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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 12:50 PM
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The Profit, Carlin: "They want obedient workers, obedient workers."
Edited on Sun Mar-13-11 12:52 PM by kpete
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.


George Carlin



" There's a reason for this, there's a reason 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 real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the 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. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. 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 interests. That's right. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' 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 vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' 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 'cause they own this fuckin' 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 over 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 think and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and 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 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 will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the truth. It's called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/272/563/EPIC_rant:_The_Owners_of_this_Country_do_NOT_want_that._They_want_OBEDIANT_workers.html
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Carlin#Life_Is_Worth_Losing_.282005.29
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pinkkillersheep Donating Member (155 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 01:16 PM
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1. Sounds like he just has a problem with success.
Heh. Sarcasm, obviously.
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pocoloco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 01:39 PM
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2. American Dream
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 01:45 PM
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3. I've always got a K&R for George Carlin. n/t
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 01:47 PM
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4. K&R
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Raksha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 02:03 PM
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5. K & R - I recently upgraded from dial-up to DSL.
It was worth it just to be able to watch and listen to that world-class rant for the first time...which I just did.
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itsrobert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 02:06 PM
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6. The Prophet
Even Gary Busey knows that.
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