When there's love at home

“…When There’s Love at Home…”

We live in a chronic state of economic terror, that is, those of us who do not enjoy the privileges of the financially secure or who are not in line for the dole (or the ‘bail-out’). We have always lived this way and we are always the ones who are required to pay the bills for the rest of society, including those who are on the dole. We live in a system of doled-out privileges that masquerades as a meritocracy.

We run around talking and acting as if we will be rewarded for our efforts and believe that we all can become millionaires if we just work hard enough. The fact is that most of us will probably have to work at McDammit’s to supplement our retirement, if we aren’t already doing so in order to survive.

As Michael Harrington pointed out 30 years ago in his book “The Twilight of Capitalism” we have a system that consistently privatizes profits while it simultaneously socializes the costs. We have been feeding the parasitic auto, petroleum, pharmaceutical, and banking and investment institutions with corporate welfare forever, in the form of tax-breaks, tax shelters, subsidies, and bailouts. This is nothing new. This is redistribution of wealth. It is ‘socialism’ for the rich that re-distributes wealth in the wrong direction!

I have over a hundred thousand dollars in student loans that I will probably never pay back, a useless masters degree, and a job teaching college that is nearly costing me more to get to than it is paying me. Who is going to bail me out? Other modern societies, which understand that an educated populace equals a better society, send their citizens to school and pay for it. This makes me wonder if ‘a better society' is really what our rulers want for us. In fact, I have a suspicion that there is something else, quite to the contrary, that is really happening.

We, the people, have become fat, sated, lazy, complacent, life support systems for the wealthy. We do not care anymore about the ‘brand new’ that is always more and more of the same that capital keeps selling back to us. All of us have the sneaking suspicion that this cannot go on forever (I’ve had it all of my 48 year-old life) and we are correct. It cannot last forever and it won’t.

We, the people of the United States of America, are a marketplace that has been over-saturated.

The corporation (the collection of ‘good old boys’ around the table at the country club) that has fed off of our labor, our lives, our blood and the blood of our ancestors are getting ready to turn us in for a new stock of willing victims. We are no longer of use to the ruling class (which is why their representatives in Washington aren’t too keen to give us even the most basic health care and care even less about educating us or putting us to work). We have been bled dry. We are being deleted. America is over. Tomorrow’s world belongs to the Chinese and transnational corporatists.

Parasites move to a new host when the old host is depleted and useless. Once we hand money over to corporations it becomes ‘transnational capital.’ Transnational corporate wealth is ‘transnational’ wealth that has already been moved to holding tanks in Switzerland. Transnational wealth doesn’t live here anymore. Transnational wealth doesn’t give a damn what we’re going to do to survive. We, the depleted host, are being phased out. The majority of the Chinese population has never even seen a McDammit’s carcinogen-laden BigDam Styrofoam Container. The huge pool of un-sated, hungry Chinese wage-slave/consumers is being phased in, in our place.

America and Americans are being primed for their new role as the world police force and the service industry for all of the institutional record-keeping, bill-collecting, administrative redundancy, and other maid-services that will be required to keep the new Chinese regime (with it’s transnational corporate handlers) afloat.

While this may come as a surprise to some folks, we really should have known better than to suck up to our corporate masters while they were planning and leading us to our slaughter. We, the people, probably should have put certain measures in place to keep them from being able to take all our wealth to Switzerland for Chinese investments and run off to the Bahamas to enjoy our retirement vacations for us. We, the people, as any sane tribe does, probably should have placed limits on individual wealth and privilege for the good of the entire society. However, our loving masters’ representatives (the Republicans/Democrats/one party masquerading as a two-party system) told us to let them go on raping and pillaging in the name of ‘personal freedom.’

What amazes me is that we aren’t pissed-off and rallying in the streets to drag these criminals out to the hangin’ tree. If you put a frog in luke-warm water and gradually turn-up the heat he won’t even notice as he slowly cooks to death in a seemingly warm comfy bath… get the picture? We, The American People have been slow-boiled and nickle-and-dimed to death.

Echoing Bill Maher, Obama should get off his ass and do what he promised to do… does anyone remember the big ‘change’ platform he campaigned on? The pre-packaged cellophane corporate economy sucks. There are no jobs for people who do not build roads. Folks with college degrees cannot get jobs. They have to go become servers at Chili’s.

The time for change is NOW, Obama-Rama! Sign an executive order! Forgive our crippling student loan debt so we can go out and do something creative with our education that actually moves society forward rather than keeping the uselessly educated slaving away at mindless jobs that won’t even begin to pay student loans. Legalize hemp production so that family farms can again flourish, an alternative to the burned-out corporate economy can arise in its place, and normal everyday people can go into business for themselves rather than selling themselves into corporate slavery. We could very easily accomplish all this, all while developing millions of jobs and new green industries to at least begin to replace oil-dependency and synthetic pharmaceuticals… and what’s so wrong about universal health care? What would Jesus do? At the very least, stop giving money to people who don’t know the value of a dollar and think they are worth more and entitled to more than they are, who have mismanaged the economy, and who have committed numerous and untold treasons and crimes against humanity for generations upon generations.

Bailing-out the banking industry is like reminding the thief who is robbing us blind to check under the floorboards!

We, the people, deserve so much more. It’s time to fight back ...a long time ago. I hope it’s not too late. We need a real leader with real changes in mind. Obama, so far, is just more of the ‘brand new’ ‘change’ that is really just more of the same old poop.

We, the people, are either part of the problem or part of the solution… which will it be, then? Maybe we should get off our asses and do some real democracy for a change?

Sincerely,

Still waiting for the big change… Not holding my breath…