Mickey Z

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

"The poor are simply wannabe rich people"

Last week, Senator John McCain said: “Americans don’t dislike wealthy people; they want to be wealthy people.”

Reminds me of Springsteen’s “Badlands": “Poor man wanna be rich/Rich man wanna be king/And the king ain’t satisfied/Till he rules everything.”

As Captain Paul Watson sez: “All people are the same. The poor are simply wannabe rich people. The oppressed are wannabe oppressors.”

As difficult as it might be to accept, there is some truth in Watson’s appraisal. Talk to any non-rich lottery player if you don’t believe me. In my neighborhood, playing the lottery is not just state-sponsored gambling...it’s a lifestyle choice. Coercive advertising is used to convince the poor and middle class to accept a cleverly disguised, voluntary tax by promising them a chance to be rich like all their media-created heroes. It’s an awesome victory of propaganda that so many downtrodden Americans strive to be exactly like the man whose boot is stomping on their necks.