Tuesday, April 04, 2006

a pointless observation

Have you noticed the way that eighty-five percent of us make the goods, purchase the goods, and elect (or more often than not, passively observe the election of) the officials entrusted with the oversight of the manufacture and distributin of goods (the business of america, good old Ronald Reagan pointed out, is business)? And yet who feels like they're in control? Who's in charge at your job: you or your bosses? Are your politicians, even the ones you voted for, doing what you hoped they would? Do you control the quality of the goods you get? Do you ever feel fucked over by a transaction you're involved in? Are you satisfied with the means of recourse you are supplied with when this situation occurs? How much control do you feel like you have on interest rates? How much control do you exert over the stock market? If you've ever been layed off, chances are you were sacrificed on the altar of Shareholder Value. Do you have any idea what that means? Nearly every time politicians propose a tax cut, they try to sneak a capital gains cut proposal in too. Have you ever experienced a "capital gain?" Do you know what a capital gain is?

I'm sorry, it's pointless to go on, but if you want to paint yourself a revolutionary, you better get used to this sad rap. Y'all are so damn stupid it just makes my head spin.

klik if you demand tedious explanations of every little thing.

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