Author: Henry Shivley

Barbara Lee and company and John Boehner and company are scheduled to meet today to discuss HR 589.  What fruit if any these discussions will bear I do not know and indeed we here at From the Trenches will be the last to know as in the realm of 99ers we have become that red headed bastard step child  that no politician wants to claim as their own.  Who knows, maybe we’ll hear from the 99ers socialist Union tomorrow.

As for Boehner being willing to compromise on HR 589 I think the looming government shutdown on Friday speaks volumes.  I believe Boehner and company are on a one term suicide mission as they have come forth declaring a non-existent mandate from the people as their authority for bringing the causes of the ultra elite to the next level.  And I think the neo-con position on the 99er issue is pretty well set as their “Path to Prosperity” plan introduced on Tuesday calls for further cuts in unemployment benefits.
Continue reading “99ers HR 589 Supporters Lee and Boehner to Meet Pray for the Extension and Prepare for the Easter Project”

The neo-con sect of the one party system introduced their proposal for $6 trillion in spending cuts over the next ten years.  Many out there are going to applaud out of the ignorance they suffer from living their lives in the false reality created by the propaganda machine. 

This is the reality.  $26 trillion was stolen through the Ponzi schemes of the corporate elite and somebody had to cover it or the theft would have been too massive and absolute for the people to ignore.  So the elite had their employees in our government borrow the money in our grandchildren’s names and of course we had to start paying the interest immediately. 
Continue reading “99ers HR 589 Supporters No More Lies”

Well, Obama has announced his candidacy for reelection in 2012.  It is reported that he will be the first candidate to raise one billion dollars for a presidential campaign.  I was so disheartened when I heard these reports as they seemed to be saying this election is as good as bought and paid for.  And then I heard another announcement.

Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura announced on the Alex Jones broadcast yesterday that he had contacted Dr. Ron Paul, Republican Senator from the state of Texas, and informed him that if Paul would run as an Independent for president in 2012 that he, Ventura, would consider being his running mate.  I was overcome with a feeling that I have not known in many years.  It was hope.
Continue reading “99ers HR 589 Supporters Call in a Navy Seal”

CBS Sunday Morning did a piece outlining the age discrimination in reference to the long term unemployed, which has become predominant throughout the United States.  The piece was indeed an affirmation of what we 99ers already know and that is that the bulk of our numbers is baby boomers. 

Anyone who cannot see that the majority of the 99ers are the victims of an intentional culling is ignoring the facts.  When we were intentionally removed from the workforce it was because we had reached the tops of our pay scales, were reaching the age that the insurance companies would just as soon be rid of us, and on the brink of retiring as a part of the baby boom. 
Continue reading “99ers and HR 589 Supporters Ignore It and It will Go Away?”

Well the 99ers got into the mainstream propaganda on Saturday thanks in part to a FOX propaganda piece designed to belittle the deplorable conditions we 99ers find ourselves in.  Like the piece on 60 Minutes, it was designed to show the 99ers as a people who are not really that bad off and completely to blame for our plight as we were not fiscally responsible with the boondoggle we received from our unemployment benefits.

The person being interviewed, one Leslie Jacobs, is perfect for a hit piece on 99ers, obese to a fault with a holier than thou attitude.  She indicated that after a year she came to the conclusion that she needed to “bank” more of her unemployment monies. 
Continue reading “99ers HR 589 Supporters Back in the Mainstream News – But to What End?”

216,000 jobs were added to the economy and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.8%.  This is a lie and I’ll tell you why.  If an American based business adds 232,000 jobs in other countries it is calculated as jobs added to our economy.  The fact is even more jobs have been lost in the United States in the past month.

When the United States government ran tanks into the Branch Davidian Church in Waco, Texas they shot canisters containing two kinds of gas which when mixed became Saran gas, a deadly agent banned by the Geneva Convention.  As they were doing so they were shouting over a loud speaker, “This is not an attack, this is not an attack.”  These deplorable bastards burned to death 20 children and 56 adults, including 2 pregnant women, and they got away with it.  They lit the place on fire and shot all they could who were trying to escape the flames.
Continue reading “99ers HR 589 Supporters UE Rate Drops to 8.8%, This is Not an Attack This is Not an Attack”

Every day I have to sit and watch the elite on FOX Business brag about how much money they are making and in the next instant I am being told our country is broke and we have to make drastic cuts because we have no money to run our government.  So where is all the money?  Well I just told you, the rich are piling it up and as true wealth is not accumulated through thin air, that which they are accumulating has to be coming from somewhere.  And that somewhere has to be from the rest of us.

Our country is rich in natural resources and billions are being made from them every day.  The natural resources of this country are supposed to belong to all the people.  So why is it that a handful is getting everything?
Continue reading “99ers and HR 589 Supporters – We Can Get it Back by Enforcing our Law”

It would seem that Rachel Cohen was not so far off in her article when she suggested that the Japanese would be relocated to the United States.  Tuesday, on FOX Business Lou Dobbs suggested that 150,000 Japanese, whose homes could not be rebuilt because of radiation, be allowed to immigrate to the United States and put in 150,000 homes that previously belonged to 99ers before they were repossessed as a result of the Wall Street meltdown. 

Hell, why not?  The housing market is hurting.  How about this?  The government cashes out the banks for those 150,000 homes, gives them free and clear to the Japanese immigrants and bills it to the taxpayers as a humanitarian stimulus plan?
Continue reading “99ers HR 589 Supporters and the False Reality”

Barak Obama is indeed a man of the people.  Sometimes you can actually feel his sincerity when he is speaking of the people.  I believe him when he says it is his deepest wish that the people know justice and freedom and that the people have a right to expect a chance at a future, including prosperity.  The only problem is that when Barry is speaking of the people, he always speaking of the people in another country.

But what should we expect from a non-American citizen of the world that detests the American people because they will not embrace his communist ideals.
Continue reading “99ers Supporters of HR 589 – The Time is Now”

The U.S. Senate is back in session and the Congress returns today.  I’m sure they are well rested and eager to get back to work at transferring what little wealth the poor and middle class have left into the coffers of the rich.  And what has our champion Barbara Lee been up to?  Well it would seem that she is actually a real go-getter.  She wasn’t just sitting around on Spring Break.  She was doing what a representative is supposed to do and that is speak for the American people.

On March 23, 2011, last Wednesday, Barbara Lee put out two press releases.  The first was a statement acknowledging the passing of Elizabeth Taylor.  The second contained the following: Congresswoman Lee was joined by 121 House colleagues, including 35 Republicans, to send a letter to the United States Postal Service requesting that they issue a commemorative postage stamp to honor the life and legacy of former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
Continue reading “99ers HR 589 Supporters – Barbara Lee Puts Out Press Releases”

Whether the unemployment legislation passed in Oregon will help a single 99er will not be ascertained until the week of April 17^th as it will not take effect until then.  From what I have read I do not believe the legislation is for 99ers, but rather for those who have not yet reach 99 weeks.

During the duration of time when I was drawing my unemployment in the State of Oregon the state passed several extensions in order to get the unemployed through to the next federal extension. 
Continue reading “99ers, Supporters of HR 589, and Middle Class UNITE! UNITE! UNITE!”

It seems that every time an article on From the Trenches  gets picked up by a larger site and we see a growth spurt it is immediately followed by an attack.   When I see an IP coming onto the comments section with different names attached, my first thought is Troll, but I have to be careful as there are some people out there who are so paranoid that they think this tactic will somehow protect them from being identified with our site.

The fact is if you come on this site as Curious George and the government wants to know who you are, it is not even an effort for them to find out.  And one might ask his or herself what has this country come to if we have to be afraid to express ourselves freely.  So for the paranoid out there I will explain the following.
Continue reading “99ers HR 589 Supporters – Reporting From the Trenches”

After a week’s rest our Congress will be taking a couple more weeks off for Spring Break and truly this is not unreasonable as screwing the American people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week has to be exhausting.  And now the Tea Party is reportedly upset because the Republicrats are not cutting spending enough.

 When the Tea Party first grew up from its grass roots while Bush was in office, I thought it was a good movement that was bound to cause positive change.  And evidently so did the enemies of the 99ers and the middle class.  This is when rich elitists like the Koch brothers stepped up and financed the infiltration and takeover of the Tea Party by the Neo-Cons.
Continue reading “99ers Supporters of HR 589 – A Call for Unity to all Patriots”

More American auto workers are facing layoffs as General Motors says it is going to shut down its plant in Shreveport, Louisiana next week.  Also Toyota has announced that it might be shutting down several of its plants in the United States, and it is reported that Ford and Chrysler may follow suit.  So what is the problem?  Are the employees making too much money?  Are their retirement packages too generous and their medical benefits too extravagant?

No, that is not it at all.  The fact is it beginning to look, more and more every day, like the United States cannot build an automobile without components imported from Japan.  So there you go there is the proof for all of you out there still denying that our industrial base has been shipped out of this country.
Continue reading “99ers HR 589 Supporters Say Middle Class Boycott Foreign Car Components”

Never does the lie of the false left-right paradigm stand out more clearly than when a president, whether Demopublican or Republicrat, takes an action for the corporate elite which can only be considered detrimental to the country and to the people.  The propagandists from the false left and the false right are now coming out in unison and brotherhood in support of the unconstitutional invasion of Libya.

I heard the most outrageous assertions from both CNN and FOX.  One talking head tried to put forth the idea that the War Powers Act needed to be repealed because it limited presidential prerogatives for going to war.  The fact is that without the War Powers Act the president could not take us into war under any circumstances without the consent of Congress.
Continue reading “99ers HR 589 Supporters, Impeach? Impeach? Impeach?”

Barry the Rat was in El Salvador yesterday touching base with the mafia dons who control that area as we 99ers suffered through another day in hell.  Concerns about the constitutionality of the Libyan invasion were dismissed by the Obama administration, as their spokespeople put forth the assertion that Congressional approval was not needed, as the hit on Gaddafi had already been sanctioned by Big Lou Macaroni, chief enforcer for the Brooklyn branch of the New York mafia. 

Don’t laugh what we see occurring on an international scale today is no different than the open violence displayed on the streets of New York and Chicago just eighty years ago.  The international corporate mafia run cartels do not even resemble governments anymore.  The corporations boldly brought their boards to Washington DC and took over our government. 
Continue reading “99ers HR 589 Supporters It’s Time to Pull out all the Stops”