Middle class is destroyed . . . America yawns.
The US government, along with its corporate henchmen, is hastening the destruction of America's middle class. Actually, they're inviting it in for a martini and a quickie with your 16-year-old daughter but that's another story. How you ask? By allowing immigration to go unchecked (legal and otherwise), Wal-Mart Nation is assuring itself a prominent place in the annals of indentured servitude. And before you PC Nazis start in with the knee jerk racism charges, let me finish.
This isn't some xenophobic diatribe arising from a bad encounter with a Honduran girl working the drive-up window at a Burger King. One needn't stoop to such levels to make the point when common sense, socio-economic indicators more than suffice. In order to address the issue, however, one must first accept certain premises:
First, one must accept that there indeed exists a ruling elite, and second, that it exerts an inordinate amount of influence over events shaping this world. Some would be tempted to dismiss such thinking as so much conspiratorial nonsense, but given recent events, it would be foolhardy to think that some loosely affiliated cabal of sociopaths in Jon Green suits aren't pulling the strings. One has only to look at our two ongoing wars: one in an oil-rich sand box; the other in a mountainous 16th century throwback that just happens to sit astride copious amounts of natural gas and opium. Oh, and did I mention that it's probably the single most important country in terms of transnational oil and gas distribution?
If you hold this to be true then what I'm about to say won't come as much of a surprise. In fact, a cursory glance around you should amply attest to the disintegration of the remaining fibers of decency that tenuously hold this country together. But I digress.
As you very well know, politicians take every opportunity to pontificate on: the hardships imposed upon the American people by unending inflows of immigrants, national sovereignty, and of course, national security. Yet new legislation that would address all those issues is never realized. I wonder why that is? It's pretty fucking obvious really. Unless you're completely absorbed in a Hollywood-produced parallel universe (which is more than likely), it's patently obvious that certain interests are hellbent on making cheap wage laborers out of the lot of us.
America truly is well on its way to becoming the next China, with one glaring exception: we don't actually produce anything the rest of the world values. In order to fabricate the kind of low-quality finished goods the average shopper craves (and from which enormous profits are derived), we must absolutely reduce a considerable number of Americans to pauperdom; you know - sweatshop status. How does one go about erasing an entire socio-economic class you ask? Infuse the general population with teeming masses of 3rd world laborers who simultaneously drive down wages, boost profits and empower the supremely evil corporations beholden to the corrupt piece-of-shit Senators and Select Committee Chairmen.
This has been going on since time immemorial but the pace has quickened as of late. The race is on to destroy America's middle class with countries like China, India and Brazil setting the tempo for the coming neo-industrial revolution sure to plumb the depths of corporate depravity. From here on out, ultra-cheap labor is the order of the day. Driving down wages simply doesn't go far enough however. Other much more malign measures are required to fully ensnare your average gullible, wastoid excuse of an American. Being a debt-ridden piece of excrement makes you infinitely more malleable and open to suggestion. It's also much more difficult to rise up against your oppressor when they own your fuckin' debt and can easily throw your sorry ass out on the street and repo that pretty Toyota truck you can't afford. Denying safe and affordable medical care to tens-of-millions is another surefire way to keep you hopeless and hopelessly indebted.
No question about it: wages are falling across the board; that is unless you work for a psychotic, mass murdering defense contractor turned responsible citizen like Lockheed or another upstanding corporation like Cargill, ADM, Monsanto, CH2MHill, Exxon or Halliburton. I love the segment [see video below] starting at about 1:42 and ending around 1:50. Narrator: "Our commitment to be at our best . . . . " as a cruise missile is launched from a Navy Destroyer to blow up an elementary school somewhere in Pakistan. Another satisfied customer, eh?
But I digress for a 2nd and final time, I promise.
Now that most Americans have forsaken good ol' fashion hard work in favor of selling cheap trinkets and fattening up or slimming down the general populace, the service industry has come to constitute the lion's share of our pathetic excuse for an economy. Soon, all Americans will be whipping up caramel macchiatos at Starbucks or managing Verizon wireless stores that sell Kyocera phones. Ain't life grand? Meanwhile, China, India, Korea, and even Europe, will continue to make "things" of some relative value while Americans rot in call centers and under fast food lamps.
The reason the US cannot hope to maintain current wage levels is best summed up thusly: somewhere in Guangzhou, China a mother of two is soldering a cellular phone for .50¢/hr and will do so for 14 straight hours. Producing a similar phone in the US would run somewhere in the neighborhood of $20/hr. plus breaks, Worker's Comp, Social Security, State & Federal taxes, etc. Starting to get the picture? Their solution to such "excesses" is to lock the illiterate daughter of some peasant farmer in a tinderbox of a basement and force her to toil away around the clock (with no restroom break) until she is completely expended and replaced by a more nimble 15-year-old? After all, they've got a few hundred million to spare! Sorry to burst your bubble, precious. Daddy's not going to be able to rescue your sweet little ass from that Russian-owned brothel. You are human refuse and you allowed yourself to become a mere asset. Deal with it. This is the brave Neo-Liberal world we've engineered for ourselves - Enjoy!
Sounds horrible, doesn't it? So why the fuck continue buying things YOU MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLES KNOW FULL WELL was made by some 13-year-old girl who should have been laughing with her friends and wishing upon a Hello Kitty purse instead of putting another toxic phone in your degenerate hands? Because you're a mega-consumer piece of shit whose soulless existence is a matter of acquiring things in order to reassure yourself that you're a good and worthwhile human being. Your things truly own you, you fucking ghost.
Don't you fucking morons get it yet? That was a rhetorical question of course. The only way the US can hope to compete with the likes of countries like China, Korea, India, Brazil or Peru is by destroying the middle class and "turning them out" as sweatshop laborers much like Indian or Salvadoran children seen on late night Sally Struthers-esque pity-mercials. That's right; you're well on your way to becoming a $6/hr. chump (with a masters in marketing) who sells Extenze penis enlargement pills from some dimly lit, sterile cubicle.
Remember, wage increases are the capitalist's ultimate nightmare so who's an evil CEO to turn to when it appears that the minimum wage has simply reached untenable levels? And yes, $7.02/hr. is far more than any proletarian, NASCAR worshiping, Christian retard could ever hope to spend given his limited imagination; unless of course your talking about snowmobiles, jet skis and F-350s - then they can spend with the best of 'em. Anyway, American corporate interests enlist the aid of lobbyists who *sigh* do it all for the good of the noble immigrant and not, as stupidly fucking idiotic cynics assert, to continue exploiting workers for a pittance of a wage. Hotel/resort, agricultural and construction lobbies/sectors are purely interested in the well-being of their Latino friends and not at all interested in having a captive workforce they can "ask" to work 100 hrs. of overtime for regular wages.
Unfortunately for us, China, India and a host of Asian tigers can tamp down production costs long enough to destroy the remnants of American and European manufacturing bases through attrition. I think they've nearly accomplished that mission already. Don't believe me? Drive the "Rust Belt" and see which they're producing: durable goods or meth. It remains to be seen how countries like Australia or Canada will fare, but it's a pretty good bet that they'll be reduced to suppliers of raw materials once what remains of their manufacturing bases are put to rest. I'd say they're looking pretty anemic in terms of production right now. And when the iron-ore and uranium are gone . . look out!
