Grabbed By The Mortgage Hairs

Grabbed By The Mortgage Hairs:

People all over keep wondering where the American protest movement is. Why aren’t those lazy Americans up in arms over Iraq? Why aren’t they screaming about all the evil Georgie Boy is doing at the Bali conference on global Warming? Why are they using so much energy, so much oil, committing so much pollution?

It’s really simple:

When the corporations own 95% of your media, no one is going to hear any argument the corporations don’t want you to hear.

When you only have choices a, b, c, d, e, and F in cars to buy, you are going to own one of those cars.

When there are only clothes from sweatshops on your store shelves, you aren’t likely to be going naked in the winter around here, especially since they’ll arrest you for it, which means you’d probably get fired for not showing up at work while you’re in jail. Maybe you might get out of jail and still have your job. Then you’ll get fired for showing up at work naked. On top of that, you’ll get sued in court for every penny or possession you have left for "sexual harassment" because you showed up naked at work. Nobody cares that you’re protesting about sweatshop clothes when they can get all your money and a good view of your unmentionables for entertainment.

Americans are spending so much on housing, insurance, transportation, food, clothing, electricity, and heating fuel that most of them are working two jobs at the same time their spouses are working two jobs just to pay for it all. They are getting by on mostly five or six hours a night of sleep on a good night.

In the 1960’s, most Americans had one person working one job, and the other one staying home to take care of the children and the home. Since American’s real wages have stayed close to the same while their cost of living has escalated through the roof, they either work themselves to death so as not to look like a deadbeat and be utterly abandoned by the opposite sex or buy everything on credit cards until the roof caves in in on their sleepless heads.

Have any of you Europeans gone a year on only six hours a night of sleep? Try it and see how much protest you have left in you. Then try a year on five hours a night.

You are asking a nation of exhausted wage slaves to rise up. They look really intimidating until they hide the yawns behind their fists.

My mortgage alone, on a relatively low-end house, is around $2,800.00 per month. My take home pay is around $2,700.00 per month, as a skilled technician. That doesn’t count car insurance, heating bills, electricitry bills, phone bills, car payments, groceries, medical expenses, roadway tolls, gasoline, parking expenses, telephone bills, internet service charges, cable TV charges, or God forbid, a book or a movie.

The real cost of living for the average US family is around $6,000.00 per month in the Chicago area. Unless you are a highly paid coprporate executive or the owner of a successful small company, your wages from your primary job don’t come close.

This is not even looking at any expensive electronic toys, or cheap electronic toys, or any toys at all.

Most people around here make around half or so what I do or even less on their primary job. I can’t even imagine how they are eating, let alone raising children.

It got like this slowly - as the US jobs moved over to other countries. From 1970 to 2007, over the course of thirty years. Never have frogs been brought to a boil more slowly. Now, they are simply too exhausted to try to jump out of the pot.

Beware - the cheap labor corporate con artists want to do this to everyone, everywhere. You can all get as angry as you want at the lazy Americans. They’re probably too tired out from working two or three jobs or scads of overtime plus two to four hours of commuting to and from work to hear you, much less care. They’re probably too tired to care about anything. That’s what a few decades of sleep deprivation will do to you.

Dan