The Slow Agonizing Damnation of Empire USA

I admit it's happening quickly for way too many people, but in general most working Americans are slumping into the crash. Bit by bit folks with jobs have been losing benefits and zero wage increases for many years now. Lately it seems they are all being knocked down from full-time to part-time or they're having to take 5%+ salary cuts. We all know the banks ain't giving any money out.

So. No shoppers. No buyers. No vacationers. No home improvementers.

Fuck You house-flippers and short-sellers and over-extended shopaholics.

There needs to be a HUGE paradigm shift in this country. NOW.

Government $$$ needs to be re-directed from MIC to Green jobs NOW. Infrastructure jobs NOW. Yeah, I hear ya Nancy, You're gonna bring out a sweeping health care reform before Your wittle recess. It better be a GOOD ONE FOR THE PEOPLE not the INSURANCE COMPANIES. And oh yeah, how come YOU get a recess and American citizens DON'T?

Somebody got that pie chart graphic of where the Fed money goes? You know where the MIC is the largest piece?

Thanks in advance.

And no, I don't fucking believe it!

:kick:

Which part do you not believe?

Is life a party for you?
Are you an inheritance baby?
Doing great with Carlyle investments?
Finding new and improved ways to lie and cheat people into buying shit they don't need?

(Just part of my comic storyline.)

kicked and recommended. :applause:

Why?

So we must FEAR THE SALSA!

that no one wants to talk about.

Seriously, I watched a program on PBS about it and it was very interesting.

Huge depression hits, we are forced to pull out of our world bases all over the world because we can no longer pay off foreign countries, Russian and China fill in the vacuum including in latin America, nuclear warheads are brought over by them and pointed at us, we are given the option of disarming and allowing nuclear inspectors or facing total annhilation

We should READILY pull out of our world bases and let people police their own damn states in places like Japan and Europe.

Oh, but that's not where the REAL money is in the Pentagon black hole. And you know it.

On edit: Why did the CIA torture you?

that's how we're NOT an "empire."

Empires don't "pay off" foreign countries for the privilege of stationing troops there. Empires CONQUER countries then force the subjugated provinces to pay.

The Roman Empire was an Empire. The Assyrian Empire was one. So too the Persian Empire. Why, they even had some in Africa, didn't they? Mali, Songhai, Great Zimbabwe ...

Do you remember those places running out of money and then having to leave foreign countries because they didn't have enough dosh to pay off the locals to let them say?

Anyone, anyone? Bueller, Bueller?

:wtf:

Paranoid, much?

Big chunk.

Every single penny will end up going to the Private Bank that is lending us back the 9 trillion bucks that Obama has allowed Bernanke and Geithner to hand out so Wall Street can keep on keeping on. Unless, of course, the IMF or the World Bank step in to rescue us.

Enter the amount of Federal Income Tax you paid during 2008 and see how the government spent the money ...
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/taxchart2009

I'm tired of this trip. I don't want to pay a trillion dollars a year on military adventures every year. Fuck the generals! I'm tired of being robbed by the wealthy assholes that think we don't deserve to have a health care system where we can go to the doctor if we get sick. I'm tired of paying a higher percentage of my meager wages in FICA taxes than Bill Fucking Gates and Warren Frigging Buffet. I'm tired of being screwed by the spineless politicians that don't seem to know right from wrong. I am tired of being disrespected by my own Party leaders who seem to think we are too stupid to see all the shit they are shoveling upon us. Screw them!

They try hard to disrupt and lure folks to the shiny side.

Lately more and more are shall we say "open" to moving to the shiny side.

They twitter.

Thank you. :)

Otherwise it won't die.