The Betters began a campaign to bleed the economy to control the People.
Smoke and mirrors were put in place long before implementation.
Blame for economic constrictors was played out by the mock media in terms
that placed the blame squarely on the People.
The People were irresponsible in the use of credit, they say
bought homes they couldn't afford, they say
most People had given up putting a few pennies away for that rainy day;
the rain never came.
The Betters squawked ad nauseam.
Companies began to find ways and means to strip workers
of pensions set up for retirement.
401-K accounts now defunct thanks to company bankruptcies
along with engineered Wall Street crashes and recessions.
Corporations ratcheted-up their involvement in directing the affairs of Man.
The chicanery, double-dealing, deception and stealing
was done under the table, behind closed doors,
in the dark of night.
There were no more government watchdogs to be had;
payoffs, bribery and graft were built-to-last,
the Betters House was built on sand.
The land was stripped, beaten, raped and left for dead.
No clarion call of warning came from the Fourth Estate.
No. The press became known as the lame stream media
now busy suckling at the corporate teat.

Dread walks across faces like a public skipping stone
tossed out into a pool of humanity.
Jobs have marched overseas on the backs of ships and planes and pain
humps the body in the throes of depression and hopelessness.
Everyone is looking for the spark that ignites the soul into action.
Everyone is looking for the other to ignite-
set off a Hundredth Monkey phenomenon
affecting thousands to lionize all against the Betters
plan of destruction, here first.
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Fat chance.
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Our collective souls would rather fight and rail against the oppressor;
but if suppression of our soul's fire is on the manifest
so be it,
with one voice all free souls cry out "When hell freezes over!"
Touch, spark-to-spark ignite in spontaneous
combustion, rise.
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Comic relief.
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