Eaten Alive

Most of us are struggling, trying to pay the rent or mortgage, utilities, telephone bills, internet access, pay down student loans, child support, insurance payments for health, auto, and even home, not to mention incidentals like groceries, fuel, and other sundries. And we are taxed for every cent of it. Sometimes twice.

We were promised the chance to work hard to rise above the fray, to have enough money to stock away for a rainy day, or for our retirement. But we find that we've been leveraged into a corner. People have made millions by selling us things on credit, with interest rates nothing short of usury, and we are blamed for any bump in the road that throws us off course.

Insurance companies check our credit ratings to raise our rates, employers check credit ratings to gauge our fitness for employment, and, all the while, the people who are taking advantage of every legal loophole to evade paying their fair share are living in opulent luxury, migrating from a loft apartment in New York City to a summer villa in the south of France and looking down their noses at us peons even while they feed on our labor and our hard-earned money.

They send their minions to congress with pockets full of money, to argue for even MORE loopholes, even more ways to feed off our energy, while the politicians promise us relief in exchange for our votes. We give everything we have to keep this nation going, every dime to keep the economic engine moving forward, and they ride us like beasts of burden giving us as little as they possibly can in exchange.

Are we angry? Damn right we're angry. We're angry because we're lied to, ripped off, cheated by the system, and half of our alleged representatives don't even seem to give a damn. We're leaving a damaged world to our children and our children's children, all because those with the money and influence have made it their life's work to suck as much from the planet as they have from us, leaving behind only toxic wastes to show where life once existed.

They send our jobs overseas, and pay tycoons in other places portions of our money to force others into slave labor to send us shoddy, often toxic products. And we're constantly bombarded with mind-numbing advertisements that tell us to buy, buy, buy, even if we have to put ourselves into hock up to our eyeballs to do it.

Angry? How about pissed off? How about mad as hell?

They're parasites. A lot of them only give back because they get kickbacks from the government for doing so. Not out of the goodness of their tiny hearts, but because, in the end, it evens out. They give with one hand and take it back with the other.

It's a wonder they don't explode when sunlight hits them.

They send our children off to fight their wars, all the while making a profit from the experience, and return them (the ones who make it out alive) maimed in either body or mind, or both, then discard them as useless once they can no longer be of service. Twenty five percent of the homeless population of the U.S. is made up of those who were sent to fight and it's beneath them to do what they can to alleviate their suffering.

They live to feed off our energy. And you know what's worse? We continue to let them. We go so far as to mock those who tell us the truth about it all.

And we should damn well know better.


edited to fix a couple of minor typos

let's go fuck them up and take our money back. Parasites.

That if HR1955 is made law, your comments may attract the commission's attention?

But you are pointing in the right direction.... let's us take our money back. Better yet, don't give it to them in the first place.

So that's why the green stuff tastes best!

:hi:

a class war are the wealthy. It would require MAJOR changes in lifestyle for the rest of us to have an effect on them (not that we shouldn't do all that we can to make those changes...)

They own the electoral process, nothing else will do.

It won't be easy, but it ain't impossible. Sacrifice will be needed, and I think that's a sticking point with a lot of people, we are so used to seeing politics as "something else", outside of our everyday lives, a hobby, an affectation. But hobbyists don't affect social change, they diddle and amuse themselves. Nothing worth doing is easy.

We have nothing to lose but our chains. For the average American those chains might not seem so obvious, debt and fear of penury, mindless amusement, the comfortable sameness of the day to day, however stressful and incomprehensible. If we do not recognise this, and continue to expect the electoral dog and pony show to fix what ails us then we ain't going nowhere other than down the drain, along with the future and the biosphere.

That is exactly what it is to , a dog and pony show or horse race backed by big money and bets , it's as fixed as a boxing match .

were we not promised years ago that campaign funds would be chaned and yet here we are once again facing the same old shit . This is one of the parts of this madness that burns my ass , that it's acceptable and people along with the fake media keep tally of the money as if this is the solution and desired , well it's not , this is exactly how we got to where we are right now by playing into this game .

Cause I'm an agitator.:-)

They really are the lowest form of parasite, while they convince themselves that they are superior for having rigged the system so completely in their direction.

All of us tend to forget that such a system is entirely optional- a contract that we may accept or not. It's time for us to unionize against the people cheating us out of our labor.

I'm curious to hear what you have to say. I promise I won't mock you.

:hi:

I can see how, what I said, might have been taken in a way I had not intended. I wrote another reply to mythsage’s OP to explain the reason behind the comment, please forgive me for causing you concern, and thanks for caring.

back to ya :hi:


Larry

I could say that I'm unlikely to mock you, since it's really not my style, but I can't speak for anyone else.

Please allow me to explain and offer an apology, obviously their was a lot in the OP that I could relate too. I Kept in mind, the sad and angry feelings portrayed with in it , the sentiment, fear and growing hysteria resonating in the hearts and minds of more and more Americans each day, and the less conspicuous and often forgotten aspect of the bigger picture; things would be so much more different these days if not for how society treats forewarning and those that give it. You gave a fitting and heart felt recognition too something most unfortunate, yet familiar to the truth tellers “We go so far as to mock those who tell us the truth about it all.” , and of course “We should damn well know better.”

My reply was simple in response to the last two lines in the OP, “I would say something, but I grow tired of being mocked. n/t” I said this to make a simple statement, for me it was a reflection of pass tense, and all I can say is that I was trying to give a voice to a character in your OP, “the mocked truth teller”. The truth teller grows tired of being mocked.”, sometimes there is nothing more to be said, sometime the truth teller grows tired and gives up…

I know what it is like to be mocked, ridiculed, ignored, forgotten, passed over, beaten and even worse, all for caring and telling the truth. I’m sorry if I said anything that took away from your message, a truth tellers message, and one great OP…

Larry

We are definetly losing the class war.

Great post!

:yourock:

Although I think the "We eat for you" class belongs above the "We shoot at you" hirelings.