Sunday, October 30, 2005

CONTEMPTIBLE CONSERVATISM Wesh: "U.S. senators - who draw salaries of $162,100 a year and enjoy a raft of perks - have rejected a minimum wage hike from $5.15 an hour to $6.25 for blue-collar workers. Can you believe it? The proposed increase was sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and turned down in the Senate by a vote of 51 against the boost and 49 in favor. Under a Senate agreement, it needed 60 votes to pass. All the Democrats voted for the wage boost. All the negative votes were cast by Republicans." Compassionate conservatism? There is no such thing. What Republicans want is wealth, and a nanny and a cook, and a gardener and a chauffeur and ... Of course, they will only employ these people for the lowest wages possible. Neocons in the West always hammer on high wages being the cause of loss of competitiveness. So what they want is wages on the same level as say those in India, only then will 'they' be able to compete. Don't misunderestimate them, it's your poverty they are working on. 2theadvocate: "After listening to Hurricane Katrina victims and disaster relief workers for several hours Friday, as well as touring parts of New Orleans, United Nations expert on human rights Arjun K. Sengupta, called America's response to the disaster shocking. 'Something went wrong and it appears to be a gross violation of human rights,' said Sengupta, United Nations independent expert on human rights and extreme poverty." And governments are looking for money to buy new weaponry and wage their illegal wars. So don't count on them for your welfare. In the New World vision governments only exist to protect the interests of the corporations. Yahoo: "British involvement in Iraq has so far cost the country nearly 3.1 billion pounds up to the end of March this year." AlterNet: "Most of the provisions of the USA Patriot Act, including access to library records, were supposed to 'sunset' this month, five years after the law's passing. Instead, both the House and the Senate have already voted to renew the entire act, with only minor revisions. While they're at it, they'd like to add some decidedly unpatriotic amendments to expand the death penalty." Governments know they will meet with strong resistance to their neocon plans and downright revolt, so they will need strong laws to keep control of the population. They are using the 'war against terror' as an excuse to do away with your civil and social rights. 11:07:53 AM

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