DUmmy JFN1 is having a moment of clarity in the midst of his usual drugged haze. He glimpses the true value of his life and the lives of his fellow DUmpmates, and doesn't like what he sees:
JFN1 (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-28-09 11:25 PM
We Are Disposable.
I keep waiting for change. Waiting for things to get better for my family, for my neighbors, for our country.
But, it doesn't.
A woman came into my wife's store today. She was completely bald, and she was wearing a wig that kept slipping off her head because it was not a real wig (she could not afford one), but one from an old Halloween costume. She had just finished up chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. She had been given - get this - a ONE MONTH health card by the State, as she had no insurance from her minimum wage job as a BANK TELLER, to pay for her chemo and time away from her job while she was too ill to continue working her wonderful minimum wage job.
One freaking month. That's it.
When my wife told me this today, I had to ask myself: How can our country treat people like this? And then it hit me - because we're disposable.
It explains a lot.
Big companies are not worried about us boycotting their goods or services. Why? Because consumers are disposable. If a boycott actually grabs hold, they don't have to care - just make a few extra currency trades, and they get those losses right back. So why should they care about a consumer boycott? Consumers are disposable, they can take us or leave us at this point.
Why do our Congressmen vote, so often, against our best interests? Why do they side with big business almost constantly? Why is it that big business has a seat at the table, a voice in the room, and we, the electorate, have only sound bites and promises? Because the voters are disposable. All a Congressman has to do is go to their big business patrons, who will promptly create a 527 group and wham! New voters appear.
How can it be, that a CEO can make 400 times what the average employee makes at their business? How can that same CEO cut benefits, but not executive bonuses? How can these mega-wealthy CEO's pay their employees minimum wage that is taxed at a higher rate than most large corporations pay after they find every loophole possible to avoid paying even their fair share of the tax burden? Because employees are disposable - there are always desperate, disposable people willing to fill the ranks of their companies - they've seen to it.
Don't you get it? WE. ARE. NOT. WORTH. IT. Individually, or collectively.
In the eyes of those who hold the wealth and the power of this nation, WE ARE DISPOSABLE.
We're of no more worth to them than the bag that lines their garbage can.
There's 300,000,000 million people in this country - and maybe only 5,000 of that number, are not disposable.
They are our elected officials, and their wealthy/corporate masters.
EVERYTHING - and I do mean everything - our government is doing today, ultimately works exclusively towards the interests of these few.
IF THIS WERE NOT TRUE, the health care debate, would sound quite different. Our leaders would be abhorred.
But are they abhorred? Or are they debating, and stalling, and endlessly discussing? Are they hedging, and pontificating, and making excuses? Are they bolstering, or compromising/watering down/eliminating? What will we eventually see out of all of this sound, and fury?
A watered down bill that has an impressive sounding name - that ultimately will signify NOTHING to that poor woman who came into my wife's store this day. It will mean nothing to her. And it will mean nothing to millions of our neighbors, families, and friends, who continue to suffer under the status quo. We'll continue to be...disposable.
But not everyone will go away unhappy - those few, those powerful, those wealthy indispensables - well, they'll be happy...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6879266His bouncy lie about the lady with the wig notwithstanding, this DUmmy is dead on target:
We're of no more worth to them than the bag that lines their garbage can.
In fact, he may be overstating his value. He and the DUmmies are unproductive parasites, whereas garbage bags serve a useful purpose.
niyad (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-28-09 11:28 PM
1. sad to say, you are quite correct. I really think they would like us all to die.
varelse (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-28-09 11:28 PM
2. And some DU'ers persist in protesting "all the hate for rich people"
Rich people = anyone with more stuff than the DUmmy. DUmmies want stuff!
DUmmy JFN1, with a total worth less than that of a garbage bag, wants a violent revolution against the United States:
JFN1 (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-28-09 11:39 PM
6. What we literally have in this country today
is taxation without representation. Who has representation in our government?
Big Business/wealthy interests.
Not the People. More than anything else, the health care debate PROVES this beyond any doubt.
So what will it take to organize?
I know - and so do you.
What did it take to found this country?
One must wonder what role a human garbage bag would play, in the event of a DUAC Revolt, an Uprising of the Downsitting.
And what would they do with the jug-eared muslim?
DUmmy handmade34 knows how to bring the capitalist beast to its knees:
handmade34 (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-28-09 11:51 PM
12. campaign finance reform is #1 priority
shop coops
start coops
buy local
boycott (even if you don't think it helps)
write a letter everyday to a representative/senator/president, etc.
become more self-sufficient
don't buy the lies we're told
get a few people together and start a business
make phone calls
talk to your neighbor
help your neighbor
quit using plastic bags
eat healthy
Without plastic grocery bags, Bushco will be powerless.
MrMickeysMom (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:01 AM
20. Good list, here's one more...
Run for local govt.
You'll be given a load of crap by a few for trying to make a difference, but you'll end up making more of a difference.
I cannot believe they are all forgetting letters to the editor!
DUmmy handmade34, DUAC's answer to Vladimir Lenin, apparently lives in a van, down by the river:
handmade34 (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:07 AM
25. excellent
I have always claimed that I would run as soon as my kids were grown, and now I am stuck in a job that keeps me homeless - I can't even get a PO Box, let alone run for office.
DUmmy DJ13 is clearly unaware that America's democrat parasites have a far higher standard of living than the Eurotrash masses:
DJ13 (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-28-09 11:47 PM
8. Maybe look towards Europe on how to force the elites to back off some?
Mass demonstrations, even riots if need be, labor stoppages ...they've shown us how, provided our people have the guts.
patrice (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-28-09 11:48 PM
9. We need to start building one of these . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n_Cooperative...
But first, I think a bunch of us need to take a trip to Spain to study the Mondragon Cooperative.
I think we'd all chip in for that trip, provided the DUmmies agreed it was one-way.
sandnsea (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-28-09 11:58 PM
18. We Are A Cost On A Balance Sheet
Not even human.
K+R!!!
blues90 (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:05 AM
23. You are right and nothing is going to change
It has progessively become worse and worse no matter how hard the common people try. We allowed it to reach this point over years and years and for what , to be handled like so many cattle headed for the meat grinder.
Unless we decide we have colletivly had enough across the globe in one giant effort and soon we are done.
International DUAC! International DUAC!
