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In reply to the discussion: Say Hello to the Enemy.... Game On Motherfuckers!! [View all]2naSalit
(103,113 posts)It's just about every big business in the country. All our cellphones, laptops, most communications entities and banks... Most of them. So we need a solution set and go for it.
Maybe we should create a new currency that is of no use to them. It would be hard but localize and socialize everything, it would mean giving up a lot of conveniences that people have come to rely on... but that was the intent, to get us hooked on things we have been led to believe we can't live without. We can live without a lot of their stuff but we will have to be more willing to take care of each other more than we currently do as a society. It's not impossible, just requires a change in what we value and how we go about interacting with each other. That's what a social contract is, like the Constitution for example, and we have to get our collective mind around a more streamlined concept of freedom and responsibility to make it work, a more structured concept f what we see as our national worth.
These douchebags have composed an argument for what they want, we should do the same to counter them and hold our elected officials to it... we are their employers after all.
And if there should end up being some social safety net cuts even discussed, I say we start demanding that the golden parachute offered and paid for by we the people that goes to the free healthcare and pensions of our do nothing Congress be item #1 before anything else is even remotely considered. Those people get free healthcare for themselves and their families for life, and we out here in the lowly workingstiffistan get shit unless we pay the equivalent of a mortgage on a luxury trophy home just have the privilege of being denied healthcare, among other services we deserve and have worked to make possible.