10-12-01

So our government has agreed to this 10Billion or so bailout of the airlines industry due to 911. But they've refused to create any direct benefits for the workers who were actually laid off: no extended unemployment insurance, no re-training stipend. It just goes to show you that while they claim to care about people, they really care more about corporate profits.

You've read about the guy named Ernesto Blanko? I think his first name is Ernesto. The mailroom employee at the Sun Newspaper company who caught a case of Anthrax? I feel bad for the guy. But here's a bonus true tragedy. I saw his niece interviewed on TV, and she said that at first, when he showed symptoms, he assumed that he was extra tired because he's 72 years old and gets up at 5am every morning to go to work a full-time job. This guy is 72, and he works a shitty job full-time in a mailroom getting up every morning at 5am because he can't retire. Sure, he MIGHT like his job. But I doubt it. He ought to be enjoying some relaxation at 72 instead of getting up at 5am to delivery mail to a bunch of fucking National Enquirer flunkies. That's a tragedy that is affecting millions of Americans. Corporate policy ruins more lives than terrorism, that's for sure.

I think the food drops in Afghanistan are nothing but a PR move. Not really going to help that many people - just a way to make people see this war as the Feel-Good War of the year. The food drops might actually be dropping in land mine areas - Afghanistan is one of the most mined countries in the world. And there have been recent reports that if the bombing doesn't stop soon, hundreds of thousands of people will be starving. No fuckin' bags of freeze dried peas dropped from airplanes is going to save them.

Here is some more fucked up shit to think about:
Women once couldn't vote.
Black people were once property.
I mean, sure, you knew that, right? You've read about it. Let's you and me just sit quietly and think about it for a little while.

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