Beautiful Life

We live in difficult times, in a difficult country, with difficult people. In 2008, under the irresponsible right wing administration of W Bush, we suffered the great recession. It turned out that the US has become one large Ponzi scheme. The gambling, parasitic and arrogant financial sector has become 40% of the economy. This sector concentrates on super sophisticated gambling with other peoples' money; they produce nothing. They should be 4% of the economy.

Workers are as important as serial killers if they do not make tons of money. Education is useless, no jobs are available except patty flipping and educators are the newly established enemies of the people. Academic freedom has narrowed into the freedom to be right wing, otherwise schools will be cut, teachers fired or treated as stray dogs, and universities will be run like corporations with the ability, talent and arrogance of the huge class of failed CEOs.

It seems that the political system has taken lessons from an African dictator. Its main function is to enrich themselves and their supporters; reality has to be ignored if does not conform to the needs of their tribe. Climate change is not for them (no gain, just pain), we have enough oil to last us until the year 10,000. Since workers are garbage, they don’t deserve health care which is provided through non-existent market place tribal insurance companies. Abortions are illegal because the tribe decided so. Since workers are garbage, they don’t deserve social security; the tribe can use the trillions of the social trust slated for the garbage workers. Regulations are not needed since workers and their families are not needed. It is enough for the tribe with its handful billionaires to have only a handful of workers.

The role of the media, like in good old days of Stalin and Mugabe, is to serve the needs of the tribe. Naturally, the tribe is aware of occasional outbreaks of workers thankless and unjustified unrest as is in Wisconsin. Dealing with the unrest is particularly difficult, the tribe sends it storm troopers to repel the workers and the tribe judges, of which there are way too many, to choke legal objections raised by workers. The media, mimicking in astonishing precision Stalin’s and Bashar Assad’s media horns, simply ignore Wisconsin and similar events. For the farmer in Iowa, the construction worker in New Mexico or the retired New Yorker in Florida, there is no unrest; there is no violation of civil rights of workers. Peace on earth.

The tribe, which is heavily subsidized by the government, is terminally on the hunt for more, more, more. Social security and Medicare have targets of looting for decades, but now stated such Michigan and Wisconsin have “discovered” the availability of state resources that be overtaken by the tribe. Walker in Wisconsin wants to privatize government. Gov. Rick Snyder in Michigan has been radically restructuring his state after being empowered by a new law that allowed him to unilaterally abrogate contracts made by local governments. Snyder has been using this form of “financial martial law” to do things like dispatch an “emergency financial manager” to Detroit who promptly laid off every single one of the city’s teachers.

The tribe already owns the presidency, the government and congress. It dictates fiscal policy and transfers of money to itself. It raised the specter of immediate collapse if they don’t get to control Social security and eliminate Medicare. It also demands the practical elimination of taxes on the tribe. The latter makes a lot of sense; isn’t it simply a shard for the government to give to the tribe with one hand and take some of it b back with another? But now the tribe wants to own the taxes paid in each state, all the structures, lands, pension funds and what have you.

You cannot blame the tribe; no one except the unions stands in their way. Did people stop watching CNN after it ignored Wisconsin? Didn’t the people vote in the midterm election for the biggest supporters of the tribe? Didn’t progressives support, elevate, admire and elect the tribe’s candidate for president in 2008?