RollCall

I decided to keep a list of companies who choose to fire their employees in protest to President Obama’s re-election and to ObamaCare, the president’s health care initiative. I am calling this  list RollCall as it  identifies  employers who are not interested in the good of all  the people.

I fail to understand their rationale as they seem to have more than enough to distribute to the very people who help make them rich. In another era, we would have called them robber barons as they gouge out the poor behind a facade of selling you a service or delivery of goods in exchange for your money and have convinced  us that we cannot live without. Today we call them rogue CEO’s or my favorite  term vulture capitalists.

We are not talking about hostile takeovers here but we are talking about slick marketing campaigns designed to make you believe that these companies  while making a profit are doing good deeds in the community. Just this week I saw where one of the largest Pizza firms in the country, Papa John’s owned by a man who claims to be a  self starter who originated from the 99% and who in ads on TV  donate two million free pizzas, announce that he would have to reduce hours for employees to avoid costs in healthcare due to ObamaCare. How can you donate two million free pizzas but cannot afford to pay healthcare costs for your workers. Papa John’s owner lives in a forty thousand square foot mansion and wants us to believe he cannot afford to pay for his worker’s  health insurance? Maybe he’s just a rapacious capitalist or better yet a vulture. The practices of these employers are beginning to appear to be vulture cpitalism at it’s best or worst, depending on how you look at it. I’m beginning to think they and the Chinese are in the same financial bedroom as Chinese politicans get rich off the loose morals of vulturistic American businessmen who choose to rob working people of the right to earn a decent living and live in a free society.

It seems that it is in the interest of these businessmen for America to be comprised of two classes; the dominant class in which they determine who rules politically, socially and economically and the rest of us who work for them.

Boycotting their products should serve as jolt to them and a wake up call that Americans choose not to be a part of their system of government, but we choose to to operate under a system of goverment chosen by the people, of the people and for the people. If they wish to engage in feudalistic power then perhaps they should take a hike back to the fifteenth century in a time warp and stay there. We who choose to remain prefer to work and live in a progressive society where the majority rules and wealth is available to those who work hard to pursue it.

The choosing of government should not be the sole forte of the wealthy. We recognize that the poor will always be with us. However it should be that we choose to help people to better themselves and  not take from them and discard human beings like garbage. This reminds me  of a time period in Europe in which children and adults who were poor were often taken advantage of by the aristocracy and treated as if they were animals. The whole point of moving to the New World was to create a new way of life to avoid the mindset of entitlement which comes with inherited  and created wealth.

I daresay we seem to have reverted to the  same mindset of that dark time in human history in which  there existed a stark difference between the wealthy and the poor. Slowly but surely that time is emerging again in this new world in America. Let this serve as our wake up call to realize that we have got to change.  I am calling for a time out on sitting on the couch and being entertained as rich people continue to take advantage of the disenfranchised, and  the dispossessed.  I am calling for a time out for sitting with your arms folded  saying I can’t do anyhting to change it. Let this serve as notice to you that a goverment of the people by the people and for the people is the only way we can keep predatory busneesmen in check.

While you are sitting on the couch watching Kanye and Kim and a variety of individuals with loose morals who are being paid by the plutocracy to entertain you to keep you distracted from perusing the hidden agendas behind their business decisions, that there is a silent take over and disenfranchisement of your rights. Some of you are slowly beginning to see realities  in which you no longer have a  say in the business you purport  to run for  these rogue indivudals and are only just beginning to see that you are nothing but a fugure head, a title  they use to show others that they are good employers who are engaged in hiring practices and good corporate citizenship in which they are spreading the power and the wealth around.

You need only look in the parking lot at the  end of the day and watch who gets into what cars to see where the real wealth is.  Look around you. Having worked hardest to prove you are a good employee you are still driving out in an economy car, no matter the slick advertising from that car maker, that is  a part of the ruling class designed to  make you feel as if you are part of a class system in which you may not realize you have no power over how long you stay in it. Picture the economic  downturn which took place a few years ago. Most people who lost their jobs also lost their footing on the upward ladder of the society. They lost homes, cars and businesses some of whom never recovered emotionally, nor financially and who were relegated to live in areas  they haven’t lived since childhood or pre-college days. In the meantime, upper management and owners were still living high on the hog, drinking and toasting while you were struggling with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac,  Bank Of America, Chase and Countrywide to keep you in your house and not  watch your own car   being driven away from you.

If you learned nothing else, you should never allow yourself to forget what it felt like having to explain to your children the reason you had to relocate  or change schools  was as a direct result  of the impact of job displacement. I have no doubt in my mind that the economic fiasco we faced was as a result of rogue CEO’s who chose to pay us back for the election of a president who was part of the emerging classes and who wanted to demonstrate the power  their wealth could do. They communicated to their hiring managers to make sure it was difficult for people to obtain jobs. They increased job requirements and imposed strict jobs adherence so that  many people would have been excluded from the job market. If this does not constitute vulture capitalism I don’t know what does.  Shameful, that they robbed people while at the same time continued with marketing programs aimed at fooling us all to think they were interested in the country’s welfare.

Make no mistake about it. Many of you cannot afford to live in areas and subdivisions  where your company bosses and owners live. When you drive out of   company parking lots that’s when the Great Divide emerges. Those who head north are the haves and most of you head east or west or south. That  should tell you where the  money is.

Time to wake up, America and smell the roses that all is not well in this democracy and we have a job to do to work and preseve our way of life for generations to come. I don’t know about you but if histroy serves as a lesson well learned I would hate to think that we return to a time when children and women who are poor are seen as pieces of disposable property by wealthy indivduals who do nothing but indulge their wicked natures to effect hardships on people, because there is no system of govenment that would hold them accountable.

We have no time to waste. Let’s get busy with the business of erasing wickedness and human depravity from our society. We must wake up. It’s time for RollCall.

List of Companies:

Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden & Red Lobster) plan to put more workers on part-time status)

Papa John’s Pizza

Applebee’s Franchisee Zane Tankel

Michael Fredrich (Owner) MCM Composites

David Siegel of Westgate Resorts

Cintas (The Uniform Company)

 

 RollCall

Sandy Ford, Son Andy Ford and her Three Young Grandkids Dead by Suffocation in Bitter Custody Battle

TOLEDO TRIPLE MURDER-DOUBLE SUICIDE:  Sandy Ford, 54, and her adult son Andy Ford, 32, killed her three grandchildren, Paige Hayes, 10, Logan Hayes, 6 and Madalyn Hayes, 5, before killing themselves in a triple murder-double suicide in Toledo, OH. They were killed by suffocation with carbon monoxide. Sandy Ford was about to lose custody of the children to their biological mother.

Firefighters found a truck with the engine running and hoses leading from the exhaust into a Honda Civic in the family’s garage on Monday night.

The three children, as well as Sandy and Andy Ford and the family’s two dogs and a cat were all found dead inside the car.

Sandy Ford’s husband, Randy, called police Monday afternoon to say that he had returned home and found suspicious notes in the house from his wife, son and grandkids. He said he wasn’t able to enter the garage.

Firefighters used a sledgehammer to open a door to the garage, which had been barricaded shut. Sgt. Joe Heffernan said Sandy Ford had primarily taken care of the children at her home for the last four years, but their parents – the Fords’ daughter, Mandy Hayes, and the children’s father, Chris Hayes, were trying to regain full custody of them.  Source

Henry County GA Police Officer Elgin Daniel, Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver in Stockbridge

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Henry County GA Police Officer Elgin Daniel, Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver in Stockbridge

FALLEN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER:  Henry County GA police officer Elgin Daniel was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver Monday evening in Stockbridge, while he and another motorist were assisting another stranded motorist on North Henry Boulevard.

The motorist had run out of gas and was being assisted by Officer Daniel and a roadside assistance worker. As the roadside assistance worker put gas into the car a pickup truck entered the area and struck him and Officer Daniel before fleeing the scene. Both men were transported to a local hospital where Officer Daniel succumbed to his injuries. The roadside assistance worker was seriously injured.  Source

The hit-and-run  driver, who is thought to be driving a Ford F-250 pick up truck, struck them remains at large. Officer Daniel served with the Henry County Police Department for two years after retiring as a lieutenant with the DeKalb County Police Department, where he served for 26 years.

LA Gov. Bobby Jindal: GOP Mustn’t be Party that Simply Protects the Rich So They Keep Their Toys

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LA Gov. Bobby Jindal:  GOP Mustn’t be Party that Simply Protects the Rich So They Keep Their Toys. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

QUOTE OF THE DAY:  ”We’ve got to make sure that we are not the party of big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, big corporate loopholes, big anything. We cannot be, we must not be, the party that simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys.”

Politico quotes Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, urging Republicans to “stop being the stupid party.”

 LA Gov. Bobby Jindal:  GOP Mustnt be Party that Simply Protects the Rich So They Keep Their Toys

Petraeus Affair Scandal: Marine Gen. John Allen Exchanged “Potentially Inappropriate” Emails with Jill Kelley

More drama in the CIA Director David Petraeus extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell scandal, enter Marine Gen. John Allen:

Politico:  ”Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the four-star U.S. commander of the war in Afghanistan, exchanged thousands of “potentially inappropriate” emails with Jill Kelley, the Tampa woman who claimed to have been harassed by the ex-mistress of former CIA Director David Petraeus, a senior defense official told POLITICO. Allen, 58 and married, was nominated in October by President Barack Obama to be Supreme Allied Commander Europe and commander of the U.S. European Command.  That nomination is now on hold, but Allen will remain commander of U.S. forces and the NATO International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) in Afghanistan, the official said. The FBI on Sunday turned over to Pentagon lawyers 20,000 to 30,000 pages of emails exchanged by the two from 2010 to 2012.”

I am not sure how the string of emails between General John Allen and the extramarital affair between David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell are connected. In short, this is a disgrace that two of the military’s highest ranking officials could behave in this manner. The continued dumbing-down of America.

Statement from the Secretary of Defense:

Statement by the Secretary of Defense on General John Allen

            On Sunday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation referred to the Department of Defense a matter involving General John Allen, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

Today, I directed that the matter be referred to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense for investigation, and it is now in the hands of the Inspector General.   I have informed the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The House Armed Services Committee has also been notified.

While the matter is under investigation and before the facts are determined, General Allen will remain Commander of ISAF.  His leadership has been instrumental in achieving the significant progress that ISAF, working alongside our Afghan partners, has made in bringing greater security to the Afghan people and in ensuring that Afghanistan never again becomes a safe haven for terrorists.  He is entitled to due process in this matter.

In the meantime, I have asked the President – and the President has agreed – to put his nomination on hold until the relevant facts are determined. I have asked both Senators Levin and McCain that the confirmation hearing on General Allen’s pending nomination to be Commander of United States European Command and Supreme Allied Commander, Europe be delayed.

The President has nominated General Joseph Dunford, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, to succeed General Allen at ISAF.  I respectfully requested that the Senate act promptly on that nomination.

Holly Solomon Blames Husband for President Obama’s Reelection, Runs Him Over with Jeep

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Holly Solomon Blames Husband for President Obama’s Reelection, Runs Him Over with Jeep

JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL:  Gilbert AZ woman, Holly Solomon was upset that her husband, Daniel, didn’t vote and blamed him for President Obama’s reelection, then ran him over with her vehicle.

According to police in Gilbert, 28-year-old Holly Solomon of Mesa and her husband Daniel argued loudly in a local parking lot before Holly got in her Jeep SUV and began chasing Daniel around. She eventually managed to pin him underneath the vehicle as he was trying to run away.

Daniel sustained life-threatening injuries and was rushed to Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center where he remains in critical condition.

“According to Daniel, Holly believed her family was going to face hardship as a result of President Obama’s re-election,” Gilbert police Sergeant Jesse Sanger said in a statement.

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