Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The Real Boston Tea Party was an Anti-Corporate Revolt

by Thom Hartmann

CNBC Correspondent Rick Santelli called for a "Chicago Tea Party" on Feb 19th in protesting President Obama's plan to help homeowners in trouble. Santelli's call was answered by the right-wing group FreedomWorks, which funds campaigns promoting big business interests, and is the opposite of what the real Boston Tea Party was. FreedomWorks was funded in 2004 by Dick Armey (former Republican House Majority leader & lobbyist); consolidated Citizens for a Sound Economy, funded by the Koch family; and Empower America, a lobbying firm, that had fought against healthcare and minimum-wage efforts while hailing deregulation.

Anti-tax "tea party" organizers are delivering one million tea bags to a Washington, D.C., park Wednesday morning - to promote protests across the country by people they say are fed up with high taxes and excess spending.

The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then in existence. This corporate tax cut threatened to decimate small Colonial businesses by helping the BEIC pull a Wal-Mart against small entrepreneurial tea shops, and individuals began a revolt that kicked-off a series of events that ended in the creation of The United States of America.

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20 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." by Robert F.Kennedy The time is coming and soon we will be members of a great organize team, and remember brothers and sisiters keep the dirty side down. Joe Nuño

Anonymous said...

"THE REFUSAL OF KING GEORGE III TO ALLOW THE COLONIES TO OPERATE AN HONEST MONEY SYSTEM, WHICH FREED THE ORDINARY MAN FROM THE CLUTCHES OF THE MONEY MANIPULATORS WAS PROBABLY THE PRIME CAUSE OF THE REVOLUTION" BY -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOUNDING FATHER. Joe Nuño

Anonymous said...

"Let's stop the Bankers and Corporate greed from raping us, save our dignity's and respect and our human Right's" join a union, become an activist and let your voice be heard and most of all release your apathy.... " if you want to remain slaves of the Bankers and Corporate America and pay for the costs of your own slavery, Let them continue to create money and control our NATION..... Joe and Rudy and the FedEx watchdog...

Anonymous said...

[OUR] GREAT INDUSTRIAL NATION IS CONTROLLED BY ITS SYSTEMS OF CREDIT, OUR SYSMTEM OF CREDIT IS PRIVVATELY CONCENTRATED. THE GROWTH OF THE NATION, THEREFORE, AND ALL OUR ACTIVITIES ARE IN THE HANDS OF A FEW MEN... WHO NECESSARILY, BY VERY REASON OF THEIR OWN LIMITATIONS, CHILL AND CHECK AND DESTROY GENUINE ECONOMIC FREEDOM. WE HAVE COME TO BE ONE OF THE WORST RULED, ONE OF THE MOST CONTROLLED AND DOMINATED GOVERNMENTS IN THE CIVILIZED WORLD-NO GOVERNMENT BY FREE OPINION, NO LONGER A GOVERNMENT BY CONVICTION AND THE VOTE OF THE MAJORITY, BUT A GOVERNMENT BY THE OPINION AND THE DURESS OF SMALL GROUPS (CORPORATE AMERICA) OF DOMINANT MEN. -WOODROW WILSON... FOOD FOR THOUGHT, THE FEDEX WATCHDOG...

Anonymous said...

"THINK BEFORE YOU INVEST ON A 401K THAT BANKERS AND CORPORATE AMERICA WANTS YOU TO DO" UNDER THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT, PANICS ARE SCIENTIFICALLY CREATED. THE PRESENT PANIC IS THE FIRST SCIENTIFICALLY CREATED ONE, WORKED OUT AS WE FIGURE A MATHEMATICAL EQUATION...BY CHARLES LINDERBERGH. SECURED YOUR PENSION FUND, WESTERN CONFERENCE PENSION FUND (TEAMSTERS) AND NOT A BAD CORPORATE DECISION.

Anonymous said...

ANOTHER FOOD FOR THOUGHT "GIVE ME CONTROL OF A NATION'S MONEY SUPPLY, AND I CARE NOT WHO MAKES ITS LAWS" BY MAYER AMSCHEL ROTHSCILD, FOUNDER OF ROTHSCHILD BANKING DYNASTY.

Hoffa Life said...

After the Union march in front of Fedex Freight WHT, Greg Faith called each driver who marched outside into a captive meeting one on one in his office later in the day. Greg terrorized them and told them that Fedex did not need a Union implying that if the drivers want their job to not go Union. Faith meaning that if drivers talk Union or organize for a Union they will be fired.

Teabagged said...

Those Republican Teabagging parties had to be the biggest scam for the rich since the time I was told how "necessary" it was for me and my co-workers to be shown the door at Fedex.

They eliminated my job . . . ELIMINATED it . . . and gave me the option of a 180 day layoff with no guarantee to be called back.

What the hell were they going to call me back to? The TMs office so he could remind me that my job was eliminated, so they can't call me back??

It think I was the one who got teabagged!!

Faith vs. Reality said...

"Greg Faith called each driver who marched outside into a captive meeting one on one in his office later in the day."

Who is this Greg Faith? Is he another part of the Andy Lessin Klan? Another weasel who hasn't got the sack to let the company's actions speak for themselves?

What kind of comments does this clown make? "The Teamsters are bullies who push people around!" The management here is nothing but a bunch of hypocritical scumbags!

Examine any of their words, and I'm sure you'll find a loaded diaper in each one!

Anonymous said...

Greg Faith sure has changed i guess being a driver and a trainer and a dispatcher has landed him in the big house so now he wants to control us but we know what he is all about so stay focused and keep your head on straight. The teamsters are here and we have seen what we need to do. Do your job say thanks and see ya but when the time comes be ready to roll into our your new future with us.

Evil Corporates Rulers said...

"The rich will strive to establish their domination and enslave the rest. They always did. They always will... They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by [the power of] government, keep them in their proper spheres."
--gouvenour morris--

p.s people wake up and do something before it's too late...

Evil Corporates Rulers said...

"The rich will strive to establish their domination and enslave the rest. They always did. They always will... They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by [the power of] government, keep them in their proper spheres."
--gouvenour morris--

p.s people wake up and do something before it's too late...

Joe Nuno said...

We have been warn in the past history and present by presidents, congressmen, industrialist,economist and last religion leaders.
"On the one side there is the partly which holds the power because it holds the wealth;which has in its graps all labor and all trade; which manipulates for its own benefit and its own purposes all the sources of supply, and which is powerfully represented in the the councils of state itself. On the other side there is the needy and powerless multitude, sore and suffering."

"Rapacious usury, which, although more than once condemned by the church, is nevertheless under a diffrent form but with the same guilt, still practiced by avaricious and grasping men...so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the masses of the poor yoke a little better than slavery itself."
Pope Leo Xlll
Hopefully you understand this message if we don't put a fight now, we will lose everything we had worked so hard for this company. We must organize now, and join the Teamsters for a brighter future. Lets stop corporate greed...

Paul Reibson said...

After seeing all of my friends lose their benefits and full time status it is now time for the Teamsters to come in to Fedex WHT to ensure that they will have a future working the same jobs for a decent wage and benefit program under a Union contract. I do not understand why part timers were not laid off before the full timers started getting cut? Fedex must have wanted to start cutting from the middle so that Fedex could save more money. Why is it that Fedex continually hurts working families by taking away benefits and pay away from the full time workers? It must be that Fedex wants to permanently erase the former Viking culture which was much more positive with a part time walmart type of company. The harassment of pro Union employees is out of control. I can't believe for someone that is pro Union they could be fired. I can't fathom this would be communicated by supervision to employees on a continual basis. Keep up the fight my friends, a head up is better than a chin on the ground.

confused said...

When this business picks up, and I'm certain it will, they are going to be hurting.

Who will drive all those shiny white Kenworths? The same people who have to load them day after day after day after day for twelve hours at a time? Are they going to supplement the team with workers they hire in the Home Depot parking lots? Are they going to call the temp agencies? Do they think some temporary worker is going to care about anything he or she does in that place?

If you folks don't get yourselves some protection real soon, I can guarantee that every one of you is in for something you didn't bargain for. After a few months of the upcoming hell, people are going to either have to quit in order to get time off (without worrying about job security) or they are going to have to die of heart attacks.

I'm confused here. What exactly are people thinking over in order to make good decisions about whether or not to join the union?? What reality are people here too blind to see? Is spending time being Greg Faith's bitch worth it or on the other hand, can I work under a contract. Boy, this a tough decision."

How much more incentive do you all need!?

Come on! You people KNOW what to do, now get out there and, in the words of us old Vikings, "make it happen!"

Anonymous said...

most of the service centers have signed these union cards so what is the hold up ??

Paul Reibson said...

I was at the Union meeting this weekend and I was pleased to see the positive turnout of employees who seek change in their job situation through Union representation. A Union contract is the only way to guarantee their benefits and wages. Unions work in harmony with employer and employee and create a more productive and positive atmosphere in which to work. As we stand up now as brothers and sisters to stop the anti Union harassment and stop the lies of management as they cut away peoples' benefits in order to secure more profit, we must realize that getting involved, staying positive, and making a difference by educating fellow employees on Union membership is the only way to secure a bright futre in Fedex. As Info

irudedog said...

sorry. no one has signed any cards and if this was true. why didn't you put your name on your comment? thanks for reading the blog mr. manager!

Rudy

Paul Reibson said...

Is Greg Faith blogging in?

Dancing Bare said...

GREG F.
I was acused of stealing by him years ago when he was a driver.
At the time he was driving a three axle tractor. I guess you may remember this Greg. You took some blue lenses off the back of one of my friends tractor as he watched you steal them from his truck! You had no clue he was there watching you steal them! Then that driver told me as he waited for you to install them on your truck!
After you put them on your truck
he walked up and asked "how's it going Greg?" and as you both began to talk my friend acted like someone just stole his blue lenses from his tractor, then you commented that another driver which is me has blue lenses on the back of my tractor! Then said "it must have been me" who stole them.
When I asked my friend why did you not confront Greg he said he just thought it was pathetic of him and wanted to hear the lies he would tell after he put them on his tractor. Plus he said they are cheap and so is Greg, and if he needed them that bad, then laughed, and agreed he is a looser.
We could have turned you in Greg but we chose to let you think you got away with stealing!
Up to date is seems that Greg has not changed his ways! Your pathetic Greg! I never told anyone of this but you mistreating the employees I think its time everyone knows what kind of person you really are.