the straw man burns or nu wy dwn

The Straw Men in our American society are all burning. GM has been crying for twenty years that they could not make a profit because of the " Unions " . It is odd though that when the Executive Timber at GM had to decide which car line to drop they choose the Saturn"

This is the car company that twenty years ago GM set-up as the Car Company of the Future. It was set-up on the Japanese Model, " No Unions " managers and engineers had offices on the shop floor. This begs the question if the " Unions " were the problem why are they closing the only car company they own that has no " Unions" ?

Could it be that the profit in small, reliable , fuel efficient[ Japanese model] cars is not big enough? Could it be that GM wants to build only 50,000 dollar gas guzzling pick-up trucks because there is more profit in them. The "Unions " have always been a Straw Man for the big corporations to blame for everything. While Dividends Shrank , Executive Compensation has grown exceptional.

Let us look at another Straw Man " The Customer " Wal-mart is the leader in this one. Every morning their employees have to " Pledge in the name of Sam " that the customer is the most important person in their life today. The Big Corporations have run the Internal Customer scam for a long time, but Wal-mart has taken it to a new level with an Evangelical Zeal.

Why is the Customer a Straw Man because the Customer is the only thing left. The Wall Street Smoothies have stolen all the money that was left, America does not manufacture much anymore, so we are all turning into each others customers passing the Same Money back and forth to each other. This is the Wal-mart Model and it is the future of America

In ten Years we will all be working for about the same money everyone from Janitors to Computer Techs, Teachers to Managers will be making between 30,000 and 50,000 dollars a year. The American Dream that each generation will do better than their parents generation stops with the Baby Boomers. Our Children and Grand Children will not live better than their Parents. This is not a Bad thing because we live pretty good. I forgot to mention the Top 3% of the population[ the Wealthy] will probably be living in palaces by then and behaving like the Uncrowned Royalty they believe they are.


People 35 and under Text instead of talk, their friends are on the Internet. Every interest , every desire and shopping too done in Virtual Worlds until the Virtual is preferred over Reality. Truly a world their parents will never understand or appreciate.

So as the American Culture of Materialism Dies starved to death due to lack of money , accommodation and interest. A New American Culture of Virtual Life Rises it is going to be very interesting to see where this goes. With Japanese/ Chinese leading the Consumer Electronic Revolution one can only imagine how Real the Virtual Can Be.