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If the American people truly knew their condition and trusted their leadership, they would be willing to take the proper medicine—no matter how bad it would taste—if that medicine would correct the condition. The political leadership has lied about the condition of the country. Some have said that the economy is on the upswing, while we are living in a decline.
If a doctor said you were fine while you were severely ill, and that doctor would not prescribe the proper medicine for your illness, that doctor could be charged and maybe found guilty of malpractice. Well, what about politicians and their unwillingness to prescribe real solutions to the country’s problems?
How did America in the past 12 years go from a leading creditor nation to the leading debtor nation? Where was the money borrowed from and to whom is the money owed?
The American taxpayer is now a slave to servicing a skyrocketing debt; a debt that is so large that it sentences future generations to the same servitude to this debt because the politicians are not courageous enough to deal honestly with this problem and present the American people with a real solution.
It’s dangerous to enslave a people and be the perpetual source of opposition to truth, which is the means for freeing the people from ignorance, yet say you believe in God. God has always come to the aid of the oppressed and the enslaved fighting against the rich and the powerful when they deprive others of the basic essentials of life, which are freedom, justice and equality that which is said to constitute the base of this country.
When the slaves were enamored with the riches of Pharaoh, Moses was not able to get his people to listen until he prayed for God’s hand to be set against the wealth of Egypt. (Holy Qur’an, Surah 10, Section 9) The more Egypt declined, the more the slaves were inclined to listen to Moses and get up and go for self.
God has always chosen from among the despised and rejected. Whenever there has been a master and a slave, God has always put the solution in the head of slaves. But if America has no respect for human life, or for those who are its former slaves, then America will miss the solution to its problems.
In the Book of Esther in the Bible, there is a prince, Haman, who had prepared a plot to destroy the Jewish people in what was known at that time as the land of Persia. Haman harbored animosity toward the Jews because they did not look upon him with reverence. As a result of his animosity, Haman began to spread rumors about the Jews and misrepresented them as lawless and disrespectful of the king. He proposed to the king that the Jews were worthy of death, “…all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day…and to take the spoil of them for a prey,” because of their so-called disrespect for the king’s law. (Esther 3:13)
The King, Ahasuerus, who had exalted Haman above all other princes, was therefore receptive to Haman’s unjust plot to destroy the Jews. A decree was issued and all Jews were sentenced to death.
However, Queen Esther uncovered the plot. Risking her own life, she approached the king to petition on behalf of the Jews. In this instance, the king was not a sexist. Though the voice on behalf of the Jews was a woman, he listened to her petition, weighed the evidence and determined to spare the Jews. Because the king heeded Queen Esther’s warning, he ceased the plot that would have caused unjust death to be visited upon the Jewish people, thereby sparing himself and his country from the wrath of God. If he had been inclined toward sexism, he would have rejected her warning, and he would have sentenced himself and his people to the chastisement of God.

Sexism is sinking the country. Classism is sinking the country. Racism is sinking the country. White supremacy is sinking the country. Black inferiority and a slave mentality are sinking the country.

We must be open to truth, no matter from whom it is spoken, because the ultimate source of all truth is Allah (God). The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught about those of us who are used to eating from a gold bowl, that if truth doesn’t come to you in a gold bowl, but rather in an old pot, and you refuse it because it’s not in your customary vessel, then your arrogance and foolishness will deprive you of the light that can free you of your condition, and you will ultimately be led to your destruction by your own arrogance.

God has chosen from among the former slaves, the Blacks. He has put in the head of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and in the heads of us who follow him, a light; a torchlight that shows the way out of America’s worsening conditions, for Blacks and for all of America. But America’s treatment of us and America’s treatment of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is like the treatment of Daniel by the proud kings of Babylon. It’s terrible that some of those with power and influence label me a “Hitler,” a racist or a hater, so that they can justify their own people, or agents among our people, in attempts to defame and otherwise harm me. This is hiding the light. This is scapegoating

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Corporate welfare kings and queens? Part:II

Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have incorporated tirades against corporate excess into their respective campaigns for the U.S. presidency. Neither candidate has endorsed the sweeping changes favored by the report’s authors.
“The bipartisan attacks on runaway pay are encouraging, but if the candidates are serious about change, they should vow to plug every single loophole that allows our tax dollars to flow into the pockets of top business leaders,” Mr. Anderson said.
The report was timed to coincide with the Aug. 25 opening of the Democratic National Convention and to precede the Labor Day holiday and Republican National Convention.
Large U.S. firms paid their chief executive officers an average of $10.5 million in salary, stock options, incentives and bonuses last year—344 times what the average worker earned. The report said this disparity likely will worsen because job growth is mainly concentrated in industries with the widest pay gaps.
The United States has long maintained the industrialized world’s widest pay gaps. CEO compensation swelled from 85 times what workers earned in 1990, to 209 times in 1996 and 419 times in 1999, according to the government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. It peaked in 2001, at 525 times workers’ average earnings.
CEO pay growth often bears little resemblance to firms’ performance. U.S. bosses’ pay rose 313 percent from 1990 to 2003. By contrast, the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index rose 242 percent and corporate profits gained 128 percent.
During the same period, average worker pay rose 49 percent, while inflation climbed 41 percent.
Often, the largest increases in pay have gone to CEOs whose companies have laid off the most workers or made the deepest cuts in workers’ pensions, moves designed to boost financial statements and the price of stock, according to previous editions of the “Executive Excess” report, now in its 15th year.
These trends, and a series of corporate financial scandals dating back to around 2000, have motivated investors, regulators and their political overseers to focus their attention on corporate pay.
Labor union-sponsored pension plans and other investors have launched scores of shareholder proposals seeking to moderate or regulate CEO pay. Dozens of these have won majority support. Although shareholder resolutions usually are nonbinding, those that win majority backing have been virtually impossible for companies to disregard.
Even so, presidential and legislative candidates have sought to harness public discontent over CEO pay in the run up to November’s general election. Presidential candidates McCain and Obama have talked up measures that would increase shareholders’ say over bosses’ pay.
However, bills designed to close the loopholes identified in the report have stalled in Congress. The report blamed this on pressure from corporate lobbies. (IPS)