Why Do Pigs Return to the Trough Time After Time?

An example of the old, mainstream, mass media asking (& then conveniently answering) questions that a fifth-grader (the one that most AmeriKKKans are stupider than) wouldn't bother to ask, from Newsweek. And, an excellent example of why we were driven mad (literally)by employment at FedExKinko's.

Federal Express CEO Fred Smith gave an interview to the [WSJ] editorial page in which he endorsed Sen. John McCain: "Because I agree with him on trade, taxes, energy and health care."

We can assure you that Mr. Smith's* attitudes extend to how those unfortunate enough to be employed by his oppressive corporate entity are paid & treated, and that the lovely alliteration of "Fuck you, Fred," couldn't be applied to a more deserving piece of human scum. On top of that we've had to contend w/ AmeriKKKa itself. From another Newsweek piece on the theme of the economy:

We Americans are progress junkies. We think that today should be better than yesterday and that tomorrow should be better than today. Compared with most other peoples, we place more faith in "opportunity" and "getting ahead." We may now be on the cusp of a new era that frustrates these widespread expectations. It is not just the present financial crisis and its astonishing side effects, from bank rescues to frenzied stock-market swings. The crisis coincides with a series of other challenges—an aging society, runaway health spending, global warming—that imperil economic growth. America's next president takes office facing the most daunting economic conditions in decades: certainly since Ronald Reagan and double-digit inflation, and perhaps since Franklin Roosevelt and 25 percent unemployment.

What they call progress, the globalized globe, & plain, simple reality have caught up to the "Shining City on the Hill." They ran all the undocumented servants out & there's no one willing to polish the chrome. Today may (but probably won't) be better than yesterday, but tomorrow they're dead, & the day after that their precious country on which they displace their failures & empty lives is a slab of meat as well. *Further Injustice: Fred "Sonic" Smith of the MC5 is dead, but this prick Smith is living & profiting from the indentured servitude of others.