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If you support the "war over there" you also support the war over here.
"What war over here?" you might ask?
The war against you and me, my friend. The war against the American worker. You know, the "little people." The bottom 98% of American citizens--the ones who get up every day and go to work, and strive to get by from month to month and paycheck to paycheck.
"How so?" you might ask (though this phrase is probably more like something I would say than something YOU would say).
Well, let me explain. While many American corporations are downsizing and exporting American jobs, the executives of these corporations are giving themselves huge pay raises, expanded perks, and golden parachutes totalling more money than you will EVER see, even if you never spent a dime on such frivolities as rent, car payments, utility bills, or the occasional night out with a spouse or significant other. While they are dismantling worker pensions as if they might provide the foundation for terrorists attacks on our soil, they're making sure that, should their business ever tank, they'll never want for anything. And their children should never want for anything.
They don't give a rat's ass if you have enough money to pay your rent, or your utilities. If you have to take a second job to make ends meet, or work 12 to 16 hours a day and never get to see your families. Not their problem.
And what's worse is that this administration is giving these corporations tax breaks--which amounts to stealing money from YOUR WALLET, in order to do these things. This Republican administration, and the Republican controlled congress, is willfully stealing money from your wallet, food from your kids' mouths, and putting ALL OF US deep in debt, in order to give that money to a select few who damn well don't deserve it.
And before you scream "class warfare" as Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity have trained you to do, stop and consider for a moment. Do you really think it's wise, or responsible, for our government to borrow billions of dollars a day from Red China to pay for its excesses? No? Well, that's what it's doing.
It's borrowing that money and expecting YOU and your children, and your children's children, and your children's children's children to pay it back. Your vaunted "tax break" is really a tax deferrment--money that your descendents will have to repay.
If you're hoping you will somehow rise above it, that this "land of opportunity" will provide you the means with which to rise above this debt, as the top two percent are above it now, let me make one thing perfectly clear.
They don't want you. They aren't going to squeeze themselves over to allow you to climb up beside them. They're at the top, and as soon as it looks as though you may have a chance, they'll cut you down like a rabid dog.
There's no room at the top for the likes of you and me. If you've ever strapped on a tool belt, or punched a clock, they're not going to want you smelling up their garden. And they will do what they can to make sure your children won't be included either.
How so? Well, look at tuition rates. Look at financial aid cutbacks. The days of someone working his or her (as if) way up from the bottom are long over. You might, if you're lucky, make it to middle management... but you know what the bean-counters consider middle management? Ultimately expendable. Middle management is just there to throw to the wolves when profits dip. Only the tiniest fraction of those who make it that far will EVER climb any higher.
So, yeah, if you support the war, and support this administration, I'll let you in on a little secret. They sure AS FUCK don't support you. They don't give a damn whether you live or die. And that goes for your kids as well. There are 290 million more where you came from...and if that's a problem, well, there are even more millions waiting across the border willing to work for a damn site lower wage than you'd tolerate. Teach Juan or Jose a little English, give him a clip-on tie and a pair of black slacks, and he could do your job.
Or, better yet, they could just outsource the whole kit and kaboodle. To Mexico. To India. To China. What's it matter, as long as those at the top keep raking in the big bucks?
Yeah, it's class warfare, dammit. But THEY fired the first salvo. And you can either choose to fire back or you can surrender. If you surrender, they'll bury you. And never shed a tear. They'll send your kids, who joined up to get their college tuition taken care of, to some place far away to fight and die, and never shed a tear for them either.
You know it's true.
You just don't want to think about it.
Well, dammit, THINK ABOUT IT!!!
If left to their own devices, the Captains of Industry would've had you working 16 hours a day, 6 days a week, for as little as they could manage. And had your 10 year old kid working alongside you for half your paltry wage.
But hundreds, if not thousands, fought and died to give you the rights and privileges you now take for granted. Fair pay. Worker's compensation. Safe working conditions. And how do you and your kind repay them? You take it all for granted, and refuse to lift a finger to protect what they earned for you.
You want security? Stop feeding the monster. It will steal everything from you, then laugh as you lay there in the gutter. It will give your job to Jose, or Habib, refuse you even the option of bankruptcy, then foreclose on your home while you're struggling.
That's what they do.
And you'll have LET THEM do it.
If you don't vote, or vote Republican, these are the things you're asking them to do. And even if you're not (and the point is arguable), it's what they're going to do anyway.
Bank on it.
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