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Old 03-01-2008, 02:58 AM   #61 (permalink)
Tully Mars
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Originally Posted by pan6467
PowerClown, while I used to agree with all that, it ain't so anymore.

Our sports are corrupt, our entertainers are screwed up in the head and these people make more in a lifetime than teachers, cops, people who truly better society will make in 50 lifetimes.

Life isn't fair, true, but we have such gaps between the haves and have nots that it is pathetic and truly dangerous. We have people who have worked hard all their lives and because of medical, ARMS, student loans, outsourcing, temp services and so on, they lose it all. And the saddest part is the people who are next to lose keep saying, "well those who have lost made poor decisions...it's all their fault... blah blah blah".

Meanwhile, the CEO's keep making more in one day than 90% of their workers combined will in 1 year. They have care only about more and more. Now we have to ask why.

Why are these CEO's stockpiling their monies? Why are these men building fortresses for homes? Why do they feel the need to buy private islands, own 100's of acres and have armed guards? Because they know eventually the workers will revolt.

In order to keep from a revolution, we need to make sure people make barely enough to live so they can't afford to care enough to revolt, prevent them from organizing by making them all hate each other (racisms, partisanship, paranoia, etc) and feed them pablum news items... did you hear the latest on Britney, Bengelina, Clemens, etc... while issues such as the government and waterboarding, the Patriot Act, the war... etc become little blurb news items that no one pays attention to.

Except for a few sports items and the capture of Hussein.... what picture there represents what's best about the country in the last 25 years?

A space program that is in shambles and soon will have no program to send men up for at minimum 10 years while they build the "new" ships.

Industries that have left communities and states near bankruptcy as hey ship jobs overseas?

A government no longer by the people, for the people but controlled by corporate/foreign/ whack job extremist lobbyists?

We have had enough. We the people need to get right what is wrong and find those who will make it happen and cast out those who say "nothing is wrong, the people losing everything... it''s their own damn faults not ours, not big business, not governments.....

meanwhile:

for every person losing a job that tax money is lost.... who do you think makes up the loss?

as people lose more and more and people get paid less and less.... what do you think their kids see?

crime increases as economies falter, drug use increases, discontent, violence and so on all keep increasing.

Those who say nothing is wrong are far far removed from the streets and the communities where the discontent is growing. First it hits the "bad" areas, but eventually and that time is approaching very fast where these people decide to start going after the haves....(hence he fortress homes, the homes overseas, the 100's of acres with armed guards that are small militaries).

The time is coming fast... you can feel it, smell it, see it and know it deep down. And the people who keep saying, "it's not my problem... it's all theirs..." who have bought into the propaganda from the very wealthy and believe that nothing will ever happen to them because they are smart..... will be the ones the rich men they protected throw to the wolves first. And when those protectionists are gone.... the rich will acquiesce and make concessions to restore the peace.

It happens in every revolution and every uprising... the Romans formed European royal families and the Holy Roman Catholic Church after the troops they had built from conquered city states failed, the British sent Hessians over and surrendered when the Hessians from Germany stopped coming to their aid, the French nobles that controlled Louis were in Prague and other parts of Europe before the revolution because they saw it coming, same with the Romanov family from Russia, the USSR communists just changed parties and said "ok, freedoms" and so on and so on.

Those in power and with the money, do not give it up until those they fool into believing that they too will have power, lose.

Pessimistic? Perhaps. But the time is coming soon, again we all can feel something big is going to happen..... the question is what are you willing to do to stop it NOW before it gets that far?

Then again..... PowerClown.... it could just be we all lack Ghoul Power and the magic of Froggy.
Least you got it, I thought someone put the wrong mushrooms on his salad last night. Also got many of the lyrics wrong. I mean come on it's "Bohemian Rhapsody." It was in "Waynes World," it's a classic, get it right.


I pretty much agree with you on all points. Except I think the fat cats are building bigger houses and more stuff to show off to other fat cats, again with the "never is enough" club. They're not worried about any revolt, the US population has been beaten down so long they'll accept anything at this point. I heard a congress women from some upper mid west state bragging about the workers in her district. She said (something like) "We're really proud of our work ethic up here, most people are working two job and some even three! And she said that like it was a good thing. Hey dumb ass- people are working two and three jobs because your economy SUCKS ASS!

People are too busy feeding their families to revolt against anything or any one.
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