Post by Just Punyon on Dec 1, 2011 19:29:01 GMT -8
(This is an adeptation of a response to a friend of mine. He said that he has absolutely nothing to hide from the Government, and that the solution to our financial woes is to expand your skillset and get a second job. I've removed personal information and some irrelevent commentary.)
Before I say anything else, watch this video. I don't know if you've seen it before, but this is what's going on in our society and Government as opposed to what our leaders are saying:
You have nothing to hide? So that means you don't mind if the government looks at anything on your computer, what kind of porn you like, Government psych-docs analyzing every piece of weird roleplay you've ever done? How about your medical records? Ever gotten sick with something or developed some embarrassing medical condition you'd rather people not know about? Any evidence of genetic abnormalities in your family that the Government doctors might find interesting? What about your personal thoughts? Do you want the Government to know any time you say a discouraging word about an elected official or just someone you generally don't like? What do you think they're going to do with this information? What if you decide to do something they don't approve of?
I know a lot of people on SSI and GAU who legitimately are in need of it. Yeah, there are those out there that abuse the system, but the solution to that isn't to defund the fucking thing, it's to improve the infrastructure and provide better oversight so the fakers get caught more often and the legitimately sick and disabled people have better access to what they need in order to live any kind of productive life. And many of them DO have to find ways to supplement their incomes and still be productive members of society.
So what do you do when the options are to take out a loan or watch your kids go without stuff they need? How does a second job and delayed paycheck that comes with it help your immediate need for food, utilities, and shelter? And what if you did plan ahead, but your kids or your wife got sick and the medical bills drained your savings faster than you anticipated, and that's why you need a loan? Especially in the years leading up to the crashing economy, things were getting progressively worse. The hard right perspective ignores circumstances like these when they say "should have planned better." Can you plan for getting hit by a car? For getting sick with a serious disease? Hell, even just getting the flu can set you back a couple hundred bucks just to see a doctor and get meds, so you CAN go back to work.
Furthermore, why should having to do the work of multiple people be something to aspire to? Go seriously read and watch some of the articles and videos I post on my page. Even if you don't agree with the viewpoint being taken, listen to the facts they present and go research it yourself. There has been MASSIVE amounts of fraud and crony capitalism at a Federal level, and it's costing EVERYONE who's not a part of their elite club. That means YOU, dude. YOU are paying for the trillions of dollars that the Fed fucking GAVE AWAY to bankers and billionares. This isn't left-wing propaganda, CNN is fucking covering this shit. They found this in an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT AUDIT, that the people behind the Fed even tried to block. Do you enjoy breaking your body and mind so that corporate billionares can make some extra profits and sit on THEIR asses all day, not doing shit? Because that's what's fucking happening, dude. The richest goddamn people in this country, not content with the billions the've already GOT, want to make even MORE money at YOUR expense. They want YOU to work harder and harder for less and less when they've already got more wealth than they could ever concievably use.
Does that seem right to you? Is that the kind of world you want to live in? I know you're smarter than that. You're smart enough to recognize when you're getting FUCKED. Even if you don't like dirty, smelly hippies, even if you think the protesters are a bunch of left-wing anarchists, you have to recognize that when you take away all the spin, their underlying message is sound. They're pissed off BECAUSE people like you have to work twice as hard for a system they wholeheartedly believe in and still end up getting screwed over. They're upset BECAUSE poor people trying to feed their families got so desperate that they took out shitty financial loans and ended up even more destitute and desperate.
One in three Americans are at or below the poverty line. You really think 1/3rd of this Country just aren't working hard enough? This isn't about toppling Capitalism and installing a socialist government that will tell you you're not a special snowflake; it's about FIXING the broken parts of the system. I love that I can choose the way I live in this country, and say what I want, and work a job that I love for a fair wage. I have great respect for everyone who believes in it too, even if I don't agree with them all the time. This Country was FORGED on an act of felony disobedience to England, and the Constitution and Decleration reflect this right to action when the people feel the Government is being unjust. Even if you don't agree with the protesters, you gotta admit that it's REALLY fucked up when dudes in riot gear are pepper spraying innocent people for committing misdemeanor offenses. Yes, we've seen this before, in the 60's, and it was no less decried as wrong back then as it is now.
Don't the First Amendment rights of the population matter more than some "illegal camping" (as opposed to the legal kind, like outside of stores on Black Friday)? Aren't the rights of the people who have something against the Establishment just as protected as your right to say "get a job, you fucking hippie?" Would you appreciate it if you got pepper sprayed for saying what's on your mind in public?
This isn't about "lefto-commie-liberal-socialism", any more than it's about "crypto-facist-right-wing-Neo-Nazism". This is about all that crap that people from all sides of the socioeconomic and political specturm have been fucking warning us about in regards to the Bankers for CENTURIES actually being true. The banking system has corrupted the Government, and it's oppressing it's citizens who speak out against it. That's what third-world dictators do to their people. That's the reason we send troops INTO countries. When our Government denies it's own citzens the rights it claims we're supporting in other countries, what does that make us?
It's wrong. It's fucking unAmerican. And it's not the way that it's supposed to be, by the very Precepts this country was founded on. The super-rich should not be prospering at the expense of the poorest. That's not the American Dream. But that's
what's happening.
And it's
Not.
Fucking.
Right.
I don't get how you can support a government that does this to it's citizens.
Before I say anything else, watch this video. I don't know if you've seen it before, but this is what's going on in our society and Government as opposed to what our leaders are saying:
You have nothing to hide? So that means you don't mind if the government looks at anything on your computer, what kind of porn you like, Government psych-docs analyzing every piece of weird roleplay you've ever done? How about your medical records? Ever gotten sick with something or developed some embarrassing medical condition you'd rather people not know about? Any evidence of genetic abnormalities in your family that the Government doctors might find interesting? What about your personal thoughts? Do you want the Government to know any time you say a discouraging word about an elected official or just someone you generally don't like? What do you think they're going to do with this information? What if you decide to do something they don't approve of?
I know a lot of people on SSI and GAU who legitimately are in need of it. Yeah, there are those out there that abuse the system, but the solution to that isn't to defund the fucking thing, it's to improve the infrastructure and provide better oversight so the fakers get caught more often and the legitimately sick and disabled people have better access to what they need in order to live any kind of productive life. And many of them DO have to find ways to supplement their incomes and still be productive members of society.
So what do you do when the options are to take out a loan or watch your kids go without stuff they need? How does a second job and delayed paycheck that comes with it help your immediate need for food, utilities, and shelter? And what if you did plan ahead, but your kids or your wife got sick and the medical bills drained your savings faster than you anticipated, and that's why you need a loan? Especially in the years leading up to the crashing economy, things were getting progressively worse. The hard right perspective ignores circumstances like these when they say "should have planned better." Can you plan for getting hit by a car? For getting sick with a serious disease? Hell, even just getting the flu can set you back a couple hundred bucks just to see a doctor and get meds, so you CAN go back to work.
Furthermore, why should having to do the work of multiple people be something to aspire to? Go seriously read and watch some of the articles and videos I post on my page. Even if you don't agree with the viewpoint being taken, listen to the facts they present and go research it yourself. There has been MASSIVE amounts of fraud and crony capitalism at a Federal level, and it's costing EVERYONE who's not a part of their elite club. That means YOU, dude. YOU are paying for the trillions of dollars that the Fed fucking GAVE AWAY to bankers and billionares. This isn't left-wing propaganda, CNN is fucking covering this shit. They found this in an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT AUDIT, that the people behind the Fed even tried to block. Do you enjoy breaking your body and mind so that corporate billionares can make some extra profits and sit on THEIR asses all day, not doing shit? Because that's what's fucking happening, dude. The richest goddamn people in this country, not content with the billions the've already GOT, want to make even MORE money at YOUR expense. They want YOU to work harder and harder for less and less when they've already got more wealth than they could ever concievably use.
Does that seem right to you? Is that the kind of world you want to live in? I know you're smarter than that. You're smart enough to recognize when you're getting FUCKED. Even if you don't like dirty, smelly hippies, even if you think the protesters are a bunch of left-wing anarchists, you have to recognize that when you take away all the spin, their underlying message is sound. They're pissed off BECAUSE people like you have to work twice as hard for a system they wholeheartedly believe in and still end up getting screwed over. They're upset BECAUSE poor people trying to feed their families got so desperate that they took out shitty financial loans and ended up even more destitute and desperate.
One in three Americans are at or below the poverty line. You really think 1/3rd of this Country just aren't working hard enough? This isn't about toppling Capitalism and installing a socialist government that will tell you you're not a special snowflake; it's about FIXING the broken parts of the system. I love that I can choose the way I live in this country, and say what I want, and work a job that I love for a fair wage. I have great respect for everyone who believes in it too, even if I don't agree with them all the time. This Country was FORGED on an act of felony disobedience to England, and the Constitution and Decleration reflect this right to action when the people feel the Government is being unjust. Even if you don't agree with the protesters, you gotta admit that it's REALLY fucked up when dudes in riot gear are pepper spraying innocent people for committing misdemeanor offenses. Yes, we've seen this before, in the 60's, and it was no less decried as wrong back then as it is now.
Don't the First Amendment rights of the population matter more than some "illegal camping" (as opposed to the legal kind, like outside of stores on Black Friday)? Aren't the rights of the people who have something against the Establishment just as protected as your right to say "get a job, you fucking hippie?" Would you appreciate it if you got pepper sprayed for saying what's on your mind in public?
This isn't about "lefto-commie-liberal-socialism", any more than it's about "crypto-facist-right-wing-Neo-Nazism". This is about all that crap that people from all sides of the socioeconomic and political specturm have been fucking warning us about in regards to the Bankers for CENTURIES actually being true. The banking system has corrupted the Government, and it's oppressing it's citizens who speak out against it. That's what third-world dictators do to their people. That's the reason we send troops INTO countries. When our Government denies it's own citzens the rights it claims we're supporting in other countries, what does that make us?
It's wrong. It's fucking unAmerican. And it's not the way that it's supposed to be, by the very Precepts this country was founded on. The super-rich should not be prospering at the expense of the poorest. That's not the American Dream. But that's
what's happening.
And it's
Not.
Fucking.
Right.
I don't get how you can support a government that does this to it's citizens.