Has anyone ever noticed patterns to gas prices?Around here; a couple days before a holiday, prices drop about 20 cents on average. The day after the holiday they are right back where they started. Hmm an oil abundance that lasted 4-5 days? Or a conspiracy to get people to travel and thus spend more money?
I also noticed last year that for every 3 cents gas fell, it soon rose 20 cents. So its no suprise to see that prices are over $2 now.
What I fail to understand is why folks are so lax about the situation. My father for example just chalks it up to “thats how it is; nothing can be done about it; you have to go along.” That’s just what most folks are doing too. I call these folks sheeple.
I’m not much of a people person, not because I don’t like people; but because peoples ignorance about simple things annoys the hell out of me.
I guestimate (from all the things I overhear, people I talk to, media ads) that 95% of the populaton is clueless about whats going on, or they simply don’t know how or don’t want to do anything to improve the situation.
Am I making an arrogant statement here that most folks are stupid? Perhaps but I call it as I see it. This isn’t to say that they can’t be brought around. It just means it will take more work.
I’ve concluded that the problem is the brainwashing that most people see from the day they are born. America, home of the free, land of the brave. Free market……
What they fail to mention is that to enjoy that freedom you must already be part of the capitalist class.
A don’t get me started about how the founding fathers were looking out for the best interest of the people. BS!! If any reads history (besides the poppycock that passes for history in our public school system) you will soon learn that many of the founding fathers were nothing more than thieves. Their interest was never in the common man; other than to make sure the common man could never reach an altitude to give them any control over their lives.
This is never more obvious than in the constitution where it’s states “life, liberty, and the PERSUIT of happiness. Note that this phrase originally read “persuit of land”, but because of some debate between supporters of the confederation and the federalist parties, it was agreed it would be changed.
Now why do you suppose they wrote “Persuit” ? Maybe because they knew the working class would never be able to afford any luxury (or land, which the founders though of as happiness)
Also if you look at the way the founders setup “The Democracy” you soon see that it’s not.. They called it a Republic instead. Which implied that we would have representatives who would support our views and interest. Thus the electoral college was created.
What many may not realize about the electoral college is that YOUR VOTE DOESN’T MATTER. Suppose that in the recent election that Kerry had had 90% of the popular vote nationwide. That means nothing because the electoral college DOES NOT have to vote according to popular vote in their district.
They say this has only happend once (Teddy Rosevelt if I recall correctly). But how can we know that for certain. They certainly aren’t going to say othewise.
I fear I have gotten a bit off topic; I believe you can see where I’m going with this however. If we don’t stand up and do something then we will remain forever enslaved. How can so many people be so brainwashed (or braindead) as to think that everything that is going on is alright..
We see ads daily for homeless and hungry people in africa and other regions in the world. Yet we never hear about the homeless and hungry in America. It’s because these problems don’t exist in the land of milk and honey right? NO its the fact that the government doesn’t want you to know about it. We throw away truck loads of food that could go to feed the hungry. We charge close to 50% of low wage worker income for housing. Then we wonder why people don’t have any retirement funds. We treat low wage workers like dogs and pay them pennies on the dollar then wonder why their health and hygine is so poor.
If they can keep everyone “dumbed down” then they can do whatever they choose. Including taking away civil rights.
It’s obvious that reform can not work. Unions have tried and failed. In fact many companies are now outsourcing to save even more money. The capitalist say that outsourcing is the wave of the future, calling it globalization. Of course this is what they want. It means more payroll in their pocket. But what’s going to happen when there are no jobs left in America?
Will we become a third world country? Will we become even more of a caste system than we already are?
And how will the working class be seen by the government when they rise up? Will we be patriots or will we be “terrorist – because were not with the ruling class”. Will this be a large uprising or will it be a few small “rebel” alliances?
There is no doubt in my mind that the government will do everything in its power to try to squash the “rebellion”. But I believe when all the jobs go, people will start to wake up. In the end the almighty dollar won’t be worth a plug nickel. And that can be a good thing.
Money is the root of evil (greed, capitalism). I look foward to a Socialist society. I believe we will see a return to the old ways, meaning more ecologically sound practices. I also believe that kindness and common sense will return. After all what’s left to fight for if we’re all on equal ground?
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