Ted Rall for November 25, 2011
November 23, 2011
November 28, 2011
Transcript:
11-18: The day that everything changed. (Woman: I was at Starbucks. I saw it on the cover of the Newspaper.) A shocked nation reeled. (Man: 100 million Americans- 1/3 were poor or near poor. We're a third world country!) (Man 2: Kill the evildooers!) The president railed us to fight a new kind of war. (Barack Obama: We will do whatever it takes- pay any price- even give up our freedoms to cheat and steal- to defeat this clear and present danger.) Pundits demanded extreme measures. (Man: Tortue saves lives. What if a CEO knows that a big layoff is going to go off in 15 minutes?) Other priorities took a back seat. (Man: How can you think about silly wars when 100 million Americans are destitute, you traitor!?) The war on poverty soon became a grim routine. (Barack Obama: Coalition forces have killed the #2 man in the fortune 500.) (Woman: Again?)
Peony Premium Member over 11 years ago
Soon the IRS was sequestering suspect accountants in a offshore tax atty shelter.
mattro65 over 11 years ago
We can dream.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 11 years ago
I am ashamed, but this is actually a sentiment I could get behind. Besides it would be fun to waterboard a few banker and investment CEOs.
Bilword over 11 years ago
good ideas
rockngolfer over 11 years ago
Reagan started modern class warfare with trickle down voodoo economics and Bush perfected it.
AdmNaismith over 11 years ago
True, being poor in the USA (and The West in general) is different than being poor in, say, Africa or India.
Being poor here is not the death sentence it is in other places around the world. Still, a lack of jobs and fresh food is indisputable, and not being able to securely live in a place that is free of lead paint & asbestos, free of crime & drugs, is a still a problem in the USA.
yohannbiimu over 11 years ago
As usual, there is never any definition of “poor” in these idiotic stories. Our “poor” and destitute range between middle- and upper-middle class everywhere else in the world…
Lavocat over 11 years ago
There are 100 million drones in the class war.
kreole over 11 years ago
Our forefathers stepped on this land with only axes and saws. They had no insurance, welfare, hospitals, Social Security, electricity, antibiotics, anesthesia (when injured), yet they built a place where we had a chance to have more than they had. It’s kind of hard to go look for a job when some are on welfare, watching color TV and a refrigerator a few feet away. What’s wrong with this picture?
mattro65 over 11 years ago
Better than naming myself after a dead proto-fascist.