WWIII
I seriously, honestly believe that America and the rest of the world is involved in WWIII. Class warfare is being fought mostly out of sight and seriously soldiers only tell rank by the cut and cost of the tuxedo’s they wear. While we their enemy of whom they rule but run from sublimely scared; fight our fights on streets crumbling stumbling along with bills to pay and food to figure out how to get that at least three times a week we may dare to afford the petroleum gas to heat the food we willingly share and eat.
How did this war start? Was it begun over a hundred years ago while a group of the finely clad suits sat on handmade chairs round the campfire light trying to figure out the path to wealth and riches they could use to control the rest of humanities class of sons of bitches. Dogs! That is what we are to them of the black tie army HOGS! Is how I perceive them fighting for my few pennies of saving, for it is my life long earned few dollars they like to use as gravy for their Alba White Truffle.
Though I have no kerfuffle with $330,000 dollar fungi
I personally prefer this as my fungus of choice. It has
magic and is not all that tragic on my wallet. Our wallets it seems to be the battleground
of this war. It’s all good and cool that this war without sound that rages has
come upon us in stages because no matter what you call it, though I will never
taste a $2800 Wagyu Steak (very tasty at the start but look at the fat and think of your poor man's heart)
I am happy to be counted worthy to be in the army of the “once had some but lost it all so now I’m
counted poor and not a dick.” We, the masses of billions who have
little but debt they the tuxedo class ran up are truly the honestly best. For a
man with nothing to lose has no war to fight and plenty of time for my eyes to
rest and I have you by my side leaning against this wall we have won this
warfare of class, they have none we have it all.
© M Durfee
© M Durfee
8/10/13
ha. i would rather hang with the poor than rich any day...they got nothing i want really...now if we could stop killing our own side in the struggle...now that would be the trick
ReplyDeleteThat last line Brian is the truth and one of the many tricks the tuxedo party uses to divide us one from another. If they can make our differences seem insurmountable or get enough people believing a lie (Obama was born in Kenya for example) they divide us and you know what they say about divide and conquer.
DeleteI think you're right. I saw a comparison between feudalism in the Middle Ages and today, with corporations replacing the nobles. Seemed pretty accurate.
ReplyDeleteSeriously Charles, I get the feeling that even though I have paid my mortgage off I am nothing more than a tenant because i have to pay the landlord "Rent" (taxes) on property I own and if I fail or am unable to pay the amount they determine then they can remove me from my land. What's the difference between feudalism and sharecropping and owning a house? Owning a house gives me the right to pay thousands upon thousands for the structure and the land it sits on but I still have to pay rent to retain it.
DeleteWW#3 has been going on for ever and a day as it all boils down to mammon money ... happiness can not be bought ... but I always feel happy, when I give. PS: The first pic looks suspiciously like dog with liver disease turds ...
ReplyDeleteMeowness There was a multitude of pictures i could have used to show an Alba White Truffle but you figured out why I chose that one. A $30,000 (possible selling price) for a freaking shroom.
DeleteEveryone feels good when they give to what they consider a worthy effort but in my eye there is more to it than money, there is power and the point I was trying to make was that the tuxedo class only has the power I give them over me.
Sure money will buy some nice things, for me a better house in a quieter neighborhood would not hurt me on the other hand I have no envy for them who have one, ergo not only money but the desire for what money can get has no power with me. You are younger than me but you watch in your lifetime here in Detroit there are going to be plenty of people who have been made wealthy because they bought a couple of hundred foreclosed properties they rent out now and when this market shows a bounce back up they will sell---the problem I have with that is they acquired their wealth off of the misery of others.
This WWW 3 is quite an eye opener, no rage but we are all dying in debts ~ My taste buds are rather simple Mark, just plain mushrooms will do ~
ReplyDeleteGrace---There is plenty of rage but it is tempered by knowledge that most employment is at will and as a nation the once middle class' biggest fear is loss of employment.That fear weighs heaviest on those of my generation who at one time knew how to protest against what was perceived as a great wrong (Vietnam war). We have very publicly and practical effectually been told that we cost to much to employ and one wrong move (such as a European national one day strike) could cost us the job we need to have until we get to retirement age.
DeleteYeah, the war rages on...quietly. Has been for decades. I guess, in the end, you have to be happy with what you have. I don't have much and I'm not blindly happy, but I'm good. :)
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DeleteBlindly happy Talon what is that and how long does it last? Until something hits the personal door of the affected then the sut eyes become all of a sudden fear filled and the mind freezes. I have stuff, but if it doesn't breathe it's not that important to me regardless of how much I like it or not. When we get fooled into thinking that if we don't have the latest and newest that is our downfall and the way we support the tuxedo class. I personaly own nothing Apple for example, not because i consider them to be in the Wal-Mart class but i don't think it's stock should be stuck north of $600. It after all accesses the same internet and allows me to make and recieve phone calls and if I wanted to really take a picture with a phone there are less expensive ones out there that are comparable and just as good at doing it.
Our desires are a part of our enslavement. So I think buying what you want and can afford is OK but just to keep up with those mythical Madison Avenue created Jones is just a fools games.
You are noble!
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And you Cloudia are an anchor to my nobility. Always making sure i stay grounded in what is important even though you don't write your posts (mostly) with me in mind.
DeleteEver since we humans climbed out of trees and decided to stay up right on our legs - no doubt to get a better view of what the other humans were up to...ever since THEN we have been into dividing into tribes and deciding who had the power to make the mass of up right beings complete for the smaller sliver of the pie...while the few dined on the rest of the it. It's probably more like WW 1,000,000.
ReplyDeleteBANG! That my dear is the sound of the hammer hitting the nail on the head. Keep the 7 odd billion of us competing for scraps while they make us believe that is our due, while the few long ago carried off the greater part of the pie. Seriously I understand what it takes to raise Kobe beef, but at a couple of hundred bucks a bite i think I could fine me seriously tasty bit of meat for far less. Now if the idea is to eat and enjoy, I doubt a piece of cooked just right Kobe is going to make me happier than a similar cut of and just as well cooked regular rd meat (which I rarely eat anymore anyway)
DeleteI love this prose poem, love the rhymes and rhythm - and as for the views expressed, well, corporate greed is something to detest, and the richest things in life are free :-)
ReplyDeleteCinnamon-Have I ever told you that among spices I love you the best, I use you on my cereal and pancakes and a few other odds and ends and that was before that I found out you were good for my diabetes.
DeleteDefeating corporate greed is easy to plan and not so easy to do but when we all get into situations where we barter for goods and services withholding more and more $$$ from shareholder and CEO profits then we will be able to say we have engaged in war in the method of our choosing.
Good stuff to ponder over, M.
ReplyDeleteWe used to have one of the strongest middle-class. It is no longer the case. Two jobs can barely pay the bills. An education will set you back fifty thousand before you even have a job!
Rosaria Education is key, but is having a degree proof of knowledge in a field? I am looking into MOCC the online free classrooms where you are expected to participate and do homework. You get a certificate that says you completed the course (only 10 of 100 so far is average). But knowledge has always been free, it is the experience of college I think my children went into debt for. One left school with a job and 80K worth of debt for a Degree that now pays him 90k per year 7 years after leaving school.
DeleteHe tells me his value increased once he learned the engineering of the business he was hired into. Now he is getting steadily better reviews among his peers for quality of product and work ethic, will he be able to pay off the 80K in the thirty years and have a home of his own and all of the attendant bills that come with it. I don't know, his girlfriend works and if they spent 10 years cutting way back on everything but that one bill maybe by his forties they could move ahead but for now, no you are absolutely correct 2 and even 3 paychecks still does not guarantee you entree into the middle class when you factor in debt.
I put this debacle of paid for education purely at the feet of the quest for University's quest for prestige and grant money. If professors tenured contracts generally only come up for renewal every 3-5 years why is it that every August almost every university raises tuition. What are our children paying for especially at public Schools? Did the magic dust fairy come around in August and sprinkle some and say the quality of your product ha gone up so raise your rates and help the economy at the same time, someone has to pay for theose lab ra...I mean students.
I just wrote a huge comment and blogger ate it. Grrr. Anyway, I agree with Brian, and debt is the new slavery that the 1 percent uses to keep the rest of us down. If I had known then what I know now, I wouldn't have taken out a student loan as the huge contradiction is yes, I got my education to get a better job, but I can't buy a house because I still am paying them back and they are killing my credit. I was an idiot to go to college; I couldn't afford it, but it is what it is. John was smart to join the military to avoid student loans, but then the IRS got him when his business failed. America is in decline and WW3 is against the very people who labored to make her great--us.
ReplyDeleteSusan Although everything you wrote is true it was the IRS coming after your husband because the banks ruined the economy which ruined his business.
DeleteNO! You were not an idiot for going to school, you were just born twenty years to late when a college degree was not only affordable on a middle class salary if the parents were willing to sacrifice for the four years a bachelors took to get, and most were. But your problem is that they have you on the non-tenure treadmill. That is where the real unfairness comes in. Tenure at the school you teach at would seriously give you a living wage.
Honestly though it was quite clever of congress to make student debt one of the few types of debt you cannot bankrupt out of. They know what they are doing to your generation and them that follow, forcing you to cut your lifestyle to the bone until the only thing left to cut is your throat and even then the debt is not forgiven.
If it were up to me i would do for students the same thing the Fed is STILL doing for banks and open the money window to anyone with more than 5k of student loan debt lend them exactly enough to pay it off at exactly the same interest rate the banks get (0.005% or thereabouts)but then the banks would whine because people would be unshackled faster, costing them money they would not have had we not done TARP and QE1,2,3 & infinitum it seems.
Yes that is the whole truth in this piece and if I am cursed for calling class warfare the truth of what is basically wrong with out financial system then I will wear that bright green embroidered T(ruth) proudly.
I was in debt up to my asshole and beyond had it not been for a settlement for breaking my neck in an auto accident I still would be. Don't have much of it left but we now live on 25% of what i made when i was able to work.So paying off the debts and not creating new ones is an easier life but in return I am unable to work at the only thing i ever earned money at. And a lot of pain.
I wish you would think seriously of this, there are many fine universities here, you can get a very (VERY) nice house for about 1/4 of what one of similar size would cost you there. You and your family are urban folk. Once the bankruptcy is mostly over property values will go up. John is a master carpenter right? There is work for him here, and school, public, charter or private are all fairly reasonable. I thin that you especially would find that with all of the education turmoil here and teachers leaving for greener pastures would be able to find a tenure track job at one of the private universities of quality. UofD, Madonna, Mercy.
I know i am suggesting great risk but I am also suggesting a possible way for you to be in a nicer neighborhood, get a better job and maybe just maybe find a way to pay off your chains faster than you thought you could.
email me.
There are so many examples of how corporations are screwing their workers and the rest of us. I don't see any hope really. Cut back wages and cut back hours and don't pay any benefits so that the corporate big whigs can pad their pockets. How many boats and cars and homes is enough? Greed is everywhere. Sick of it.
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