Greetings good citizen, after the Conservative Coup dubbed Morning in America we encountered a decided shift in economic policy...one that made the US a 'service economy' and many formerly publicly funded entities were 'privatized' as the pursuit of profits replaced commerce's original mandate of meeting the needs of the public.
Nobody knew at the time that YUPPIES would yield/become the nation's first crop of YOYO's! Now that the 'boomers' are reaching retirement age [but can't because they have nothing to show for forty years of being stiff armed by the self-interested's mismanagement of commerce.] SO they become the safety net's problem...and what a problem they'll be!
Older readers know what YUPPIE and YOYO mean but for my younger readers I'll spare you the trouble...[with background music.] Back when I first heard the term YUPPIE [it was in a song] and it meant young and upwardly mobile. Well that applied to exactly no one that I knew so like many things YOU will experience in life, some of them are like unicorns, rare, bordering on non-existent. [The only practical example of a Yuppie would be a Rock Star who would rise into the heavens only to disappear a few months later.
The second term we could ALL relate to because it means 'You're On Your Own!'
A bit more on that topic if you'd indulge me. What YOYO meant (even at the time) was 'the death of the American dream.' Literally half of my peers never owned a house and 99% of us don't have A.) pensions or B.) 'silver helmets' (sometimes referred to as 'a job for life' with which you could prepare for a 'secure future'.
My personal resume is so long if I held it to my chin it would hit the floor AND it's almost completely 'phantom' [meaning the places I worked no longer exist so there wasn't much chance of getting a pension from them in either direction. [Prior to privatization, pensions acted like 'loyalty programs' and were used as part of employee retention programs during the overly competitive war years.
But like most things capitalist, once Europe rebuilt its industrial base loyalty was discarded. I believe it was my generation that saw the return of 'you're lucky you even HAVE a job!' attitude...which is also a symptom of the raging unemployment crisis that capitalism wasn't built to deal with.
In this respect the 'woke' phenomenon must have the people running this shitshow hemorrhaging pineapples. Between black lives matter and an unchecked posse of armed thugs on the public payroll people are starting to ask, who is in charge of this dump? (Because THEY need to be FIRED!)
This is just as disturbing as the news that the cop who murdered an innocent, unarmed black man was fired from the force.
WTF, now cops don't know what to do when one of their own commits MURDER? We got the WRONG PEOPLE toting guns round here! [Worse, we got the wrong people overseeing this travesty, the entire legal system is in dire need of a douche!
[But don't take MY word for it...]
So when your peers start telling you how the Boomers wrecked everything I just want to set the record straight and tell you about the what WE inherited from the so called 'Greatest' generation who, out of blind patriotism, voted Republican because they wrapped themselves in the flag while raping the workers of this nation.
'Let those that OWN the country, RULE the country!' [Last time I looked Buckwheat, you didn't own squat so your 'vote' means nothing...and neither did theirs!
Gotta walk it back children!
The good intentioned (but soft headed) cannot be blamed for their 'faith' but blind faith is its own reward. They HOPED for a miracle and that's what they got, HOPE.
Some of them pretended it meant something but most know exactly what it means to have your faith betrayed and that's disappointment. [Sort of like those who are waiting for God's 'return' when there is zero evidence he was EVER here! [but that's another fable altogether...]
Healthcare, that festering swamp of private interests was 'privatized' by none other than St. Ronnie Reagan [who also preached we were all going to retire millionaires, back when interest rates on money market funds were in the double digits! Who knew [like houses] that they wouldn't always rise! Oh, let me remind you who eliminated the Gold Standard and left St. Ronnie with astronomical inflation...Richard Nixon.
If you don't think the economy has screwed the pooch over the past fifty years, think again.
Thanks to privatization the price of a house has jumped from $20,000 to 2,000,000.
And its not that the bills are going to come due it's that the economy will grind to a halt when nobody can afford to eat. [YOU won't be able to afford food nor will you be able to 'liquidate' because there will be 'too few buyers', something that's driving the economy into the basement at this moment. It's why brick & mortar stores are collapsing, not enough customers and physical stores can't afford to pay employees while keeping their prices down.
It's 'mismanagement' but it's being blamed on 'automation'.
How ironic if we automated ourselves out of existence? [Proper context...if we LET ourselves be automated out of existence because of nitwit beancounters!]
Writing is on the wall TODAY people and this ship is sinking right here and now! [If YOU'VE been 'priced out of the market', tough!]
IF YOU don't purge the legal/legislative systems YOU will be 'left for dead' and nobody will fire a shot or come to your aid. You already know the feckless media will IGNORE you.
REMEMBER: this is the country where a form to file a complaint against police injustice DOESN'T EXIST! [You have to keep your complaints in your head because they don't allow evidence of abuse to hang around. IF you succeed in filing a written complaint it WILL get lost (but they won't lose your name or address, that's the first piece of information THEY WANT, who is RATTING THEM OUT!)
Still on the fence about exiling the lot of 'em wholesale? [Rhetorical question.]
Naturally this all begs the question of 'what is the PURPOSE of Commerce?' Does commerce exist to meet the needs of the public or [since 'privatization' and the conservative takeover of the Supreme court] does it exist to enrich those who own it?
If you answered BOTH you are DEAD wrong. [With the 'dead' part coming much sooner than you expect.]
I belabor the obvious when I say society can't go on like this but society continues to be whatever the media tells us it is, thus the mask (of comparative normalcy) has carried the feckless this far.
If experience teaches us anything this whole situation could turn on a dime...and it probably will as the mid-terms approach.
What do you think is going to change even if both houses turn blue?
They still take their marching orders from the people who fund their campaigns...and both sides get their money from the SAME PLACE.
Sing it children: 'What kind of fool...'
Thanks for stopping by and opening your mind/woodshed/outhouse,
Gegner
Nobody knew at the time that YUPPIES would yield/become the nation's first crop of YOYO's! Now that the 'boomers' are reaching retirement age [but can't because they have nothing to show for forty years of being stiff armed by the self-interested's mismanagement of commerce.] SO they become the safety net's problem...and what a problem they'll be!
Older readers know what YUPPIE and YOYO mean but for my younger readers I'll spare you the trouble...[with background music.] Back when I first heard the term YUPPIE [it was in a song] and it meant young and upwardly mobile. Well that applied to exactly no one that I knew so like many things YOU will experience in life, some of them are like unicorns, rare, bordering on non-existent. [The only practical example of a Yuppie would be a Rock Star who would rise into the heavens only to disappear a few months later.
The second term we could ALL relate to because it means 'You're On Your Own!'
A bit more on that topic if you'd indulge me. What YOYO meant (even at the time) was 'the death of the American dream.' Literally half of my peers never owned a house and 99% of us don't have A.) pensions or B.) 'silver helmets' (sometimes referred to as 'a job for life' with which you could prepare for a 'secure future'.
My personal resume is so long if I held it to my chin it would hit the floor AND it's almost completely 'phantom' [meaning the places I worked no longer exist so there wasn't much chance of getting a pension from them in either direction. [Prior to privatization, pensions acted like 'loyalty programs' and were used as part of employee retention programs during the overly competitive war years.
But like most things capitalist, once Europe rebuilt its industrial base loyalty was discarded. I believe it was my generation that saw the return of 'you're lucky you even HAVE a job!' attitude...which is also a symptom of the raging unemployment crisis that capitalism wasn't built to deal with.
In this respect the 'woke' phenomenon must have the people running this shitshow hemorrhaging pineapples. Between black lives matter and an unchecked posse of armed thugs on the public payroll people are starting to ask, who is in charge of this dump? (Because THEY need to be FIRED!)
This is just as disturbing as the news that the cop who murdered an innocent, unarmed black man was fired from the force.
WTF, now cops don't know what to do when one of their own commits MURDER? We got the WRONG PEOPLE toting guns round here! [Worse, we got the wrong people overseeing this travesty, the entire legal system is in dire need of a douche!
[But don't take MY word for it...]
So when your peers start telling you how the Boomers wrecked everything I just want to set the record straight and tell you about the what WE inherited from the so called 'Greatest' generation who, out of blind patriotism, voted Republican because they wrapped themselves in the flag while raping the workers of this nation.
'Let those that OWN the country, RULE the country!' [Last time I looked Buckwheat, you didn't own squat so your 'vote' means nothing...and neither did theirs!
Gotta walk it back children!
The good intentioned (but soft headed) cannot be blamed for their 'faith' but blind faith is its own reward. They HOPED for a miracle and that's what they got, HOPE.
Some of them pretended it meant something but most know exactly what it means to have your faith betrayed and that's disappointment. [Sort of like those who are waiting for God's 'return' when there is zero evidence he was EVER here! [but that's another fable altogether...]
Healthcare, that festering swamp of private interests was 'privatized' by none other than St. Ronnie Reagan [who also preached we were all going to retire millionaires, back when interest rates on money market funds were in the double digits! Who knew [like houses] that they wouldn't always rise! Oh, let me remind you who eliminated the Gold Standard and left St. Ronnie with astronomical inflation...Richard Nixon.
If you don't think the economy has screwed the pooch over the past fifty years, think again.
Thanks to privatization the price of a house has jumped from $20,000 to 2,000,000.
And its not that the bills are going to come due it's that the economy will grind to a halt when nobody can afford to eat. [YOU won't be able to afford food nor will you be able to 'liquidate' because there will be 'too few buyers', something that's driving the economy into the basement at this moment. It's why brick & mortar stores are collapsing, not enough customers and physical stores can't afford to pay employees while keeping their prices down.
It's 'mismanagement' but it's being blamed on 'automation'.
How ironic if we automated ourselves out of existence? [Proper context...if we LET ourselves be automated out of existence because of nitwit beancounters!]
Writing is on the wall TODAY people and this ship is sinking right here and now! [If YOU'VE been 'priced out of the market', tough!]
IF YOU don't purge the legal/legislative systems YOU will be 'left for dead' and nobody will fire a shot or come to your aid. You already know the feckless media will IGNORE you.
REMEMBER: this is the country where a form to file a complaint against police injustice DOESN'T EXIST! [You have to keep your complaints in your head because they don't allow evidence of abuse to hang around. IF you succeed in filing a written complaint it WILL get lost (but they won't lose your name or address, that's the first piece of information THEY WANT, who is RATTING THEM OUT!)
Still on the fence about exiling the lot of 'em wholesale? [Rhetorical question.]
Naturally this all begs the question of 'what is the PURPOSE of Commerce?' Does commerce exist to meet the needs of the public or [since 'privatization' and the conservative takeover of the Supreme court] does it exist to enrich those who own it?
If you answered BOTH you are DEAD wrong. [With the 'dead' part coming much sooner than you expect.]
I belabor the obvious when I say society can't go on like this but society continues to be whatever the media tells us it is, thus the mask (of comparative normalcy) has carried the feckless this far.
If experience teaches us anything this whole situation could turn on a dime...and it probably will as the mid-terms approach.
What do you think is going to change even if both houses turn blue?
They still take their marching orders from the people who fund their campaigns...and both sides get their money from the SAME PLACE.
Sing it children: 'What kind of fool...'
Thanks for stopping by and opening your mind/woodshed/outhouse,
Gegner
In this respect the 'woke' phenomenon must have the people running this shitshow hemorrhaging pineapples. Between black lives matter and an unchecked posse of armed thugs on the public payroll people are starting to ask, who is in charge of this dump? (Because THEY need to be FIRED!)
ReplyDeleteLet us all sing the praises of the connoisseur who selected this entry for an encore! I seldom visit my archives so these gems are randomly re-introduced by an intrepid reader!
'Let those that OWN the country, RULE the country!' [Last time I looked Buckwheat, you didn't own squat so your 'vote' means nothing...and neither did theirs!
ReplyDeleteGotta walk it back children!