They’ve Got the Money Honey, We’ve Got the Time

The Powers That Be are clearly afraid of the power of the unwashed masses. So afraid that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is trying to chase the OWS demonstrators from Liberty Park on the pretext of “cleaning up the public space.”

Mr. Mayor Moneybags says the demonstrators are free to return once the park is sanitized, but not with their tents or sleeping bags. Or anything else that would enable them to become the permanent presence that they have vowed to be in their fight to restore fairness to a corrupt economic system.

Thankfully, the 99% are more astute than the Tea Party Nation, and aren’t buying the lies perpetuated by evildoers like Barack Obama, John Boehner, Wiliam Daley, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, Grover Norquist, Tim Geithner, Bill Clinton, Clarence Thomas, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Dick Cheney, Joe Lieberman, Sean Hannity, David Koch, Wolf Blitzer, Rupert Murdoch, Dianne Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, Robert Rubin, Jeffery Immelt, Darrell Issa, or Rahm Emmanuel.

(I omitted Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum because they just don’t friggin’ matter.)

But the above-mentioned prevaricators and manipulators from both parties are  conspirators against us, you and me, the hard-working middle-class that’s just trying to hang onto a job, put a kid through college without lifelong indebtedness, meet a mortgage payment, save a little for retirement, and go out to eat once in awhile, if only for a $2 biscuits and gravy breakfast at our neighborhood Denny’s on a Saturday morning.

We once had big dreams and major aspirations. Now too many of us just feel lucky to know we’ll eat tomorrow and sleep in our bed for another night.

This is NOT the America I grew up in. So fellow travelers, please continue to Occupy Wall Street if you can physically be there, and support the movement financially if you can’t.

The 1% may have hoarded all the money, but you can’t hoard time. And time is something we have in abundance now that the bastards have outsourced our jobs.

Propagandists in RightWing Land have been parodying Theodor Geisel and recently generated an oh-so-clever-knock-off that made its way around Dubya’s Internets.

They called it “DR. SEUSS 2011” and it goes like this:

“I do not like this Uncle Sam, I do not like his health care scam.
 I do not like these dirty crooks, or how they lie and cook the books.
 I do not like when Congress steals, I do not like their secret deals.
 I do not like ex-speaker Nan, I do not like their 'YES, We Can.'
I do not like this spending spree, I'm smart, I know that nothing's free.
I do not like their smug replies when I complain about their lies.
 I do not like this kind of HOPE, I do not like it...nope, nope, nope!”

I think I’m more poetic than the paid propagandist think tanks that cranked out this crap, so here goes:

"You do not know your Uncle Sam nor do you recognize the scam
Perpetuated by Faux News to warp the Middle Class’s views
Until they are so Right they’re Wrong. Will someone please bring out the Gong?
Let’s get these stooges off the stage and train a fire hose on their rage.
I do not like the stupid Right whose lies have put us in this plight.
If Clarence Thomas stays in power this is indeed our darkest hour.
We must stand up for what is just or face an empire going bust."