Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Building a better tomorrow via our ordained pursuit of individual happiness


Fighting environmental legislation that may restrict freedom and could drive up costs
Building flimsy firetrap strip malls along every new stretch of overpriced highway
Investing in security to the tune of ½ a trillion dollars per year with built-in increases
Draining unproductive wetlands and not missing the clean water, birds and fish a bit

Fighting for your right to a 5 ton behemoth to drive 50 miles every day to your shit job
Cutting costs to consumers by shifting expensive development, production and pollution overseas
Collecting rich memories staring waxy-eyed at your home entertainment center from the couch
Sharing quality family meal time with artificial fast food or at some corporate franchise restaurant

Going it alone, thinking we’re in the lead, while everyone else actually heads the other way
Allowing all forms of excessive noise as if it were some kind of a god-given constitutional right
Letting teenaged children of unwed grandmothers have even more kids be born on welfare
Encouraging all forms of vapid credit consumption all for the sake of our blessed GDP

Eliminating guilt through absolute trust in decisions made all alone with our personal savior
Vilifying the opposition and reducing all issues to incontrovertible black and white soundbites
Building a better tomorrow planning ahead nearly one whole business quarter at a time
Meeting shareholder stock price responsibilities via layoffs, benefit cuts, mergers and outsourcing

Advancing global society via our negative saving rate lifestyles and their 14 hour work days
Rolling out a glossy advertising campaign instead of developing new and better products
Subsidizing corporate agriculture while forcing bogus free trade deals upon smaller economies
Finishing off the remaining old growth which eliminates both logging and tourist jobs - at once

Creating artificial confusion over climate change in a shared corporate-governmental strategy
Raising prices on disappearing fish to encourage supply so that every last one will be caught
Tainting food with un-inspected foreign ingredients and then proudly selling it as Packaged in USA
Simply ignoring the steady decay of our roads, bridges, water systems, electrical grid and internet

Outlaying far more for prison warehousing than fostering childhood development
Spending social security as collected instead of investing it for later recipients
Researching erectile dysfunction and botox instead of superbugs, malaria and pandemic flu
Bravely rebuilding in the middle of flood zones in gross denial of costs and common sense

Erecting a giant fence by Mexico while Europe adopts a single currency and border
Increasing our foreign technological dependence just as our domestic ignorance proudly swells
Touting a free market based health care system that both overprices and under-serves
Institutionalizing a two-party system grown shamefully paralyzed by divisive partisanship

Fostering a devotion to corporate sport devoid of anything but a greed-filled profit motive
Passing 10000 page omnibus spending bills where everyone gets a piece of pork
Dumbing down their tests, inflating their grades and calling them tomorrow’s world leaders
Excusing vast social and environmental destruction by cynically mouthing ‘You cant stop progress’

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