One Piece At A Time

One Piece At A Time

- recorded by Johnny Cash

Well, I left Kentucky back in forty nine An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line The first year they had me puttin' wheels on Cadillacs 

Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry 'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black. 

One day I devised myself a plan That should be the envy of most any man I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand

Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.

I'd get it one piece at a time And it wouldn't cost me a dime 

You'll know it's me when I come through your town 

I'm gonna ride around in style I'm gonna drive everybody wild

'Cause I'll have the only one there is around. 

So the very next day when I punched in With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends 

I left that day with a lunch box full of gears 

I've never considered myself a thief But GM wouldn't miss just one little piece Especially if I strung it out over several years. 

The first day I got me a fuel pump And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk Then I got me a transmission and all the chrome 

The little things I could get in my big lunchbox Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home. 

Now, up to now my plan went all right 'Til we tried to put it all together one night And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong. 

The transmission was a fifty three And the motor turned out to be a seventy three And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.

So we drilled it out so that it would fit And with a little bit of help with an adapter kit We had that engine runnin' just like a song 

Now the headlight' was another sight We had two on the left and one on the right But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on. 

The back end looked kinda funny too But we put it together and when we got through Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin 

About that time my wife walked out And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin." 

So we drove up town just to get the tags And I headed her right on down main drag I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around

But up there at the court house they didn't laugh 'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds. 

I got it one piece at a time And it didn't cost me a dime 

You'll know it's me when I come through your town

I'm gonna ride around in style I'm gonna drive everybody wild 

'Cause I'll have the only one there is around. 

Ugh! Yeah, RED RYDER This is the COTTON MOUTH In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on Huh, 

This is the COTTON MOUTH And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER You might say I went right up to the factory And picked it up, it's cheaper that way 

Ugh!, what model is it? 

Well, It's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56 '57, '58' 59' automobile

It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67 '68, '69, '70 automobile.

Leftists... *

1) Won't admit Alger Hiss was a Russian asset, but Donald Trump is.

2) Are deeply resentful they are not millionaires, but would be first chance they could.

3) Didn't have a single squeak of protest over Obama's banker bail-out.

4) Have specific historic forgetfulness as their greatest quality.

5) Voice their anti-Stalinist position, but go along with reeducation camps and annihilation of their enemies.

6) Attack you when they don't have an argument. 

7) Never heard of Pol Pot.

8) Don't care about you as an individual.

9) Are deeply miserable and

10) On The Road To Nowhere

Cultural Security

 

So there we have it.

It turns out that the British working-class was not, in the end, willing to throw its weight behind a London-centric, youth-obsessed, middle-class party that preached the gospels of liberal cosmopolitanism and class war.

Who’d have thought it?

Well, me for a start. And plenty of others who had been loyal to the party over many years and desperately wanted to see a Labour government, only to be dismissed as ‘reactionaries’ who held a ‘nostalgic’ view of the working-class.

It barely needs saying that these election results are an utter catastrophe for Labour. 

For the party to have failed to dislodge the Tories after nearly a decade of austerity and three years of political chaos is bad enough. But for the so-called Red Wall to have crumbled so spectacularly underlines the sheer scale of the failure.

Labour’s meltdown in these places will come as no surprise to anyone who was paying attention and wasn’t blinded by ideology or fanaticism.

Some of us had long warned that working-class voters across post-industrial and small-town Britain were becoming increasingly alienated from the party. But we were banging our heads against a brick wall.

We sounded the alarm bells again earlier this year when, in the local and European elections, Labour haemorrhaged support in several working-class communities across the north and Midlands.

But the woke liberals and Toytown revolutionaries who now dominate the party didn’t listen to us.

They truly thought that ‘one more heave’ would bring victory.

They believed that constantly hammering on about economic inequality would be enough to get Labour over the line.

In doing so, they made a major miscalculation: they failed to grasp that working-class voters desire something more than just economic security; they want cultural security too.

-British firefighter union activist named Paul Embery

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index3072.htm

Work Is Bad

You Are Now "Human Capital":

http://www.henrymakow.com/by_tony_blizzard_yesterday_the.html

Now only 45% of workers are satisfied with their jobs compared to nearly 61% in 1987.

Fight Back

At What Level Does The Corruption Stop?

http://blacksungazette.com/?p=1262

For anyone seeking evidence that the American working class is still a highly militant force- and that their “unions” are little more than a management organization of the bosses- the struggle at Ford provides an excellent case study.

Go Go Go:

http://counterpunch.org/lummis11132009.html

But if Obama made no promises to Okinawa, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) did. In its recent campaign, one of its public promises was to put an end to the plan to build a new US Marine Corps heliport on the sea off the town of Henoko, in the northern part of Okinawa’s main island.

Dipped My Toe In*

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I Can Feel Her Pain:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_britain_beefeater

At issue is the alleged bullying of a contemporary trailblazer: Moira Cameron, the first woman to serve as yeoman warder at the Tower, which dates back to the 11th century.

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Regular employment almost got me. The allurement of working a job on the ground floor of exciting opportunities was offset by sleepless nights and no health care offered by the employer.

The man who was offering me this paycheck was well accomplished in his field. He has written books and practiced his trade for over thirty years. He is at the top of his game and, most likely, a multi-millionaire. He made all his decisions based on the paperwork in front of him and wouldn't think of making a move without all the t's crossed and i's dotted - except when it came to his employees. Then all inquiries about employment conditions were shuffled off with a, "Don't worry. I'll take care of you.", which may or may not be true. I didn't stick around long enough to find out.

The stress in his office was palpable. The staff was afraid and often browbeaten by him. (I didn't see it personally, but observing his megalomaniac habits it doesn't seem far fetched to me). They were all beholden to him in more ways than simply working for him. He knew how to manage his business but he sure didn't know how to manage people. They were simply to be used and their labor was demeaned and unappreciated. Talked a good game of respect, but didn't show it. All field personnel were considered "janitors", as if that is a derogatory term.

I simply am not ready to join the wage-slave world, although work doesn't scare me or wanting to do something constructive isn't in my plans. I demand to be appreciated and understood as a struggling laborer. I will not be constantly reminded of how I didn't measure up and how overpaid I am. My attitude is great entering these situations and horrible with ill health soon after I begin. I refuse to blame myself totally for work place problems when the environment is hostile, mean spirited and simply about profit for one arrogant individual. I'll use my own talents to create my own world, thank you very much.