The Real Owners of the U.S. by George Carlin

[HELLRAISER]

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The Real Owners Of America
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"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. 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 statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've 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. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.

"You know what they want? Obedient workers people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, 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. They want your fucking 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, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club."

"This country is finished."

 

[drf]

Rest in Peace George...you are missed.

 

[The Grasshopper]

This is true... we are all slaves. :bowdown:

 

[jasonk282]

And here I though it was China

 

[morison1954]

America is in massive rancid moral economic political and otherwise decline. This is an inarguable obviousness to those who live in decent countries with effective polities. We despise the smug mass murdering torturing inclinations resident in the long perverted American soul. No one would mind if you would quietly and humbly get on with fucking yourselves but that's not the American way. You've still got to finish ruining the future of Afghans, Pakistanis, Iranians, Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis, and whatever future fodder you can find for your perpetual war machine. You remit your young for maiming and death for domestic political convenience. And get a load of the whining, grizzling, war mongering, religious hatred when some poor silly bastard sets his undies on fire. The British put up with IRA bombing for decades and did so with stoicism, policing, reason and dignity. I can't recall mass cowardice from the survivors of the blitz. Americans have become big girls' blouses and an embarrassment. I'm sorry if I've made anyone cry.

 

[darkwarrior3007]

The real owners of the U.S. is actually the real government of the U.S. The People. Unfortunately the people are too fucking stupid to realize it.

 

[Ol-Skool-Perv]

I agree with George 100%

Y'all got to throw the 'Fed' to the turf and get yer country back. It ain't blue v red, it's us v them

 

[grimey]

 

[Mayhem]

America is in massive rancid moral economic political and otherwise decline. This is an inarguable obviousness to those who live in decent countries with effective polities. We despise the smug mass murdering torturing inclinations resident in the long perverted American soul. No one would mind if you would quietly and humbly get on with fucking yourselves but that's not the American way. You've still got to finish ruining the future of Afghans, Pakistanis, Iranians, Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis, and whatever future fodder you can find for your perpetual war machine. You remit your young for maiming and death for domestic political convenience. And get a load of the whining, grizzling, war mongering, religious hatred when some poor silly bastard sets his undies on fire. The British put up with IRA bombing for decades and did so with stoicism, policing, reason and dignity. I can't recall mass cowardice from the survivors of the blitz. Americans have become big girls' blouses and an embarrassment. I'm sorry if I've made anyone cry.

It's all fun and games until you actually get your wish. I'm with you buddy. I want my country to go back to it's pre-WWII, isolationist stance. Get out of Korea, the Japans, Europe, SW Asia and everywhere else I haven't mentioned. No sarcasm, I really want this. Fuck protecting the rest of the world. The next time genocide, ethnic-cleansing, piracy or all out warfare is committed anywhere, if it ain't one of the 50 states, fuck 'em, let 'em die. Someone wants to invade Saudi Arabia, cool. Have the new owners call us. We want to buy some oil.

The problem is (and once you catch your breath, you'll realize this is true), if the day occurs that you and I get our wish, it will take the world (Australia included) 2 weeks to realize how fucked they just became. And then the pleading and crying will start. "Please protect us, please come back." "Well, we would, but there's an all new Dancing With The Stars on, and we really can't be bothered. Good Luck!"

I genuinely hope that I live to see that day.:wave::wave::wave:

 

[D-rock]

He was borderline prophetic when he said that....then again it isn’t like it's that hard to see to anybody that has ever opened their eyes.

 

[maildude]

The American Dream...because you have to be asleep to believe it. I gotta remember that one! :thumbsup:

 

[morison1954]

Dear Mayhem
Your name says it all and your piece is but shameful thinly disguised menace. That's The American Way isn't it? Can other contributors envisage the myriad problems the world now faces with the USA playing a punch-drunk fighter in decline? Trying to hope with Obama is like trying to carrying smoke in a wheelbarrow. He is an American war boy.
The USA is more a bullying user than a protector. You offer no evidence that the America-isolated world would be less civilised or pleasant to live in. Just the tired old self-serving assumptions about the purity and perfection of Pax Americana. The civilized world is too civilised to buy American exceptionalism any more. It died at Guantanomo. Gorge on a military and politicians and generals will fill the coffins. Scale back on the war toys, give up mass murder and, given time, maybe more friends. Real friends not bullied pretend friends. The grandiose American absence of shame is insightlessness hazardously writ large. America is not the future. There is shrinkage in Dodge City. East Asia and its trading partners are the future. They will not get the top seat at the top table by self-righteousness, bullying and belligerence. They know it. American error is their text. Power follows the money.

 

[HELLRAISER]

It's all fun and games until you actually get your wish. I'm with you buddy. I want my country to go back to it's pre-WWII, isolationist stance. Get out of Korea, the Japans, Europe, SW Asia and everywhere else I haven't mentioned. No sarcasm, I really want this. Fuck protecting the rest of the world. The next time genocide, ethnic-cleansing, piracy or all out warfare is committed anywhere, if it ain't one of the 50 states, fuck 'em, let 'em die. Someone wants to invade Saudi Arabia, cool. Have the new owners call us. We want to buy some oil.

The problem is (and once you catch your breath, you'll realize this is true), if the day occurs that you and I get our wish, it will take the world (Australia included) 2 weeks to realize how fucked they just became. And then the pleading and crying will start. "Please protect us, please come back." "Well, we would, but there's an all new Dancing With The Stars on, and we really can't be bothered. Good Luck!"

I genuinely hope that I live to see that day.:wave::wave::wave:

The U.S. is an imperialist country who doesn't go around the world to "protect" the native inhabitants who really want the U.S. to GTFO of their homelands so they can truly govern themselves and be free to practice self-determination, freedom, and independence. In reality, the U.S. goes around the world to "protect" big greedy corporate interests by empowering right wing extremists with strong ties to organized crime who are more than eager and willing to be puppets for greedy U.S. corporate interests

 

[shayd]

The most brilliant comedian ever, period. George could point out hypocrisies and idiosyncrasies of American life that to this day are unrivaled. Absolutely genius.

 

[Mayhem]

Dear Mayhem
Your name says it all and your piece is but shameful thinly disguised menace. That's The American Way isn't it? Can other contributors envisage the myriad problems the world now faces with the USA playing a punch-drunk fighter in decline? Trying to hope with Obama is like trying to carrying smoke in a wheelbarrow. He is an American war boy.
The USA is more a bullying user than a protector. You offer no evidence that the America-isolated world would be less civilised or pleasant to live in. Just the tired old self-serving assumptions about the purity and perfection of Pax Americana. The civilized world is too civilised to buy American exceptionalism any more. It died at Guantanomo. Gorge on a military and politicians and generals will fill the coffins. Scale back on the war toys, give up mass murder and, given time, maybe more friends. Real friends not bullied pretend friends. The grandiose American absence of shame is insightlessness hazardously writ large. America is not the future. There is shrinkage in Dodge City. East Asia and its trading partners are the future. They will not get the top seat at the top table by self-righteousness, bullying and belligerence. They know it. American error is their text. Power follows the money.

The U.S. is an imperialist country who doesn't go around the world to "protect" the native inhabitants who really want the U.S. to GTFO of their homelands so they can truly govern themselves and be free to practice self-determination, freedom, and independence. In reality, the U.S. goes around the world to "protect" big greedy corporate interests by empowering right wing extremists with strong ties to organized crime who are more than eager and willing to be puppets for greedy U.S. corporate interests

Where do you guys get the impression that I'm arguing with you? I'm with you 100%. "Yankee come home." Tell NATO that their on the own, tell the U.N. to hit the road (maybe they'll relocate the General Assembly to Melbourne) and close down all foreign bases. Downsize the military to a completely self-defensive posture and spend all that money on American schools and farms.

First, South Korea goes. Then Japan gets hit by the Russians. India takes Australia (with my blessing). Bosnia, Croatia, Armenia and Turkey all become genocidal no-mans-lands. Syria winds up running the entire Mid-East, and tensions arise between them and Iran, who basically walked into Saudi Arabia without firing a shot. Israel gets backed into a corner and has to threaten the use of nukes (no clear winner on that one). China is then forced into the roll of power-broker, and I'm sure they'll be really good at it. Of course, those pesky Russians might have something to say about that.

While this, and an entire host of other invasions, coups and rebellions takes place, America uses it's reallocated resources on farming, education and self-defense (missle subs will play a big part). Since no one else will be able to feed themselves, due to all the strife everywhere else, they'll just have to come to us for their wheat,corn and soybeans. Give us the price we want for what we need (mainly oil), or starve.

Again, this is not an attempt at sarcasm. This is not a disagreement with, at least, the overall tone of the previous posts. We don't really need the rest of the world and we certainly don't need to waste our tax dollars defending it. Hell, overpopulation is the biggest impending crisis facing our planet. So, let people die. Let wars run unabated, let societies get wiped out, let the rest of the world cause and fix their own problems without so much as a comment from us.

 

[Bonezstorm]

Come on people, this old geezer is nothing more than a real life Abe Simpson
http://media.glamour.de/img/b640x550/zs/misc/0.1/57/38.jpg
But he mostly remembers me of this guy
http://www.rtl.nl/components/soaps/thekingofqueens/images/kingofqueens_arthur9x12.gif

 

[morison1954]

Dear Mayhem

Repetition does not truth make. Too much Faux News and not enough travel outside the fifty fuck-ups. You can't win easy wars against weak opponents. You can't organize a doctor. You can't teach kids in schools. You can't immigrate civilly. You can't source your dope without killing the neighbors. You Hummer to the mall to give away your money. Poverty and ghettoes. No shame. Your mighty Congress. Reality is TV. Who fucked Tiger? Sarah Palin? Who gives a warm shit? If the sheriff can't organize a piss-up in a brewery he should stop blazing away at his feet. Time to holster the big greasy dick and stop fucking poor folk up the ass? Just a few thoughts shared by many listened to by none.

 

[Mayhem]

Dude, who are you even talking too? And what are you talking about? :error:

If you need someone to rant to, pick someone else. I'm really not interested in pseudo-intellectual self gratification. We're done here.:lame:

 

[morison1954]

Dear Mayhem

Right royally done. I accept your decision to abandon the field. Thanks for being polite, playing the ball, not the man, and ever advancing the issues under examination. No hard feelings. That wouldn't be cricket.

 

[Rittermeister]

Ah, class warfare, fun, ain't it?