Jeff McCallum

I guess I am back to raving, as the last several posts demonstrate. As a commercial contractor for years I have been asking clients who wonder why I don't have more cheap labour "who do you think will buy the______you are selling if everyone makes minimum wage?" I believe in trickle up economics and am saddened when I see towns like Buffalo, NY half boarded up from the loss of not only 20,000 jobs, but all the service jobs that lived on the backs of the true middle class.

I hope they create billions of dollars worth of infrastructure projects with my tax dollars and put us back to work actually creating something.

 All the News that’s S*** to Print

Fantastic, fascinating, fatal;

Ordinary folks, Americans all, have been hijacked by an

X-acto knife smuggled into their lives as

News.

Entrapped is more like it,

Wealthy media moguls, the real politicians,

Spreading filth and disease through lie and innuendo.

Fantastic because

Ordinary folks, Americans all, believe that

Xenophobia applies to other ordinary folks;

Not so coincidental their fellow Americans.

Ethnically different meaning not

White, not Christian, not wanted next door.

Sacrilege is the word, or scandalous.

Fascinating because

Ordinary folks, real Americans, have been dissected,

X-rayed by the right wing.

Natter pandering to fear and weakness

Extrapolating them into a simple formula

Wealth and its minions manipulate to

Stay in power.

Fatal because

Ordinary folks, patriotic Americans, have been played like a

X-mas drum,

Netted like so many fish.

Extraordinary naiveté and fear

Wresting their vote, their power, from their hands.

Sound bites stabilizing the air for the golden parachutes of life.

Fantastic, fascinating and fatal;

Lemmings led to the point of no return,

A place where monsters feel invincible;

Stand on the bed, not bothering to hide under it

Hoping we’ll fall asleep.