Reward and Punishment
Reward
I hope you received your 27% salary increase last year.
I hope the corporations you run and own got their tax rebate.
I hope you appreciate in not being asked to share.
Your collective bargaining has really reaped dividends.
Those who bailed you out of your financial catastrophe get:
Punishment
Wages rising below the rate of inflation.
Collective bargaining rights assaulted at every turn.
Access to affordable health care denied.
Hard won women's rights rolled back for those who cannot afford alternatives.
Minorities and the poor abandoned to market forces.
Education becoming a privilege and not a right.
The least able to change anything being blamed for the situation for not working hard enough and cheap enough get labelled lazy scroungers for their pains.
Small Government
What they do not mean by this is lean and efficient government
What they mean is government by the few.
The assault on the middle class is without respite hidden behind the talk of freedom and protection from government work is afoot to remove both. We in essence have two legal systems where the poor get least protection and a political system that caters to the elites every whim.
We always hear that it is the rich that create the wealth and pay the majority of the taxes, well they get the greatest rewards from our productivity which has never been higher. Our collective work and talent profited them immensely, our political system allowed them to succeed. It has been a joint effort but a few benefited beyond all measure.
We have all the ingredients of a class war but any mention of which is regarded with shock and horror by those in power and whose views are parroted by many against their own best interests. Our political system is awash with cash and not with social justice; indeed those who dare to complain are ridiculed as being weak.
We have socialism for the elite and capitalism for the rest.
Much of this is inflicted by the use of moral crusades:
The never ending war on terror, the ultimate fear factor.
The war on drugs but not the reasons.
The war on women and the locking into second class citizenship and poverty.
The protection of marriage to deny LGBT rights.
The war on science and education to keep us down.
They now have the gall to call austerity
Shared Sacrifice.
Who do they think they are fucking kidding?
You?
Welcome to the Fuck America project