The Activist Motivator

Awareness | Debate | Action

Harold Hellickson's Blog – August 2009 Archive (5)

It's a damn shame.

Compensation for the 10 highest paid corporate CEO's for 2008 has just been released by the high-class watchdog Corporate Library.

On average, each of the 10 received $222 million.

The least paid received $72 million.

The highest paid received $702 million.

There is something damn wrong with this country!

Added by Harold Hellickson on August 17, 2009 at 5:07pm — No Comments

What Do You Believe

I believe



……. In the separation of Corporations and State.



I believe



……. That Corporations hold dominion over Congress,



……. But Citizens should hold that power.



I believe that Corporations



……. For the first hundred years of this nation,



……. By Design and Charter, served the public good



……. And they should be required to do so again.



I believe that Major… Continue

Added by Harold Hellickson on August 14, 2009 at 12:32pm — No Comments

The vampires are still running the blood bank.

Can President Obama’s plans for economic and social reform succeed with two strikes against himt? With two strikes against him, will he hit a homer or strike out? Progressive elements of the Democratic Party are going to have to push both the President and the Congress very hard for Obama’s presidency to be successful. There is little evidence of either that push or his success so far.



The first strike against Obama is the corporate-governing-elites-controlled Congress, albeit with a… Continue

Added by Harold Hellickson on August 12, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

How long have we got?

“We live in an age of corporate dominion just as we once lived in an age of domination by royal families, kings, and warlords. Our culture is dominated by television and petroleum.” Our demands for entertainment and consumerism “depends on an unbroken supply of both“.



We live in a representative democracy where, in theory, our interests are represented in both Congress and the Administration. In reality our representative democracy is where state and district democracies individually… Continue

Added by Harold Hellickson on August 11, 2009 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

Obama Placates with Palliatives

At the top of Obama’s domestic policy agenda are 1) the economy, 2) health care, and 3) education. Looking at each, what is mostly evident is palliative placation; palliative being the soothing of a disorder without effecting a cure and placation being, to allay our fear. In effect Obama speaks of concerns of substance without substantive plans or solutions.



On the economic front, Obama continues trickle-down-upside-down-socialism, of Reagan/Bush; Wall St. favored over Main St. It’s… Continue

Added by Harold Hellickson on August 8, 2009 at 9:32am — No Comments

Follow Twitter

Facebook & Friends

Visitors

Locations of visitors to this page
Launch viral advertising campaigns on Twitter with Magpie!

© 2024   Created by Cromag.   Powered by

Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service