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’

Wornout Religious Props

the lord of the universe does not bid us fight for his dominance on this tiny planet

he does not ask us to prove our faith and worthiness via killing and destruction

god does not trumpet calls for ever-increasing spending on the weapons of death

he certainly does not demand significant troop buildups in far off foreign lands

your empty threats to deny your corny paradise to straying followers is a comic but criminal sham

impressing the poor, helpless and ignorant with expensive monuments is simply immoral

surely he would never reserve a place in paradise for the conned & ignorant suicide bomber

it is most certainly a criminal contradiction to kill in the name of any loving savior

he does not smile upon pilots murdering from far away via multimedia video game interfaces

there is no way that a politician’s prayer is answered with a divine counsel to war

a true god does not bid us hold women as second class, ignorant, barefoot and pregnant

no omnipotent lord would ever need our puny defense against men’s laughable blasphemies

no prince of heaven would need demand armies be raised to prove our fealty

an omniscient god measures our devotion other than by the love he should easily see in our hearts

he need not worry us over the destruction of any temples if his word is true

his message of mercy and love would certainly be all the weapons we should ever need

surely our lives are hard enough that he does not require bloody crusades from us

our merciful father would not set any of his children against each other

this god of love would need no tests of faith during which we must kill and perish

your calls to fight for god are prima facie evidence of the falseness of your beliefs

any god of mine could not take satisfaction in your smiting his enemies on our little world

an unholy, greedy alliance of priests and politicians directs your cult of divine personality

only your venal, childlike gods call on followers to bring death to non-believers

only gods that you invent demand the sacrifice of war as a test of our faith

you look forward to global poverty and ignorant faith to re-invigorate your powers

your current fictions worked best during the dark ages, not the age of reason

you pervert the very human need to faith to your own ends and for this you are condemned

your dusty books, ornate costumes and faded memorabilia are merely wornout props

the masks are off and its only you scared little men trying to grab earthly power

from elected holy pope to scowling ignorant mullah may your foolishness disappear

a scabby pox on your righteously pious calls to defend your fictional saviors

after 2500 years let us, at last, respin our beliefs, for these old myths are clearly outdated