"You and I are not in the Big Club"
by George Carlin (Forward by Mark Faulk)
http://www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/Investing101/1070.html
(Editor's note: WARNING- This is an R-rated excerpt from George
Carlin's lastest special, "Life is worth Losing." It's been airing for
the past few months on HBO. The first time I saw it, and heard this
segment on what I have been calling "The Circle of Greed," about how
the ultra-wealthy use Washington and Wall Street to rob America blind,
about how the rich get richer and the rest of us get screwed, my first
thought was "if a 69 year-old comedian understands what's going on,
why don't those in charge get it?" And then I realized: they do get
it...and that's exactly the problem. But as Carlin says in a trailer
for this special, which was taped in 2005, "you can't shut me up, and
you can't dumb me down." Enjoy.)
There's a reason that education sucks, and it's the same reason it
will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better,
don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got. Because the owners
of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners
now, the big, wealthy, business interests that control all things and
make the big decisions.
Forget the politicians, they're irrelevant.
Politicians are put there to give you that idea that you have
freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners.
They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land,
they own and control the corporations, and they've long since bought
and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the State Houses, and the City
Halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all
the big media companies so they control just about all the news and
information you get to hear.
They've got you by the balls.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what
they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves
and less for everybody else. But I'll tell you what they don't
want—they don't want a population of citizens capable of critical
thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable
of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't
help them. That's against their interest. You know something, they
don't want people that are smart enough to sit around their kitchen
table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that
threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.
They don't want that, you know what they want?
They want obedient workers, obedient workers. People who are just
smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb
enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with
the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of
overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go
to collect it.
And now they're coming for your social security money.
They want your fucking retirement money; they want it back so they
can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know
something? They'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later
because they own this fucking place. It's a big club and you ain't in
it! You and I are not in the Big Club. By the way, it's the same big
club they use to beat you in the head with all day long when they tell
you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their
media telling you what to believe, what to believe, what to think and
what to buy.
The table is tilted folks, the game is rigged.
Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard
working people, white collar, blue collar, it doesn't matter what
color shirt you have on. Good honest hard working people continue,
these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich
cocksuckers who don't give a fuck about them. They don't give a fuck
about you. They don't give a fuck about…give a fuck about you! They
don't care about you at all, at all, at all.
And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.
That's what the owners count on, the fact that Americans are and
will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and
blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the
owners of this country know the truth, it's called the American Dream,
because you have to be asleep to believe it.
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