Revolution #09

The Beatles, again...

"You say you want a revolution..."

I mean, really. The news ain't good...no it ain't my friends (didn't you want to gag everytime you heard John McCain say, "my friends...")

Everytime you turn around there's another piece on government incompetence or corporate greed or the complete lack of personal and/or professional responsibility.

John Thain is unbelievable! And all of the other clowns lining up at the public trough with their begloved and manicured hands outstretched asking John and Jane Q to give over the goods.

Why in the "wide world" (thank you Sid Ceasar) should middle or lower class kids get health care or clean water or an education or opportunity? Why should middle or lower class adults have job security or privacy or leisure time?

Why is it always only the rich and their friends the super rich (read: politicians...) that get the advantages? Why must we always have to listen to the bejeweled Mrs. Botox and her friends whine about the lack of available Evian at the spa?

Over time, there have been countless wars and beheadings because the wealthy "ruling" class sought to enrich themselves at the expense of the worker bees.

Haven't any of these idiots ever heard of Marie Antoinette and her last best friend, Monsieur Guillotine?

It seems logical to assume that if the current state of affairs continues along the path that it is on, we will be embroiled in a full scale, take all prisoners, beat 'em up and string 'em up style bloody, loud and deathly revolution.

The poor will say "basta!"

The middle class will say "basta!"

The blacks and the Hispanics and the poor whites and the struggling seniors and the disenfranchised youth and the angry unionists and the unemployed auto workers and the laid off manufacturing workers will all say...

"BASTA!!"

At what point do the rich say..."Oops, maybe we've gone too far this time. Maybe we should lay off the private jets and the Rolls and the vacation homes for a while. Maybe we should pay our gardener what he's worth. Maybe we should pay our housekeeper what she's worth (never mind the cries of sexism...most gardeners are men and most housekeepers are women...deal with it...)

Maybe we should realize that societies operate in cycles. Up and down. Dictatorships and revolutions.

We've had the current system here for over 25o years. A lot of rich people telling poor people what to do and giving them scraps for doing it!

One of these days the tables will turn, as they always do, and the John Thains of the world will be either hung in the town square (remember Nicolai Ceaucescu...of Romania...of "hung upside down" fame...?) or made to work at McDonalds and forced to use the public bathroom...OH MY GOD!...

"You say you want a revolution...?"

Well just be careful what you wish for...you just might get it...