This is a clip from 20 years ago. <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/its-3-am-and-private-equity-is-extending" author="Eric Salzman" source="Racket News">It's 3 a.m. and Private Equity is Extending an Invitation to "The Big Club"</a> linked to it to point out that the vultures of Wall Street have been after Social Security for a long time. <media href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/acLW1vFO-2Q" source="YouTube" width="560px" author="George Carlin" caption="The American Dream"> <n>🎩 h/t to <a href="https://shoqvalue.com/george-carlin-on-the-american-dream-with-transcript/" author="Shoq" source="Shoqvalue">George Carlin on the American Dream (with transcript)</a></n> for the initial transcript. I've tweaked it a bit more, mostly for punctuation. <bq>But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, <b>there’s a reason education <i>sucks</i>, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, <i>ever</i> be fixed.</b> It’s never going to get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you’ve got. Because the owners, the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the <i>big</i> owners! The Wealthy… the <i>real</i> owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.<pullquote align="left" width="10em">You have no choice! You have <i>owners</i>! They <i>own you</i>.</pullquote>Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice! <b>You have <i>owners</i>! They <i>own you</i>. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations.</b> They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls---they've got the judges in their back pockets and <b>they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They've got you by the <i>balls</i>.</b> They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. <b>They want more for themselves and less for everybody else.</b> But I’ll tell you what they don’t want: they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. <b>They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking.</b> They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. <b>They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.</b> They don’t want that!<pullquote align="left" width="10em">It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.</pullquote><b>You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.</b> And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, <b>and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street</b>, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this fucking place! <b>It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it!</b> You, and I, are not in the big club. <img attachment="george_carlin.jpg" align="left" caption="Geroge Carlin">By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. <b>All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy.</b> The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good, honest, hard-working people; white collar, blue collar---it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue---these are people of modest means---<b>continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about you</b>….they don’t give a fuck about you… they don’t give a <i>fuck</i> about you.<pullquote align="right" width="10em">It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.</pullquote><b>They don’t care about you at all… at all… <i>at all</i>.</b> And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Thats what the owners count on. The fact that <b>Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant</b> of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the truth. <b>It’s called the <i>American Dream</i> because you have to be asleep to believe it.</b></bq>