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IT'S BEEN WELL-ESTABLISHED THAT THE SO-CALLED "TEA PARTY" MOVEMENT, FOR ALL ITS APPEALS TO A SUGAR-COATED PATRIOTIC VISION of an idealised "America We Once Knew" needing to be reclaimed as if such would magically Save America From Herself, is actually controlled by "the Four Hundred" who are using Joe Sixpack to parrot out essentially bumper-sticker slogan platitudes, all the while unaware that Joe Sixpack is thus being used for the service of "the Four Hundred."
Especially considering where the Joe Sixpack types who play along with "tea party" movements and see themselves as Sunshine Soldiers for Our Holy and Beloved Nation are largely:
poor;
undereducated or homeschooled;
probably have hidden psychoemotional problems complicated by childhood abuse, neglect or maltreatment;
are easily open to suggestions which may, unknown to them, are actually dangerous to national interest and sovereign identity; and
are lacking in essential job or career skills to the extent of being unable all the more to find mainstream employment, yet cling to a hard-wired arrogance holding that asking for, or otherwise accepting, charity in any form is one with Moral Error and Weakness.
On that last point, it may be worth noting where TV coverage of a sign displayed @ a "Tea Party Express" rally in Bakersfield, CA on the weekend proclaimed "We Want Jobs, Not ObamaCare." Unfortunately, for many in the "tea party" movement, lack of realistic job/career skills makes them all the more vulnerable to exploitation by "carpetbagger" types who, themselves, may be giving subtle fiscal or moral support to the movement from their promotion of "work-from-home," "home business" and "online business" opportunities crossing the line into scams taking advantage unscrupulous of the unemployable with the likes of:
"home mailing/envelope stuffing" (unlikely to generate realistic profits inasmuch as automation actually makes short work of high-volume mailings @ minimal cost, even allowing for postage discounts thanks to pre-sorting, traying and barcoding beforehand);
"home product assembly" (which traditionally has a built-in "gotcha!" of "guaranteed" payment for goods returned, only to withhold payment @ the last minute because of "sub-standard quality" not explained beforehand);
"home medical records coding" (which will likely be worthless because of deliberately flawed or corrupted software programmes, not to mention many doctors themselves already having access to computer programmes which can catch coding errors prior to claims being submitted to insurance companies);
"home e-mail processing" (which could trigger Terms of Service enquiries by ISP and e-mail service abuse departments as can translate into loss of Internet service under the right conditions, never mind the patsies those behind the schemes will deploy);
"website links submission on behalf of Google" (which, if anything, is negated by Google, and pretty much every other online search engine, using automated "spidering" and "searchbot" programmes in response to submission requests of websites by webmasters themselves for the most part, either through free or fee-based website submission services); and
"online business opportunities" taking unscrupulous advantage of Joe Sixpack's lack of computer or Information Stuporbahn knowledge and/or naivete vis-a-vis the same, let alone knowledge of legitimate "make money online" opportunities such as affiliate programmes like those of Amazon.com, LinkShare.com and AffiliateFuture.com, for such with websites or weblogs already extant. (As a matter of fact, many such "online business" offers involve perpetuating illicit pyramid and Aussie two-up scams based on "Five Reports" and "mailing-list generator" letters as were clogging e-mail inboxes some years back wholesale.)
What's more, the sort of "jobs" that these same "tea party" types seem to have in mind for preferred creation are unskilled, labour-intensive manufacturing positions unlikely to see the light of day again in our "morally superior" United States under prevailing tax laws and foreign trade agreements encouraging companies to move certain production activities offshore. That, and its Zealots and True Believers being of a hard-wired sort forever conditioned into believing that America is, was and will forever have unskilled manufacturing as its socioeconomic as much as moral foundation and cornerstone.
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WHEN YOU GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT, AN ARTICLE OF FAITH "TEA PARTY" ZEALOTS AND TRUE BELIEVERS HOLD DEAR is the notion that the free-market private sector is best equipped to regulate itself based on industry-specific Codes of Good Practice expected to be "safe harboured" (i.e., considered by the Federal Trade Commission to be more than adequate regulatory oversight) rather than the State.
Which, in theory, would translate into a wider selection of products in the marketplace, and @ lower prices, thereby generating "significant and measurable" benefit to working-class consumers thanks to pass-through of savings expected to be realised through Regulatory Relief "complete, final and binding."
They may want to reconsider such thinking in light of where the food industry's proposed self-regulatory "Smart Choices" scheme (as in the green checkmark to identify "healthier" grocery options) has been shelved in response to objections by consumer-advocacy groups and consumer-protection agencies in @ least one state who discovered that the likes of mayonnaise and heavily-sugared children's cereals would qualify for "Smart Choices" labelling (in the latter instance, because whole grains were used in large measure). After all, when you get right down to it, "tea party" articles of faith, based as they are on pro-business mindsets, see consumers as little more than objects of fun and/or contempt, especially when their Codes of Good Practice unwittingly excuse cartel behaviour in the name of "self-regulation."
As George Santayana reminds us, "those who do not recall the past are condemned to repeat it."
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FOX PROLEFEED, WHETHER THEY KNOW IT OR NOT, HAVE PROBABLY "JUMPED THE SHARK," AS IT WERE, with their pandering to the crudest and basest of emotions in its core audience of Joe Sixpack types.
Or are likely to within measurable distance.
Especially considering these Amazing Revelations from a former Fox Prolefeed contributor who, on the weekend, blamed Glenn Beck's increasingly "over the top" and "scary" tone for her electing to leave recently. Which, if anything, could mean wholesale defections of staff from Fox Prolefeed before too long, especially such working with their flagship stars of Beck, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.
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TALK ABOUT EXPECTING WHITE LOW CHURCH CHRISTIAN WOMEN IN PARTICULAR TO "SERVE RACIAL AS MUCH AS NATIONAL DUTY" by humbly reducing themselves to the level of breeding stock, and if need be to suffer martyrdom in the name of G-d, Country and Race: The United Nations Population Fund has come out with a new study which reveals where, somewhere in the world, one woman succumbs to the effects of pregnancy or childbirth every minute.
In effect, killing more women every year than war.
So much so that the UN has called a global conference in Beautiful Downtown Addis Ababa to address the issue, and find cost-efficient ways to reduce death rates from the effects of pregnancy and childbirth. Which can be all the more likely where rape, incest or prostitution come into the equation, never mind racist designs on perfecting a Super-Human Aryan Master Race in the Nazi stylee.
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ONE WEEK NOW USING TWITTER AS AN ADJUNCT TO THE EXAGGERATOR, and I've figured out where, to date, I get one follower for about every 1.5 Twitter subscribers I follow. (Even if it's only about 35 followers cf. 75 I now follow.)
Is this ratio pretty much typical among other Twitter subscribers, especially @ this early a state in their Twitter adventures? Let me know in the comments section.
