The Appeal salutes Russell Brand for his stand against the forces of inequality that are raging around the world due to the Free Market Frankenstein Monster.
We have seen a constant attack on workers; the poor, the economically disenfranchised, as well as on Mother Earth, that continues unabated in favor of the plutocrats and corporations.
Mr. Brand is one of the few celebrities willing to go out on a limb and speak to the truth of these immoral matters in defiance of the corporate owned media.
We find Mr. Brand's candor and comedy to be of much needed assistance to the cause.
When elites stay silent in the face of such cruel and inhumane policies, policies that exploit the poor and working class, their silence is akin to complicity in the greedy economic policies.
The working class, poor, students, veterans, elderly, and the economically disadvantaged have been exploited in the Free Market Frankenstein Monster economic system.
A hyper-capitalist fundamental financial free-for-all that has seen the rise of the Too Big Too Fail Banks, Hedgies, Profits over People, and the merger of the political and corporate state.
Doctors who see themselves as primarily losers in the new Affordable Care Act; due to enhanced competition brought upon by the Federal Government which ends the privatized insurance monopoly that made American Health care many times MORE expensive for the exact same procedures as anywhere else in the world are now experiencing the debilitating and marginalizing economic effects of "free market competition" that American workers and small business owners have for decades now.
The difference being that Obamacare actually helps the American people (millions without healthcare) while Walmart acts as a vampire sucking up American profits while it zombifies the American "consumers" who do not even realize they are victims in this brazen "Free Market" spree of diminishing American jobs, wages and benefits.
At this point, we should note uneqivocally that The Affordable Care Act would have been a much better policy if it was single-payer.
The President had no chance of acheiving this due to the unprecedented obstructionism by the Republicans.
The current form is still much better than the privatized insurance monopoly that characterized our grossly expensive system that we are currently in the process of changing out of to Obamacare.
The less expensive healthcare being offered by Obamacare is a policy implemented to help the millions of uninsured garner health coverage by using the more expansive competition and government's large purse.
Thus taking the power away from the former insurance monopoly that worked only for the interests of profits. Not good healthcare, thus it is a net benefit for the people, and a removal of one avenue of corporate domination and greed. We would like to see it morph into a single-payer system where all Americans can be covered.
The government stepping in and providing it's large "invisible" hand in the market is akin to your local Walmart. Using cheaper wares and outsized monopoly advantages, WalMart, enabled by its ability to offshore its operations to China, exploit workers for as little as $1.00 a day; requires much longer and dangerous work days, pay poverty wages to its American workers, and books enormous profits all due to their immoral business practices.
Immoral business practices that have enabled Walmart to create a monopoly on prices that small competitors simply cannot match as the dirt cheap "consumer" goods from China have proven to be irresistable to the American public despite their debilitating effects on American workers.
Yet somehow when this "free market" solution has the effect of helping ordinary people, as in Obamacare, more than corporations it is considered blasphemous, unconstitutional and worse.
Who does government work for: corporations or the people?
If the answer is corporations then why do the people vote?
One "free market" solution marginalizes American workers (Walmart), the other American doctors (Obamacare).
The "Free Market" mantra of profits before people has seen corporations move operations overseas to exploit foreign labor; escape paying U.S. taxes, garner all kinds of tax breaks, loopholes, massive corporate welfare, hire illegal immigrants, attack working class wages and benefits as well as enact a coordinated effort to destroy unions and collective bargaining for workers.
All of this as corporations rack up record gains in the exalted, Free Market Frankenstein Monster, profits are king, economic system.
Enhanced competition is a hallmark of Free Market Frankenstein Monster economics.
Where money and profits are considered in this economic system, anything goes, as seen in the exploitation of the foreign workers. A list of the corporate transgressions that exploit foreign workers include: unkempt and unsafe work conditions, appallingly low wages, exploiting young children, and workers forced to work long hours.
None of it seemingly having any real effects on American "consumers".
American Labor is used to corporations moving overseas and gutting good American jobs.
Corporations have shown a traitorous willingness to hire illegal immigrants. Their CEOs look the other way to obstruct reforming the broken and immoral immigration sytem.
Instead of helping to level the playing field by fixing the crooked path of hiring illegal immigrants that corporations and plutocrats illegally undertake; there has been only political squabbling, accomplishing nothing, which serves to keep alive the status quo as it has proved to be fruitful for American businesses and elites in lowering good American salaries and benefits.
It has meant enacting laws in favor of Big Business and Big Rich and against unions and working people, students, the elderly, and the poor.
It has meant corporate lobbyists stuffing politicians in their pockets to ensure pro-business and anti-worker policies, even some as patently ridiculous as the Citizens United ruling, which deemed that corporations are human.
It has meant sending young Americans to war in the Middle East and elsewhere for the interests primarily of the military-industrial corporate-pirate complex that does the bidding of the multi-nationals and elicits enormous profits from the spoils of war.
It has meant the complete non-oversight by American democracy of the CIA which is now corporate directed and the cover-up of much of its heinous and criminal clandestine operations all throughout the world.
It has seen the overwhelming saturation of "consumer"advertising, the costs of which in the trillions of dollars would make the expenditure of these seemingly "innocent" ads larger than the Gross Domestic Products of most countries of the world.
it has become commonplace in America to watch Madison Avenue lusting for more profits while ordinary people starve.
The ad execs promoting Snookie celebrity fame. The masses drunk on the gladiator arenas of celebrity, sports, and CEO demi-gods.
The worshipping celebrity culture acts as an opiate to the masses; who are so drunk on the populist advertising propoganda, that they willing fight, push and trample each other on consumer high days such as Black Monday; for more boob tubes and electronic devices and populist information feeders, which will only ensure more ad addled celebrity infused brains, to be engineered in its wake.
We are experiencing the rise of a zenophobic political party, the Republican Party, which primarily serve the business and elite's interests and is paid for by the Koch brothers.
Republicans have embarked on a destructive campaign of obstruction and ugliness that seeks to combine a religious and patriotic fervor.
Reminiscent of transcendant spiritual and political beliefs of the sort that were visited upon by certain innocent women of Salem, Massachusetts.
It has promoted a society of Haves and Have Nots.
The Haves bolstered by the political philosophy of Ayn Rand, whose individual greed is good permeates the ether as the ruling psuedo-philosophical demagoguery of the day.
A philosophy that condemns those who are suffering or barely making it as unworthy and even worse unholy.
It has created a class warfare that have seen all forms of society to include education, legal, political, social and economic sucked into its vortex.
The faux-Darwinian economic competition spitting out an ugly and disparate wealth distribution that has seen the 1% flourish while the 99% flounders.
The days of the Robber Barons are once again ascendant.
It is good to see a celebrity with the temerity to join forces with the so-called riff-raff.
You can only kick a dog for so long before it decides to bark.
And bite back.
Or Fight Back!
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