More on Rahm Emanuel

So here's another little bit of Rahm Emanuel telling you how GOOD it is for you to serve the country if you're between 18 & 25. It'll take 3 minutes of your time people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jK8gsX__KU

It's absolutely, 100% absurd. You'll live in barracks, you'll be trained militarily essentially, and you'll learn what it means to be a real American.
Yeah.
Forced to be in a camp for 3 months, learning about some crap that he hasn't really explained all too much so we don't quite know what exactly it will be yet... Becoming a slave for 3 months. That'll teach you what being an American is ALL ABOUT. Are you fucking kidding me?
He flat out said it. "It will teach people what being an American is all about."
Let me just let you sit on that one for a second.
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Has it settled in yet?
We're slaves, people. We're controlled by corporations, which control the government. And now, we're going to be required to go to some camp and "learn about being an American?"
To be fair, it hasn't happened yet.
God.

In other news, AIG took a little $300k cat nap in Phoenix. Just to recover from all the stresses of a not-yet-bankrupted and $150billion richer company.
Yes, business executives for AIG, the FAILING COMPANY AIG, decided to spend a couple hundred thousand dollars on a get-away week or weekend, something like that.
I mentioned before when a company is going under, it needs to make changes about how it spends its money. Fuck you AIG. Seriously. How much more are you going to rip and tear from the American people?
And how much more are the bankers going to steal from us?
Oh yea.
EVERYTHING THEY CAN.
Till we're a poor, broken country (which we pretty much already are.) Suck the life out of us, and then move on to China =)
Seriously. How much obvious can it get that we're being ROBBED!?
The bailout included provisions that would give the banks tax credits to the tune of $140billion, making us LOSE THAT MONEY.
The government REFUSES TO TELL US how much has really been given, and the Fed refuses to tell us where the money is going. Because they don't want to "scare the American public." No, they don't want even the most stubborn of fools to be able to realize we're being had. They are BANKRUPTING AMERICA! On purpose! We're going to be taxed so hardcore coming up soon.
Hell, the Governator (Arnold Swartzafucker) wants to raise sales tax by 1.9C to make up for the current economic crisis in California alone. Tax people more when they don't have money.
So California is in a $10billion deficit this year alone. And we just approved a $9.95 BILLION contract to build a railway system between Los Angeles & San Fran. AND THAT'S JUST THE DOWNPAYMENT FOLKS! It's really gonna cost upwards of 60-80BILLION! It won't be finished until 2030.
We.
Don't.
Have.
The.
Money.
Let me say that again: We don't have the fucking money for it people. And you Californians just voted in it. "Oh but it's a ten year project they've been working on getting pushed." "It's a wonderful infrastructure project."
I call bullshit.
One: It won't benefit us until 2030, and by then we won't have OIL, so the problem of gasoline powered vehicles polluting the air: probably not high. Even though air pollution will end up being another way for us to be taxed. Sure there might be some terrible-for-the-environment inventions, but I think with the current trend of "protect the environment" we will try to avoid fucking it over.
Two: The real culprit of highway congestion is inner-city travel between people living there. I'm sorry, but look at New York City. It's bumper to bumper traffic 24/7 & people take the very efficient underground transportation like MAD. They fill up those trains completely. What's that done for the cars on the road? And you think a railroad only going North and South in ONE AREA is going to be beneficial in any way shape or form for removing congestion?
Three: Money. Our country is going broke. This project is probably going to end up failing.
Four: The money could be better spent on inner-city transportation projects rather than city-to-city. Makes a lot more sense to me to try & benefit the big cities travel problems before long-distance travelers traveling issues.
But what the hell do I know?
What was I just talking about?
Oh yea, we're fucked.
The Fed is refusing to put out information that we need to know (where the money is going and what is going to be put up as collateral) and we're supposed to pretend that's okay? I can't make it any more obvious. The Fed won't give me the information to make people really believe.
Actually, I think even if I did have it, or someone had that information and they leaked it to the public, the public probably wouldn't believe it. I mean, if they can't believe what I'm saying right here and now, even though I'm only reciting what the Fed is saying, then even if I had the physical proof we were being ripped off, people still wouldn't believe it.
Ever seen the movie Network?
Where Beale gets up and starts RAVING about how he wants us to get mad and that he won't leave us alone? This movie was back in the 70s saying the corporations ruled the world. And was a complete foreshadowing of where television in America was headed, and currently is now.
For those of you that haven't heard it, read it now. You can't even imagine how applicable it is to today. (I thought of this movie because I had a song in my head with him saying this, it's a really rad house track.)
"..I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'm as mad as hell,

and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"

.."

Crazy, huh?

In MORE news, this Saturday all across the country at the same time (10:30 am here in Cali) in almost every major city in the US (and various cities in other countries) there will be a march for equality, marching against the propositions that have banned gay marriage. Can you imagine that? Thousands of people protesting in every city, demanding their rights? Phenomenal
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