The Red Brick Times

Is it just me? I read these two stories almost back to back the other day and was left speechless:

Exxon Mobil Profit Sets Record Again
"The company reported Friday that it beat its own record for the highest profits ever recorded by any company, with net income rising 3 percent to $40.6 billion, thanks to surging oil prices."

Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt
"With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies."

Where's the outrage? What the hell is wrong with us?
Posted 8:13 AM by whatley (2) comments

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Lately, in contemplating government and its proper concerns, I have retrieved a vague notion of a memory that the original urban centers were built around granaries and that government arose to oversee their management. All the grain was brought in and a portion put in the common bin, the first tax. In times of siege or famine the government was responsible for protecting and/or equitably distributing the common store.This was used to fed people and livestock.

The current system has turned the management of the granary over to the pigs and chickens while the army is out of town trying to steal someone else's grain. Pigs and chickens, being what they are, tend to consume as much food as they can and are not really known for sharing. As a result the pigs are fat and the people are hungry.

The time has come to pluck some chickens and slaughter some hogs to feed the folks. This requires wisdom to prevent ending up with piles of rotting meat, but it needs to be done.

The Republicans are chickens and Exxon is a pig. Let's start with them

# posted by  A. O. : February 02, 2008 10:10 AM
 
The pigs and chickens have the guns and the courts and the reinforced bunkers. Traditionally, the pigs and chickens thrive until all the other animals are starving or dead, the landscape laid waste, and disease and famine rampage. The downfall of the pigs and chickens leads to other forms of servitude, and new species mint pig and chicken masks and don them to rule in the name of the holy ancients whose wisdom ruled before.

So which presidential candidate will de-pork the established order?

# posted by  Andy : February 03, 2008 2:34 PM
 
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