Current policing needs:

1. More sherrifs and deputies are needed in outlying, rural and County areas for policing organized crime (ie., cartels like in Yakima) and stopping the proliferation of meth labs.

2. Cut spending on the fairly ineffectual Homeland Security and use this funding to rebuild the FBI in this capacity and to audit the thievery of Wall Street (ie., Goldman Sachs et al.), mortgage companies and the financial powers that be.

3. An answer for contracted security and "police" with private prisons being built in our nation and why the public is not made more aware of it? Is their purpose for illegal immigrants or for fears of our own democratic public rising up against our government? We deserve answers to this I believe.

Aaron Crosetto

Our future mired in the virtues of selfishness?

I stand up for each and everyone,
Since all but those predatory are
of equal value,
mine is a personal war against
those opposing taxation and
Representation, charging forward
my trusty steed one of needed
Regulation; shouldn't reason
instead lead us into sublime
transcendence~~
Not reason in an end of itself...
Not souless laissez-faire carelessness,
objective reality only a useful
tool, like the mind.
I ask the universe of it's heart?
Doesn't this honored question play a part?

Silence, our future's lay in pine boxes, dug, I fear
Can we turn our backs on what makes us most human?
Since our democracy's pulled out the rug from
beneath our feet, our brethren have chosen
Instead this sickened evolution of false rugged individualism,
Silent schism,
Atlas gasped and shrugged. Our hope and heart dare not retreat
lest the final nail complete our coffin?

Mission statement~~

Your life's work is not determined by how much you make, but by how courageously one tries to face any level of fear to make positive change in the world.

Aaron

Important action and rights to be understood~~

Important action and rights to be understood~~
1. Replace Treasurer Tim Geitner with Dr. Stieglitz as soon as possible!!

2. Read and hopefully support the "Declaration of a state of emergency in 2010, by and for homeless people in Seattle and King County" and "Help us to survive & solve homelessness" and "How to get there" on the inside of the front page of the current issue of "REAL CHANGE"; this is similar to a call to arms I wrote and sent into the Mayor and legislature about a year ago...

3. Do not support businesses that condone and support hostile work environments and serious harrassment like Swedish Medical Center, the now gone Broadway Safeway, the lies and set ups to ruin careers of some hard working employees at The Science Center's Fountain's Cafe (circa 2004). Interestingly, the Manager John Kipper and supervisor Robert ? of the Fountain's Cafe were fired. But not before those hard worker's careers there were terminated for fabricated reasons. The Building Managers Jan (manipulator, game player and flim flam man) and Heather (liar and sociopathic corporate climber)of Legacy Partners (circa 2008) who worked at the Seattle Tower also lied, kept people in fear and terminated hard working people for no credible reason. Hopefully the new Real Estate owners and building managers are more fair and honest!

It's so sick how arrogance and ignorance seem to be so prevalent in the seattle business community. The common public seem to be just "sheep" and believe any gossip or social games passed on to them via other public, the streets, or so called government workers (ie., the police). Very sad and tragic!
Posted by Marta Sanchez at 2:27 PM

Bosses with integrity and a good work ethic~~

James (supervisor, Pizza Hut in Ravenna, I worked under him in 1996): very helpful and decent man
Peggy Bailey (Supervisor of CPC Stepworks, I worked under her in 1999 to mid 2000 s): very helpful and good-hearted boss, awesome person, supportive

The Safeway pharmacist Matt (who replaced Eric at Broadway Safeway) was great and a few others whose names I have forgotten. They did not like the checkers of Broadway Safeway (nor Larry, Manager) and so never returned.

Nick Codd (Director/manager of CPC Stepworks): excellent man and good at getting
grants, very supportive
Larry Langwell (Manager for CPC Stepworks Vending): Honest, fair and very
supportive
Penny Kessler (Building Manager at Knights of Columbus): fair, detail-oriented,
kind boss, supportive

We all need to be supportive of good bosses as they help be supportive to us as workers and strengthen the integrity of companies. Fosters loyalty in their workers! Love and team work and egos kept in check bring out the best in everyone.

Plunderer's and thievery continued...

Broadway Safeway (1997) had no problem paying me a meager wage as a pharmacy B tech (which I could not pay my rent and eat on most of the time, I had no one to turn to for help...) and requiring me to do A tech level work (they got paid double the wage because they have the certificate) in order to keep my job. This is an illegal form of thievery and usury done to me as an employee trying to survive in the late 90s recession. Safeway didn't care and they knew they had me bent over a barrel. I never made a single mistake dispensing (unlike other's who did including pharmacists; this was brought out at the time on our local news stations and papers), running insurance or anything. To top it off they never bothered to train me, I had to mostly figure it out on my own. The first two pharmacists I worked with said they didn't train people. What bullshit. The third pharmacist who came along was great and fun and helpful, but it was too late for me by then... Too bad pharmacist assistants weren't in unions and training a requirement--it would have made it easy! I never found the job difficult, I just needed to know how to use the computer programs (two different computers)is all--about an hour's worth of training at most! I eventually figured it all out anyway. Where's the other half of my wages? This does not include the hostile environment I had to work in day to day, leading to a high level of abuse by cruel people in power niches outside of the pharmacy. It was considered to be one of the worst safeways to work at and that is why there were job openings there. I was warned early on by the Head Pharmacist as to how mean the store workers were. The nice people that worked there that I knew, left early on once I started working there. I tried to leave to, but could find no openings for B techs at other Safeways or other pharmacies anywhere in Seattle... Everyone just wanted A techs.

CPC Stepworks increased my workload by having me do the ordering of supplies from Costco and Vistar Products and the accounting for Stepworks vending on top of being the main trainer for years of mentally hanicapped clients(2001--2007), and my boss Peggy Bailey tried hard to get me paid more dollars an hour. I think the Director Nick Codd tried as well. The CEO of CPC decided minimum wage was suffiicient with no wage/cost of living increases for years. My duties also included driving a truck, troubleshooting electrical and mechanical problems with machines, setting up work schedules, loading the truck and machines properly with all our product, and dealing with any contingencies that came along. I also counted money and made bank drops. Why was I only paid minimum wage. I have since cut back my duties out of protest of being used by the CEO.

Getting paid $10 an hour to do heavy cement work with Patrick at Sonje's house in Magnolia Hill was very unfair. People who do that kind of work I've been told get paid around $40 an hour. I even had to give up my Seattle Philharmonic tickets that day to help Patrick finish the job with substandard tools. A nightmare.

Jim Ware's WSCS (whom I was employed by as an independent contractor) at the Seattle Tower still owes me a guestimate of around $6000 or so dollars. Jim claims it's Legacy Partners who owe the money and he and other tenants are suing Legacy Partners right now. It may be many years before any kind of settlement (if ever)can be reached. It has yet to go to court. Legacy Partners (Building Managers) who I've been told are going under financially now are being sued for money not paid to Jim Ware's WSCS. This does not entirely make sense to me because Nattapawn and David were being paid every month, I know Melissa was not being paid properly and she lost her apartment because of this and quit and complained to the building managers about Jim (Legacy partner's Jan and Heather), left her keys and badge and walked out! I was paid about half of what I was owed each month and Jim promised me he'd keep paying me even after he and Nattapawn lost the contract. I haven't seen hardly any money since, which means that on a monthly basis when I worked there was just pocketing the money he owed me without any intention of paying me. He told me he'd start paying me once he got his new job (which was loss prevention at Rite Aid). Another lie. he gave Nattapawn the good paying Building Steward job (whose been a friend of his family, his baby sitter and worked for him for many years) even though he promised it to me. In stead I got the much harder job of facilities, deep cleaning and maintenance that pays much less... Thank you Jim for blatantly leading me on and lieing to me. This is after Jim told me I was his best worker/trainer at The Seattle Tower and wanted me to some day run a commercial building for him. People I trained for Jim (in what little time he allowed me to, I needed more time to train his new hires) were repeatedly not liked by Nattapawn. Why? They seemed competent, just needed necessary training and leadership which never came from Jim nor especially Nattapawn--who could not train, lead, or do much of anything beyond security. I helped Edrol in engineering off the books and did the day porter job as well. I wish I could have defended those people that Jim said he had to let go of because of Nattapawn. Nattapawn seems to get jealous of people who are obviously more competent than her, including experiences i had with her. To top it off, David (who worked for Jim in WSCS for many years) royally screwed over a bunch of demo contractors at The Seattle Tower (whom I was getting to know and really a good bunch of guys) and they truly wanted to kill David, the whole group of contractors cornered me twice begging me to come back to do security in David's place. I told them I was so sorry, but was more interested in doing Building Engineering with Edrol and the day porter work. Security and concierge work at The Seattle Tower I found to be pretty boring. David turned out to be real sleazy. Jim told me he had to blame me for something I didn't do wrong in his words "we have to take the blame for things we didn't do in order to save his company" when dealing with the Building managers, who were also quite sleazy. Nattapawn would try to take credit with the Building Managers for things I had done, I caught her doing it and Jim wouldn't do anything about it. he'd just shrug. Not trying to belabor Nattapawn's ineptness, but I had to show her how to attach a dust mop handle and how to turn on a vacuum cleaner when at The Knights of Columbus amongst other things. Even though she has a master's degree, it means nothing. She is too inept to do anything more than security I believe. I think Penny is fooled by Jim and her. Reggie and I can't figure out why Penny is fooled?

How do I get remunerated for my services rendered? Jim Ware has the books of our hours worked, we do not. I even worked about 20 hours a week to help the new building engineer (Edrol with Egis) for free off the books to help him not get fired and to start learning as an apprentice. With Jim getting fired, we all had to go. I would have been rehired under the new Real Estate owners, but Jim told me that because of his litigation with Legacy Partners, they would not hire any of Jim's employees/contractor's associated with him. I put in a lot of free work to help the company and the building engineer, and now I can't even get paid the thousands in the books still owed? I have credit card bills, and regular bills and borrowed money that I can not pay off enough to get out of debt at this point and with the high percentage rates on credit cards my bills just get higher due to their cruel level of high interest! I see no way out of this black hole without a decent paying job...in this economy??

I've been underpaid at other jobs as well; this seems to be the 90s/new millenium model of business unless you are lucky enough to get into a good union or work with an honest, decent owner/person. The laissez-faire business model is nothing short of slave wages to make the rich richer!

This business model is a crime. Businesses are condoned for their immoral behavior it seems, unless they are caught. Most of us are just working as hard as we can in a seriously downsliding economy--and yes business is taking full advantage of it!!

Plundered, but United We Can still stand...

The rich thieve's around us have lied and plundered us and will continue to do so. None of us people are perfect, but to these self-righteous wealthy thieves I say, "Let any such self-righteous person who is a perfect saint cast the first stone..." We must put our EGOs completely in check, only tapping ego when necessary for will*

With all of us together on the same page, united, even with our differences, we must come together--small businessman, worker, unemployed, policeman, prostitute, fireman, EMT, artist, scientist--together with solidarity we must tell the legislature and Wall Street and big business that we are the People and the Democracy of Main Street they are beholden to, OR WE WILL BE WALKING IN DINOSAUR'S FOOTPRINTS...

*Highly recommend Eckart Tolle's "A New Earth, Awakening to your life's purpose"

For patriotic citizen's only**

Please watch the following documentaries:

"The End of America" with Naomi Wolf
"Why We Fight"
"Food, Inc."

And may you help join the revolution in restoring perhaps an antique notion of "America"

Thank you,

Aaron

Letter to the legislature 4 12-10-09

These are some of the issues I hope you will support:

1. Support unions and work to close union shops as a protection against corporate abuse and greed. You are a disposeable "unit" in any corporation. It is set up for favoritism and so any one can be fired or replaced for any reason at any time. In America's history, many were hurt and died for the creation of unions. Team work and supporting each other are of utmost importance in this day and age. A business can conger or make up any reasons to fire any one; your union is pretty much your last line of self defense. What's wrong with being supportive of one another? It helps eliminate abuses by those entrenched in power niches as well. Team work without fear of unwarranted reprisals is the most efficient way a business can operate. Let's support training in working on each other's strengths and build each other's weaknesses into strengths. It will save businesses money on a cost/benefit analysis approach as well. Worker's who may try to stand up for their rights and/or sue correctly for damages may not be targeted as much down their career paths by retributive companies as well. This is also a serious issue!

2. Let's enforce and put an end to hate crimes. No more social games, slander and lies used to target innocent and good people. The poor tend to get targeted over the rich. However slander and targeting can be passed as a weapon through the business community, the streets, bars, coffee houses etc. Lawyers, as an example, have been known to leak personal information that legally must be kept private. There are other government funded bodies known to have done such things as well. this leaves targeted people with no way to defend their reputations.

3. Let's reallocate the funding intended for a new prison facility for low income housing (pay one third of your income approach). There will continue to be a greater and greater need; we can not continue to ignore this desperate need. Let's show we are on the side of humanity!

4. Let's reinstate the corporate gains tax, close offshore loopholes, and put this money as well into bolstering the very needed Basic Health Plan and allow a much greater membership with lower premiums. There is no time to waste on this issue. Can grants be aquired to help benefit this need as well?

5. Let's amend Washington's backward tax system and turn it into preferably a progressive tax or at the very least a flat tax.

6. Let's put more funding into our Seattle, King County Library system, especially in such needed times as these. When the economy is bad, increase the hours and days open, not lessen them. People will badly need these resources. Please.

7. Seattle/King County needs more hospital beds open to those struggling with mental illness; stop making them wait for many hours in the E.R.s, then send them back into a truly uncaring world when they are desperately in need of help. I've witnessed this going on now close to a decade. Enough. The weight to care for these denied individuals usually then falls on one or a few tired and weary individuals who need help in caring for these people and we can truly feel overburdened. The true measure of a society is how well they care for their elderly, children, indigent, and those struggling with mental illnesses.

8. Again, support local, small organic farming. Maybe buy less Chinese products for example, and save unecessary spending and put it toward healthy organic real food for ourselves and our children. This may help to bring big companies on board to sell and support healthy organic food. Do not support GMOs and repeal the patenting of seeds and food products. Companies like Con agra, Monsanto, Cargill, and Tyson etc. can and do target small farmers and try to sue them so they can not survive except to give into those large, bad companies and pay ridiculous fines. Small farmer's legal fees get too exorbitant to challenge these companies and the large companies will win! This is immoral and unjust. The small farmers are forced out of being able to save their seeds, etc. Let's help put in legislation that will help protect small farmers against predatory agribussinesses.

Thank you very much for listening,

Aaron Crosetto

Our rights removed by a GREEDY city (nation)~~

Underneath the polite, passive/aggressive Seattle is souless festering pustules of GREED. (Yes the business/government model now for decades). Any hope of the public, aside from the rich, being heard and represented has been systematically removed over decades so the business community can rule the city by the Greedy for the Greedy without fear of the Constitutional rights we citizens are guaranteed? They pull the strings of the Mayor and the police force.

Take a stand against against local businessmen abusing your rights. They are running this city (like our nation) under the iron fist of fascism. What little democracy is left is now sliding into a withering Republic only. A city of "had sheep" stuff their fears down with another beer, a martini. Why do we look down at the ground or just plain ignore such losses of rights as if there is nothing left we can do? Ignore the abused and indigent? The amendments are your rights and they are being stamped out! Support the ACLU and unions and Public Citizen publication!! Stop ignoring Bill Moyer's programs and Democracy Now, etc. The hour is getting late... We need to stop being passive/aggressive victims to well orchestrated wealth.

Again, our forefather's continue to roll in their graves.

Aaron

An answer to high fructose corn syrup~~

Remember when farmer's could make a living and not be bought out, forced out by rotten large agribusiness companies? Remember the days when banks didn't take advantage of struggling farmers forcing them into great debt, forclosure etc wiping out their families and lives? Yes suicide rates were high. Families left destitute... Useless low grade inedible cornbelts planted instead. Industrial hemp is the answer, cheap and affordable... How do we fight off insidious agribusinesses?; let's go back to eating locally and organically in the totally true sense of the word. Yes, as usual, Mr. Nader was right about our absolute need to enforce anti-trust laws (as a start). Let's bust the death stars--Montesanto, Cargill, Con Agra and all the other insidious ilk. Let's help out our farmers again and reconnect with the soil...

Letter to legislature 3

Some suggestions I hope you will find interesting and strongly consider:

1. We need to grow industrial hemp; everyone knows it's superior to cotton, the oil is quite useful. Let's also use hemp for biofuels and additionally help stop global warming. It has so many uses. Hemp can also be used as an excellent source of food. It's an inexpensive, easy to grow crop. Stand up to the cotton, oil and prison guard lobby groups. Why is it the rest of the world seems to understand this?

2. Let's establish an official fund for EMT's; it will get more attention for donations that way. This money can be applied to families of those killed on duty or for EMTs in need of medical help or counseling. The police departments and fire departments already have a fund for this.

3. If it's not already a requirement, let's require a minimum of 30 hours of high school students to volunteer in some capacity to help the homeless whether it be in shelters, food programs or helping to get grants as a requirement for graduation. Love, skills and awareness toward rebuilding our future will be side benefits. Consider also www.nationalhomeless.org and www.hud.gov.

4. Again, we need to develop worker projects for restoration of infrastructure, and to just put people back to work. Do we really have to wait for the cost of oil (for freighters and shipping, etc.) to get so high that it finally becomes profitable to restore industry back on our soil? Let's act sooner than later. Let's continue developing programs for teaching people on how to get grants for aiding students, non profits, schools, libraries, etc. Let's make such training more widely available.

5. No more incandescent bulbs. Let's phase them out of the market. Let's make compact fluorescent bulbs a requirement as soon as possible. Where possible, let's make full spectrum lighting a requirement for long fluorescent tube lighting needs. Full spectrum lighting is far healthier for workers and for patients in hospitals.

6. Let's ban unnecessary plastic where possible. For example, plastic lids for to go disposeable coffee cups (which are also unnecessary). In other words, maybe bring your own mugs and tumblers. Minimize unnecessary use of plastic bags. Plastic is not very economical to recycle either. We have continent/s of plastic pollution floating in our oceans...

7. As a new right of passage, let's require students to plant at least one tree before being allowed to graduate. Maybe require some time in organic gardening/ developing p patches--learning about natural growth of food and in a sense reconnecting with the soil. As industry continues to "massacre" rainforests, forests of any kind, we can do our part to continue beautifying and restoring oxygen to our futures.

Thank you for listening,

Aaron Crosetto

Letter to Legislature 2 Thanksgiving 2009

I have some important suggestions to consider:

1. Please increase funding to the FBI to go after Citigroup, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Chase, JP Morgan Stanley, etc. for mis-use of money and sub prime loans (which are still going on...). Barney Frank has really dropped the ball. Please help out Paul Volcker et al. in trying to correctly and hopefully honestly rebuild our economy and stop the abuses of tax payer dollars. Let's get these tax dollars recovered.

2. We need to get out of Afghanistan and Iraq and start applying this tax payer money toward our debts and reinvesting in our infrastructure and helping to create jobs/green jobs for rebuilding the middle class (our beloved tax base). Do we really need to be fighting over this oil pipeline? And other oil sources in these regions. Let's stop unnecessary defense contracts; wasteful spending of tax dollars for unnecessary business/military contracts at once. Let's not allow defense contractors to overcharge the government (ie., the tax payer) Let's put an end to the Halliburton mentality, etc. Let's sincerely heed Eisenhauer's warning of the military industrial complex...

3. Since America is based so heavily on the highway, let's put tax payer dollars and proper incentives for "our" companies for building excellent competitive electric cars--competitive with China and Japan. Let's stop producing substandard vehicles.

4. How can we get our GLOBAL "American" companies to start getting concerned about American workers again? Let's rebuild our infrastructure! This is a primary concern of mine. We need worker project programs again.

5. Repeal NAFTA absolutely!! No more excuses and ignoring this issue. Our government almost did it, what happened?? The pollution and destruction of individuals, communities, cities and abuses in factories as a result are criminal.

Thank you very much for listening,

Aaron Crosetto

A Letter to legislature 1 11-24-09

Some issues and possible ideas for solutions I wish to discuss are:

1. With gas prices set at $4 a gallon, we could take out percentages of it for national healthcare single payer system, help rebuild the infrastructure, promote green jobs and help get Americans working again (if America takes the reigns on pushing Green energy I believe the rest of the world will follow more quickly!)

2. Legalize marijuana and tax it at a high level to restore our tax coffers. All states, not just California, should get in on this one.

3. Make banks and government transparent. This is mandatory now that our government has cuddled up to Wall Street and employed them in the Administrative cabinet (ex financiers as well); require them to pay back what they owe at a fair interest rate. We are currently back in a seriously dangerous/economic bubble that will burst again, perhaps with far worse consequences.

4. Put money into mental health advocacy (our society is very ignorant about many issues related to this and its IMPORTANCE); re-start citizen oversight committees that have real power to do something, a program with teeth; rebuild free legal services for the poor because as it stands those with the money and the power can abuse their power and do so; get a "No Bullying in the Workplace" bill passed with teeth.

5. Retrain police units to understand PTSD and other causes of crime that can be prevented through proper counseling and understanding--maybe with some understanding of how Japanese Kobans operate and how they work with communities (I understand that in Japan that their society is more homogeneous than our's); many people are in prison today because of PTSD how it is still fairly misunderstood (one does not have to be a combat veteran). Education, counseling and understanding is the key. Down the road I believe it will be as big a program as AA and Al-Anon.

6. Beef up our police forces because of the growing problem with cartels and organized crime gaining power inside American borders. It's a serious issue now that will only get worse in the future.

Thank you for listening,

Aaron Crosetto