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Buddy, I'm glad, really glad that you are not yet affected by the realities of the New economy. It's good to know that someone is doing alright, though a little discouraging how smug so many of them are.

But the truth, the verifiable with your senses truth, the truth you just don't want to hear, is that there are lots and lots of people struggling, not because they're not skilled, not because they're lazy, not because they're uneducated, but simply there are just not enough high paying jobs going around for families to face the brave new world of lost jobs, upsidedown morgages, million dollar homes, overpriced educations, skyrocketing medical expenses and goods and services in a state of long term inflationary creep.

My story is the story of nearly everyone I know who's lost their job in recent years. I can only find a new job if I settle downward on my salary; it's getting genuinely hard to imagine how we're going to get our 3 children through school, and hard to imagine that whatever education they ge will be worth the job market of deflated expectations that will await them since they won't go to a top of the line school.

We live in a plutocracy. Merit and experience are useless. The public's dreams are popcorn fed with idolatry; athletes with ridiculous salaries lure kids into believing impossible live can be gotten easily,singers and musicians have no work and can only hope to get picked in a stupid tv roman circus lottery, writers and "news" anchors had better be gorgeous and wealthy and ready to crank out crapola to get published and hard working, inventive scientists increasingly find the only work out there involves cranking out worthless trash for corporate propaganda,

Buddy, you can sit there thinking all is well; doesn't affect you. I know the steamroller just hasn't found you yet. Give it time, The system has no place for any but the profoundly corrupt and the self serving wealthy. If you haven't noticed reality, you are might be one of these, but since I've encountered you on Digg, you are more likely one of the brainwashed zombies who still believe the superwealthy are going to pee some pennies your way. So I suppose you should keep a cup handy for the trickle down.

Me, I'm going to keep trying. But I will not be told by any smug assh**e that I cannot point out the nastiness, and call like a plainly see it. If hearing the real story bugs you, there's always total sensory derivation. Nothing will touch you there. Wallow in your lack of feelings.

And then we won't have to listen to you whining about how we're "winning" when all we're doing is speaking aloud that which your political gods would rather remain unsaid.

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