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Color My Future 
Soylent Green 
By Kurt Nimmo
Another Day In The Empire
10-14-4
 
Here's the real deal for the American worker: No pension, no Social
Security, jobs exported to India and China, welfare long gone (thank
Clinton), a future of endless war and an old age of dumpster diving. 
  
If we are to believe the folks who rail against the NWO crowd, our rulers
want to get rid of us, or a whole lot of us through forever war,
bioengineered disease, and orchestrated starvation. Hell, the way things
are going, Soylent Green looks like a distinct possibility. In Harry
Harrison's novel (and the lame Hollywood movie), people started eating
each around the year 2022. Mmmmm. Baby Boomer Fricassee with (GE
modified) mushrooms. I'll take seconds. 
  
But seriously. If you read the news you will discover all manner of
depressing facts and figures. For instance, US Airways told their
employees they will not pay their pensions. But that's not the startling
thing. Now it surely is a bummer for US Airways employees, but there was
something even more disturbing in the article -- the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corp., a government agency that supposedly guarantees
traditional defined-benefit pension plans, is severely in the red -- to
the tune of around 11 billion dollars. 
  
In other words, if Joe Free Trade -- the guy who wants to send your job
to a Chinese labor gulag -- defaults on your pension there's no money to
make sure you don't starve to death when you retire, or are "let go"
because you're too old and sick to flip burgers or stock shelves at
Wal-Mart. 
  
Most of us should realize by now there will be no retirement. Or Social
Security. It will be work until you drop. Just like those sweatshop
workers in Indonesia or Vietnam. Just like it was in the good old days of
the Industrial Revolution in merry old England and right here in the US
of A. Look on the bright side: At least your kids don't have to work 12
hour a day, 6 days a week in a garment factory. Not yet, anyway. 
  
Remember, John Kerry voted for NAFTA, and Bill Clinton said it would be a
great deal for the American worker. Never mind that all those factory
jobs that went from Indiana and Pennsylvania to the Mexican maquiladoras
are now going to China. Maybe you'll want to think about that in couple
weeks when you go to cast your vote at the local school the Ministry of
Homeland Security tells us al-Qaeda wants to attack with dirty bombs. 
  
Best hope you have family to take care of you in your dotage -- that is
if they can afford to take care of you -- otherwise it will be
homelessness. I don't know about where you live, but around here the
police don't take kindly to homeless people, even grizzled homeless
people with Alzheimer's. Looks bad to the real estate investors. Besides,
it scares the crap out of the middle class folks driving around in their
SUVs because it reminds them what could happen if they lose their jobs
(sent to Shanghai) and bank accounts and homes. Nobody wants to be
reminded they are a paycheck or two away from homelessness, especially
when they are supposed to be casting a fly rod on Golden Pond. 
  
Consider what William Poole, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis, suggested the other day. He wants to edge up the eligible
retirement age for Social Security. Of course, as the president of the
Federal Reserve Bank, Poole doesn't have to worry about dumpster diving
in his old age as he waits to hit 100 or whatever the eligible retirement
age will be by the time this Baby Boomer is too old and enfeebled to
work. 
  
Of course, it doesn't matter. Because there will be no Social Security by
the time I hit 70, let alone 100 or whatever the rich people who rule us
decide it will be. According to the so-called experts, around 2018 or so
existing payroll taxes just won't cover all the benefits going out. Note:
2018 is precariously close to 2022, when Harry Harrison has us dining on
each other. 
  
Good old Alan Greenspan, that former Ayn Rand Libertarian who sold his
soul to become a central banker. Greenspan provided us with a glimmer of
our collective future (or those of us not members of the Fortune 500
millionaire and billionaire club) when he said a few weeks ago: "If we
have promised more than our economy has the ability to deliver to
retirees without unduly diminishing real income gains of workers, as I
fear we may have, we must recalibrate our public programs so that pending
retirees have time to adjust through other channels. If we delay, the
adjustments could be abrupt and painful." 
  
Translation: Bush and the neolibs have decided the rich do not have to
pay taxes and have no obligation to be socially responsible in any way or
form to those they have worked to the bone all these years. 
  
In the meantime, we (the non-rich) will have to pay even more to foot the
bill for those now lucky enough to retire. And when our time arrives the
"adjustment" could be "painful" -- in other words, if we are lucky, we'll
be allowed to queue up in a faith-based soup line. If we're not lucky --
and luck is rarely on the side of the working class -- our rulers will
simply let us starve or bioengineer another "La Grippe" influenza
pandemic like the one that killed between 20 and 40 million people in
1918-1919. Or maybe our rulers will start handing out Jack Kevorkian
pills by the truckload. 
  
Remember, it was the Nazis, who loved their kids and who were civilized
and sensitive enough to listen to Richard Wagner and Johann Sebastian
Bach, who condemned millions of "useless eaters" to starvation, and not
just Jews. Dubya's grandfather helped them do it. 
  
Please excuse my cynicism. But we have to be realists here. Bush wants to
"privatize" Social Security -- that is to say turn it into a sort of
casino where we all take our chances on the stock market. How many people
lost their pants a few years ago when the stock market "bubble" burst? I
don't mean the Big Boys on Wall Street -- those guys rarely lose anything
-- but average and gullible people who foolishly believed all the
bullshit pedaled about fortunes to be made. 
  
Remember what our fearless and Supreme Court appointed leader said:
"There's an old sayin' in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in
Tennessee, that says, 'Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me --
you can't get fooled again.'" 
  
Unfortunately, due to incessant brainwashing -- instilled by families,
schools, and television -- far too many Americans are fooled over and
over again. Is it possible they will be fooled into surrendering their
Social Security check to some sleazeball investment banker? Count on it. 
  
If you think otherwise, consider the government bailed out looted Savings
and Loan banks in the '80s. 
  
That scam will ultimately cost us around $1.4 trillion dollars. With the
money lost from the S&L scandals, the government could have provided
prenatal care for every American child for the next 2,300 years. Dubya's
brother, Neil, ran one of those S&L banks into the ground. Guess what? He
never severed a minute of jail time. Do you think anybody will serve time
after these same criminals squander your Social Security money? Or is it
more likely the brother of one of those criminals will be appointed CEO
of America, Inc., by a senile Supreme Court? 
  
Enough questions. I have to stop now. I have to get back on Monster and
CareerBuilder, to look for a job that is not there. Earlier today I went
to a web development corporation's web site. I was searching for the
"Human Resources" contact number. Guess where that was? India! Maybe in
my next life I will come back as an Indian -- or Chinese or Indonesian. 
  
It may be better to come back as a cockroach because, as the scientists
who understand these sorts of things tell us, the cockroach is tough and
resilient and will outlast us all. 
  
Cheers! 
  
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