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by: pfiore8

Sun Feb 21, 2010 at 16:08:58 PM EST


( - promoted by Alma)

                 IRS Pictures, Images and Photos

A guy whacks his plane into an IRS building. Another guy whacks his home to ground with a bulldozer.

and I'm thinking...   the American Dream's thinning veneer is starting to show its cracks.

cross posted at Daily Kos and at docudharma

pfiore8 :: out of whack
Our societal center of gravity, the rule of law, has collapsed. It doesn't work. Not when those who whacked (and are continuing to rape) a global economy get billions in bail outs as ordinary people lose their homes, health insurance, or their jobs.

It's this simple...

PhotobucketOrdinary people will begin to take action off-the-grid and right into the face of the power players. Yeah, that lawless and unregulated bunch whose off-the-grid greed has corrupted the ability of our country to function. Our very relationships as neighbors and citizens become destabilized when the law is not upheld. Innocent people get hurt or die as ordinary people take their actions off the grid, feeling squeezed and without any other recourse... lawlessness spreads... rules become ineffective as boundaries.

This is what happens when the lawless few are not held to account.

Whether bringing us into war to protect or steal resources in another country or rigging an entire financial system, the powerful few are not only not in front of grand juries but, instead, are still involved in decision-making by our government.

War profiteers, arms makers cum black market arms dealers, drug dealers, Wall Streeters, bankers, corporate conglomerate heads... all the lying and destruction and nobody is held accountable. Except the ordinary Americans being whacked. Or Iraqis. Those in Afghanistan. And it sounds like we'd love to whack Iran.

The government, on behalf of its true silent constituency, takes our tax dollars and gives them to people who have created an economy based on death and destruction.

And not on giving you health care. Are we clear yet?

Not on sound and secular education for your children. Are we clear YET?

And instead of investing our own tax money into creating jobs, it was given away to those who, rather than stimulate the economy via loans, told us to fuck ourselves as they rewarded their greed, fraud, and theft with more and bigger bonuses.

We need to do something. And rather than crash small planes into buildings, let's hit the real bad guys. In their pocket books.

Forget e-mailing your congressman. e-mail your friends and relatives. Let's organize a one-week complete and utter non-payment of all insurance premiums, mortgages, credit cards. Everyone sit out of work. All at the same time. And while we're at it, throw out the local politicians and county aldermen and councilmen. Work grass roots and net roots.

It's time to play this game off-the-grid. It's time to move it onto another board, run by other rules. It's time to change this game.

Once we have their attention, let's get the rule of law rein-stated. And then work on the rest of that damned long list.  


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can we learn something from this? (8.00 / 6)

In California, Exhibit A in Debate on Insurance

... Anthem and WellPoint have explained what the industry calls a recessionary death spiral: as unemployment and declining wages prompt healthy people to drop their insurance, he remaining risk pool becomes sicker and more expensive to insure, which in turn forces up prices and pushes more people out of the market.

people dropping insurance hurts the company... whaddya know. we have some power after all . . .

not quite the lesson they thought some of us would take from it, but what can i say?


let's light up ways to redefine what happens tomorrow . . . (8.00 / 6)
Chuck Schumer said, when the economy tanked in 2007, this is a moment.

Yeah, Chuck, but not quite they way you meant it...

The new poor: Millions face years without jobs


I love you peef (8.00 / 4)
You see the real areas to hit.

thanks Alma... (8.00 / 3)
and I love you too!

[ Parent ]
I don't guess you (8.00 / 3)
can find a picture for the top can you?  

Ria likes pictures (I think they look nice too) but I have to leave now.  If you can't or don't want a picture let me know.  If its can't, I can add one when I get back in a few hours.  Hope this makes sense, I hate typing when I'm in a hurry.  LOL


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It is good (8.00 / 5)
I have been on a rampage ever since I saw Food INC.  You are right we have to take back control over our lives and beat them where it hurts, there bottom line.


If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra  


OOPs I mean this is good LOL (8.00 / 5)
Hope the pic is OK.


If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra  


[ Parent ]
I like it :) (8.00 / 4)
Now I'm off again.

[ Parent ]
the pic is perfect (8.00 / 5)
thanks Kathleen!

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Oh and Thanks Sister (8.00 / 4)
4:00 - 7:00 is one of my busy times of day.  Thanks for the back up.  :)

[ Parent ]
I saw excerpts of Food Inc. (8.00 / 6)
Back during Slow Food Nation with Jill Richardson.

They showed that scene with the guy who was so proud of the fact that his company is adding ammonia to hamburgers. I've been a foodie ever since.

I've seen the whole movie since but ammonia to hamburgers? I don't even mop my floor with ammonia because it is too toxic.  


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I wrote an essay (8.00 / 5)
just pulled it over from the other firefly site and posted it here.

Nice pic here!

That movie really got me going!!!


If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra  


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Welcome to the club, Eddy C! (8.00 / 3)
ammonia to hamburgers? I don't even mop my floor with ammonia because it is too toxic.  

I don't even keep ammonia anywhere in my house because it's too unsafe and toxic!

Ammonia in hamburgers??  Yikes!  

The more things change, the more they stay the same.


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Throw out the local politicians and county aldermen and councilmen? (8.00 / 5)
But they are only in training for the real corruption show.  

I think thats the problem (8.00 / 6)
that little "in training" thing.  Its hard to find people that don't end up being lured into that scene.  

I figure there are probably quite a few that start out okay, and either they turn corrupt or end up losing or dropping out for higher office because they can't compete with the corrupt money machine.


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I havent' seen the movie Food, Inc., and probably won't, because I enjoy food too much, but (8.00 / 3)
I'll say this:

I make it a point to shop at a place where no antibiotics or hormones, let alone ammonia or any other chemicals are added to the poultry, beef or lamb.  I do avoid buying veal, which I used to love, because of other stuff that I won't mention that I've read/heard about, and I'm also just as picky with my produce.

As for baking cakes, etc., I make them out of scratch, and I use unbleached King Arthur flour instead of the regular Pillsbury cake flour, or  (heaven forbid) the Betty Crocker or Duncan Hines Cake mixes.  

The more things change, the more they stay the same.


This is what the movie is promoting (7.67 / 3)
but it give a powerful run down of the history of how we ended up where we are and putting the blame square on the fast food industry and greed.


If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra  


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Thanks for the heads up, Kathleen. (8.00 / 3)
n/t

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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