Shock and Aw, Shucks
by Rhonda Chriss Lokeman
Ward Cleaver turns to his wife and says, "Gosh, June, how are we goin' to explain to Wally and the Beave that I just got laid off from my job of 25 years, our 401(k) tanked in the '08 market crash, and we can't get loans to send them to community college, much less Harvard, Yale or Princeton?"
To which June turns off the Hoover, knocks back a gin shot and replies, "Betcha didn't see that coming."
Despite Sarah Palin's Rockwellian performance at the first and ...
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Posted by: Masako
Comment: #1
Mon Oct 6, 2008 6:10 PM
"Joe Sixpack." Didn't anybody but me take offense to that insulting phrase? Remember how Barack was savaged for saying that working folks turn to guns and whatever in their bitterness? By the same standard, Palin's calling them alcoholics, and worse yet, implying that if they're not, they just don't cut it as real men. Fits right in with all the binge drinking going on among the college students trying to get somewhere else.
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #2
Sun Oct 5, 2008 8:52 PM
Ma'am; we''re coming face to ace with the fact that capitalism does not work. The only problem is that we are possessed by the omnipotent idea of Capitalism. The Idea of Capitalism goes hard against the reality of capitalism, pushes here, charges there, climbs, sneaks, tunnels, and bluffs; but it cannot get around the fact that capitalism does not work. It does not work as a system in a single country, and it does not work as a system of the whole world. It is like the idea of the Ptolemaic Universe. A great idea to be sure, but it did not work. And humanity could only progress when humanity moved beyond it. That is how humanity progresses. When they realize that an idea, a form does not work to explain reality, and they move beyond it.., The trail of human progress is littered with failed ideas. Humors are gone, but so are absolute monarchs. Human sacrifices still remain, but rather than a single victim, all are expected to give their lives an inch at a time. The pain is about over. No more drugs are required. This can be difficult, or easy. The only reason the failure of capitalism hurts is that we believed in it. It was supposed to work. We believed it would work. We are told the fault is in us. Dis believe. Believe in yourself and in each other. Don't waste a moment of your life believing in capitalism. Don't ever believe you can put greed into one end of something and have virtue come out the other end. Capitalism is a failed idea. It is time for a new idea, and one that recognizes that people need justice every minute of their lives, and need as much from their lives as they put into them. We have been liiving short for a long time, living on promises, living on pain. That is about to end. Either we will be killed off by the transformation before us or we will find the promised land in America.
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Posted by: Boni
Comment: #3
Tue Oct 7, 2008 8:39 PM
YOU're RIGHT ON THE PAPER MONEY! As worthless it it until Joe- Main St. pays his taxes. Good luck to Joe when he finds a job within a 1000 miles of his tent that he has to bicyle for days to get to. Because He had to give up the car that he can't afford gas for anymore.. This story does have a silver-lining- Joe's slim and trim and he looks good when he drives-up to take his sugar to tea!
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