Jeff, Jeff... WTF?!?
I don't get it man, how can you support this?
"people who are smart and work hard"
You mean the coders and project leaders that make hourly wages and might not have a job come next layoff season? These guys you seem to worship, these "corporate moguls" are far from smart or hard working. The only thing they work hard on his their tan and their belly.
We have a word for these people: PIGOPOLISTS
These are the people that unfortunately run this great nation today. Our government had four branches when it started. Forget what they taught in school, it had four.
Executive
Judicial
Legislative
The People
Through the 1960s or so, it was
Executive
Judicial
Legislative
The People
Military
The U.S. Military made up for a large part of the government's decision making, because anything they did had to be weight *AGAINST WHAT IT WOULD DO TO THE BENEFITS OF OUR PEOPLE SERVING THE NATION*.
Now what's our political landscape look like?
Executive
Corporate
Legislative
Corporate
Judicial
Corporate
No branch of our government is free from corporate meddling. The courts have become corporate enforcers, Bush is a corporate tool (Powell and Rumsfeld need to beat his pansy ass), and Congress is a joke. Corps buy congressmen cheap.
Hey, we'll buy you dinner for a week if you vote yes for the DMCA.
Selling America one lobby at a time. So, this is the great capitalism you uphold?
What a piece of shit way to live it's created. I have to work TWO GODDAMN JOBS these days to even live. I can barely afford to put gas in my car. Putting food on the table is even harder. Keeping bills balanced is Hell... for the last week, I've been taking showers at a friend's place because we COULDN'T PAY THE WATER BILL this month because WE DIDN'T MAKE ENOUGH BECAUSE OF PAY CUTS AT BOTH MY JOBS. (before anyone mentions my recent tech spending, that's because of my grandma getting me ready for school)
Both companies posted higher earnings and profits, but my pay went down. Yeah, good 'ol ass-sucking, cumguzzling capitalfuckingism.
I, personally can condone taking money from the rich to provide health care. As long as it's not inhibting their ability to survive, then, so be it. If it were to severely cut into their cash-flow, then, that *is* unfair. In society, each person must contribute. Laborers contribute THEIR LIVES to working in factories for low pay and shitty benefits. Unions came along and helped that, but now the corps are outlawing unions, firing people who bring up the subject, and trying to make unionizing illegal in certain industries. YEAH! CAPITALISM HELPING OUT THE LABORERS.
Then there's the middle class, the part of society I'm so lucky to have been born into. We're the ones who have the most to fear. We're the ones who get the pink slips when profits slip .5% and we're the ones who pay the highest taxes in the U.S. and the ones who really get reamed ALL THE MOTHERFUCKING TIME. We're the ones who work for 20 years to send our kids to college so that they can work for 30 years to send their kids to college, so that they, in turn can work for FIFTY YEARS to send their kids to a half-rate tech school. Capitalism at work for me and you, buddy. Those corporate execs lookin' out for us. I guess they don't want us to worry about having too much money. They probably figure we wouldn't know what to do if we had anything like financial stability or such asinine things like feelings of security and safety.
I pay $1.85 a gallon for gas. Why? Because we went to war to free up oil deposits. That means we have more oil! More gasoline! Cheaper gas? NOOOOOOOO! Texaco and Shell and those goat-groping assraiders couldn't ream us then. We have a surplus so PRICES GO EVEN HIGHER! Thanks again to Mr. Bush and the Pigopolists... AND ALL HAIL CAPITALISM!
Oh well, that's all I need to say now.
[ September 04, 2003: Message edited by: Jimmy James is COOL ]
[ September 04, 2003: Message edited by: Jimmy James is COOL ]
[ September 04, 2003: Message edited by: Jimmy James is COOL ]