Monday, July 02, 2018
Claws
SpeakLow’s promotional frenzy even
reaches my grandparents’ Ohio town.
The team of garrulous teen bullies
installs the service in every room.
As a result, Grampsy and MarMar
can ask questions in any of the
world’s languages.
They stick to English, the one they’re
rapidly forgetting, and don’t have that
many questions.
The few lately are responded to
by Fritz-E-O, the huge, bounding
holographic “Kitty,” who screams
“Feed me!”
My parents, Dub and Lilly, have
stepped in to stop the noise,
but the kitty insists on their
credit card number!
When they get home one
evening, Fritz-E-O has
infiltrated their apartment.
Thousand for installation they
never ordered already deducted,
The Kitty’s ecstatic!
Bounds everywhere.
Dub, Fifty, Fit, attempts wrestling
but no use.
Labels: American Capitalism, pressure sales techniques, Senior Market
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Biddle-zy-Wump-Wump
A Southern Attorney General is after Jerr
for his little carnival doll.
It's not the usual Capitalistic screwing,
of course, obscene profit margin, but the
medical cures hinted at in the enclosed
brochure.
Taiwan makes the doll for $1.47 and
Jerr sells it for $38. He throws in
the large button battery.
"Wumps" walks a bit, then falls down.
Gets up, falls again.
“Children learn you can fall again and
that it's all right!”
So claims Jerr.
His lawyer tells him to expect some
brief jail time.
This inevitability brings a lecture to
the rest of us. How come the true mega
thieves in AMERICA GET AWAY WITH...?
Well, they just do. Kick against some
other pricks!
He threatens to move.
But we inform him that he's already in
the sleazy paradise of all time.
And, even in his horrible moral upset, he
seems to know that.
Labels: American, American Capitalism, con, con man, doll, Law, mail order fraud, mega thieves, toy
Friday, September 09, 2016
Divvy, American Style
Some screaming fatalities. In roped-off sections.
Remedy most went for: "Black Juice."
Actually, water and old newsprint.
Hanley Z Halburt, publisher of innumerable suburban shoppers tried for fraud.
A plea agreement brought settlements. Up to
two million for Marks of Income, McDonald’s coupons the rest.
Labels: American Capitalism, Capitalism, Justice, legal favoritism, litigation, Unequal Justice
Friday, April 22, 2016
Competition: An American Story
kids, and traveled to the Great-Great-Grandparents.
Clint had lost another job, and we presented an
appearance most bedraggled.
“Well, is this it?”
“Not even close!” And they bragged of the privations of
the Great Depression.
the Great Depression.
We knew the next visit would be the last.
Their age.
Their voices, then, are feeble.
We show ourselves in clothes from Low Threads, a charity outfit.
“Is this it?”
“Yes.”
Labels: American Capitalism, Capitalism, Charity, Financial Depression, Great Depression, unemployment
Thursday, February 19, 2015
The Nose on Your Ear
-Well, paid all my bills except the one.
-Run outa checks?
-Nope. Lost it.
-Call up! Ask them how much, etcetera.
-Don't remember who they is!
-If you was a company, you flop!
-Ah, but not before firing half the workers.
-Go on!
-Eliminating all vacations and overtime!
-Bingo!
-And then cutting the wages of the remaining
terrorized in half!
-Capitalism is one slicing marvel! Is the Big
Boss done?
-Raids the pension plan.
-Where you been? They’s gone long ago! Replaced
by IRAs, or THE WALL STREET BONANZA GOUGE.
-No matter, for now that he's whipped you into
submission, you're the chief selling-point
when he unloads to a competitor.
-Another Republican?
-Mais oui! What else?
-I can get ALONG with this new guy!
-First one fired!
-Too bad. I came close to working for nothing!
-That's the perfection they're aiming for.
They call it the Right To Work For Nothing.
-Well, good luck to the seven left.
-They're dismissed! Plant moves South!
-His first mistake! To the Land of Take This
Job and Shove It ?
-Things get shoved all right! Up the rectum
of the most docile and cowardly workers
in the world!
-Outside of Asia?
-Asian companies come there. Case closed.
-Will Cornpone Capitalism save the world?
-Undoubtedly! Plain as the nose on your ear.
-Psychosomatic. Now that I'm fired, I expect
it to migrate back to its proper place.
-We must keep our place. Therein lies happiness!
-Lies happen!
Labels: American Capitalism, benefits, Cornpone Capitalism, low wages, pay, Race to Bottom, Republican, Right To Work, South, Southern worker, wages, Wall Street
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
The Brand New Revolution
The Relatively Happy Manager
was shattered at work that Monday
with the news that all the fork-lifts
were missing. The usual drivers watched
porno and sent out for donuts.
His supervisors screamed as usual, but in
a higher key.
Just acting. They had rented out the machines at
an exorbitant rate to The John Galt Physicians Corps, who were attacking City Hall at that moment.
Part of the First Privatized Revolution-–eschewing
the Army, any government component--were soon
joined by Chamber of Commerce types who gouged
everybody buying munitions.
The revolutionaries soon began fighting among
themselves over eventual splits of booty.
City Hall forgotten as a prize, and destroyed.
The overall leader, a militant accountant, was
summarily executed on the smoking ruins
by The Tea Party Patriotic Brigade.
A Rabbi went on TV to plead for reconciliation
but was ridiculed for not carrying a gun.
The other clergy had leased tanks from NATO partners.
One shadowy group who proudly called themselves
Wingnuts for Capitalism claimed they had the bomb, and would explode it at a random National Football League game.
Con men were freed from Danbury and other federal prisons.
One became the new, nominal leader, saying,
in his best Patrick Henry imitation: "The opportunity to so massively steal cannot be ignored."
Well, Money never lost a war. Or a revolution?
But shouldn’t either have some ideals? Okay, stupid
question. For America anyway.
The Commercial is Everything! had been the motto
going in. Most of the spouters are dead but the
words live on.
Non-revolutionaries held for ransom. The case
with our original manager. His wife fetched him
for ten thousand and they immediately left for
Paraguay.
Labels: American Capitalism, Commercialism, privatization, revolution
Monday, March 03, 2014
Straining the Particular
Straightening the Debate
-Capitalism builds excess in. The question is
how do we keep it from utter, murderous insanity?
-All systems, really.
-Nice intellectual point, but let’s deal with
the one so grievously fucking us!
Labels: American Capitalism, American Dream, Capitalism, Capitalism excess
Thursday, November 08, 2012
Natural Meds
From the topmost limb
of the Diddle-Doodle tree
when birds excrete and
apes lumber, comes a par-
ticularly curative leaf.
$10,000 a pound.
Kids clamber up
for a dollar a basket.
Our entrepreneurs
give over preaching
of Free Market to
show it in action.
The host country, though,
not impressed and ex-
tracts payola mucho.
Consumer Reports
eventually cries Fraud
from A to Z. Scientists
are marshaled
to challenge them.
And patients relieved
from flaming rectum
or GERD testify of miracle. But
FBI cites production chain where
they find the leaves trashed and
sugar cane ground for
the terrific mix instead.
If they give a Nobel for sleaze,
surely an American will slide
through for win. Take pride.
From the topmost limb
of the Diddle-Doodle tree
when birds excrete and
apes lumber, comes a par-
ticularly curative leaf.
$10,000 a pound.
Kids clamber up
for a dollar a basket.
Our entrepreneurs
give over preaching
of Free Market to
show it in action.
The host country, though,
not impressed and ex-
tracts payola mucho.
Consumer Reports
eventually cries Fraud
from A to Z. Scientists
are marshaled
to challenge them.
And patients relieved
from flaming rectum
or GERD testify of miracle. But
FBI cites production chain where
they find the leaves trashed and
sugar cane ground for
the terrific mix instead.
If they give a Nobel for sleaze,
surely an American will slide
through for win. Take pride.
Labels: American Capitalism, fraud, Medicine Show, Nobel
