A Nation of Prostitutes

Yes, I know.  Hyperbole, right?

But think about it.  We all sell ourselves to the highest bidder for an average of forty hours a week for fifty weeks a year. If you started working at twenty, and work until you’re sixty-five, you will have put in 93,600 hours of labor.  That is over ten and a half years of non-stop work, day and night.  Ten and a half years of your life that you will never get back.

Where do I sign up.

And the powers that be want you to keep working, but they want to cut your pay.  Plus, they want to cut your benefits, too.  And they don’t want you to complain, because you can, and will, be replaced.  Be happy and grateful for the job you have.

This is the new normal.  Get used to it.

I used to rail against American companies who refused to pay their workers a living wage, and were thus killing their own markets.  After all, if people don’t have enough money to spend, who will buy the products being produced?  I couldn’t fathom why a corporation would intentionally reduce the buying power of consumers, especially when said companies are sitting on piles of money from rising profits.

Then, about a week ago, I read where General Electric, led by Obama’s Job Czar, Jeffrey Immelt, sold more of their products overseas than they did here in America, by a margin of 20%.  That is no small fact.  Sixty percent of everything GE produced was sold somewhere other than here.  And as the world continues to grow smaller due to the internet, that number will rise.  American corporations are in the process of abandoning their American markets to concentrate on world markets.  Paying their workers a fair wage is no longer in their best interests.  The bottom line dictates that costs be kept low here in the States, while companies concentrate on foreign sales.  This is the New World Order.

The ruling elite, led by the Republican Party – but with no small help from the Democrats – want less taxes, less regulations, less oversight and more money.  Hell, I give them credit for being up front about it.  Their main concern is for the wealthy.  They don’t even feign interest in the middle class anymore, and the poor are scapegoated and vilified for daring to be poor.  And if you point out the disparity between rich and poor, they cry class warfare.  Or call you a tax and spend liberal.  But you will notice, they NEVER dispute the numbers.  They just use talking points.

Wages have never kept up with the cost of living, now more so than ever.  But try to raise the minimum wage and the people in charge cry bloody murder.  “We can’t afford to pay any more,” they howl.  “You will put companies out of business,” they scream.  “Don’t tell us what to pay our employees,” they rage.  But has any rise in the minimum wage ever resulted in any of these things?  Of course not.  They are just more talking points.  The only way our domestic economy will fully recover is if wage earners have more money in their pockets to spend.  The demand for consumer products depends on the consumer, and right now, they have very little cash on hand.

The New World Order depends on keeping the workers down, and a large pool of unemployed workers are needed to keep everyone in their place.  If someone acts up, or if, God forbid, someone mentions a UNION, they can be quickly replaced.  Nothing is going to change as long as we allow it to continue.  People must realize what is going on.  If the Republicans get into office come November, it will only get worse.  Taxes on the rich will drop even lower.  The so-called entitlement programs will shrivel up and die, leaving poor folk out in the cold, both figuratively and literally.  The disparity in income will grow even larger.  The ranks of the poor will grow astronomically.  The deficit will spiral out of control because without tax revenue, where is the money supposed to come from.  We have had a decade of tax cuts for the “Job Creators,” but no new jobs.  We have spent trillions on needless wars.  Well, needless to the workers.  To the ruling elite, they were big money makers, and still are.  While the poor fight, the ruling elite profit.  And life goes on.

So keep watching television, and ignore what is happening.  Vote Republican, and get more trickle down economics (it worked so good when Bush was President.)  I’m not saying Obama is the be all end all, but at least he feigns interest in the working classes.  Soon, if I’m not mistaken, we will have two classes in America:  The Ruling Elite and the Working Poor.

America is supposed to be better than this.