Scotts' Miracle-Gro fertilizer is Shit!
The newspaper reported today that a national corporation headquartered in Marysville, Ohio – Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. - is taking an “in your face” approach to “cut costs.” The approach includes firing anyone who smokes – not just on the job, but at home as well – anyone who smokes – period!
In addition it requires employees to complete a “health assessment," have it evaluated by medical professionals and then follow recommendations to improve their health.” Slackers will pay higher health premiums in 2006, and ever higher (each month) in 2007.
The Scotts Fuehrer says, “We’re being as aggressive as the law will allow us, to keep our costs under control.”
Well, fuck them! And fuck the law, too!
Now, Folks, I don’t smoke, and I’m retired (don’t need a job), and I know that smoking “can be hazardous to your health,” but fuck Scotts anyway!! Fuck corporations! Fuck business! And fuck capitalism too! and the invisible hand of the Market it rode in on!
We are living in the United Corporations of America, operating under the constitutionally guaranteed right of one-dollar/one-vote! Money is the measure of all things. The rich fuckers OWN the government, and the masses are little better than slaves to the corporate interests. Government of the Corporation, by the Corporation, and for the Corporation.
Most workers on the USA Plantation can be fired for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason. Often - without warning - they are told to leave, given five minutes to gather any personal belongings, and escorted off the premises. Then, in many cases, the company tries to fuck the worker out of unemployment compensation.
Now they are fucking people out of their pensions – fucking them out of Social Security is temporarily in remission, but is being tended to by Drs. Alan Greedspan, Groovy Norquist, Dubya, et.al.
Talk about treating human labor as a commodity! Well, it’s just business; gotta compete; gotta keep Wall Street happy: headquarter offshore, outsource to China, “subcontract” to a sweatshop, use prison labor, work Granny ‘til she drops, throw the long-term/higher cost employees in the trash, ignore “archaic” labor laws, hire “part time” and “temp,” reduce or eliminate health benefits, work ‘em “off the clock,” hire illegals and lock ‘em in at night, require welfare recipients to work in Tyson’s chicken hell-holes, ignore child labor laws, use sympathetic courts and “bankruptcy to break unions, lay ‘em off from living wage jobs (and if they won’t work for Sam [Walton or Uncle Warmonger], let ‘em starve).
And if treating workers like use-and-discard parts of the Money Machine, suitable for degradation and abuse on the job is not enough, NOW the shining stars of the “American Dream,” the “best and brightest” of this stinking city on the hill (to paraphrase the beloved Gyp-er – may dogs piss on his grave) are sticking their condescending blue noses into the worker’s "free time" and his so-called “castle,” his home.
Well, someone needs to break off their snotty blue noses and feed 'em to the pigs! We are NOT their fucking chattel!!
- Uke Man
In addition it requires employees to complete a “health assessment," have it evaluated by medical professionals and then follow recommendations to improve their health.” Slackers will pay higher health premiums in 2006, and ever higher (each month) in 2007.
The Scotts Fuehrer says, “We’re being as aggressive as the law will allow us, to keep our costs under control.”
Well, fuck them! And fuck the law, too!
Now, Folks, I don’t smoke, and I’m retired (don’t need a job), and I know that smoking “can be hazardous to your health,” but fuck Scotts anyway!! Fuck corporations! Fuck business! And fuck capitalism too! and the invisible hand of the Market it rode in on!
We are living in the United Corporations of America, operating under the constitutionally guaranteed right of one-dollar/one-vote! Money is the measure of all things. The rich fuckers OWN the government, and the masses are little better than slaves to the corporate interests. Government of the Corporation, by the Corporation, and for the Corporation.
Most workers on the USA Plantation can be fired for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason. Often - without warning - they are told to leave, given five minutes to gather any personal belongings, and escorted off the premises. Then, in many cases, the company tries to fuck the worker out of unemployment compensation.
Now they are fucking people out of their pensions – fucking them out of Social Security is temporarily in remission, but is being tended to by Drs. Alan Greedspan, Groovy Norquist, Dubya, et.al.
Talk about treating human labor as a commodity! Well, it’s just business; gotta compete; gotta keep Wall Street happy: headquarter offshore, outsource to China, “subcontract” to a sweatshop, use prison labor, work Granny ‘til she drops, throw the long-term/higher cost employees in the trash, ignore “archaic” labor laws, hire “part time” and “temp,” reduce or eliminate health benefits, work ‘em “off the clock,” hire illegals and lock ‘em in at night, require welfare recipients to work in Tyson’s chicken hell-holes, ignore child labor laws, use sympathetic courts and “bankruptcy to break unions, lay ‘em off from living wage jobs (and if they won’t work for Sam [Walton or Uncle Warmonger], let ‘em starve).
And if treating workers like use-and-discard parts of the Money Machine, suitable for degradation and abuse on the job is not enough, NOW the shining stars of the “American Dream,” the “best and brightest” of this stinking city on the hill (to paraphrase the beloved Gyp-er – may dogs piss on his grave) are sticking their condescending blue noses into the worker’s "free time" and his so-called “castle,” his home.
Well, someone needs to break off their snotty blue noses and feed 'em to the pigs! We are NOT their fucking chattel!!
- Uke Man
1 Comments:
Hi Tom,
I realize some might be offended by your strong language, but I think it's a fantastic post. The problem is that the people being hurt by all these things aren't paying any attention to what is going on in this country. When will they wake up and see what is being done to them and to this country? Some of them are so damn worried about gay marriage and abortion - they don't even see the walls falling around them.
Thanks for all your time and effort in putting this blog together. Sondra
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