They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin’ years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security money.
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Read the transcript of this EPIC RANT, and if you can guess who said it before you finish reading it you will get a cookie
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Crossposted at The Progressive Electorate.com
" There's a reason for this, there's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got... because the owners of this country don’t want that. I'm talking about the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin’ years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this fuckin' place. It’s a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good, honest, hard-working people continue — these are people of modest means — continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all! At all! At all! And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it. "
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After posting yesterday about the class war I got a LOT of hatemail, all of which contained some version of communism, socialism or Hitler, all of which spouting RW talking points and attacking Obama as the cause of all of our woes.
Communism is the big problem to these people. Seriously. We laugh it off because it is absurd, but they believe, they believe in Communism being the enemy as if it were the existence of Heaven. The people who can be made to believe in fucking angels can surely be made to believe that Communism is a serious threat to the American way of life in 2010.
Attacking the richest 1% of Americans for their reckless greed is communism to them, even if the richest 1% is fucking THEM TOO.
As of 2007, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 34.6% of all privately held wealth, and the next 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business stratum) had 50.5%, which means that just 20% of the people owned a remarkable 85%, leaving only 15% of the wealth for the bottom 80% (wage and salary workers). In terms of financial wealth (total net worth minus the value of one's home), the top 1% of households had an even greater share: 42.7%. Table 1 and Figure 1 present further details drawn from the careful work of economist Edward N. Wolff at New York University (2010).
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Oh, and those rosy figures are from BEFORE the big Wall St clusterfuck of 2008, during the Presidency that happened between Clinton's impeachment and that Kenyan Manchurian Candidate.
It made me realize that as long as almost 1/2 of the 1/2 of America that can actually be convinced to vote is made to be fucking stupid by the constant lies that come out of our media Americans will remain ignorant, misinformed and incapable of defending ourselves.
And it made me think of words my Granfather Elijah was wont to say "Figures never lie, but lies always try to figure."
The quoted rant above is from the late, sagacious George Carlin. May Joe Pesci bless and keep him.
So where are the truth speakers now? Where is the working class hero who will dispel all the lies? In this ear of unbridled income inequality, the key word being "inequality", inequality of rights, inequality of the means to survive, inequality and lies and hate and Dick fucking Cheney, where are the truth speakers now? Few and far between. Because the owners of this country don't want that.
Right on. We all miss you, George Carlin.
Peace
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