Citizens of Wisconsin Protest the Ryan 1% Budget Bill

The United States had been described as a low wage nation. With a minimum wage that has seen no increase in value since 1968, the purchasing power of the American people has steadily declined for the last 49 years of class warfare by the 1% on the 99%. Today, the richest Americans and Corporations enjoy the lowest taxes in American History. Now there is a bill pending that will provide those same corporations and wealthy Americans even more tax breaks. Not surprisingly It pays for these tax cuts with massive cuts in services, benefits, and infrastructure expenditures, while claiming to be a fiscally responsible bill.  Seen my many as just another money grab by the corporations, the rich, and their bought and and paid for representatives in government, it will do nothing to decrease the budget deficit and will in fact most likely increase it.   The bill cuts by 33 billion from the most effective stimulus program the US Government funds to date, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or Food Stamps.  A program that many would be surprised to learn that even Military families depend on in this time of continuous war for profit.  Cuts in other military benefits for veterans programs will also be on the menu to create a rich cash laden dissert for the 1% after already gorging on the American economy.

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Other class warfare slashing cuts include reductions in employment and training programs by 72%, free school meals, Pell Grants, and transportation and infrastructure (a 28% cut). The Ryan 1% budget also Eliminates the Home Affordable Modification Program, which helps struggling homeowners modify their mortgages and keep their homes after they were lied to by the banks ... who desire their property, as well as their cash. The Corporate Ryan GOP budget also cuts essential services to veterans and active duty military families like nutrition (many of the poorest active duty military families receive food stamps) and mental health services by 11 billion.

While today, having a lot of capitol equals having a lot of free speech, the people of Wisconsin are once again leading the way in the charge to take back the country from the 99% and re-establish the American Revolution.  A revolution that was of the people, for the people, and by the people .  Not the corporations or the the riches 1%.  Lead the by the group Wisconsin Jobs Now, these citizens once again took to the streets to assemble, and send the message that the 99% is on the march.  

Some may say that such activism is a waste of time and ineffective, but here in Wisconsin, such activism has already resulted in launching the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.  Time will tell in just two weeks to see if the will of the people will be adhered to, or if a small minority of wealthy individuals (The Koch Brothers), corporate special interest groups (ALEC) and corporations will be able to dictate their will on the people of Wisconsin.
One must wonder, after events in Georgia this week where a local SWAT team raided a house simply to evict at gunpoint a family of 4 before they could restructure their mortgage for the house they lived for 18 years (it looked as if they were going to be successful, and the bank could not produce the paperwork) in order to get control of the property as fast as possible.  It really makes we wonder if corporate and their private military police will eventually just simply start hauling us away … maybe as “enemy combatants”, when they find out that they are not going to win this one.

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Occupy Wisconsin’s 1st General Assembly, and the Ryan 1% Budget

As the flags waved, the participants spoke, and the atmosphere grew, the diversity of the color in the wind was inspirational. Among the chants and marches, real planning was in the works and hard decisions were being made. Using for efficiency the approving hand waves, communication was often more than two way.

With representative participants from #Occupy Wall Street groups throughout Wisconsin, small differences were placed aside as solidarity was obvious for all to see. In their first ever "Occupy Wisconsin" statewide general assembly, members of the 99% of all ages, ethnic groups, religions, and colors gathered here in Fond du Lac Wisconsin to meet, greet, plan, and march. 

The #Occupy Wall Street movement had not died. If fact, here in Wisconsin, it is back in force and on the march in this Wisconsin city. Although not the only action or significant event on the Wisconsin Occupy agenda for today, this one included gaining consensus for specific issues, working strategies, and tactical preparations for future events and political actions.

As the Republican strategies for the lining of the pockets of the 1% are in the works in the form of the Ryan Budget, working and impoverished Americans (many only recently in the poor house) are once again being targeted in the Class War that has been waged on the 99% for the last 49 years. The Budget will offer generous tax cuts to the richest 1% of Americans and wealthy corporate political donors (who now already enjoy the lowest tax rates in modern American History) that they can take all the way to an overseas bank. The Ryan budget gives the rich and the corporate good ol boys a good ol boy slap on the back and pays for it with cuts of 810 billion in Medicaid over next decade, 33 billion taken from the hungry ... taken from the most effective stimulus program the US Government sponsors, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or Food Stamps. This, as well as cuts in employment and training programs by 72%, free school meals, Pell Grants, and transportation and infrastructure (a 28% cut). The Ryan 1% budget also Eliminates the Home Affordable Modification Program, which helps struggling homeowners modify their mortgages and keep their homes after they were lied to by the banks ... who desire their property, as well as their cash. The Corporate Ryan GOP budget also cuts essential services to veterans and active duty military families like nutrition (many of the poorest active duty military families receive food stamps) and mental health services by 11 billion.

As a result, Wisconsin Senator Ribble's office in Appleton Wisconsin can expect a visit from the 99% and the group Wisconsin Jobs Now, at 1pm on Wednesday May 9th. Senator Ribble's office is about to be Occupied by Americans who actually care about Americans.

Among the issues on the future agenda for Occupy Wisconsin in the near future are a wide range of issues, though all fall under the umbrella of the Class War and the economic injustice we now face as everyday American life.

The highlighted local targeted issues were the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Opposition to ALEC, a corporate political marketing/lobbying/law writing and government corruption sponsorship organization financed in large part by the Koch Brothers and that supports Gov. Walker, another attempt to create an historically massive and ecologically disastrous mine in northern Wisconsin, with almost all of the profits going outside not only Wisconsin, but to overseas tax havens, and the Wisconsin GOP's War on Women.

On the National side, the main focus was the two party system of the United States which seems to resemble two birds of a different color who, although they can't get along, seem to end up with the same result that always benefit the same 1%. Another issue, although it doesn't seem to have been a major problem at least hear in Wisconsin (and recently in Detroit, where some police openly showed support for the marchers of the GE Pay Your Fare Share action), is the lack of professional conduct of the police in some major American cities and the obvious misconduct of a militarized police repressing Americans engaged in a basic constitutional civil right. The right to assemble, meaning protest. In Wisconsin and Michigan as of late, that may be as a result of the fact that in these two states, where unions are under attack, those who carry guns and badges have now been allocated to the disposable 99% like the rest of us.

Another national issue was the reduction of non-violent prison populations (the 11/15 campaign) of the private for profit prisons who incarcerate those who have broken laws that protect the financial interests of the pharmaceuticals, oil interests and the 1% though laws based on fake science and flat out lies. Violent raids on and the deportation of illegal immigrants (who are illegally employed by and with the blessing of many of those same corporations), the attack on the American and World Food Supply and Organic Farming (Agents and police have conducted swat style raids on farms ... because they were selling whole milk) to decrease the availability of real food to drive up the price and profit margin, increase fake and sometimes poisonous ingredients in food, and maximize profits at the cost of our health. Frak Mining, in which we still don't know the true effects of because they won't tell us what chemicals they are blasting into our planet, other than obviously destroying our already shrinking water supplies and aquifers.

Occupy Wisconsin Holds 1st General Assembly in Fond Du Lac, WI May 5th 2012

Another issue is the attempt by the GOP to destroy an educated American public (everybody knows that colleges just turn out commies and liberals who spout all that silly science and global warming nonsense, hell it's nice outside) by doubling tuition while cutting assistance.

The unified Occupy Wisconsin season will get kicked off like a Packer game with the June 6th "Keep it in the Street" day of action. It is guaranteed to be a day of events and actions the Koch Brothers and ALEC would surely like to prevent and/or stop all of us from attending.

I will be there

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GE, Corporate Taxes and the American Revolution

 

Revolution

As the rebels quietly infiltrated the dock area, tenders were unaware of the coming assault. Although the victims of the attack were mostly bags of tea, a few poor souls were tarred and feathered. The statement had been clear. Those who labor would not idly stand by while a few grew rich at their expense … and causing them to grow poorer. It was an action by a few that would set many free from economic oppression and taxation without representation.

The American Revolution was borne.

It was not that many years later, when foreign and domestic money interests pushed for a new private central bank in the new United States of America. The President at the time, Andrew Jackson, speaking to the American people, stated “Mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, and from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges…which are employed for their benefit.”. Another father of the American revolution, Thomas Jefferson stated "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs."

In these past scenarios, an extremely small but very rich and powerful elite sought more control over the riches of the country, in order to take a larger share of the pie. The extravagances of the Crown were fresh in the American mind set. They were willing to resist them, by force of violence if necessary. Those that they opposed paid no taxes and in fact revived tax revenues into their personal coffers.

This while they produced nothing of genuine value to the economy.

They only fed off of it. At it's expense.

REV 2.0, The American Revolution Continues.

Does any of this sound familiar?

Let's fast forward to say … now. The General Electric Corporation, the largest manufacturing firm in the United States, has become a national symbol for tax avoidance. This has been seen as a positive example in many business and lobby circles. In a recent report the New York

Times said that GE’s tax-avoidance “mixes fierce lobbying for tax breaks and innovative accounting that enables it to concentrate its profits offshore.” The company’s annual report says it has low (no) taxes “primarily because of benefits from lower-taxed global operations, including the use of global funding structures.” “GE’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether,” (March 24, 2011). The same article stated, “GE claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion.”

On a local level, in the State of Wisconsin, in the years m 2003 through 2008, the General Electric Corporation paid $0 of Wisconsin corporate income tax, despite the firm’s $109 billion in profits during the period. 

The GE Pay Your fare share March in Detroit.

A group of motivated Wisconsin citizens and activist number in the hundreds traveled from Wisconsin to Detroit to take part in the “GE Pay Your Fair Share” action and march.  With organizers from Wisconsin Jobs Now, the Wisconsin delegation lead the way as the march grew and moved around the building In the 1st video video above one will see some highlights and background on the trip from Milwaukee to Detroit (Dearborn actually) for the GE TAX and Shareholder Meeting Action.

The the video to the left, the highlights of the march and a short look at the War on Woman meeting at the Green Bay Labor Temple the following Saturday.  As one will see, the rest of the story is in the video.

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