and gambling your mortgage money in order to lose it
so he could hollow out the United States Treasury,
and claim that unless Congress would meet his ransom demands,
he'd pull the plug on the American economy.
Richie also bought the prisons and the healthcare system.
He's got his eye on making schools for-profit, too.
He let the infrastructure rot and killed off the unions.
Now he wants to take Medicare and Social Security from you.
He hides his ill-gotten gains in the Bahamas
and refuses to pay his fair share of the taxes.
He bought all our "representatives" in Congress,
so the American Dream's just one more of his assets.
How much more of this sh*t are you willing to take?
Immigrants and minorities are Richie's tools, too.
He wants us all clawing at each other's throats
and the tool Richie uses is you.
Richie Rich bought off your parents off real cheap.
The New Deal made it seem that they had a chance,
not to live a life of luxury like Richie,
but for you to move up to the Middle Class.
But no sooner than Richie Roosevelt
had signed the New Deal into fact,
the rest of Richie Rich's financial gang
started taking the social safety net back.
By the 70s Japan and the European countries,
almost wiped out economically in World War II,
roared back to challenge American economic supremacy,
but the Chicago School boys knew just what to do.
They ran a hack actor, Ronnie Ray Gun,
who gunned down our right to bargain with the boss,
cut taxes on the members of Richie's crew,
even convinced us it wouldn't cause us any losses.
Clinton rammed NAFTA down American workers' throats
and let outsourcing and offshoring accelerate.
He signed off on the deregulation of insurance and banks,
which created the financial meltdown we're in the midst of today.
Dubya was so smug he rubbed our noses in it
and people started to see the picture all too clearly,
so Richie Rich replaced him with Barack Obama,
like a change in color would change Richie's policy.
Richie's crew makes up both political parties.
and they don't give a sh*t about religion or color,
but they hope that you do, so you'll keep being the tool
they can use to keep themselves firmly in power.
The rich know a thing or two about solidarity.
They know it's important for them to stick together.
They sure as hell all stand up against the rest of us
in a Richie Rich corporate collective.
If this sounds a little bit like a union, it is.
And that's exactly why they don't want you to join one.
They don't want us together at the bargaining table.
They want their union to take us on one-by-one.
The ball's in your court. There is no free lunch.
Democracy's no spectator sport. You have to participate.
Shut off the TV. Or better yet toss it out.
It's a drug, and Richie bought the news media anyway.
When you attack other workers - any other workers -
it just goes to make Richie richer, fool.
He makes money convincing you his interests are yours
and gets you to fight his fights while he's pissing on you.
Your problem's the guy with his boot on your neck,
not the guy pinned by Richie's other boot.
The Rich stick together to stick it to you.
Get together. Stand up. Join the union.
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