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Why should I be thankful for having a means of keeping body and soul together, a roof over my head, and food on me and Tanya's table. Thankful for something that should be my God-given right? Homey don't play that!.
A lot of y'all know that I'm Old School, jobwise. I been working at the same warehouse now for 'bout ten years or so. It's not rocket science, but I worked my way up to being a managerial type. Probably as much from just being here so long and watching other folks get fed up and leave as because I know something. Oaktown is a port city. We get most of the shipping business, the containers and such, that used to go into San Francisco before they got so uppity and chichi. Too bad for them.
We used to have an inferiority complex compared to that city. But The Chocolate City is now back on the map, no small thanks to having a couple of smart mayors, of which former-Governor Jerry Brown is the latest. He kindah stepped in it by wooing some of those dot-com wienies over here, but nobody is perfect. High-tech seemed like the way to go at the time, and none of us is really complaining about that.
But now that's all dried up and everybody and his brother is talking about how WorldCom and those other high-rollers is just a bunch of crooks. Wolves who didn't even bother with putting on the sheep skin to hide their evil ways.
Now considering that both Dollar Bill Clinton and George Dubya sucked up to these people like they were the Masters of the Universe, even while they was devastating pension funds worst than the Teamsters under James Hoffa, why should anybody anywhere be thankful about still having a job? It's obvious that The American Way is to be a big fat CEO cooking your books and gold-plating your damned parachute.
If you been listening real closely, Homeboys and -girls, you heard that what these chiselers did was "completely legal." Why was ripping us all off considered "completely legal" --- BECAUSE THEY HIGH-PRICED LOBBYISTS WERE ALLOWED TO WRITE THE DAMNED LAWS BY OUR BOUGHT-AND-PAID FOR CONGRESS. When Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown was running for President and saying as much, they started callin' him "Governor Moonbeam" because he knew that we had not elected anybody who wasn't a corporate shill to any high office in this country in decades. He was right.
I ain't saying anything that any of y'all don't already know, Homes. But maybe it just can't be said enough.
Until we face the fact that Multinational Corporate America has put this country on the Highway to Hell, nothing is going to change. And thangs better change and damned skippy!
I sit at the dinner table with my wife Tanya and we be watching the news and all I can feel is a visceral anger building up in my stomach. You know why. I don't think I been this angry since I was growing up and watched Nixon claim to all and sundry that he wasn't a damned crook!
As George the First was so fond of sayin', "If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck..." Now you look at George the Second and tell me if that don't hold true.
Him and the Supreme Court horse he rode in on and all them rehabilitated, arrogant New World Order asses he has surrounded himself with. So there is no reason to wonder why our economy is tanking and we're arming ourselves to the teeth. These folks are just picking up where they left off. No Cold War, no problem, we'll just make this stuff up as we go along.
There will be an oil pipeline across Afghanistan and there will be American boys next door to Persia pumping oil. Nobody will notice that this is the Oil Industry administration because they'll be too busy watching Anna Nicole Smith on the E! cable network.
Thankful for my job? Lest I puke! I am a lot less concerned about still having a job than I am about losing a whole damned country. I want to throw my dinner plate through the television set screen. I want to show up in Washington and remind those folks up there that they are supposed to be representing ME, not Kenneth Lay or Halliburton corporation!
But I don't expect them to listen anyway.
Oakland, CA, USA - A lot of folks love to say thangs like, "Well, be thankful you have a job." Don't you think there's something wrong with that attitude. I have a job, and I do.
If it was up to me, it would be Clinton's guy Robert Reuben, that Wall Street sweetheart, who would be dragged off to the damned jailhouse! Him and Paul O'Neill right behind him. Dick Cheney? Well, we can't very well put the real President of this country in the stocks. But we should.
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