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Mad as Hell. We are mad. We want to take our money away from the big banks and put it into small ones. We hate the bonuses. We are what our media says we are- a bunch of children. Yesterday we loved credit cards, free coffee in the lounges and subprime mortgages. Today we are 'mad as Hell' and the media fuels it.
About one trillion dollars had been spent so far in the Unholy Wars of ours since Y2001 and we are not mad. We do not want the money back, our kids back, their kids back. Our media trumpets support of the troops and Obama exempts the Pentagon from the spending freeze. After about 10 years of abuse of federal money the Homeland SS boondogle capitalizes on the 'crotch terrorist' and Joe Scarboro is amazed that poor kid was read his Miranda rights. No, Scarboro and his blondie lady do not want to tell us that their funding comes primarily from the Big Business; they are the 'voice of the people'.
What a pile of shit our media is, really.
America is a Big Business. The idea that somehow the community bank is 'better' than Bank of America is an illusion. Ferret is not better than a tiger- it just eats different prey. Big Business is the dream of the little one and all those mom/pop enterprizes exist only in the old movies. The credit, the network, the supply, the globalization, the dynamics- all of that comes from the Big Business as it should. So does the idea of the educated workforce, the idea of the unions ( yes, unions are the children of the Big Business), the idea of the middle class itself. All of that comes from the organized PARTICIPATORY CAPITALISM. That PARTICIPATORY moment is very important- it comes from the times when people did not seat on their asses but actively participated. No more. How are we different from the CEOs who receive bonuses for failures? Did we ask the questions? Did we challenge the govt when it used the 9/11 shit to open wars? Did we ask why the Bush's candidates to SCOTUS were the corporate lawyers and by far not the real judges? How did we treat those who said that our cars were shit, that our banks were not investing our money properly, that OUR economy was based on making the labor as cheap as possible? Hey, which of us became appaled that it was not quality but the cheap labor used as the source of our illusory wealth? How come we adopted the 'location' mantra and did not notice that our houses became less and less real houses but just houses of cards? We are mad as Hell? Look in the mirror and eat your checkers.
Until we have an alternative in the form of strong social structure, guarantees of the universal healthcare and very strong local participation in the way the federal money is distributed, until we, the citizens have a real power to regulate profit margins- Big Business remains the only organized force capable to support a professional, especially the one who wants to be highly compensated. Big Business, through its international ties, through its connections, through power, through influence PROTECTS its employees from the abuse by the numerous 'small ferrets', it replaces the social guarantees, it takes your money and makes it bigger, it prevents from the madness of our govts and cowardly politicos, it even inadvertenly makes it possible for the unions to exist (not that unions understand that). Try to imagine unions when mom/pop enterprises rule the US. Big Business had created a lot of very convenient tools. The reason it abuses them is in us- we cannot use them properly and we are 'mad' that big tigers get their prey? Wait until our dreams come true and a bunch of ferrets tear us apart.
You know, in one of the old plays the King speaks to the bunch of commoners who had just proclaimed the glorious Republic. He says:
- No matter how you call the state, you will still pay taxes and fees and if before you paid it to the Royalty now you will pay money to Herr Schulz. There will be a lot of those and they will take much more than we did because we were just one family. And you will be mad at them but it will be too late.
Folks, we, the commoners of the US must understand that we are being manipulated into total passivity with angry lashes. Please, do not pretend you are something by taking your money from one bank and putting it in another. Money of yours will not rise in value that way. Instead we need PARTICIPATION! We need our money to be solidly invested and we need to have our voice heard. We need to put our money to the good use! We need to stop wars. We need to punish thieves. We need to become citizens again and if some people do not know how to run the Big Business we need to find replacements. But for goodness sake, madness, anger do not help here. Power, perseverance, tenacity- yes. Madness -no. Next time when the media tells you that you are mad- spit at the TV. That would be the same as taking your meager money from one bank and putting in another. Spit at the TV and see what happens. Nothing, right? Then imagine that you control the funding of Joe Scarboro. That would be something.
