But there's more! Proof that, "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."
According to those "libertards" at the New York Times, Central Falls, Rhode Island, Mayor Charles D. Moreau, a Democrat (doesn't that figure), is scheduled to plead guilty on charges of corruption in office and face jail time. That's right. Had his hand in the taxpayer cookie jar, he did. Government IS the problem. See. Ronald Reagan said so. (Sound of angels singing.)
The moral of the story: Only Mitt Romney and his Merry Band of Business Heroes can save us from the clutches of Obama. Well, save the 53% who pay income taxes, anyhow.
Screw the rest.
If you're a "libertard," though, you notice this coin of corruption has two sides. And who is the scumbag on the reverse of Moreau's taxpayer dime? Businessman Michael G. Bouthillette, who provided gifts to the mayor in return for all the city contracts steered his way.
It's a small item in the papers; but you have to wonder why Tea Party types never realize they might have to amend their simple slogan: "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem (and we should not forget those crooks and accomplices in business on the other end)."
Well, then, can Business Heroes really save us? Sure, sure they can. A free market system always works to perfection if government stays out of the way. As in Iowa, you might say. As in, another item in the Times today.
It seems a judgment for $1.3 million in back wages has been leveled against a Texas company "that profited for decades by supplying mentally disabled workers to an Iowa turkey plant at wages of 41 cents per hour." It's the third court defeat for Henry's Turkey Service of Goldthwaite, Texas, and follows on the heels of a 2009 finding that closed a rundown "bunkhouse" in Iowa where 32 employees lived. It seems those 32 men had been living in the same bunkhouse since sometime in the 1970s and hadn't had a raise since. Well, too bad they earned only $65 dollars a month--after Henry's deducted costs of rent and food and transportation to work. Those guys probably didn't even pay income taxes! But, at least government didn't get in the way!
(Well, not counting that judge.)
It's too bad we don't live in Pakistan, where Business Heroes are free to operate as they wish. No government types sticking noses in Big Business affairs over there. Oh no, oh no! In Pakistan the Business Heroes police themselves. They make sure a non-profit organization, Social Accountability International (SAI), inspects all factories for safety and checks for violations of child labor laws. SAI is based in New York and gets much of its funding from...uh...corporations. Yep! Business Heroes round the world, working together to see that the average Joe or Khalid gets fair treatment and low pay. (It's enough to bring a tear to a Tea Party eye.)
In fact, last month two inspectors for SAI visited Ali Enterprises in Karachi and gave the factory where garment workers made jeans a coveted SA8000 certification. Meaning? Ali Enterprises was a great place to work.
"Was" is right. Eight days ago fire swept through the factory. The windows were barred so it was hard to escape. It didn't help that piles of finished denim clothing crowded the floor, that flammable debris piled high in waste containers. The place went up in a blaze of burning pants, like a giant free enterprise funeral pyre, and 300 workers were reduced to ash. The Business Heroes who owned the factory fled Karachi. And a check of records showed they had registered only 250 workers as employees oof the plant, when at times a 1,000 men and women (and children) might be crowded together over the machines.
Well we all know what Ronald Reagan said. Really, we need to have faith in our Business Heroes. We need Mitt. Mitt knows Business Heroes. Hangs with them every day. Mitt even recognizes Chinese Business Heroes when he sees them; and in his recent "47% of the American people suck" speech he talked about them in glowing terms.
Just listen to Mitt explain what happened when he visited China a few years ago, to purchase a factory, and make a pile of bucks or two:
"And, I remember going to, ah, uh. Sorry to bore you with stories. When I was back in my private equity days, we went to China to buy a factory there. It employed about 20,000 people. And they were almost all young women between the ages of about 18 and 22 or 23. They were saving for potentially becoming married. And they were in these huge factories, they made various, uh, small appliances. And, uh, we were walking through this facility, seeing them work, the number of hours they worked per day, the pittance they earned, living in dormitories, with, uh, with little bathrooms at the end of maybe 10, 10 room, rooms. And the rooms they have 12 girls per room. Three bunks on top of each other. You've seen you've seen them."(Someone in the audience: "Oh...yeah, yeah.")
"And, and, and around this factory was a fence, a huge fence with barbed wire and guard towers. And, and, we said Gosh! I can't believe that you, you keep these girls in! They said, no, no, no. This is to keep other people from coming in. Because people want so badly to come work in this factory that we have to keep them out. Or they will just come in here and start working and, and try and get compensated. So we, this is to keep people out. And they said, actually Chinese New Year as the girls go home, sometimes they decide they've saved enough money and they don't come back to the factory. And he said, So on the weekend after Chinese New Year there will be a line of people hundreds long, outside the factory, hoping that some girls don't come back. And they can come to the factory. And, and so as we were experiencing this for the first time, going to see a factory like this in China some years ago. The Bain Partner I was with turned to me and said, You know, ninety-five percent of life is settled if you are born in America. This is, uh, this is an amazing land [the USA, he means] and what we have is unique and fortunately it is so special we are sharing it with the world."
Sure. That's right. Keep government out of the way and Business Heroes will save us all. Even if it takes electric fences and guard towers. Even in China, where Business Heroes are in cahoots with Communist Party leaders, where government and business form a tight partnership bound together by corruption and greed.
Meanwhile, GOP leaders tell us we'll all be better off if only we let them privatize prisons and schools and turn government operations over to private enterprise--you know, introduce "business efficiency" and get rid of those lazy government workers. Hey, here in Ohio, for-profit charter schools are doing great.
Maybe we can get our prison guards to suck it up, too, like those young Chinese women, and work long hours for a "pittance." Low wages, if you're a Business Hero, in Iowa, or Pakistan, or China, its' the Way of the Mitt.
Show Romney around some privatized prison, will ya. See that high, electrified fence? No sweat. This ain't no sweatshop. That fence? It's there to keep all the civilians out who want to bust in here and start making license plates.
Yep, government is the problem, always and everywhere.
Romney/Ryan 2012.
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