Call to Action!

Posted: 14th July 2010 by thefrankfactor in About, Activism, Editorials
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I am a Progressive political activist, a musician, song writer and semi-retired from a career in the audio and video production industries.

It is my belief that America is controlled for the most part by a few wealthy corporate interests and that opinion, consent and information is fully controlled by those who own the media distribution outlets. Money rules over all else and this travesty against freedom is sold and marketed to American citizens as “freedom” in a classic Orwellian theme. The two party system is a scam. The Democrats play The Washington Generals to the pro corporate Republicans. Both parties serve the same corporate masters with the least possible concessions offered from the Democrats to create the illusion of support for their constituents.

Democrats are purposefully weak willed, cowardly, ineffectual, and subservient to their corporate lobbyists and businesses for which they hold stock and later intend to work for. Oversight committees and departments are scams as well. Staffed with foxes to guard the hen house. The American citizen pays the price for this treason. Losses are Socialized when huge companies gamble and loose but health care, education and social programs for those of us with only the power of the vote are systematically being cannibalized in the name of fiscal responsibility. You and I must play by the rules while Wall Street writes, rewrites and erases any rules and regulations that might limit their freedom to rob the taxpayers blind.

The American Government is in and of itself a fairly robust and effective system that is not, as Republicans would have us believe, evil. What is “evil” is the disproportionate amount of power that a few multi-national, multi-billion dollar corporations wield over weak willed, cowardly, self-serving Congress members and high government executives.

The reason for this situation rests entirely with “We the People”. With the encouragement of Republican blowhards and propagandists, Americans are urged to have contempt for the American government and favor huge corporations. The masses are incited to act through fear mongering and propaganda only when it serves corporate interests.

Government could serve the mass of Americans that don’t have billions to spend corrupting traitorous Congress members and other politicians but the quality of candidates is also impacted by the influence of money. Running for office is now a full time fund-raising enterprise. Presidential candidacies can cost as much as half a trillion dollars. One of the main thrusts of my advocacy is the empowerment of the citizens through government at all levels and the removal of corporate influence completely.

Corporations are not citizens and the laws should be amended to reflect this. I believe in Capitalism but not to the exclusion of social influence. I believe in a mixed market economy enhancing the best of both Capitalism and Socialism. One can not effectively exist without the other. Please join me in spreading the message of social government empowerment and the cleaning out of corporate influence in “The People’s” government.

Campaign Finance – Overview

Posted: 25th July 2010 by thefrankfactor in Campaign Finance
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Campaign Finance

The fund raising and spending that political campaigns do in their election campaigns.

The freedom of the citizenry to support candidates is essential to the exercise of freedom of speech. Each legal citizen of America, not excluded by criminal or other infractions, is given the same rights and privileges to participate in the election and campaign process.

The Progressive American believes that the imbuing of groups of individuals with additional rights and privileges is not consistent with the Democratic Republic model of The United States of America. Granting unions and corporations with person-hood status destabilizes the democratic process and permits oligarchic and plutocratic exploitation of the system.

Health Care & Other Things Done Dumbfuckistan Style – CAUTION RANT!

Posted: 20th July 2010 by thefrankfactor in Editorials, Rant
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Fucking bull shit. I can’t imagine the conversations that went on during the health reform negotiation. What a LOAD! Half the shit doesn’t kick in until 2014. That’s a real PLUS!! Ya know what’s really great about trying to get heath insurance? When you need it just to stay alive, it’s so FUCKING EXPENSIVE you might as well go die. Now THAT’S FREEDOM!

You see, my wife and I we actually TRY. We work, we don’t waste, I exercise, take my medications regularly, don’t live off of assistance. BUT WHY THE FUCK SHOULD WE? I think it’s just peachy to pay out as much as $30,000.00 a year as extortion money to stay alive, don’t you? Ah, smell the FREEDOM! OR…. OR why try so fucking hard, huh? They couldn’t POSSIBLY expand Medicare! Noooooo! So maybe the best option is to say FUCK IT AND FUCK YOU! What does it take to qualify for Medicaid?

But, what kind of a country would make the availability and affordability of health care for its working citizens any kind of a serious priority? Real FREEDOM LOVERS tie your life to a job you probably can’t get (I hear there’s a little unemployment problem) and may not be able to keep if you could because of YOUR HEALTH and, that’s dropping benefits and full timers left and right! Tell me that SHIT’S not brilliant! Only in DUMBFUCKISTAN!

How free are you? Free enough to work at some shit ass job that you can’t get because we had to suck off Goldman’s Sack and the rest of the baby dicked Wall Streeters to the tune of TRILLIONS of dollars and pay Halliburton and all the companies in Dick Cheney’s portfolio hundreds of billions of dollars to slaughter men, women, babies and our soldiers in a fucking unnecessary war, the enemy of which is a fucking TACTIC! We ARE a Christian fucking nation aren’t we? If you’ll believe that SHIT, you’ll believe any god damn thing that includes self loathing, debilitating insecurity and hideous gore and mayhem.

Which FUCKING TAX EXEMPT CHURCH out there wants to pick up my monthly premiums? How about half? Huh? I can’t hear you! Idiot GOD damn nation! Sometimes I actually think it would be best if all of you Right Wing, Solipsistic, self-congratulating, look-at-me-I-don’t-need-anyone, little Lord Fauntleroy CUNTS get just exactly what you think you want. You fucking Ayn Rand, delusional, big headed twats. What a fucking bad joke. This is BIZARR-O Nation. Up is down, good is bad, war is peace. Decades of mush headed, 24/7 advertising and “self-helping” has made walking consumer ZOMBIES out of most of this nation. But then after this cataclysmic apocalypse of Dark Age resurgence, you’ll STILL blame every other fucking thing under the sun but your own STUPID, PATHETIC, bassakwards, self righteous judgment.

Taxes – Overview

Posted: 14th July 2010 by thefrankfactor in Taxes
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It could be argued that among the issues that concern citizens the most, the Federal budget and taxation are top priorities. A foundational issue for a Progressive American plan toward the Federal budget must include tax reform. Promising lower taxation at the Federal level is a common tool for candidates to garner support, the idea being, no one wants higher taxes or if they do, they are a minority. Simply promising this is irresponsible. Naturally, taxation is inextricably tied to spending and this will be covered separately.

The Progressive outline I believe, should include a tentative ceiling on the maximum tax rate before deductions for the highest non-commercial income bracket. Personal income taxes should not exceed thirty-three percent of gross income before deductions* This is a target; its practicality and feasibility require research and study but I believe it is important to the citizens of American to define and hold to a target and that tax and budget reform is essential.

America is not primarily a socialized nation it is one based upon the market and capitalism. The market and the capitalist element of this nation are essential to what defines the American experiment. I believe a Progressive plan must include the employment of a mixed market model.

Finding a Practical Progressive Political Option

Posted: 12th July 2010 by thefrankfactor in Editorials, Philosophy
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Quoting Bertrand Russell from A History of Western Philosophy

Almost all the questions of most interest to speculative minds are such as science cannot answer, and the confident answers of theologians no longer seem so convincing as they did in former centuries.

  • Is the world divided into mind and matter, and, if so, what is mind and what is matter?
  • Is mind subject to matter, or is it possessed of independent powers?
  • Has the universe any unity or purpose? Is it evolving towards some goal?
  • Are there really laws of nature, or do we believe in them only because of our innate love of order?
  • Is man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water impotently crawling on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both at once?
  • Is there a way of living that is noble and another that is base, or are all ways of living merely futile? If there is a way of living that is noble, in what does it consist, and how shall we achieve it?
  • Must the good be eternal in order to deserve to be valued, or is it worth seeking even if the universe is inexorably moving towards death?
  • Is there such a thing as wisdom, or is what seems such merely the ultimate refinement of folly?

To such questions no answer can be found in the laboratory. Theologies have professed to give answers, all too definite; but their very definiteness causes modern minds to view them with suspicion. The studying of these questions, if not the answering of them, is the business of philosophy.

It is my intention to make my case for a Progressive political plan for America. I think in order to do so with a firm foundation we need to endeavor to understand the nature of mankind and to identify the complexion of both humanity in the broadest sense and our present society and culture in the specific. Philosophy and history are indispensable and essential sources to use both as evidence and to supply the imagination.

Attempting to answer these questions posed by Russell may provide a good start.

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