Saturday, May 14, 2011

Fw: [acb-chat] [acb-l] in an ideal world

 
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 7:53 AM
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Frank, Gigi and All,
Here is proof that the mass media propaganda works.  We have been so overwhelmed by politicians crying out over the high costs of health and social services and predicting dire consequences if we don't drastically cut back now, that we have come to believe that it is the absolute truth.  Remember Hitler?  If you are going to lie, tell the big lie.  Make it so big no one would believe that you'd be lying. 
Just this morning, on that radical, left wing NPR, I heard that we are now spending one trillion one hundred million dollars a year on our Military, Industrial complex.  Of course this figure takes in the necessary support network to keep our war machine functioning. 
Where are our politicians, our president and our CEO's and Wall Street guys when it comes to screaming about over spending?  Have they profited so much personally that they are willing to sell the nation down the river?  We're going into deep debt and we're going to fix it on the backs of the poor, the elderly, and our children?  Are we all gone mad? 
 
Carl Jarvis
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: [acb-chat] [acb-l] in an ideal world

Gigi, while I fully agree that fraud and abuse should be weeded out, do you realize that you actually said that welfare and Medicaid are the biggest drains on the economy?!?!? Have you looked at our federal spending? Did you ever notice that elephant in the room known as defense spending? Also don't forget that welfare, Medicaid and other social safety net programs employ many folks to administer them, including many blind folks.

Frank

 

From: acb-l-bounces@acb.org [mailto:acb-l-bounces@acb.org] On Behalf Of Gigi
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 8:56 AM
To: Ann Parsons
Cc: acb-l@acb.org
Subject: Re: [acb-l] in an ideal world

 

Not sure if the $6K boat anchor is a euphemism or if there was a news story about an exorbitant fee paid for anchors, but...if there weren't so VERY much waste of our tax dollars, there'd be enough money to give those in need all they need.  For me, it's just that simple!! 

There's no monitoring of funds and service programs, so that guy who's driving an Escalade and shops at all the most expensive stores, is supplementing his *other* income with money he has no right to be receiving...and no one stops him!! 

That happens all too often, so, those who know how to play the system, drain funds from those who should be receiving money and services. 

There are so many commercials about insurance fraud, and well, there should be, but, there should also be PSAs about the recompense for fraudulently receiving government money and services...with a watchdog system to enforce it.  Years ago, there was, at least for those receiving welfare and medicaid, which are the largest drains on public monies.

But, that's just one of many ways our government allows our taxes to be p***** away.  And, *EVERY* politician, in *EVERY* campagin promises he or she will put a stop to it. 

Gigi


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From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@portaltutoring.info>
To: acb-l@acb.org
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 8:01:52 AM
Subject: Re: [acb-l] in an ideal world

Hi all,

If India can afford to give its blind population cell phones, then you're right, Gigi, specialized equipment should be offered.

As for Frank's assertion about $6,000.00 boat anchors, they may be going out of vogue.  However, I demand braille!  I'm sorry, but I don't mind using a cell phone and a laptop or tablet or whatever, but I want braille!  Braille is, by nature of the current technology, expensive, but it is damned necessary, at least for me.

Ann P.
 
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Not all those who wander are lost."  JRRT

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How come God makes poor people suffer, but not the rich?


In fact, Masters throughout the Ages have used religion to keep their subjects in line. 
It has always puzzled me as to how we buy this idea that we shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven and enjoy the riches that God will bestow upon us, but the wealthy enjoy those riches today without having to die to receive them. 
Does this confuse anyone other than me?  God rewards us for suffering, but He will punish those whom He allows to trample us in the Here And Now? 
Are there folks who really believe that God is testing us by allowing us to be blind, or disabled, or poor, while He allows others to live the prosperous life? 
Talk about propaganda! 
 
Curious Carl
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 3:47 AM
Subject: Re: [acb-chat] [acb-l] Employment or, "Against the Odds"

hahahahaha! and if he does believe you have one, he certainly
does not care now does he?
alicedh@verizon.net
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From: "Frank Ventura" <Frank.Ventura@littlebreezes.com>
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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 4:39 AM
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Worry not my friend, old bossman wants not your soul as he
doesn't even
believe you have one in the first place.

Frank



From: Carl Jarvis [mailto:carjar82@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 10:53 AM
To: joe harcz Comcast; Frank Ventura; acb-l@acb.org
Subject: Re: [acb-l] [acb-chat] Employment or, "Against the Odds"



Joe and Frank,

What was the line old Ernie Ford used to sing?

"I owe my Soul to the company store".

Well Frank my old Pea Pickin' Buddy, the boss may get my body,
and I may
pay him lip service in order to pick up my paycheck at the end of
the
week, but he ain't getting my Soul.  Many a slave owner learned
that
lesson the hard way.



Carl Jarvis






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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

American Concerns , part two.


Here are the three links I listened to:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Below is my responce to Mostafa Al'mahdy. 
 
Forgive the rant. 
 
Carl Jarvis
 

Greetings Mostafa Al'mahdy,
 
Thank you for the two posts and for the links. 
Although I think the videos make their point, I would be amiss if I did not wonder just how many people were interviewed in order to select the vacant heads that made up these sad but funny clips. 
I think you could go out and ask the same questions and put together a video of quite different answers. 
But as I said, the point is well worth making.  The American Empire has so controlled the mass media that it is a wonder that citizens know anything about the world in which we live. 
I hope that you understand that there are many American citizens who are struggling to put down the American Empire and return the government to the American People.  But it is not an easy struggle.  The Empire has the dollars and the communication outlets and has bought a majority of our political leaders.  At the same time, the Greed of the American Empire and its corporate bosses is so great that they will destroy themselves because they can't stop grabbing everything in sight.  Even as the Empire expands its battle fields, it is beginning to decline.  The Middle and Working classes in America have had the marrow sucked out of their bones.  Our once mighty manufacturing
industry has been depleted.  Our factories are being shut down or sent overseas.  Our workers are on the streets begging for help.  Our jobs are being done in what we still call Third World Countries.  We are in a downward spiral and will join those countries shortly. 
It has been Greed that has brought us to our knees.  And many of us who now find ourselves being thrown out of our jobs and our homes were just as guilty of being consumed by Greed. 
Anyway, thank you again for your thoughtful posts.  I am forwarding these to the Blind Democracy List for others to read and view the videos. 
 
Carl Jarvis
 
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Free Enterprise?

Just list the Capital Free Market right alongside Communist China.  Both are fabrications of the imagination. 
 
Curious Carl
 
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Corporate Martial Law: Public Schools Auctioned Off toHighestBidder

But hasn't education been the tool of the Ruling Class all along?  It's funny, but what I consider a well rounded education is sneered at as a worthless waste of time and money by the Ruling Class. 
Even in our efforts to have education for all, we put limits on children of color and children of poverty and children of disability.  But what did we "teach" our middle class white children?  To be good little soldiers, not to question, to follow the Pied Piper of Greed. 
If what I listen to when eavesdropping in restaurants, on busses and sitting in the Malls is any example of an educated people, God help is all. 
 
Curious Carl
 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 6:07 AM
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It's more than that.  It's the demise of public education for children of
color and the end of education as a profession.

Miriam
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Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: Corporate Martial Law: Public Schools Auctioned Off to
HighestBidder


This whole idea of selling off public schools to private corporations, while
the tax payer still puts up the dollars is nothing new.  Corporations have
been buying politicians for years, while the public pays their wages.

Carl Jarvis



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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Ignoring Trump's Record of Racism

Trump proves one thing.  It does not take intelligence to become a Billionaire.  It just takes cunning and conniving.  Unfortunately those are too often the same qualities it takes to be a winning politician. 
 
 
curious Carl
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differences between the great depression and great recession

Comments on the chat list regarding how some folks don't understand what being poor is really like, reminds me that I also was a child of the Great Depression. 
Now, living in the current Great Recession, I note a number of differences in what it is like to be poor. 
Back in the 30's, after the 1929 Crash, poverty became a way of life.  But White Americans believed that this was only a temporary set back.  They still believed in the American Dream, a home, a job and a happy family. 
There was no mass media pressure to buy, buy, buy.  No bulk mailings of credit cards.  No easy credit at all. 
The objective of most folks was to have security, not stuff.  But the poor of this Great Recession are coming from a different mind set.  A great many of the poor are people of color, as well as people of disability.  These people understand what disenfranchisement is all about. 
They did not fall from Grace, they never were there in the first place.  Some are the children of generations of people living in grinding poverty.  They hold out no hope of cashing in on the American Dream.  And they are under an all out attack by the mass media to believe that having the latest gadget is the most important status symbol in all Eternity. 
Drugs play into this, also.  In the Great Depression alcohol and tobbacco were the drugs of choice.  Now, in the Great Recession it is a no holds barred Drug Store.  Over the counter, under the counter, in the back alley and over the back fence, anything your little habit craves is availible. 
So it appears that we have seperated into three major worlds.  There is that world of the First Class Corporate American.  Then there is the dwindling Working/Middle Class Americans, the fodder for the needs of the First Class.  And there is the world of the poor.  They function as a dumping field for the glitzy gadgets manufactured by our international corporations in China and shipped in to tempt them.  They are also a ready source for bodies in the never ending war on Terror. 
 
And that is my view of some of the diffeerences between the poor in the 30's, when hope of a brighter future still existed, and the poor of today, where all hope has been lost. 
 
Curious Carl
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