Suckered by the Minutiae
October 31, 2006
On the issue of immigration I’ve concluded that we should just put a great big dome over the entire country and we’ll keep everyone out! Then we’ll all be safe and secure and everyone can sleep well at night.
Of course, then we might be forced to deal with the real important issues, like health care, education, drugs, our abhorrent murder rate and oh yeah, paying for the great big f-ing dome, not to mention the massive amounts of debt that our government and our citizens are accruing on a daily basis. On 2nd thought let’s just keep having these ridiculous debates about extreme minutiae because talking about those other issues is just so complicated. And what kind of entertainment would it be to turn on the network news and see a thoughtfully measured argument about issues that have impacts on our lives? That’s what it’s all about right? Entertainment. Let’s just keep having these divisive arguments around election time about issues like immigration and gay marriage because it’s just so much more fun than all that book learning stuff. I mean who would want to discuss health care when we can have a national discussion about whether or not one of those Hollywood types is exaggerating his disease for partisan political gains? Now that’s entertainment.
The Moment We’ve All Been Waiting For…
October 27, 2006
Nearly 1.5 Million Back-Office U.S. Jobs Seen Moving Abroad
Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, step right up and see all the glorious benefits of our great globalized world! Reminds me of a little psuedo-poem I just slapped together,
First they came for the unions and since I’ve been taught to hate unions I did not speak out. After the unions were emasculated and NAFTA was signed it was easy for them to come after the plant workers and the textile workers and the automobile workers, to shift the great manufacturing base of jobs to places like Mexico so that the great anchor in the storm for our economy for over 100 years can be lifted and our ship set adrift. Then they went after the IT workers and since that was easy because they never bothered to unionize then they came for me, the white-collar middle class office worker. Since I never realized it was a problem until I lost my job and I in fact supported the very people who advocated such “free market” principles that there was no one left to stand up for me except the guys down at Wal-Mart but they were all too busy waiting on-line at their state Medicaid office so they didn’t have the time to get involved in the political process that made this all possible and they certainly didn’t have the time to form a picket line.
Don’t think they won’t come for you, it’s a lot easier than you think.
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