"Any way you look at it, bundling subprime loans into triple-A rated investments is a perpetrated fraud."
"You know it, I know it, and they know it. What does that tell you?"
"Congress is busy dividing the nation's spoils among the rich and powerful while few jobs are being created at income levels capable of supporting a working class family. The working class is characterized as coarse, lazy, and vulgar, deserving of their plight."
"Don't forget the supreme court. They declared money is speech and corporations are people. The first amendment now guarantees that multinational corporations can influence and possibly control elections in the United States. Otherwise, their right to freedom of speech would be violated."
"That's the end of the American dream. It's over."
"You know why they call it a dream, don't you?"
"You need to be asleep to believe it."
"That's from George Carlin's last standup routine, where he tells the audience to cut through the bullshit and enjoy the carnival."
"What else can you do?"
"Get a job?"
"Where, in China?"
"Not unless you speak Mandarin and over a dozen different dialects, some of which are mutually unintelligible."
"Maybe India, South Korea or Japan? Mexico, Panama, or Brazil?"
"You'll need to speak the language where ever you go."
"How come they didn't teach us this in school?"
"They tried. You weren't listening."
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Yes yes yes!
"How come they didn't teach us this in school?"
"They tried. You weren't listening."
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Hi, Roberto. Thanks. It's not very poetical but it is overtly political.
I like the voice, J Mykell.
"You need to be asleep to believe it."
"That's from George Carlin's last standup routine, where he tells the audience to cut through the bullshit and enjoy the carnival."
"What else can you do?"
Yes.
Hi, Sam. Thanks. Yes, I'm hearing voices. The landscape isn't clear, could be anywhere.
Hi J, the landscape is America. That feels very clear.
Hi, Roberto. Yes, anywhere in the United States, specifically, with the declining public education system populated by students distracted by pop culture illusions instead of paying attention to the future course of the world and the other people in the world.
Good piece, JMC, tweeted & noticed this at Letras Caseras this morning where it looks GOOD, congrats.
Hi, Marcus. Thanks for reading and commenting. I appreciate greatly.
This. Is. Good. I'm reminded of 'Lies My Teacher Told Me'.
I hear it's even tough to get a job in China these days...:) I liked this, J.
Hi sean. Thanks for reading and commenting. 'Lies My Teacher Told Me:' glad you mentioned this.
Hi, Kim. Thanks for reading and commenting. Yes, China has a surplus of workers, too. We need a whole new approach to the world's economic order.