October 3, 2013

• Soundtrack for Government Shutdown

  I am remembering the last government shutdown back in 1995.  There was a Democrat in the White House and Congress was controlled by the Republicans.  Hmmm.  I don't really discuss my politics here but I'll just say that both sides are acting like a toddler who threw it's toy out of a stroller because they didn't want it and now they suddenly want it back.  800,000 workers are going without pay but not our government officials who are doing NOTHING.  The rest of the world is looking at us saying "What the actual fuck?"  But, friends, you can be happy because there is music.

  The Clash...not always known for being political rockers like so many other punk bands of their era but if you listen closely you can find it.  And currently this is where I think America is headed

  It’s probably worth noting here that there is no mandate for what is happening on Capitol Hill right now. Whatever your opinion on Obamacare, the US electorate has twice voted for a president whose policies the House is now obstructing in defiance of the express wishes of the majority of the American people. “It’s coming to America first/ The cradle of the best and the worst.” Indeed.

  Even though the song is about religion it can really be applied to our government with its idiotic partisanship.

  “People have the power to dream, to rule/ To wrestle the world from fools”? If only that were the case.

  Do you think 800,000 people called work and said they were sick?  I think the first sentence of this song is on many Americans' lips.

  In 1970, this guy was an angry young poet.  He penned a lyric about the skewed nature of government spending complaining that, “I can’t pay no doctor bill/ Ten years from now I’ll be paying still,” while meanwhile huge amounts of money were devoted to the space program.  Some 33 years later, we live in a country where the military budget is some $683 billion, but we’re facing a government shutdown over the sort of universal health care program that exists in most other developed countries.  Plus ça change

  The working class have few heroes and leaders who actually give a damn about us.

  This song was inspired by the decline of The Specials' hometown, Coventry.  I think this is going to be about a lot of places in the U.S. if shit don't get sorted out soon.  It probably could be currently about Detroit.

  Such a haunting song..."Well did you hear, there's a natural order/Those most deserving will end up with the most/That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top/Well I say, "Shit floats""  Cunts still are ruling the world.

  We can only hope.

  This was the #1 song according to Billboard during the last shutdown.   Hopefully it will be a sweet day when government realizes we don't need them as much as they need us.

  More than likely nothing will get done for a month or so.

  Although not political or anything like that I just wonder how those jokers can sleep with all this shit they created.

  I learned this when I was 2.  Why didn't any of our politicians?

  

  

  

  

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