Hey buddy, can you spare a cup of coffee?

Ron Howard Obama ad (Funny or die)

I went to my favorite coffee hide-a-way in the Chicago suburbs last week, (Biggby Coffee) to get a cup of my favorite blend, (Michigan Cherry)  when I noticed the city had plastered these obnoxious neon-green stickers all over the front door with very official/threatening sounding language. “Anyone caught selling on these premises subject to Class A Misdemeanor.”

Obviously the franchisee, had a licensing problem with the city or got behind in  city taxes.

John McCain would give tax-breaks to big business/corporate America to keep them here in the state’s. He’s said so. Obama favors hitting on big-business, and helping small businesses like the Biggby franchise, “stay in business” by spreading the wealth around. McCain calls him a redistributionist. I ask- so what’s wrong with spreading the wealth around?

Ronald Regan was a quack politician and a third-rate actor. His trickle-down economic policies were total horsehit, favoring only the wealthy by deregulating everything. Think of an hour-glass filled with sand. The trickle-down-effect cannot reach you if you’re at the bottom of the sand heap, you have to be in the upper 1/3 of the sand to feel any trickle-down effect. The working-class in the ghetto never feel the effect of trickle-down economics. It’s a load of crap to deceive the working-class while the rich, wealthy upper-class laugh all the way to the bank.

John McCain believes in Regan economics and deregulation. In short, McCain is a quack who would continue to favor big business and the wealthy. If McCain is elected Nov, 4th- Americans are going to have to get used to bending over, spreading our butt cheeks and liking it.

It’s a visicious “Catch-22;” helping corporate America stay in the state’s and provide jobs or helping small business owners. Personally, I’m rooting for the small business owner. The tragedy of the last 25-years is that we’ve seen corporate America like WalMart move in and take over America, peddling Chinese junk, thwarting unionization of its workers, working the employees to death,  while paying them meager wages.

Can you imagine the freedom and happiness we would have in this country if the majority of Americans who wanted to open/run their own small business like the Biggby franchise owner, could?

Competition is a good thing. The more small businesses we have, the more specialty stores and services, the better, not worse,  customer service becomes. Instead, we are stuck with giant, cold/impersonal, behemoth, corporate monstrosities like WalMart, Target,  Home Depot, Super Value (Jewel) who jack up the prices to $5.49 for a pack of Oscar Meyer hotdogs, while treating their employees like dirt and paying them minimum wage with no health benefits.

So, I hope come Nov. 4 that Obama wins and sticks it to corporate America. I hope the unions take over the WalMarts, the Home Depots, the Jewel (Super Value) Kroger,  and all the corporate-owned and run retail, grocery-chains and others.

If you haven’t seen the Ron Howard ad for Obama I have posted it here. Ron Howard,  Andy Griffin, and Henry Winkler who do not normally take an official stance in elections, felt strongly enough that America is heading in the wrong direction that they felt compelled to speak out … or die. Funny stuff.

Please vote for change America on November 4. Vote for “real change.”  So I can go back and have a cup of coffee at my favorite coffee place and not have to bend over and spread-em for the likes of corporate America like Starbucks.

KH