. Man combined discoveries and intense training with a horse’s fiery disposition and natural talent. Man and horse proved that greatness is earned. Eric Lamaze rode into the history books with Hickstead, a 16 hand, Dutch dark bay stallion. Eventually, their victories circled the globe. Ultimately, of course, triumph belongs to the horse. Numerous Grand Prix wins. The Rolex Grand Prix. World Cups. Stunning repeat conquests at the CN in Calgary, Canada. ( Eric happy, smiling and thumping the air with his arm in testament to the exciting accomplishment of his horse). Hickstead and Eric won the individual gold medal at the 2008 Bejing Olympics. They blazed with equestrian, athletic glory in Rome, Aachen and LaBoule. Hickstead earned the reputation for clear rounds above high, challenging fences. He attained a rare, four clear rounds in competition true to his habit of avoiding knock-downs. His star shone on the turf of show jumping until both rider and horse justly earned the ranking of number one. Both the best.

Then God said: It’s time, Hickstead, to come home. Why? At age 15, on top of the world? Who asks God why? Why when a favorite son is doing what he was born to do, loves to do with all his heart? At a competition in Italy, Nov. 6th, 2011, God extended his arm, pointed His finger and Hickstead answered the call. After a clear round, Hickstead unexpectedly halted and silently, slowly, fell to earth. His great heart burst. In less than a minute and sputtering like a spent flame, Hickstead left our world. The saddest minute. The saddest end. Forever be tears to his memory from fans, rightly wracked with sorrow, who knew him, admired him, acknowledged his status, his place.

His passing reminds me of the death of de Saint-Exupery’s “ little prince.” I quote. “He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.” Look at the horizon. When you look up at the sky, see a star, ... “it is the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world,” a great mystery. “It is here that the “little prince” appeared on Earth, and disappeared.”

Somebody up there loves you, Hickstead, enough to have shared you with us, but only until He missed you. But your star still blazes, your rider in the saddle intense, your legs tucked, your muscular torso soaring, your eye on the prize, your heart still pumping.

Can't work again

Like Gompers, labor leaders Meany and Lovestone were in the "vanguard of the proletariat"- not in the mendacious sense that Lenin had used that term, but in an opposite sense. They took the lead in fighting communism because it repressed workers, and in defending their country because it gave workers the chance for a decent life even though Marxism denied that this was possible under capitalism."

Even Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping admitted that "we can hardly convince the masses of the advantages of socialism if its productivity is always lower than that of capitalism."

Our leader, the big 'O' (Obama), disagrees with Gompers, Meany, Lovestone and Deng Xiaoping in his 21st century plan to "totally transform" America. Of course, it( his progressivism, socialism, communism ) again can't work.

Benign Socialism?

History has familiarized us with Hitler's serious socialism. In 1920 in addition to his violent antipathy to Jews his 'reign' called for: "aboliton of incomes unearned by work, ruthless confiscation of all war gains, nationalization of all trusts, profits from wholesale trade shall be shared out, extensive provision for old age, immediate communalization of department stores, confiscation without compensation of land for common purposes, abolition of interest on land loans, prevention of all speculation in land, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be punished with death, whatever their creed or race, opening to every capable and industrious German the possibility of higher education, development of the gifted children of poor parents at the expense of the state and the state must see to raising the standard of health in the nation by protecting mothers and infants, prohibiting child labor, by obligatory gymnastics and sports and by expensive support of clubs engaged in bodily development of the young."

TOO MUCH? Clement Atlee, Prime Minister of Great Britain after WWII instituted his 'reign' of social justice by 1. nationalization of many industries and 2. by a system of social welfare.

STILL TOO MUCH socialism? Our reigning President Obama's recent speech in Kansas called for a new era of fairness, the devil being in his administration's details.

Woe is me!

Into the Ashheap

From the earliest days, the kibbutz was a compromise between communist ideals and the germ of egoism which could never by conquered. The shoots of individual identity and self-interest managed to come through the crevices of the kibbutz's selfless collectivism. A member said: " ...I think the system is a mistake because not all people will give their best if they can get things free." Another old member said: "...they tried to change human nature and create a new man. To my regret, the kibbutz did not succeed at this task." SOOO? Socialism NEVER works, but the dream never dies - and adherents cannot be trusted; even Marx called one of his devoted mentors a piece "of party excrement."

Socialism is a religion, a substitute for Christianity, Judaism or spiritual need. Because it is a religion, communists ( socialists, progressives) tell their tale of redemption in Biblical terms consisting of 3 epochs: a past of primitive contentment, a present of suffering and struggle, and a future of harmony and bliss. President Obama and First Lady Michele just yesterday spoke to us Americans about living in the present, suffering and struggling, a need for shared sacrifice. Theirs is a Utopian dream of a fair, shared world.

DON'T BE FOOLED.

Socialism will again fail

Robert Owen, a seminal British socialist, in his Declaration of Mental Independence, names the three evils of the human race: private property, religion and marriage. With this perspective on humanity, what can you expect from socialism? What can you conclude when the same Robert Owen also declared a Dogs' Doomsday at his socialist Utopian community called New Harmony. There a "general dog killing" took place and "all citizens of the canine brood where to be shot."

Friedrich Engels, another socialist, succeeded in clarifying his friend Marx's basic ideas of "scientific socialism": historical materialism, class struggle, surplus value, the contradictions of capitalism, the dynamic of the business cycle, the economic impoverishment and concomitant political rise of the proletariat, the inevitable revolution, the subsequent dying out of the state, and the ultimate fulfillment of mankind as it ascends from "the kingdom of necessity to the kingdom of freedom.' Again what can you expect from this perverted Utopian view of goal of man?

Tea Party conservatives stand in direct contrast to Marxism, socialism. Our big three principles are the free market, limited government and individual responsibility. Our definition of freedom is not a perversion. Who do you think will prevail in this age of Obama when his hope for the change to socialism is based on the distorted definition of FAIRNESS which will be his 2012 campaign slogan?

RUN ON FOOD BANKS

Is there a run on food banks? Our capitol's food bank says the need is greater than ever ( a quote constantly used, not just statewide but locally). It serves about 1000 families a month. Wow!. That compares with 250 - 300 families just 30 years ago. Just? 30 yrs? All trying times considered, all increases in wages and population tabulated, all liberal media spin and distortion of the need for charity unabated - I say there's no run on food banks, just business from do-gooders as usual. But the 'moral hazard' has greatly increased as many are now encouraged to use Food Banks as a substitute for buying their food. The food budget becomes available to pay for cellphones or sneakers. Are we really to believe there are more hungry people now than in the Great Depression?

Insurance & medicaid

When somebody else pays, anything is possible. Pediatric therapy advertised by my local hospital specializes in "the compassionate, patient-focused care your family deserves" by treating: cerebral palsy, autism and down syndrome (what's to treat about the untreatable?), coordination deficits, balance deficits, core strength deficits and developmental delay(is not each child in some way born deficient?), behavorial concerns, eating issues, play and socialization, organizing and motor skills, environmental adaptions, self-help and hygiene and sensory integration (parental jobs anyone?), fine motor/handwriting, toe walking,stuttering and adaptive equipment( maybe this last offering is what they use. Our society has no shame over THERAPY FOR EVERY POLITICALLY-CORRECT MALADY, BIOLOGICAL OR IMAGINED AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS VIA EMPLOYERS' INSURANCE AND GOVERNMENTAL PROGRAMS. God help parents to wake up; our children already have more help than they will ever need because they need NOT help themselves.

Without us

The Obama administration plans to win in 2012 WITHOUT the white working class. Why not? Blacks, Hispanics, welfare recipients, union members, academics, college students, politicians, journalists, the media and Washington elites ( not one fitting the definition of a working stiff), constitute enough of a voting block to win the White House. 9 to 5, 5 or 6 day workers, mostly conservative as opposed to liberal in philosophy, only have time to occupt their respective workplaces, not Wall Street. As Lenin said, What is to be done when the media's job is to protect Obama and sever any connection to the truth?