our leaders tell us...

[Hannah Bell]

Our leaders tell us that we need to worry about gay marriage and abortion. But they don't want to talk to us about corporate tax dodging. In their opinion, it's not the place of government to tell companies what to do with their profits, but it is the place of government to tell women what they can do with their uteruses.

Our leaders tell us that we don't have enough money to pay for public education, public health, public media, or public welfare. We do, however, have enough money to pay for the continuation of the Patriot Act. We have money for roving cell phone surveillance and plenty of resources to take naked pictures of our wives and daughters in the x-ray booths at the airport.

Our leaders tell us that we don't want public heath care because we don't want a government bureaucrat standing between us and our doctor. Perhaps they worry that the government bureaucrat would take the place of the insurance company bureaucrat already standing there.

For whose benefit do our leaders perform these acts of misdirection? Why, for their corporate paymasters, of course, for the people who give them money and power.

In exchange for these things, their job is to stand in a public pulpit and scream, "Muslims, queers, and greedy pensioners are coming to get you!" And while we watch them, their masters are busy picking our pockets...."We will accept no more misdirection. We have built the wealth of this nation with our own hands. We want our share of it. We will accept no more excuses."

http://socialistworker.org/2011/03/03/uncut-the-budget

[liberal N proud]

1. All we need to worry about is Charlie Sheen and who's next on Dancing with the Stars

The rest should be left up to the leaders to decide for us.

:sarcasm:

[madmax]

2. You're singing my song. nt