Our Fascist Media’s Lies

If not fascist, then what is a better descriptive word? Fascism is simply capitalism on steroids and methamphetamines and uses race to subjugate its followers. To give them a little credit, their racism is well hidden in a sort of LSD-like weirdness, like having all fictional married couples in commercials be mixed race or Black. Remind the racists!
But today we have the internet, the twenty first century Library of Alexandria, and if you’re bored, with the computer or your phone you can watch cat videos or look things up to satisfy your curiosity. But I must warn you, looking things up can be dangerous to your mental health. You may find that like chapter 27 of Nobots and like the title of the Firesign Theater album, Everything You Know Is Wrong.
Perhaps it was true that we were the most productive and best paid workers in the world in the seventies when I was young. It was certainly true in comparison to Thailand, where I was stationed for a year in the Air Force.
Furthermore, we’re paid way too well which is why all the jobs are going to foreigners, according to the fascist media.
Today it’s all a lie! You can look it up yourself and I encourage you to. Mexico’s minimum wage is almost twice our federal minimum, and Canada’s is on a par with Europe, higher than any state’s minimum wage.
Remember, kids, the people who own the newspapers and TV stations and “social” media own the company you work for. They pay for Congressman Fred’s campaign. Now, the media’s lies are mostly lies of omission; Congressman Fred repeats the lie that the jobs go overseas because of our ridiculously high wages, and the media let the lie stand.
And if a reporter isn’t too cowardly (he does work for the TV) and mentions to Fred that he’s full of Grade-A Bovine Manure, Congressman Fred replies “Perhaps, but that doesn’t count benefits,” knowing that most people are too lazy-brained to think about it. What benefits? In America, you often get no benefits at all, certainly none in a minimum wage job. Usually the best you can hope for with the best of jobs is two weeks vacation, shitty health insurance you have to pay for, and a few sick days. That’s if your employer is very generous.
The foreigners Fred claims are inferior don’t need health insurance; their government pays for health care. Many countries demand employers offer a month vacation! Not only are they better paid, but their government does for them what employers are expected to but not legally obligated to here.
“But TAXES! Their taxes are sky high!”
Also a damned lie. An Irishman earning €30,000 (about $60,000) pays a 20% income tax, the American earning the same amount pays 22%.
“But the VAT!”
It’s a federal sales tax. We have state sales and state income taxes.
The fact is that they can easily get away with the lies, knowing that nobody but a weirdo like me will actually look any of this stuff up.
So the stolen labor and the lies continue.