Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Gotcha

First they broke up the industrial unions and sent all the jobs overseas, and I did not speak out as I was a professional.

Then they broke down the trades unions and brought wages down for all the trades workers and I did not speak out as I was a professional.

Then they took away health care and charged for it and I did not speak out as I was a professional.

Then they embezzled and took away the workers retirement benefits and I did not speak out as I was a professional.

Then they somehow lied about inflation for five decades and did not increase wages and I did not speak out as I was a professional.

Then they came for the public union employees and broke them down so there was no longer any standard for a good life and I did not speak out as I was a professional.

Then they came for all those who had benefits from before and cut those off, and I did not speak out as I was a professional.

Then they came and embezzled the wealth of the nation through stock market and real estate bubbles and made the super rich divinely rich, and I did not speak out as I was a professional.

Then one day I woke up and saw that my home was underwater, my retirement accounts on the plunge, the kids unemployed living in the basement, and what I thought was a live able income had become a pittance and they came for me, saying who are you? Why should you get a decent income and any benefits, no one else does? Who do you think you are anyway? And alas there was no one left to speak out for me.

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