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January 26, 2005
Republican Stranglehold Plutocracy Agenda
                   By Jeff Goolsby, Editor
      Thanks to Rolling Stone Magazine's great editorial at  The Fake Crisis regarding the Bush Social Security Scam.
      However, the Rolling Stone editorial missed just a small amount on some portions in their article.
      Many voters make the mistake of believing that both political parties try to obtain the same results.  There are some similarities at the local level but at the national level, there are very few similarities.
      Political parties are like sports teams, each team has their own objectives.  Republicans are for the rich and Democrats are for the middle and low-income classes.  If you believe otherwise, you are not paying enough attention or you are being conned.
      We have a political war every four years to elect a ruler, we just don't have the bloodshed that occurred for centuries.  It is a simple question of do we want a Republican super rich super poor economy or a Democratic adequate income and benefits for everyone.
      Social Security desperately needs improvement from our poverty level retirement, but not destruction.  I have designed an overhaul of the Social Security system that would increase Social Security retirement income from its current poverty level retirement to a rich retirement by simply handling Social Security taxes correctly.  The current return on our investment in Social Security is criminal theft.
      You can visit  www.rojego.com for the details in my book, How To Convert Your Scheduled Social Security Poverty Level Retirement And RETIRE RICH.  I will send a copy to any news media at no charge, if they will publish a book report on my book.  If enough people read this book, Congress would be forced to make the changes recommended in this book instead of Bush's destruction proposal.
      We need to implement the Social Security recommendations in my book while Bush is attempting to destroy Social Security.  We need to immediately demand this action of our elected representatives in Washington while attention is focused on Social Security.   URGENT.
      I was born in 1924 and I have a vivid memory of the conditions before 1933.  Most elderly people did not live in poverty, it was worse, they were destitute and did not have anything.  They had to move in with their children when they became unable to work.  Poverty level today is defined as anyone with an annual income of less than approximately $20,000 based on today's dollar devaluation.  When I was born, poverty level was about $1,000 per year or less and very few people made that much or more except the super rich.
      We had a Plutocracy until 1933, 156 years. I lived on and we owned a farm, most of our neighbors could not read and write because it was extremely difficult to obtain an education.  There were no benefits in rural areas and portions of cities, no electricity, no telephones, no running water, no heat except fireplaces and wood stoves, no school books except second hand books you had to purchase from the preceding students, no school buses, mail box one mile from our house, dirt roads, catalogs and corn cobs for toilet tissue, etc.  Very similar to, but slightly better than, today's third world countries.
      My oldest sister, by 10 years, told me recently that she had to walk alone 2 miles each way to school at age 6.  My father purchased his first automobile about the time I was born and when I started to school, my oldest sister was transporting us and neighbor children to a one-room school building.
      The Democratic Political revolution occurred in 1932 due to President Hoover's miscalculation about how to handle the typical Republican depression.  President Hoover destroyed more businesses than he intended and could not make the usual Republican recovery just before re-election time.
      Republicans have committed to remove every possible benefit created by Democrats and labor unions then return us to a super rich super poor economy as near to the first 156 years as possible.  Most people lived on farms and there was only a very small number of middle class income people, mostly mom and pop stores.
       Rich people were the only ones with substantial benefits above bare necessity.  However, mom and pop store owners had minor benefits.
      Today, people can not visualize the conditions we had during the Plutocracy even though third world countries today have conditions very similar to our first 156 year Plutocracy.  They can not visualize that the benefits they enjoy today were created here, Canada, Europe, and Japan as a result of the 1932 Democratic Political Revolution with the help of labor unions.  And, that we can be forced back to the super rich super poor economic conditions with depressions and other scams, including destroying Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
       Millions of people today lost jobs paying $15 to $20 per hour and are now having to accept jobs paying $6 or $8 per hour along with losing their homes, automobiles, and furniture, etc.  Tennessee Ernie Ford's song "16 Tons" describes conditions before 1933.
      The greedy rich reasoning is that they can make more money if they can force employees to work for virtually nothing.  The stupidity of that reasoning is that if the Greedy Rich would willingly pay discretionary income above necessities, each other's employees would purchase each other's products and services, then they would make more money without being obsessed with greed.  Adequate income middle class citizens, resulting from the 1932 Democratic Political Revolution, are the reason we have such an abundance of super nice benefits and standard of living.
      Before 1933, employees worked seven 10 hour days per week for $2 or less per day, rented a shack from their employer, bought their groceries and clothing from their employer, then all of their week's pay would be gone.
      One additional factor that caused the South to become prosperous was when Georgia Democratic Governor, 1943 –1947, Ellis Arnall persuaded Congress to repeal the double freight rate against the South.  This double freight rate against the South was the cause of the Freight Rate War (a.k.a. Civil War) which "War Hero" Abraham Lincoln could have gotten repealed to prevent the death of about 600,000 Americans.
      Republicans again have a stranglehold on our Federal government and the stranglehold must be broken quickly or the standard of living we now take for granted will disappear.
      Based on the exit polls, which were extremely accurate until Bush Junior entered politics, John Kerry won the presidential election and the pre-election polls indicated that Democrats could retake Congress.  The exit polls in Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada showed Kerry winning but the count said the opposite, which strongly indicates that something was seriously wrong with the vote count.
      My vote recount system at  www.jeffgoolsby.net, the first 4 links under my picture could count all of the votes including the voters who tried but were prevented from voting.  This means that we need to immediately make a FULL recount of all of the votes in states and districts that could reverse the elections.  When anything is stolen from you, if you find it and can prove it was stolen from you, you can recover the stolen item.  This should also include elections and my vote recount system could provide this proof for the 2004 November elections.
      At least 90% of the American public fit the Democratic financial profile.  It is amazing that a large number of people who fit the Democratic profile vote Republican and against their own best interests.  Apparently, the grassroots effort is not up to par.
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