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   From: Stalinists@Bush.net   
      
   George Carlin had it right   
      
   I love this quote from one of his HBO specials on the "owners of America."   
      
   "Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea   
   that you have freedom of choice . . . you don't.   
      
   You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They   
   own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've   
   long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses,   
   the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all   
   the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and   
   information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.   
      
   They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying . . . lobbying, to get   
   what they want . . . Well, we know what they want. They want more for   
   themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don't   
   want . . . they don't want a population of citizens capable of critical   
   thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of   
   critical thinking. They're not interested in that . . . that doesn't help   
   them. That's against their interests. That's right. They don't want people   
   who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly   
   they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin'   
   years ago. They don't want that.   
      
   You know what they want? They want obedient workers . . . Obedient workers,   
   people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.   
   And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier   
   jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of   
   overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect   
   it, and now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your   
   fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their   
   criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They'll get it . .   
   . they'll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fuckin'   
   place.   
      
   It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in The big club. By   
   the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all   
   day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over   
   the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and   
   what to buy.   
      
   The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice.   
   Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people . . . white collar,   
   blue collar it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest   
   hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means . . .   
   continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don't give a fuck about you.   
   They don't give a fuck about you . . . they don't give a fuck about you.   
   They don't care about you at all . . . at all . . . at all, and nobody seems   
   to notice. Nobody seems to care.   
      
   That's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably   
   remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being   
   jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know   
   the truth. It's called the American Dream cause you have to be asleep to   
   believe it..."   
   - George Carlin   
      
   "They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking."   
   And that's we definitely have.   
      
   Carlin's SO Right - Look what educated, financially stable Middle Class   
   Democrats did-   
      
   Women's Rights   
   Civil Rights   
   Vietnam War Protests   
   Gay Rights   
   Environmental Protections   
   Etc...   
      
   Since GOD Almighty Jesus Christ Reagan, the Middle Class has been under   
   assault for the very reasons Carlin describes.   
      
   "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.   
   Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" - Benjamin Franklin   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)