As the word gets out that top corporate executives are making more than hundreds of their employees, combined, sympathy for "business as usual" is waning. The fallacy of Ronald Reagan's trickle down theory of economics has been proven wrong and yet there are those clinging to the image of Ronnie as a sort of savior. The real truth about shipping more and more of our dollars into fewer and fewer faraway hands is that as the money goes, so do the hopes of small towns, cities and the heartland of our great nation. What the media has told us so far is scant lip service and reactionary rhetoric that are a useless attempt to distract us from the real crimes being perpetrated on our culture as a result of greed and inequality. The raping and pillaging of our workforce, the housing stock, the transportation systems and the natural resources of our land for the benefit of a tiny number of obscenely rich individuals is finally being called out as the anti-social crime that it is.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters, meeting up across the country, are standing as testament to the will of the people that has not only been subverted, but just plain ignored by the monied interests that weave their webs of deception and avarice in the halls of Washington D.C. as well as state houses across our nation. You can tell by the cadre of rank amateurs vying for the republican nomination, none of the mouthpieces for corporate power have a shred of dignity or truth in their arsenal. Instead, they rely on out dated hostilities and fear tactics in the face of the fact that the world is shrinking by the day. Centuries ago, receiving news across vast distances took months. sometimes information would not penetrate remote areas for years. Today, anyone with modest equipment can keep their finger on the pulse of worldwide markets, weather conditions, or exchange ideas at nearly the speed of light. The few that are hunkered down for the long fight are just wasting our time. The majority was never made up of the splinter groups who claimed "morality" to be on their side. If they had been either moral or the majority, we could have suffered through their disastrous political legacy, but in fact, they were trying to get their scraps as they fell from someone else's gravy train. Today, tens of thousands will stand again for the right of the people, not the corporations, to control the destiny of our nation.
Wherever we live, there are those who would extract their living from the sweat of our brow or the aches in our bodies that labor can bring with it. Those same people generally extoll the virtues of pulling oneself up with their bootstraps or a rising tide raising all boats. The problem with this type of fairy tale worldview is that first off, bootstraps can only get you up to the top of your boots. In this environment of bullshit and deception, that may not be high enough to get up out of the muck. That rising tide thing only works if the boats are in good repair. Like many Americans today, the boats are leaking profusely and as the high tide of crap approaches, the ones that have stayed afloat are breaking free from their moorings. The amazing thing is that this revolution did not happen sooner. The writing has been on the wall for twenty-odd years. Those who capitalize on death and destruction, mayhem and misinformation do not want this revolution to be televised, so it won't be. However, when the millions who have been fleeced by the current system stand together and demand that justice be served to those who crashed the world economy, I hope we are allowed to see something on the news about it. Until then, keep educating yourself, keep our representatives up to date on the need for sustainability and help educate your neighbors about these truths that for so many are self evident. corporations are not people, their highest goal is profit, their responsibility is to their shareholders, not our country, certainly not the good of all. You will be surprised to find that there is no other side outside the Fox "News" room. In fact, little disagreement can be found when you get down to cases. The 99% want to be included in the prosperity of our nation and are finally demanding to have more than lip service paid to their needs and aspirations. we know what the corporations want and have seen what it gets us.
Vote with your feet, get to a protest today!
Hundreds of thousands of protesters, meeting up across the country, are standing as testament to the will of the people that has not only been subverted, but just plain ignored by the monied interests that weave their webs of deception and avarice in the halls of Washington D.C. as well as state houses across our nation. You can tell by the cadre of rank amateurs vying for the republican nomination, none of the mouthpieces for corporate power have a shred of dignity or truth in their arsenal. Instead, they rely on out dated hostilities and fear tactics in the face of the fact that the world is shrinking by the day. Centuries ago, receiving news across vast distances took months. sometimes information would not penetrate remote areas for years. Today, anyone with modest equipment can keep their finger on the pulse of worldwide markets, weather conditions, or exchange ideas at nearly the speed of light. The few that are hunkered down for the long fight are just wasting our time. The majority was never made up of the splinter groups who claimed "morality" to be on their side. If they had been either moral or the majority, we could have suffered through their disastrous political legacy, but in fact, they were trying to get their scraps as they fell from someone else's gravy train. Today, tens of thousands will stand again for the right of the people, not the corporations, to control the destiny of our nation.
Wherever we live, there are those who would extract their living from the sweat of our brow or the aches in our bodies that labor can bring with it. Those same people generally extoll the virtues of pulling oneself up with their bootstraps or a rising tide raising all boats. The problem with this type of fairy tale worldview is that first off, bootstraps can only get you up to the top of your boots. In this environment of bullshit and deception, that may not be high enough to get up out of the muck. That rising tide thing only works if the boats are in good repair. Like many Americans today, the boats are leaking profusely and as the high tide of crap approaches, the ones that have stayed afloat are breaking free from their moorings. The amazing thing is that this revolution did not happen sooner. The writing has been on the wall for twenty-odd years. Those who capitalize on death and destruction, mayhem and misinformation do not want this revolution to be televised, so it won't be. However, when the millions who have been fleeced by the current system stand together and demand that justice be served to those who crashed the world economy, I hope we are allowed to see something on the news about it. Until then, keep educating yourself, keep our representatives up to date on the need for sustainability and help educate your neighbors about these truths that for so many are self evident. corporations are not people, their highest goal is profit, their responsibility is to their shareholders, not our country, certainly not the good of all. You will be surprised to find that there is no other side outside the Fox "News" room. In fact, little disagreement can be found when you get down to cases. The 99% want to be included in the prosperity of our nation and are finally demanding to have more than lip service paid to their needs and aspirations. we know what the corporations want and have seen what it gets us.
Vote with your feet, get to a protest today!
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