By Raymond Ponzini

A union member, a CEO and a Tea Party member are sitting at a table with 12 cookies. The CEO grabs 11 cookies, turns to the Tea Partier and says “The Union’s out to take your cookie!” Is that true Mr. Jones, are the unions and Michael Moore really out to take my cookie?

I first noticed something amiss about Alex Jones' position towards working people when he came out against the ‘Public Option’, which was a government run health care plan and not a corporate HMO plan. He was right to condemn the Obama administration's health care plan because it ended up being a massive insurance company swindle, which Jones dutifully pointed out. But Jones was also against Single Payer or any government run public option health care, which at the time was being heavily supported by thousands of doctors and nurses across the country. I was disappointed in Jones for his lack of sensitivity to the tremendous health care inequity that exists in America. Even if the public option had been flawed and inadequate it would have competed with the brutal ‘for profit’ health care system, which now causes the unnecessary deaths of some 50,000 uninsured Americans every year. And it would have sent a clear message to the super rich who own the health care system that they would have to stop letting people die so they can make more money.

Now Mr. Jones site is attacking Michael Moore, calling him a communist for standing up to a gang of billionaire robber barons who are determined to use the economic downturn created by a corrupt banking system, endless wars, and endless bailouts, as an excuse to break the backs of the unions and the American middle class. They want to turn the clock back in America to the time of the robber barons when there were no unions and no middle class. There was just the super rich ruling elite and the slave class, the powerless poor.

This article: "Michael Moore's Communist Rhetoric Distracts from Crimes of the Banksters", posted on Alex Jones' site labels Michael Moore a communist for being on the side of the people against the corporate super rich who are economically bleeding American families and their country to death.

I hope Jones isn't letting the billionaires who now control the Tea Party influence him. Because when the writers on his site attack Michael Moore, for speaking the truth to the people of Wisconsin about the greed and corruption of the super rich, the criticism sounds similar to Tea Party rhetoric.

Let’s be clear about what is taking place in Wisconsin and other states in the U.S.. As Warren Buffet stated: “There is a war being fought between the rich and the poor and the rich are winning.” The poor he refers to are the middle class, the majority, working people.

The billionaire Koch brothers and others, want the people to obey and serve our wealthy capitalist masters. They want the people to shut their mouths in Wisconsin and the rest of the country and accept a much lower standard of living in the name of balancing the budget. They are telling us that we must make financial sacrifices and relinquish hard won concessions against the corporations and their owners, while they relinquish nothing and take more for themselves.

We Americans should never forget that we left England two hundred years ago to escape the arbitrary rule of kings and queens in a two-class system of rich and poor. Unless we want to return to that same hopeless two-class system, now is the time we must stand together with men like Michael Moore and the American people against the robber baron class.

They have looted our country into near collapse, and are now attempting to destroy the unions so they can extract even more profit for themselves at the expense of working families. At some point there has to be a limit to the greed, there has to be an end to it, or our way of life will end.

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By Raymond Ponzini