May 9th, 2010: Left Jab Call-a-thon, Comedian Ahmed Ahmed and Hidden America ( 5/9/2010)
Did you know that in Our Capitalist Society, if your oil rig explodes, creates a massive dead zone, puts thousands of people out of work and destroys an entire ecosystem, you can get $270 million in insurance payments? Did you know that in Our Capitalist Society, you can work for Goldman Sachs and bet against the Gulf of Mexico a day before that oil rig explodes and make hundreds of millions of dollars? Did you know that in Our Capitalist Society you can coerce your workers to sign waivers after your oil rig explodes? Did you know that in Our Capitalist Society Government regulators will urge you to spend money on safeguards but will leave it to you to decide whether or not to pay for them? You can make banks too big to fail and taxpayers will bail you out! Even a populist President won't do anything to break up those Big Banks! You can be on the Terror Watch List and still buy an AK-47! The Government agency that's supposed to maintain internet neutrality has to try to do so outside the law! The Secretary of Defense is the only guy that can ask for Defense cuts without getting laughed out of a job! The only Supreme Court nominee who can get confirmed is a Corporate State Apologist! A mumbling Senator from Connecticut can propose a bill to strip people of their citizenship without due process and still be taken seriously! And did you know that in Our Capitalist Society a little Eastern European country and a Big Glitch on the Trading Floor can send our entire Global Economy off a cliff in panic? Wow! Our Capitalist Society sure is fun! Democracy is dead! Long live Capitalism!! Come to America! Our Capitalist Society wants you!!