Ramsay Mameesh

Mr. Gore, you are helping to destroy America, please stop. Reach into your pocket, take out your iPhone and turn it over, read what it says at the bottom: ”Designed in California - Assembled in China.”

That one sentence, on the back of your iPhone, explains America’s shrinking middle class and huge trade deficits. And as a corporate board member of Apple, you are profiting from, the destruction of the United States of America.

The reason why the U.S.A. became a world economic super power, was because in the old days, the iPhone would have been assembled in the U.S.A. This would have created middle and lower middle class jobs in the U.S.A. When someone in China bought an iPhone, it would create an American job, and a U.S.A. trade surplus.

We then could use this surplus to educate our people, provide health care to our old, feed our poor, build our roads and bridges, and bomb other people.

The way it works now Mr. Gore, is that the C.E.O and the “Designers” make a lot of money, while the middle class shrinks, and the poor either fight our wars or end up in jails.

Now you could say that jobs are being created for “Designers” and high-tech workers, replacing low skilled workers, with higher paying jobs. But that would be fibbing, because the numbers don’t back up that assertion, and because you are a senior advisor to Google.

Google’s 2nd quarter 2007 earnings missed analyst expectations and it’s stock dropped 7%. Whose fault was that - the workers. Google added 1,548 jobs and their stock sank 7%. But Google has a solution, as a senior advisor you must be aware, hire non-Americans for those “Designer Jobs”.

According to Businessweek:

“As part of its hunt for the right talent, Google also is looking overseas. In June, the company appealed to Congress to let more high-skilled foreign workers into the U.S. under a temporary work visa program known as H-1B. According to Google’s testimony, about 8% of the company’s employees are in the U.S. thanks to the program. Without more H-1B visas, Google maintains that it and other tech companies will have trouble growing in the U.S. “

So, Mr. Gore, no middle class assembly jobs, or higher paying “Designer tech” jobs for Americans, leaves only C.E.O’s and corporate board members, as the only Americans with jobs and making a decent living.

You made a movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, to warn your people, about a coming environmental and humanitarian disaster. Yet, you Mr. Gore, refuse to “inconvenience” yourself to try and regain, the one job that would have the greatest impact, on averting the disaster you so passionately preach to us about.

Mr. Gore, the “Inconvenient Truth” is that you are helping to destroy our country. The “Inconvenient Truth” is that you are a corporate whore. The “Inconvenient Truth” is that you continue to let your people down.

Your “Assembled in China” iPhone has been ringing for over a year, your nation has been calling you and getting the answering machine, you are too busy getting fat from corporate hand-outs to pick up. Shame.

There was another man, some of us alive today are old enough to remember, who faced similar circumstances as yours. He lost an election, lost the support of his own party, survived by writing travel articles for his friends’ magazines, and warned his people (though they largely ignored him), of an upcoming humanitarian disaster.

And when his people, came to realize the danger and finally called him, he picked up the phone - Winston Churchill.

Mr. Gore, do you still have the iPhone in your hand? Are you still looking, at the shiny reflective backside, where the “Assembled in China” words appear? It’s almost like a mirror isn’t it? Now take a long look at your self in the back of your iPhone and ask your self this question:

“Am I a Patriot or a Selfish Coward?”

Where are the protests? What happened to the Anti-war movement?

The United States of America, has seldom in it’s history, faced the crisis we are entering. Our military is being defeated at the same time we are considering starting an additional war, our economy is on the verge of collapse, and our Constitution is being desecrated.

And a few ladies dressed in pink are the only visible signs of protest.

Before I left the United States in 2003, for self-exile in Costa Rica, I was involved in massive demonstrations against the Iraq War. I joined hundreds of thousands of outraged Americans, in the freezing streets of Manhattan, to try and prevent an illegal war. The people of my home city, San Francisco, were likewise putting on great demonstrations.

Yes, I know Colin Powell lied to the nation, and took the air out of the Peace Movement. I knew he was lying and kept on demonstrating, before I left America during “Shock and Awe”, I attended one last small demonstration outside the “Today” show in Rockefeller Center. A few brave citizens, laid out in the street, and allowed themselves to be arrested.

Bush had 90% approval ratings, dissent was being crushed, everyone stopped protesting. I looked into the eyes of my people and saw nothing but fear. Everyone it seemed had bought the lies, duct-tape was in short supply, ignorance had replaced reason. I left.

While I was in Costa Rica, I convinced myself, that when the American People finally learn the truth, they will become so angered at having been lied to, at having their sons and daughters die for oil companies, at the crimes that have been committed with their money and in their names, that they will rise up and overthrow the regime.

Folks, the truth has been out, most of it, for some time now. Cindy Sheehan exposed the emperor, and ever since, their has been a flood of articles, books, newspaper columns, detailing the ugly details. The reaction?

You elected the Democrats, the same people who voted for the war, and the patriot act, and homeland security, what did you expect? Ms. Sheehan learned this lesson the hard way. 

I’ve been back in the United States since June, 2007, I have seen two bumper stickers, one itty-bitty sign on the highway that said “Impeach”, and no demonstrations. I’m in San Francisco, the most liberal place in the country, the silence is deafening, what’s it like in the rest of the country?

The president and the war are hugely unpopular, 70% of the people thinks he sucks, 10% are confused or retarded, and the remaining 20% are religious crazies - who will always be religious crazies. The opposition Democrats who control the congress, roll over for an unpopular president, and the American people shhh…

Why? What happened to the Antiwar Movement? What happened to protest? What happened to Civil Disobedience?

You all got Blogs! That’s what happened. You still exist, it’s just that you’re fighting the revolution in your pajamas, from the comfort of your home. The anti-war movement is alive and well, protest is occurring, it’s all on the blogosphere! And it’s dangerous for democracy. It’s also futile.

You fool yourselves into believing that you’re activists by setting up a blog, that your angry posts will have an impact, that leaving comments on a blog is a form of protest. No one cares, you’re preaching to the converted, your inconveniencing only yourself.

When women won the right to vote, did they do it by mailing angry notes to one another, on pretty stationary? No. They marched in the streets, and stopped having sex with their husbands, until they won the right to vote.

Did blacks win the right to vote, by reading Fredrick Douglas, and writing letters to the editor of the Negro Times? No. They hit the streets, boycotted businesses, burned down a few cities, got in the faces of the white people, until they got the right to vote.

Blogs are a wonderful communication tool - I’ve got three. Two for business and one personal. I’m going to keep blogging, I’m a writer, and I enjoy reading other peoples blogs and commenting. Blogs can be very useful, for informing and gaining knowledge, but blogs don’t replace action.

That’s why I’m going back on to the street. I’m making a sign and getting into peoples faces. I’ll be on Market Street in San Francisco, as often as I can, not just on September 15th.

I may be by myself, a one man protest, while everyone else blogs. But twenty years from now, I’ll be able to say that I did everything I could to save this country, not just jerk off in front of the computer - like the rest of America.

The world is focused on the U.S. economy, and worried about our housing crisis, the credit crisis, and the stock market crisis. While no one is paying attention to the China crisis.

The China crisis? The conventional wisdom, is that China has been supporting the U.S. economy and our wars, through the purchase of our government (and it appears sub-prime as well) debt. That without China’s continued support, the U.S. economy will collapse, and in essence China controls the U.S. economy and our foreign policy.

Hah! China’s goose is cooked - and dim sum! Who made China what it is today, an economic juggernaut, producing lead toys and poisoned dog food? You did. The American people.

And when you stop buying Chinese goods, because the U.S. economy collapses and you lose your jobs, who gets hurt? That’s right - China.

That’s why a Chinese bank recently invested billions of dollars, into Bear Stearns, the folks who brought you the hedge fund mess. It’s why China has poured many billions more into our bond market. China can’t afford the United States to collapse.

If you lose your job, how many Chinese lose theirs, think about it?

If you think there was tremendous housing speculation in San Francisco, check out the real estate in Shanghai, China’s economy is over inflated.

Where did much of the money from our housing boom go? China. Who bought much of our government and corporate debt? China. Who owns the title to a worthless U.S. economy? China. Shall I go on? Yeah, I think I shall.

The reason the U.S. economy is worthless, is because its foundation has completely eroded, the slightest financial tremble can collapse the entire structure. Witness how, a relatively minor problem in sub-prime mortgages, caused the credit market to close. The world, and the smart money knows this, it’s why the Euro has taken off the last few years. No one, besides our deluded selves, has confidence in the U.S economy.

The foundation of the U.S. economy (any industrial economy for that matter) is built on four cornerstones, Resources, Manufacturing, Technology, Education. We have depleted our resources, out-sourced our manufacturing, given away our technology, and our education is sub-par. There is nothing left to support the U.S. economy. Now back to China…

China’s economy has been growing for some time now. It all started when U.S. corporations, sold out the American middle class, and moved their manufacturing to China. The Chinese left their farms, moved to the cities, and began working in factories.

The Chinese economy grew, our C.E.O’s got rich, the American middle class got screwed. But wait, it’s the American middle class who buys all the lead toys and poisoned dog food, Wall Street we’ve got a problem! Problem? What Problem? There’s a solution to shrinking middle class incomes.

Your house is an interest free credit card! Great news, you can borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars, and buy all the lead toys your heart desires.

The relaxation of credit standards in the U.S., and the subsequent housing boom, led to astronomical growth rates in the Chinese economy. Tremendous profits for our C.E.O.’s. But, you know, eventually all good things must come to an end.

All that growth, and high energy prices, is very inflationary. Plus, throw in massive government borrowing, to support a losing and illegal war, and you get higher interest rates. Which leads to higher house payments, which leads to a housing crisis, and well you know the rest of the story.

China is faced with a dilemna. Allow the U.S. economy to collapse, and go down with us, or bail us out by pouring money into our stock and bond markets, and give up their surplus. It’s really that simple. Either way, China get’s hurt, that’s the China crisis.

Most probably, China will choose the middle road, keeping our economy on life support, while their economy cools. For China it’s probably a good thing. Hyper economic growth, is un-manageable, corrupting, and causes tremendous social changes. Meanwhile, China can work on developing trade with Russia, Central Asia, and other developing countries, to replace its dependence on the U.S. economy.

In the meantime China won’t allow the United States economy to collapse, in the meantime we can figure out how to rebuild our economy, in the meantime we can stop lying to ourselves.

Naomi Wolf, a sheep by any other name, wrote an article on Huffington Post proclaiming presidential candidate Christopher Dodd as a defender of the Constitution. She is just one of many, so called “Progressive” writers who have touted a Democrat candidate, as great patriot and person of principle.

Beware sheep in progressive clothing.

These famous writers, columnists, pundits, self proclaimed progressives, main stream media labeled liberals, will continue to baaa one candidate or another to the flock.

It’s their job. Which candidate they are pushing, is really besides the point, they all belong to the same corrupt Democratic Party (I’m a registered Democrat).

Their objective is to keep the flock together. And after you have chosen your, inconsequential Democratic candidate, to get you motivated. It’s a strategy that worked beautifully in 2006.

And look at the results? Man, aren’t you glad the Democrats got elected and brought our troops home?

If you call your self progressive, you’re the Democratic Party base, and to win the election  you to be good compliant sheep. Either, motivated, deluded, or silent.

The “Progressive” writers will be in full spin, claiming that this candidate or the other, “get’s it” and is different. Don’t blame yourself if, their messages and rhetoric, sound vaguely familiar to that of an abusive spouse. “Honey, I’m sorry I slapped you around in ‘06, I swear I won’t do it again in ‘08.”

When the mouth pieces of the Democratic Party, the Progressive writers pen their odious blog posts, slap them down hard. How’s it go “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, baaaaa.”

It’s time to become angry little lambies.