Take this gem from today. When Ed Snowden was first arrested, he told us that he could wiretap anyone if he had their IP address. The NSA laughed at that saying it was impossible. Until yesterday that is when the Guardian released documents showing the NSA has exactly that ability and a guy from the IT department could have accessed it. Not exactly the oversight I was expecting. You spy on everyone in the country BUT not yourself. Self regulation at work, ladies and gentleman. The fact remains that you blatantly lied to our faces and then had to eat crow.
Speaking of eating crow, if economic factors continue on the downward slide they appear to be headed, that may be part of our new diet. A recent poll showed only 23,000 full time jobs created last month, the rest part time and temp work. In other words, no one is hiring full time anymore, and before some idiot out there blames Obamacare, that is the scapegoat to lower costs. It's just being practiced more and more by an increasingly psychopathic corporate structure that has devalued work to a sub standard level more akin to slavery. The fact remains that the employee doesn't matter anymore. You're chattle. And every minute you continue to take it, your solidifying your position as sheep. Stand up and demand more or wait for the end to happen, because it looks like it is coming.
Let's look at how well we are actually doing. 4 out of 5 people have been or currently are poor in the US over their lifetime. That's 80%. That number is way too high and explains why the middle class is dead. The middle class takes home the lowest share of money in US history. Wages have fallen over 7% in the last 13 years. Home ownership is at it lowest point in 18 years, even though the housing market is supposedly recovering. which it isn't. 240,000 full time jobs were lost last month. The ones created are almost all low paying, no benefit jobs. 40% of all Americans make less than $20,000 a year. Try living off of that salary with a family. You can't. The most recent estimate is that there may be as many as 100 million people in the US who are out of work, part time, or in prison. That's one third of the country unemployed. And they wonder why Detroit went broke?
Inequality is killing us. It will inevitably destroy us. So for all of you out there who are Tea Party followers understand your philosophy works about as well as Communism did. Stop being part of the fucking problem and be part of the solution. We need to give more money, not less to the poor and middle class and we offset that by collecting money from the rich and corporations that have been getting a free ride for the past thirty years. Enough is enough. If you are happy getting paid in peanuts to do your job, wake up. Very soon, you won't even have that.
The reason I know this is that all bubbles burst and when this next one goes, it's going to take a lot of other things down with it. Like the value of money, the choice between anarchy and military rule, and everything else we take for granted. It's not too late to do something about it. But the first step is start demanding more from your job, your government, from yourself. We need to fix infrastructure and we need jobs too. That one solves itself, except the Republicans and especially the Tea Party fools, have decided to piss on it rather than let Obama get a win and fix something. As long as we keep voting in people who have no business being in politics nothing will get fixed. Come 2014, vote for anyone BUT the Republican candidate. They need to lose and badly. The other result is more gridlock, more problems and, quite possibly the end of this country. So if you do vote for the Right wing lunatic, understand you are literally voting to end this country. What kind of American does that make you?
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