Voting Charade

As someone commented on the George Carlin video below, "Fuck this illusory nonsense. It's hypocrisy disguised as righteousness and I'm sick of it."

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Stay Asleep and Dream the American Dream.

The "American Dream" mentality, equating happiness with the superficial act of acquiring or gaining possessions and wealth, breeds a lifestyle of unsustainable consumption that often creates the American nightmare for all too many of us, simply because the system is rigged against the vast majority. Yet people continue to dream on.

The Economic Collapse reports a 3-hour hospital visit can cost as much as $83,046! Is it any wonder that medical bills are the number one reason Americans file for bankruptcy?  But that's what you get with profit-as-much-as-you-can health care.

The fastest way to go broke in America is to go to the hospital. These days it seems like almost everyone has an outrageous hospital bill story to share. It is getting to the point where most people are deathly afraid to go to the hospital. All the financial progress that you have made in recent years can literally be wiped out in just a matter of hours. For example, you are about to read about an Arizona woman that was recently charged $83,046 for a 3 hour hospital visit. How in the world is anyone supposed to pay a bill like that?

Moreover, what are the chances of achieving the "American Dream" when well over three-quarters of the population is living paycheck to paycheck - that is, if they're lucky enough to get one, a paycheck, that is. To quote E.L. Doctorow, “I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.”

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
― Eugene Victor Debs

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It's the American Dream, Stupid. Wake Up!

Fetch the smelling salts! It's time to revive the comatose. It's time to give President Obama a choice: We, the People? Or "Them" the Elitists?



From my understanding, our government is for the people, therefore, it is supposed to serve our interests, not the interests of Goldman Sachs or any other elitist entity.  So, President Obama, like it or not, is our servant, and he can't serve two masters ("no servant can be in bondage to two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will cling fast to one and scorn the other. You cannot be bondservants both of God and of gold.") 

Smelling Salts:

Seven of the nation's 10 richest counties are in the D.C. area. 

The survey was based on 2009 data from the U.S. Census Bureau.  It names Virginia's Loudoun County as the top spot, with its median household income exceeding $114,000 per year. 17% of Loudoun households make more than $200,000, while only 16% earn less than the national average household income of $50,000.  Fairfax County takes the #2 spot in the country. It was the first county to  hit six figures with its median household income, and more than half its homes make more than that number now.

DOD Directive NUMBER 1404.10 -  What exactly is DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce?

(2) DoD civilian employees in E-E or NCE positions may be directed to accept deployment requirements of the position. However, whenever possible,DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce will be asked to serve expeditionary requirements voluntarily. Management retains the authority to direct and assign civilian employees, either voluntarily, involuntarily, or on an unexpected basis to accomplish the DoD mission.

The United States is more Banana Republic than Banana Republics.

The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana. C.E.O.'s of the largest American companies earned an average of 42 times as much as the average worker in 1980, but 531 times as much in 2001. Perhaps the most astounding statistic is this: From 1980 to 2005, more than four-fifths of the total increase in American incomes went to the richest 1 percent."

USA Today editorial staff breakdown: 27 reporters dedicated to entertainment

USA Today has only five reporters covering Congress, but 27 covering entertainment news, the Gannett Blog reported, after its editor Jim Hopkins obtained copies of newsroom flow charts dated October 21-22. Hopkins, a former USA Today reporter, believes that "this is the first time USAT's editorial staffing breakdown has been made public."

It's Official: The Economy Is Set To Starve

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