please allow me to rant.
i was watching tv again and i think i've seen more than 20 commercials for the movie "get righ or die trying", followed by a news story about the guy who sued to get "one nation under god" taken out of the pledge of allegiance and is now on a crusade to have "in god we trust" taken off the currency (which it was about 50 years ago...) and it made me think. let's make everyone happy, let's take "in god we trust" off the currency and replace it with the new american motto "get rich or die trying". in fact, i'd even be happy to se 50 cent's smiling gold tooth on the $100 bill, because i'm sure Ben Franklin would be pretty disgusted with what happened to the utopia full of promise that he had envision so many $100s of years ago.
i really think it would work. it's completely true. he who dies with the most toys wins. everyone is suckered into it. if you're not at the top of the food chain, you're a failure and as the economic divide grows larger and the middle class begins to disappear either up or down, our one party political system is going to help insure that if you're not rich, you'll die trying. crime will go up, the walled suburban sprawl will get MORE armed guards, cities will become bigger cess pools, people will buy more range rovers, criminals will buy more illegal guns, public schools will turn into war zones and grades will go down, america will have lower testing scores than romania, and the few private schools left will charge $30,000 a year and groom kids to become the new elite. maybe that's a bit severe, maybe it won't happen over night, but it's almost like we're going back to the socio-politcal atmosphere of the industrial revolution.
SPRAWL*MART who routinely bankrupts smaller businesses that have been supplying the community with goods for generations, ends up rehiring the business owner, paying him minimum wage, making him work a 29 hour week and giving him no benefits, while sam walton (the nice guy millionaire hero) goes hunting with golden buckshot. pretty soon there will be 3 hardware stores, 3 electronics stores, 3 or 4 restaurants, 3 grocery stores, and they'll all be owned by one mammoth conglomerate trillion dollar merger super corporation that basically will own every politician in the country. fine, maybe that's exaggeration, but if you are curious what it COULD be like, go play the Rockstar game "state of emergency" and you'll understand how lovely life COULD be.
i don't know. there's really nothing i can do more than rant. i can't vote for a politician that'll make any change because they never get more than 5% of the vote. I can't join a group that's against the policies of this country because i'll be branded a terrorist and sent to guantanamo under the patriot act (soooooo ironic that particular prison is on Cuba...) and even bitching in this blog could get me on a government political dissident list. it's beyond frustrating. it's beyond sad. it's our future. the revolution is dead.
-welcome to WAL*MART, i'm brian, can i get your a cart or basket? we have a special on guns with one bullet today, perhaps you could find it in your heart to buy me one. i can't afford it, i have to spend my paycheck on gas...
