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The Nattering One muses... The Autumn of Protest has sprung into full winter discontent...
what started last month in Spain, has gone viral and global.
It seems we are not the only ones sick and tired of the ascendancy of the house of finance and the same old song spoon fed by the elitist ultra rich.
It also seems that perhaps we are moving one step closer to what we have heralded in these pages as "necessary" many a time.
The status quo of those in charge will always do as the song says, "meet the new boss, same as the old boss "...
If you want change, real meaningful change, there is only one way to get it and perhaps we are closer than most want to think or believe.
Remember PLANNING IS ESSENTIAL and UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL.
There is power in numbers, NOW is the time to "COME TOGETHER RIGHT NOW".
A day of worldwide protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States began Saturday with the hundreds of people gathering in cities from Japan and South Korea to Australia.
Organizers had hoped to see non-violent demonstrations in 951 cities in Asia, Europe, South America and Africa in addition to every state in the United States.
A website called 15october.net urged the people of the world to "rise up" and "claim their rights and demand a true democracy."
"Now it is time for all of us to join in a global non violent protest. The ruling powers work for the benefit of just a few...
ignoring the will of the vast majority and the human and environmental price we all have to pay. This intolerable situation must end," the website says.
Minority of violent demonstrators stretch into evening, hours after tens of thousands of people join global 'day of rage' against bankers, politicians.
Hundreds of hooded, masked protesters rampaged through Rome in some of the worst violence in the Italian capital for years Saturday...
torching cars and breaking windows during a larger peaceful protest against elites blamed for economic downturn.
Sydney: "I think people want real democracy," said Nick Carson, a spokesman for OccupyMelbourne.Org.
"They don't want corporate influence over their politicians. They want their politicians to be accountable."
The crowd cheered a speaker who shouted, "We're sick of corporate greed! Big banks, big corporate power standing over us and taking away our rights!"
Danny Lim, a 67-year-old immigrant from Malaysia, said he moved to Australia 48 years ago in search of opportunities.
Now he no longer trusts the government to look after his best interests. He thinks Australia's government has become too dependent upon the U.S. for direction.
"The big man — they don't care. They screw everyone. Eventually we'll mortgage our children away," Lim said.
Taiwan: "we are Taiwan's 99 percent", saying economic growth had only benefited companies while middle-class salaries barely covered soaring housing, education and healthcare costs.
They found support from a top businessmen, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp Chairman Morris Chang...
who told reporters in the northern city of Hsinchu that Taiwan's income gap was a serious issue. "I've been against the gap between rich and poor,"
"The wealth of the top 1 percent has increased very fast in the past 20, 30 years. 'Occupy Wall Street' is a reaction to that. We have to take the issue seriously..."
Korea: The protesters, who have adopted slogans and imagery used by those in the U.S., say the rally is designed to...
motivate "99 percent of Koreans" to complain about the actions of the wealthiest "1 percent," the paper said.
"The situation is the same in South Korea (as the U.S.), where the financial institutions have speculated to earn high profits in a short time, creating victims," the coalition said in a statement, the Herald reported.
London: Spyro, a 28-year-old who has a well-paid job and did not want to give his full name, summed up the main target of the global protests as "the financial system."
MSNBC: Protests go global
October 15th.net
Our last post elicited this response from a Naybob of Transport...
Hey *********, I am amazed you found that commercial or that I even still remember it as vividly as I did. It still gives me the creeps.
I hope you did not take my comments on my observations at McDonalds as Racist because nothing could be further from the truth, but rather as you stated, an observation I have witnessed over the years.
I do have to tell you that I do take personal exception to some of your comments.
In particular
“This is why UNIONS are a necessary evil, TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL against the profit motive AKA GREED, and no Gordon Gecko, greed is NOT good.
Workers must unite in all industries and at all levels, to prevent management from abusing the populace under the profit motive and outsourcing to labor at the margin.
Unchecked and left to their own devices, management will ALWAYS abuse the rights of the individual in favor of the capitalist creed.”
You knew I had to comment on that. Some management will abuse the rights of the individual that has been proven, but not all.
I do more for my employees than any employer I have ever worked for. I pay well, I provide great benefits, I treat everyone equally. I provide free insurance...
I match their contributions on their 401k plan, I pay for time off, and I have a great bonus plan that have paid every employee every year at year end.
i.e profit sharing, and everyone gets it including the janitor. No union does what I do for my people.
I even lend money to my employees interest free when they need it and no one else will, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Not all management is evil and corrupt or only make decisions in favor of capitalist greed. We are a capitalist system, and unlike the government if I don’t make money we go out of business.
Making a profit is not evil. When I make money I invest it back into the business. One day if I’m lucky enough when I sell my business I will make a little money.
Having worked with the UAW and the Teamsters, I can tell you that not all unions work in the best interest of their members either.
Deals and trade offs at the expense of one or many is a common practice on their part.
Some things we can control and others we cannot. However, people do have to think for themselves, and the Government cannot be the sole answer to every problem.
I cannot think of one government agency that is run efficiently, can you? Every single one of them is inefficient.
In the private sector, inefficient businesses go out of business. In the public sector, inefficient businesses just keep on keeping on.
The last group of people I want making decisions for me are government bureaucrats and Unions are no better. If you have ever served on a labor committee like I have, you know what I’m talking about.
Somewhere in our not too distant past our generation was never taught basic economics from our parents or teachers, and ignorance spreads more ignorance to our children following in their parents footsteps.
Our teachers don’t understand it, and now most parents it seems. The Government certainly can’t.
If businesses or individuals spent like the government we would all be locked up behind bars. I took the initiative to learn on my own as I know you did.
Every Government regulation breeds more regulations, and when it comes to corruption I have yet do work with a union boss that was not corrupt. Most are still behind bars.
On a personal note, I don’t work 12 hours a day 6 days a week and invest everything I have in my business and employees so that I can perpetuate socialism...
so that the next guy who is not willing to take the risks and responsibility or work the hours needed to achieve success required then earns the same as I.
I’m also sick and tired of hearing that I’m not paying my fair share when I am taxed to death as it is and if the Obama administration has it’s way I am going to be paying a whole lot more.
You see I’m one of those greedy rich people that does not pay his fair share.
I did not become successful off the sweat and backs of others hard labor without rewarding them handsomely and doing the same in return. I am right there with all of them.
As you known, my business is a capital intensive business and heavily dependent on labor. I have more than quadrupled my employment workforce with high paid wages...
i.e. averaging over $50,000 a year and I do strictly with Americans, using strictly made in America equipment.
Interesting to hear and feedback you receive on today’s rant from an unnamed trucking guy.
The Nattering One muses... Our system (which is neither democratic, nor purely capitalistic)...
is run by and geared for the big corporations. Draconian in nature, they control the political and economic system.
My Naybob of Transport is a Republican, nobody is perfect. Neither are unions, greed and personal gain often trump the common good.
Moreover, this Naybob is a small businessman, one whom the system is becoming increasingly unfriendly and discouraging towards.
The system needs to be geared toward small domestic business, not big global multinationals.
If only all large corporations would treat their people the same as my friend treats his, we would have far less qualms about the abuses inherent to the system.
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