 Okay, Saturday afternoon, June the 22nd, 2013, it is officially summer, longest day of the year, supposedly was yesterday, summer solstice, and the supermoon should be arriving tonight for those with telescopes or good binoculars. The moon is closest to the earth, so it looks bigger, thus the name supermoon. It's funny how the first day of summer happens to be the longest day of the year. You would think that the middle of summer would be, but no, it doesn't work that way. Welcome to Progressive Discussions, I'm your host James P. Madonna of Megalife 21, at Heart of Sitting Internet Talk radio station on the planet, and I will formally pipe aboard my co-host and mentor for the show aboard our Progressive Liberal Starship. Ahoy, matey. Welcome aboard. The Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman, the very founder of Newsletter Censored in 1977, and the new issue is out. How are you feeling this week, sir? Pretty good. Okay. Yeah, the new issue of Censored is out, and get it while it's hot off the griddle. Okay, I want to go over a couple things here. Oh, do you get this in the mail, micro-center? Okay, I'll throw it away. I went over this once before, now don't get me wrong. We'll do a little chiseless Hall of Shame. I don't have really much to talk about this week for chiseless Hall of Shame, but I love this buffet. Don't get me wrong. For the money, it's great quality. But the coupons that they give out, okay, dollar off the lunch and dollar fifty off the dinner. In fine print, it only applies to people who buy a beverage, iced tea, soda. So in reality, you're not getting a dollar off the lunch buffet itself. You are getting a free drink. Now, with myself, I like ice water with fresh lemon or lime. So the soda and the iced tea doesn't apply to me. So it doesn't pay for me to use the coupon, but the point is, if it was a fair coupon, it would be a dollar off the lunch buffet period. Not you have to buy a beverage. So for those that do get soda and iced tea, they're getting a free drink. So in reality, it's not a true discounted coupon off the meal. All right, there's a catch to it. So that's it. I don't have a problem with the place, with the establishment, with the food. I just have a problem with the misleading coupon. But it's nothing new in business, especially retail advertisements. How about the bars with drinks and peanuts? Free peanuts. Oh, boy. The bars. Yeah, bars have been putting out salty snacks for ages to make you more thirsty. But today, drinks are expensive. You know, a simple screwdriver might set you back $6 New Jersey, maybe $8 in New York City. And they're not, they've been caught. They're not using a full ounce and a half, otherwise known as a jigger of hard liquor, like they're supposed to, put a shot of liquor in your drink. They've been using not only watered down booze, but they have been sneakily selling cheap liquor as top shelf liquor. And they were caught doing it, like TGI Fridays was caught. But an investigation is going on throughout the bar industry. So, it doesn't surprise me because the people that run bars and work in bars and bartenders, it's like waitresses working the graveyard shift. It doesn't exactly attract the most functional, stable, normal Sunday go-to-meeting people, you know, there. Some say cops are a little, you know, a little bad issues. Let's put it that way. Yes, I have met these waitresses before in late night dinos and they have lots of issues. And so do people that work in bars. So the fact that they're doing underhanded things like this doesn't surprise me. You know, I was just trying to look for the right words, instead of just using dysfunctional. Well, you know what I mean. You could tell when somebody has issues. Some have a little bit, some have a lot. Yeah, but the biggest issue is the trickle-up. Yes. That's what that's all about. Another example. Yes. Taking the money from down below, putting it up above, where it doesn't get into the real economy. And you're also adding deregulation of businesses by conservatives that lets them get away with the shenanigans. And that's what this next Chisler's Wall of Shame is about. I got this through the mail. See what I got? It looks like a serious... In the government. Yes, it looks like a government check or something. Check or something because it had the perforated, the ends I had to tear off, you know, that were perforated all the way around. So by looking at it, any time you see the part, the perforation sections, where you have the peel, the ends off to open it, it's usually from the government and it looks like a government check. It's usually money from the government or something very important when you see a plain serious, not too much information on the front except your address and then you have the perforations. So here I thought it was something serious, which, you know, you people at home would agree that it definitely looks that way. Lo and behold, after I peel the perforations off and I open it up, where do I see? An advertisement from a Toyota dealer in my area. They're going to give it a loan too? Toyota of Hackensack says here 278 River Street, Hackensack, New Jersey. Toyota of Hackensack is now sending their obnoxious high-pressure sales crap in the form of a very serious looking government envelope with perforations going around it. So it kind of annoyed me that they have to stoop so low to get your attention by copying a government envelope, but they do. They're doing it and ever since the Republicans have control of Congress, I have noticed that companies have been getting away with more and more and more of these shenanigans and it has to do with deregulation. And you know, it's like what I read, let me see what I got here. Mr. The Ugly Turtle Face Senator from Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, said that the concept of corporations not having the same rights as people is absurd. Well you know what? You're absurd and your face is absurd and you could tell Mitch McConnell is definitely on the take by making a statement like this. He's definitely in somebody's back pocket. Well he also insinuated that the White House was involved with the IRS quote, scandal, unquote, which turns out to be no scandal at all. Oh, but they're always on the attack for anything when it comes to... Well they wanted to make Barack Obama a one-term president. Yeah, that didn't work out. Their objective is simply to gain control of the United States and whether it be frivolous, whether it be big scandal, whether it be nothing unproven, they will constantly attack the Obama administration like a woodpecker on a tree. They will peck away, they will attack and their objective is to get total control so they can install their wonderful corporate plutocracy, fascism and pretty much give the working mainstream masses pretty much given next to nothing like chicken scratch, no benefits, no less than minimum wage, no overtime, 40 hour work week. Well they almost cut what was it, $2 billion or so, or $2 billion I guess it was from the food stamp program. Yeah, I think we're going to read something about it. But they don't give you much as it is. No kidding. They want to cut it. Now, Mr. the wonderful governor of Texas, Republican Rick Perry. I can't remember the other one. I can't recall. Yeah, Governor Rick Perry stated that he really cares about the poor in Texas and the poorest in the state of Texas, but he's against equal pay for women which is creating more poor in Texas. And the Medicaid. Yeah, definitely they don't want Medicaid. Medicaid doesn't really pay for what you need. If you need eyeglasses, they just pay for basic thick lenses. They don't pay for nothing extra. So if the apometrist recommends anti-glare or high index or whatever, Medicaid won't pay for it. They won't pay for dental. So if you're a poor schmuck and you really have gum disease or something and you end up not having your teeth. So what? The government wants you to do what? Eat baby food or something? The Republicans rather, the conservatives. The conservatives want you to eat baby food since they don't pay for dental. So, and to get the HMO extension, which is probably not the best health insurance in the world, you have to have minor children as a Medicaid recipient. If you're poor and you're single, or I'm sorry, if you're poor without children, you don't get the HMO extension. And of course many doctors don't want to take the Medicaid, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It goes on and on and on. So when Republicans make such a big deal about a poor person getting social services, they're really making a big deal out of a poor person getting some crumbs. Hey, Mr. Ball Ryan was out there the other day. Do any confucius thing. Oh, he's alive. Thinking it comes from the Bible. Hey, you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Take him out of fish and he'll eat forever. What if the river or pond or lake or pond is? What if it's owned by the king? What if it's private? What if there's no public land around the waterways for you to fish? Or the waterways can be like you've told me many times. What? He says about teaching a poor schmuck to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime. What if the waterways are? What happens when something's very contaminated? Ah, polluted, but that's something else. In other words, what they're... The point is... By quoting this statement, it's like a quick generalization, like a quick fix with a generalized statement. They want to... It's saying that the poor are lazy, et cetera, et cetera. Like, Michelle Bachman was out also touting the cuts in benefits, et cetera. With her, I believe it's from Timothy. I'm not sure. I'd have to look it up in my notebook. The statement where, if you don't work, you don't eat. Oh, is it in Timothy? That has nothing to do with what the chief's talking about. That poll said that, basically, if you're not going to do the work of God, you're not going to eat something. See how they twist things around? But it's all to make the poor lazy, and you shouldn't give them anything because then they'll be lazy and they won't work for the man. They won't work for the man for 32 cents an hour. Or what the people in Bangladesh are working for, whatever, 15 cents an hour, whatever it is. So, G.I., I wonder if the Republican Congress is taking a cut, too, along with the social services? No, they never do. In pay. Gee, they're not taking a cut. Or they're great health insurance, or they're paid great pensions. It's like when Chris Christie said, you know, he didn't say we all, you have to make some sacrifices. Not the rich. But it's never him and his rich buddies or the politicians that are in office making great sacrifices. They just keep on giving themselves a raise. They're making... Trickle up. A lot of money, man, and it's all part of trickle up. And they're against the social services because they want to shrink government down to nothing and they want the country to be a corporate plutocracy and controlled by corporations and fascism. They want people... Eventually, they want to enslave the masses. And like I said in the past, I know... Eventually, they want to kill 70 or 80 percent of us. The poor. Who are sucking up their resources. The top 20 percent really would like to see the bottom 80 percent. Dead. Croak. Dead. Dead. Killed it. What's that thing? We are here to kill you. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we are here. I might as well do it now. Yeah, we are... Yes, yes. The ominous voice. We are here to kill you. That's exactly what they want to do. And also, I also made statements in the past that where would these corporations find their customers if people do not have the money to spend on their products? And Reverend Bill told me that the Republicans just do not think that far ahead. They don't. But they believe that the world is their oyster. Like... If they don't have a market here in the United States they don't have markets across the world. Like the CEO of Nestle, this scumbag demon CEO. He is. I know, but he... Hey, he wants to own the water. Which means he wants... Which means he wants to control human life on this planet as we know it. If he wants to control the drinking water supply he therefore wants to control the world. So he's like a... He's like a dictator of the past that wants world conquest except he's his corporate CEO. But that's what it is. It's just the brand new colonialism. That's what... In the old days, United Fruit or whatever goes into a country and, you know, they take over whatever they want, need or whatever and the United States military protects them. That's what that's all about. So they've come to believe that they're the ones that deserve this stuff. Not we the people. Yeah. I thought this was a democracy. That's what I thought. We the people are... It's just like with this Snowden thingy here going on here. Wait a second. They're gonna... He's facing espionage charges now. Could go into jail for 30 years. Wait a minute. Where are the people? It's a democracy. We're supposed to know what the government is doing. Well, how are we gonna know that if the whistleblowers aren't protected? Yeah. I mean, what are we... What are we leaving people in charge up there such as the NSA making these important decisions for us and yet we're uninformed? Yeah. No way, Jose. If there's nobody there to expose the forces of evil, how on earth would the people in the world know about their dirty dealings? Exactly. They don't want us to know. That's what it's all about. But... Human nature never changes. The problem is, you see, they are in the position where they can make those decisions not to inform. Because they pay... To spy on us. Because they pay off the political leaders. It's really that easy. That's the government they have made for us. And when somebody is paid off, that's called political corruption, right? And then you have all these people. There's the government, the government this, that, the other thing. No, it's not the government. It's the people running it. Don't get the idea. The system is fine if it worked properly. It's like Karl Marx's socialism. It sounded beautiful when he first wrote it until they got corrupted by these greedy totalitarian military dictators. You know? And now they got it demonized. Everything gets corrupted. Now they got it demonized. Karl Marx's socialism is demonized just like liberals are demonized. What about... What about God's economics versus capitalism? Which is the devil's economics. We don't have to go to socialism or communism. We have a great economic standard set by the Bible. I thought that these right wing conservative Republicans, Christians they call themselves, yet none of them have heard of God's economics. And they certainly don't ever juxtapose it to their beloved capitalism. Capitalism would work perfectly and be the most perfect... No, I'm getting to the point. No, get to the point because you've got to remember one thing about capitalism. It favors who? The people on top, the wealthy. The wealthy. Those who already have. I'm talking about the form of capitalism slash democracy under a progressive liberal. Democracy and capitalism have nothing to do with each other. Okay. If the society in the United States accepts and recognizes that a good education including college and good healthcare for all is a right, not a privilege. And the rich pay the bulk of the taxes that they take on the tax burden. They pay their fair share in taxes and the tax breaks go to the middle class. The little guy totally... We already did that in the 40s, 50s, 60s and a half and the 70s. And if that all took place then things would be hunky-dory, peachy-keen. Yeah, but along came who was Powell and his stupid statement for business. Business took over the government and that's what we have today, fascism. Who started the trouble, really? Who was the culprit back then? There is no culprit. It was a series, a cabal. That's correct, a cabal. I like that word. Even that word sounds... A cabal. The word sounds sinister. Who used to use that all the time on the radio? Cabal. You're a friend of him. I am. Oh, the guy. Jay Diamond? No, he's a progressive. The other guy, the right-wing nut. Get off my phone! Oh, Bob Grant. Bob Grant, yes, a cabal. A cabal is like a bunch of sinister people that are in cahoots. Which is another funny word, cahoots. Cahootsies. Cahootsie? All right, now for the piece de resistance. This guy just looking at him gets under my skin. I hate him. And it's a good reason to hate him, but just looking at his douchebag face with his stupid hair cut, hairdo. You just want to strangle him and punch him out. Bill Gates of Microsoft just so happens to own 500,000 shares of Monsanto. But he said that now that his goals have changed and his focus is off of Microsoft and he's a very global man now, he says that he wants to do good in the world. So if a multi-billionaire, if that's what he is, wants to do good in the world, then why on earth does he have so much money invested in the wicked, evil, poison-producing company and GMO company Monsanto? 500,000 shares. Interesting. Because these people don't recognize the contradiction that they live under. Yeah. First of all, if I'm not mistaken, I could be mistaken. Yeah. But Microsoft, I mean, Bill Gates and his wife there with the foundation, I don't know if they're doing good in the United States. I know that they're trying to vaccine Polio in Africa and get Gardasil to every girl in the world and boy. Dangerous vaccines, unnecessary vaccines. But why are they doing good in the United States? I don't know. Except the promotion of these toxic, unneeded vaccines in third world countries, fourth world, fifth world, whatever. But he wants to do so much good in the world, but he's in league, obviously, with Monsanto, with the evil Monsanto, by owning 500,000 shares of Monsanto. I find it interesting. And just by looking at him, he looks evil. He's the one that said in front of a huge crowd of college kids that the real world, when you graduate, the real world, the business world, corporate doesn't care about what you like, what you don't like, what your opinions are, what your feelings are, whether or not you find yourself. They don't really care about you. It's just a number and blah, blah, blah. About the bottom line. And he said it with such glee. He's just stating things as they are. But the point of that is we made those things the way they are. But he didn't put it down when he said it in front of the college kids. No, of course not, because he was stating it. That's how it is. I tell you all the time. But you think you can fight against these forces all the time. But that's what is. That's what is right now. How to fight against them, if that's what you want to do, in some way you have to get the same power they have and you have to buck them on some sort of avenue that you're going to succeed in. These people, your average American job, that's why your average American job, especially retail, pays even far less than the course of living than ever before, pays crap, the benefits are crap. You're a close dear friend. And I'll give her, I'll be a big boy here. You're going to be generous? I'll be generous and mention her name and say hi. Esmeralda Glutz? Glutz? Now be careful, because she's 95 years old, you know. In reality? She don't look it. That's what they do on Facebook. 95. Is that to keep men away from her? To keep men from hitting on her? She puts down 95 years old? I have no idea. Why 95? Why not like 105? And she'll really keep men away from her. See, she works in retail. And she said that she made a statement that she runs around like over 90 miles an hour in the store. And I says, well, it sounds like your store is greatly understaffed. And she says, yeah, and also greatly underpaid. She works for Payless Shoes. Chisler's Hall of Shame, Shame on You, Payless Shoes. Shame on You retail industry. So my answer to her is, you know, this is nationwide. This is across the board. Yes. All retail people that I speak to, unless they're a part of management and they're corporate ass kisses and they suck their regionals dick, you know. And I sometimes in upper management and retail would say, oh, I love my job. Yeah, because you're on your knees all the time. Mostly would they love their job more if it were their own business? That's a good question. As God's economics has it. Every man his own land and his own vine. Remember that. It's very important considering it's a contradiction to how we do it. You know for a fact that retail managers are also very much underpaid and overworked. And all the stores are understaffed because they want you to do the job of three or four people. They want you basically to be a slave. They don't compensate you for what you deserve. A huge culprit is the company that owns the Gap, which also owns a Banana Republic, I believe, in Old Navy. They really treat their employees like garbage. And there are other retail establishments that do so also. It's just famous for that. Well, it's because of the culture. The culture is that you have to go to them for a job to survive. They know that the job market is worse than ever.