Loyalty

I’m sure you’ve wondered how it is that society (read employers) determine how much a job is worth.

It seems skill counts for little. For the real ‘high earners’ it’s all about trust.

The rich see it this way. Better pay the guy that handles my money well or he’s likely to rob me blind. The guy that keeps me out of jail, he gets a heap too.

The bozo’s that make me rich, pay ‘em as little as I can get away with. So what if they quit! There’s a million more just like ‘em lined up outside ready to take their place.

A doctor can save your life, a good lawyer can keep the wolves from your door and your accountant is probably the only one that knows how much you’re really worth.

Value to the rich, priceless. Value to society, zip.

Which brings us to our political process. There aren’t any Republican politicians any more than there are any Democratic ones, they all work for the same group.

The whole political scene is nothing more than window dressing, an illusion of participation, a con game.

It’s all a charade. Cheer when your guy gets into office then scratch your head in puzzlement as you wonder why nothing ever changes.

Nixon ‘opened the door’ to China. Carter started deregulation, which was used to bust unions across the nation. Regan dismantled the interstate banking laws and got the NAFTA ball rolling, Bush I kept the NAFTA juggernaut on track and Clinton, who could have vetoed it, signed on the line instead.

Massive coincidence, right?

Who would you ‘elect’ to turn this situation around? It would take serious money to get an ‘outsider’ elected.

Since we get our money from the same people the politicians get their money from…do you see a problem with this picture?

You aren’t going to win a financial showdown when the other team has the mint at its disposal.

I laud your desire to fight for what’s right but if you ever hope to succeed, you have to wake up to who the real enemy is.

Did it ever strike you as odd, in a society that prizes private enterprise above all things, how every improvement made to this nation came out of the pockets of the taxpayers?

Corporations didn’t build the roads but they benefit the most from them. Corporations didn’t build the schools system but they benefit the most from them. Corporations didn’t light the streets or run the phone lines but both are big businesses now.

Taxpayers foot the tab for every experimental technology. Once an idea proves successful, the result is turned over to private enterprise.

NASA is publicly funded. Once space travel becomes commercially viable, who will reap the benefit of those decades of research at the cost of billions of tax dollars?

I’ll give you a hint; it won’t be you or me.

Figure out who the enemy is yet? It is those who are in fact but dare not use the title royalty in our not so representative society. They are detectable only as the criminal investor class.

Let those who own the land, rule the land.

Ironically, most people are okay with this even though it is the root cause of every social ill facing our society.

I suppose most people are cool with this legal swindle because they have been deluded into thinking that one-day they may become one of them.

Too bad there’s only one way to join that club, you have to be born to it.

If you weren’t here when they carved up this country for themselves, tough.

You have no chance of using their own system against them. The deck is stacked from top to bottom. Vote your fool head off, nothing will change. The only reason the New Deal was passed is because the powers that be feared a real revolution.

The people were destitute, socialism was on the rise, riots were commonplace and the army had to be called out repeatedly to restore order.

That’s what it took good citizen, rioting and death in the streets that made the war protests of the sixty’s look like a love in.

Tens of thousands died at the hands of the army and the thugs hired by companies to protect their factories. The people were angry as hell, sick and tired of being forced to work fifteen hours a day, six days a week for next to nothing.

This period is history is glossed over as the turbulent times that marked the birth of the trade unions.

In less than a generation, those ‘elected’ to represent the worker were selling their union brethren down the river for personal gain.

Ever wonder why trade unionism is on the decline? They earned a reputation for taking your money and do nothing! Sound familiar.

Like our publicly elected officials, the only way you could punish a rat was to not vote for them in the next election.

And like our elected officials, those who failed to win elected office were rewarded with an appointed one (management job) regardless of which party wins.

Is it just me or does something reek here?

Once again I want to remind you that the intent of this work is not to tell you what to think but to give you something to think about.

The water is right over there. All I’m doing is pointing at it.

You don’t have to drink it if you don’t want to.

So, you’ve decided to fight the good fight have you? Stop right there!

There’s no need for bloodshed. We can win the game easily with the trump card that they can’t take away from us.

That card is the power of no.

Refuse their fake money. Refuse their illegal laws and refuse to surrender your labor as it only makes them richer.

Just say no! If Nancy can do it, so can you.

Thanks for letting me inside you head,

Gegner