Our media is controlled by corporations. Extremely powerful organizations, far more powerful than one person, but with none of the culpability. Our government is controlled by corporations. Organizations with a lot of money, whose only aim is to make more, little people be damned. And we wonder why our government is broken. We’re mad as hell – nothing is working. We can’t find a decent job, hell, any job at all. So who’s fault is that? Surprise. It isn’t the poor, or the illegal immigrants, or even the government’s. Our government is far from innocent in all this, but not the cause. It’s those corporations, those organizations that are turning record profits and record layoffs. Those greedy bastards that messed up the economy to begin with, and then rewarded themselves with huge bonuses. Yeah, we’re mad as hell, but this country has been running around like a chicken with its head cut off. We’re blaming a hundred different people, but not the guilty. Why? Because it’s un-American? We’ve been taught that capitalism is the purest form of freedom. If you’re smart enough, and work hard enough, you can accomplish anything. The American dream. You can do anything you set your mind to. But we’re slowly learning that’s not true. That the poor, the unemployed, the disenfranchised aren’t lazy like we’ve been told. That no matter how hard you’re willing to work, there just isn’t a job out there. So everyday Americans become poorer, and the rich become richer. But hey, that’s freedom. Well no, it’s not. That’s screwing over most Americans and masquerading it as patriotism. If your criticize capitalism, that’s anti-American. Since when has silence in the face of injustice been American? If you want “your America back”, then take it. Take it back from those greedy bastards who get millions and billions of dollars while you can’t find a decent job. Take it from those jerks that ran the economy into the ground and rewarded themselves. They don’t define what being an American is. You do, the people. But being American, to me at least, meaning standing up for what’s right, it means equality and justice for everyone. Not just those who can afford it.

The media is owned by corporations. GE, Walt Disney, Viacom, News Corp., Time Warner. And for some reason, these news organizations are telling us that the corporations are not the problem. That these job creators who make 185 times that of the average person they employ aren’t the cause of the problems in Washington. They send lobbyists down there to make sure that the get what they want out of the laws, and then contribute unlimited amounts of money to their campaigns. These media outlets control what news gets reported and what doesn’t. media outlets controlled by major corporations promoting their own agenda. The media’s as bought and paid for as those assholes in government. That’s not freedom of the press. That’s not American.