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so… big business is going to be saved…

with all kinds of caveats to “satisfy” the voter…

wouldn’t “pacify” be a better word…?

In 1993 the US, after months of wrangling, defeated the Clinton Health Care Plan (pseudo universal health care) that would have cost the American’s MAYBE 400 billion dollars over 10 years.

In one week in 2008 the American government will hand 700 billion dollars over to big business.

700 billion dollars to keep CEOs in their yachts and investors in their Lambourginis…

Are American dirt farmers going to be bailed out when they can’t pay their loans?

Will Mom & Pop stores be bailed out when Wal-Mart opens next to them?

When little Johnny, 4 year old son of an inner city single black woman, needs immediate and expensive health care to live, will he be saved? Will his mother be “bailed-out”?

If no one as yet has seen why or how the US is completely fucked up, then they have now… or they will never see because they don’t want to.

The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans, data in a new report by the Congressional Budget Office shows.

The poorest fifth of households had total income of $383.4 billion in 2005, while just the increase in income for the top 1 percent came to $524.8 billion, a figure 37 percent higher.

Source: New York Times

yeah… so…!

let’s say the US population is 350 million

1%, the rich, of that would be 3.5 million
20%, the poorest of the poor, would be 70 million

3.5 million people share $534.8 billion dollars
70 million people share $383.4 billion

I mean, if we average the income of a person in the 1% bracket we ONLY get ~$152800

wow… that doesn’t seem like much, does it…?

yes, a person can be quite comfortable living on $150K a year, couldn’t they… but I mean that’s not excessive or anything…

so, bully for the rich who aren’t really all that rich… and for shame on the detractors… for shame on the socialists and the anti-capitalists…

false-hoods, tilted facts, propaganda, fear mongering, greed and jealousy is rife in ALL their campaigns!!

I mean, even the poor are getting $383 BILLION dollars…

read it again!

BILLION

come on… EVERY American is rich!!

sheesh… that means on average a US citizen in the bottom 20% income demographic makes a whopping…

well, let’s see…

$383.4 billion divided by 70 million people would be…

umm…

errrr…

oh..

$5477

well…

that doesn’t mean anything!

I’m sure if you found out all the money THOSE people make selling drugs, selling their bodies and stealing from us, which DOESN’T go reported, they’d be much higher… probably higher than the 1%!!

and frankly… with people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and the Google twins adding to the top 1% of income, I’m sure the total income made is substantially lower… they slew the data!

this doesn’t mean anything!

Statistics can be made to say anything

the New York Times is a liberal news paper with a Communist agenda anyway…

Fox News never covered this!!

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;-D  fucking capitalism!

BBC NEWS | Business | Cash rescue plan helps rates fall

This was a case of the most disgusting pandering to the business community and the wealthy I’ve seen in years…

These people and their money fucked up, people…

let them fall…

no, we can’t have that though because the poor and middle-class would get screwed because of it…

and why is that important?

not because they care… it’s because they don’t want the poor and the middle-class to learn exactly what is happening behind the scenes…

imagine… presidents of banks that go bankrupt and lose people’s cash…

they’ll be on their yachts and travelling to Fiji by the end of the week… while millions of people are now homeless and living on the streets…

can you imagine the upswell of rage that would create…

one bank is fine… one Enron is fine… only a limited and manageable number of peasants will be anally fucked by that…

but if the banks and businesses of the world that SHOULD fall because of what they’ve done actually fold, then there would be millions of people bending over to grab their ankles…

that could present a slight problem…

this is corporate welfare… this is cronyism… this is patronage… this is capitalist oppression of the weak and disadvantaged…

can’t people fucking understand that?

please, stop thinking about how you can afford that 32″ flat panel TV and start thinking about how these people can afford to put a 50″ flat panel plasma in the guest room closet on their yacht!!!

Dear zombie Jesus, fucking open your eyes people!!!

Gold shit

I hate fucking Americans and the people of the world that pander to this kind of obscenity…

fucking sick, sick, sick mother-fuckers!

autosarcophagy: is the practice of eating oneself; self-cannibalism

BBC Report on French Strikes

Polls keep saying that the french public agrees with Sarkozy wanting to reform (ie. Newspeak for cut) pensions for certain segments of the public services… most notably transportation workers…

but let’s face facts here… today’s politicians and business executives enjoy post employment benefits that would make Lincoln and the Rockerfeller’s shudder…

yet the public never raises the political will to try and curb those obscenities…

so what do we have… politicians and the business elite coordinating media attacks on one of the few groups in the lower ranks of society that have a marginally nice future for post employment…

the media attacks bring to a boil the common man’s seemingly innate jealousy of each other and absolute rage that “one of their own” maybe getting something they don’t…

oh… the politicians and business men are out of reach… untouchable… and more than a few would say deserving… so, we can’t go there now can we?

so let’s fuck over our neighbour cause he’s got a 24″ TV while I have to make due with a 22″…

I mean… just who the fuck do they think they are… uppity, that’s what they are!!

When the majority of the public sides with politicans and business interests against a subset of their own population you can make NO mistake… its rampant jealousy and mankind’s innate pettiness and penchant for cruelty…

to me, this situation personifies the current thinking of the “common man” in the west these days… it’s sickening, disheartening and makes me want to move to Thailand and crawl into a monastery there and say “fuck you” to the world…

humanity is eating itself at the behest of capitalism and power… doing it willingly and asking for ketchup and mustard on the side!

yum yum…  :-(

I’m not saying no one should do business in Nuremburg… I’m not… it’s the past… and it’s best left behind…

but it’s still somehow funny that McDonald’s and Starbucks have places overlooking the Hauptmarkt (Market Place) where the early Nazi rallies were held and Burger King is opening (or has opened) a restaurant in the former Umspannwerk transformer building that powered the later Reichsparteitagsgelände (parade grounds).

fishy? well, maybe the Filet-O-Fish sandwichis … but likely not more than that…

but still… veddy veddy interezting…  ;-)

Apple sold 525,000 iPhones over it’s initial weekend. *Source (BBC)

Let’s tabulate that, shall we.

The iPhone comes in two flavours depending upon size of storage space on the phone, the smaller version costs $599, the larger $699.

That price comes at the expense of a 2 year contract with AT&T that locks the user into, at minimum, a $60 a month phone bill.

So, taking the least values, 525 thousand phones at $599 comes to:

$314,475,000.00

for the hardware.

And increases AT&T’s monthly income by:

$31,500,000.00

This was accomplished in one weekend!

Would I be breaking precedent and public fawning for this product by saying that this is fucking sick.

People are fucking sheep.