IN LESS THAN SIX MONTHS, YOU'LL THANK ME FOR TELLING YOU THIS

A lot of sick shit going on in this country nowadays.

People who try to maintain an honest living are now relying on charity food closets because their paycheck isn’t keeping up with the rising food prices (not to mention the rising cost of fuel to get them TO and FROM their jobs.) Of course, that’s if they have jobs. Those are drying up faster than the price inflated fruit and vegetables on the supermarket counter.

And in the meantime, the stock market continues to bounce on back. (Oh, joy! That must be great news for those who are cashing out their 401K early to keep up with the house payments!) And meanwhile, Uncle Ben and the Fed are supposedly planning to lower their main interest rate again (and for those of you keeping score, that will be the seventh time Bernanke's Fed has cut the rate since September of 2007.) Because of this narrow gain in the marketplace, the pundits of CNBC, Motley Fool, et al, are pooh-poohing the supposedly silly naysayers who are, in the opinion of these Wall Street apologists’ (horse blinder-aided) view of the real world, making a big deal out of nothing! The economy is fine, in their high and mighty anointed estimation! Just stick it out and everything will be just tits!

Oh, Wall Street, just fuck off and die already! This could end up being even worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s because there is actually more bailout opportunities for Big Business thanks to the whore-on-call rescue tactics of the U.S. Gummint. The Bush Administration really doesn’t need to listen to the concerns of actual working people (not that that’s ever really happened anyway.) Dubya Incorporated’s method of addressing the proletariat’s economic woes is to dole out chump change checks to everybody who filed income tax returns last year and tell ‘em “Hey, here’s a few bucks, go to Wal-Mart and get the fuck out of my face.” A $600 and up chicken in every pot.

Yeah, at this point, most of us are fucked. And most folks on the lower end of the system are probably stupid and apathetic enough at this point to let things continue to worsen without much reaction.

I may not be the Universal Master of All Answers, but I do know that those of us who do all the actual work in the world need to get together and do something SOON. Otherwise, although it may not happen in our lifetimes, there’s an excellent chance that, if you are part of the mainstream labor force now, in the near future your children and their children and so on will be owned. And I don’t mean, “owned” in any hip, slang, figurative sense.