one war down

one war down and the people of Gaza can really relax and let their hair down.  only (1 x googleplex) to go.  actually it's googolplex.  i had to google that to find out, while really it's google's fault in the first place for displacing the word they were word-playing in in the first place.  lots of places goin nowhere .. 

ANYWAY.  what was i talking about.  ahh WAR, yes war.  all kinds of wars happening, it's an exciting planet.  mama never ever told me there'd be days like this.  the latest war, or MY latest war, is economic.  cause we got all kinds of people making all kinds of money in all kinds of ... well really it's mostly in banking, weapons and lobbying.  and guess who gets the IRS audit?  me.  yes, me.  it's like some kind of a joke:  when 200 of America's biggest companies pay NOTHING in taxes, companies that are worth more than most countries, they come after me instead.  why?  because they define the system.  and they'd rather come after me for a few hundred dollars that i don't even owe them.  but from now on, from the money i DO owe them, i will deduct my own "war tax" a la Thoreau.  do i want to pay for dead lives across the globe?  i think not.

then there's the banks.  ooohh the banks.  the same people charging 20% interest, $35 late fees, and the poorer you are, the higher the fees.  these same people get BILLIONS in bailout money.  

so ... lets break this down.  the IRS comes after me, someone who lost a bar business (thanks Hillary) and now works freelance in music and other odd occupations and clearly rests in the lowest income bracket possible.  they audit and come after me, i pay my measley hundreds of dollars in taxes (but there are millions of us), they then GIVE the money to the bankers who make millions and caused the crisis + bailout in the first place.  hey free market! -- nice lesson learned!  millionaires who fuck up get bailed out!  great.

so my broke-ass money goes to millionaires who now have incentive to not only NOT fix a thing, but to create another crisis!  alright, but if that wasn't bad enough, these same bankers come after my debts, adding charges, increasing interest rates, basically kicking a man when he's down.  is that right?  is that just? all those billions they took from us and they still come back for more?  they really need to get paid from all sides?  so that they can compensate themselves $20 BILLION?  wow!  

there is, as usual, no justice in the system.  in a free world, money rises to the top.  this is not a free world, thank god, or we would all be enslaved, quite literally.  we are still all enslaved though, figuratively.  because the system couldn't possibly sustain all of us -- it's not meant to.  wealth = debt = slavery.  only those at the top will survive, the rest of us will hang on for dear life while some will randomly fall off of this machine powering itself into the darkness.  this is the way it is.  and until the rest of us rise up and demand a new system, this is the way it will remain.