Down With the Corporate Oligarchy
**Warning: There is some potentially thought provoking
material here. It might even offend you. Enjoy the experience**
There
has been a revolution brewing and I hope to whatever Gods give a fuck that it
doesn’t fizzle out and die. This revolution has been brewing for the last few
years and I fully support it in the ways that I can. My health hasn’t been the
best and I am financially unable to make it to any of the areas that the
protests are being held, but I can blog, and I can re-post and spread the word.
This revolution and movement is the Occupy Wall Street and Day of Rage
movement.
Here
are some links for you to check out:
I have
looked through the mainstream news media to try to find coverage of this event.
There isn’t much at all online when I look through the search engines and
nothing that I have seen when I skim the news channels, not that I have been
watching much the last few days with this lovely migraine that has had me in its
clutches (I’m not dead yet, really!).
Now,
what, exactly are they protesting? I hope you looked through the we are the 99
percent site. I know many people who fit those descriptions. I am not in as
dire straits as some, in fact, at the moment, through the grace of the Universe,
I am actually financially stable. I have friends who are not as fortunate, and
if truth be told, my financial stability is exceedingly fragile. If either my
husband or I lose our jobs, or if I become completely unable to work, instead
of just half- fucked up like I am now through these migraines, we will start
*another* downward spiral. We are nearing a time when the safety net called “Daddy”
won’t be there (He is nearing retirement and will need to take care of his own
shit, too, you know) to catch us if we fall. After all, we can’t depend on the
social safety net. It’s being cut as we live and breathe.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-debt-talks-obama-offers-social-security-cuts/2011/07/06/gIQA2sFO1H_story.html
Why?
Because
people who think they will get rich someday don’t want to get taxed for it.
They are fed the lies that they will get super stupid fucking rich one day and
they want to be able to keep every dime they earn and make it grow while they
sprinkle the blood of the babies of the poor workers that they used up to get
that money to make even more fucking money. The government was supposed to
serve and protect the people. Instead, it has become a tool for the corporate
oligarchy.
Why are
the people protesting?
Why are
they mad?
Why
aren’t they listening to the lines that the television is spoonfeeding them?
(except for, maybe, you know, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, and Steven Colbert)
Everyone,
even those of us who aren’t currently spiraling down and about to be out on the
street should be super fucking furious with our government and Wallstreet. Do
you know why? At the start of the bursting of the housing bubble, when we
bailed out the banks UNDER BUSH and then again UNDER OBAMA, we were using
GOVERNMENT MONEY (read: tax funds, paid for largely by the middle class and
small business, you know, people who actually pay their fucking taxes). This
was done without the banks having to ever have to pay them back or be under
further legislation.
Wait.
What
the fuck? WHAT THE FUCK?
Why did
we get into this financial crisis to begin with? Sure. People were buying
houses that they couldn’t afford. Why were they doing that? Because they were
getting approved for loans that they shouldn’t have. Why? BECAUSE THE PROCESS WASN’T
BEING REGULATED PROPERLY!
Oh, and
if you’re thinking about voting Republitard (Sorry to all my Republican leaning
friends, but the field of politicians of that stripe all look like that to me
right now…), check this shit out:
Hell, just watch any of the debates. What I have seen makes
me sick. I can only be glad that we are lucky that one of us has a job that has
insurance coverage. If not, I don’t want to think about the medical bills we
would be having right now. And if the Republitards get *back* into office, they
will continue to strip away all of our social programs and leave us with nothing.
We will continue this backslide into becoming a third world country.
Then,
all the jobs will come back, because we will be more than happy to work for
pennies a day.
If you
think the Democrat pussies are any better, I am sorry to say that I think you
are wrong. I thought we elected someone who would help change what was
happening. All I see is someone is who Right of Reagan, and news flash, buddy:
Trickle Down Theory doesn’t fucking work.
All of
these politicians are paid by the corporations on Wallstreet (and other
Streets). They do their corporate master’s bidding. They all suck on the dick
of the corporate devils. Sure, corporations are people too, right? Wrong. They
are businesses. Business are made up of people. People are born (or hopefully
in the future decanted so, you know, it’s safer for the female *and* the fetus,
but that’s another, separate rant), not drawn up by lawyers.
Why are
these people protesting? Why should we all be protesting and supporting these
people?
Because
these corporations are taking our money and not giving it back (paying taxes
like any other “person” or business), despite booming profits. They are taking
our money and sending all the jobs that they were supposed to give us,
overseas. They are taking our money, our
future, and our hope and paying off our politicians to convince us we are
really happy. They are taking our money and then giving us the circuses and are
lobbying to take away the bread, too.
Everyone
should spread the word.
Don’t
let this protest die.
We
elected for change, it didn’t come. Let’s force the Change to happen ourselves,
the way we should have done in the first place.
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