No Mansions, No Homeless!

No Mansions, No Homeless!
by Saab Lofton

"It is much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to eradicate a slum. It is much easier to guarantee the right to vote than to create jobs or guarantee an annual income. These things cannot be done without a radical redistribution of political and economic power."
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Likewise, it's easier to elect an overrated pretty boy like Obama than it is to tell Halliburton to eschew blood money ...

I'm sick and tired of hearing about the economy this and the economy that. Did a single white teenybopper on the planet miss the premiere of Twilight (the recent movie about a vampire falling in love with a mortal girl from the suburbs)? Did any of these teens fail to buy a new pair of shoes at The Mall so they could style-and-profile at said premiere? When I see Britney Spears on the side of the road holding a WILL SING (BADLY) FOR FOOD sign, only then will I believe the economy is tanked, but not a millisecond before ...

... having said that, I'm well aware of what's been going on as of late, but I've also tried to avoid being redundant. I mean, how many times can one cry at the top of one's lungs, "Tax the rich! End the war! Share the wealth! Create ethical, eco-friendly jobs!" If I was listened to and taken seriously, I'd have been invited onto a variety of talk shows by now. At the very least, a corporate publisher would've sprung for a nationwide book tour, but as of Tuesday, January 13th, 2:47 p.m., Pacific Standard Time, I'm still wondering where my next meal is coming from, so don't tread on me.

Ya wanna solution to the problem at hand? Look no further than the book War, Racism and Economic Injustice by Fidel Castro (so help me, I don't want to hear a fucking thing about Castro's Human rights violations until every last member of the Bush administration is doing hard time for war crimes against Humanity):

"... the daily volume of currency buying and selling has reached a sum of approximately $1.5 trillion. This figure does not include operations involving so-called financial derivatives, which account for an almost equal additional sum. That is, some $3 trillion worth of speculative operations are carried out every day. If a one percent tax was to be charged on all speculative operations, the amount raised would be more than enough for sustainable development in the so-called developing countries, with the necessary protection of nature and the environment ... may the tax suggested by Nobel Prize laureate James Tobin be imposed in a reasonable and effective way on the current speculative operations that account for trillions of dollars traded every 24 hours. Then the United Nations, which cannot continue to depend on meager, inadequate and belated donations and charities, will have $1 trillion annually to save and develop the world."

Instead of taxing Wall Street, however, this retarded country has been GIVING Wall Street BILLIONS (with a capital B). I'm known for my colorful metaphors, so here's one for y'all: Imagine you're the parent of a drunken frat boy ...

... your metaphorical son is always in trouble and makes the antics of Animal House seem like the meditations of a monastery. Finally, he steals the family car, drives drunk from yet another kegger and wraps it around a tree. Your son survived but he's in jail and calls you asking to be BAILED OUT ...

... now, do you a) BAIL his ass out of jail yet again, or b) tell him, "Now, son, this is the 100th time you've been locked up for something like this, so this time, you're going to have to stay and learn your lesson." Anyone keeping up with today's headlines already knows which choice Amerikkka made -- even after scandals such as Enron, the BCCI, the Savings and Loans Crisis, and so on ...

Word of advice: Quit feeling sorry for the rich! And quit watching shit like MTV Cribs and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, because evidently, shows like those are having an adverse effect on the public (like the jedi mind trick on crack, it is).

In the end, this all about the maintenance of some MC Hammer mansions -- rather than part with a chance to water ski behind a yacht, these greedy bastards at the top are Hell bent on maintaining their luxury by any means necessary. It sickens me to no end how all too many masochistically defend the rich -- as if any attempt at taxation (in the name of job creation) will somehow magically/instantly result in Stalin coming back from the grave like a zombie from a George Romero movie (even though most of Europe has BOTH free expression AND free social services -- rent Michael Moore's Sicko, for Christ's sake).

Well, I know where I stand: I ain't worked a day job since 2002 -- I've proven myself as an author/artist far too often to go back to wage slavery, I'd rather die. Not that this empire has ever cared much about the death of a black man, but I may very well have to starve to death in order for fools to grasp that yes, we the people can and must do better; that NO one is entitled to a mansion and if those in mansions must move into a three-bedroom-two-bath in order to afford to employ artists like myself, THEN SO BE IT. That's how real change (not the fake kind Obama's pitching) comes about -- when the enemy realizes you won't give up, NO MATTER WHAT.

NO MANSIONS, NO HOMELESS! NO MANSIONS, NO JOBLESS!

SOURCES:
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A40148
http://www.markzepezauer.com/wealthfare.html
http://lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2003/04/10/scorched_earth/fear_no_e...
http://www.coanews.org/article/2007/dream-jobs-or-death
http://www.coanews.org/article/2008/seattle-suicide-watch