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Newest Reality

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7. When we get to the point
Mon Dec 12, 2011, 01:58 AM
Dec 2011

where we all realize we are all inmates in this stay, then it might make sense as to why this is relevant.

We will all have to pay more and more to be here, where we are. That's what the nature of our God, Profit demands of us, no matter what we believe and think in our own little version of this neo-liberal world we now inhabit.

Don't worry too much because you have to get used to idea of a world where your idea of existence is about how much you will have to pay into it. The cost will become increasingly more unbearable because the cost of profit is destined to become more and more the purpose designed into your life by media as the corporate message of meaning and life itself.

Oh, you thought the new car or that great makeup was the ultimate goal and meaning? No way. We are just getting started in the ever accepted, premeditated, manipulated way of life that corporations want and demand. In a while, what you called and thought of as government will most certainly give way to a newer version of corporatism that will not only replace what we now know, but it will create, without doubt, what will be. The signs are already there and our children will be nothing but consumers devoted, religiously, to brand names and a world of promotion for the sake of profit, forever more.

Nothing much yet, among you, is being done to stop the trading of convenience and gadgetry for life as it was known. The slow and gradual acceptance of this onslaught of so called progress is enough to make old thinkers see the end of life as knowers versus those who know much more and use it as a social and economic tool to control and manipulate and, eventually commit genocide against the masses of us who are here, now, and living our lives as we conceive them to be.

Are we all alright with the dutiful progress of the technological overlords and economic masters who are orchestrating this next phase of our humanity?

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So when prisons become a profit center for local government Speck Tater Dec 2011 #1
we're not headed there... we ARE there. ixion Dec 2011 #11
Well...they should pay for their medical services.. FarPoint Dec 2011 #13
I have mixed feelings about this nadine_mn Dec 2011 #2
It happened in Pennsylvania. tomg Dec 2011 #4
It was Luzerne County. The judges took money from no_hypocrisy Dec 2011 #12
Thanks for the info. I thought tomg Dec 2011 #19
This is completely insane on so many levels. tomg Dec 2011 #3
You aren't. That's exactly what this is. "We're broke so we can't afford your civil rights" AllyCat Dec 2011 #17
I cannot believe this baloney will pass constitutional muster if and when coalition_unwilling Dec 2011 #5
This is already happening in Washington the state. When you get parolled you usually own thousands a rhett o rick Dec 2011 #6
When we get to the point Newest Reality Dec 2011 #7
This won't really work... ellisonz Dec 2011 #8
No, but it will hurt a lot of people before they figure that out starroute Dec 2011 #9
The only way I see it working is if... ellisonz Dec 2011 #10
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Placing liens on their homes, really?! Luciferous Dec 2011 #14
This is extra incentive for privately run prisons Auggie Dec 2011 #15
So knowing it will cost money to go to jail will prevent crime? AllyCat Dec 2011 #16
What has happened to the accused's right to trial and appropriate sentencing? Peace Patriot Dec 2011 #18
Manifestly violates the 'due process' and 'takings' clauses of the coalition_unwilling Dec 2011 #22
That's some bullshit! backtoblue Dec 2011 #20
Fuckers! n/t Hotler Dec 2011 #21
Reminds me of Deukmejian's Three Strikes and You're Out.... Trillo Dec 2011 #23
run 'em into the poor house. barbtries Dec 2011 #24
Pay up or get the f@$# out! 24601 Dec 2011 #25
And if you fail to pay your 'debt'? ---> Debtor's Prison for you! Shoe Horn Dec 2011 #26
Call it "Motel 6 to 12" KamaAina Dec 2011 #27
How many people turn to crime due to poverty? CaliforniaHiker Dec 2011 #28
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