The American people will do anything for money.
Ask anyone over 50 who's been fired despite being highly productive and highly skilled, now working any job, or any number of jobs, just to pay the bills, but making half what they used to make. We're too old to sustain a fight, and they know it.
But they marched today in Spain, and over far less, as reported here:
"There's nothing we can do but take to the street. We have lost between 10 and 15 percent of our pay in the past four years," said Sara Alvera, 51, a worker in the justice sector, demonstrating in Madrid. ...
Protestors complained that they were being made to pay for the financial crisis while banks and the rich were let off.
"We have to all come out into the street, firefighters, street-sweepers, nurses, to say: enough," said Manuel Amaro, a 38-year-old fireman in Madrid holding his black helmet by his side.
"If we don't, I don't know where this is going to end."
I think prosperity has bred the fight out of Americans. Many have lost 40 percent of their net worth since 2008, but here we sit, just taking it, while Spaniards march over just 15 percent.
Something has put the fight back into Spaniards somehow. I admire them for that.
Don't you know that you can strike back at your oppressors, too, America?
Just stop working. Just stop cooperating.
What if everyone just said "No" to work for a month, say starting August 1? And "No" to volunteering. And "No" to everything anyone expects of you. Employers would absolutely panic. You might even bankrupt them. Shouldn't someone go bankrupt for a change besides you?
The government would panic because it desperately needs the tax revenue. You might even get rid of the government, considering that its reaction just might de-legitimize it.
How about making someone else panic for a change?
How about if America protests for a change?
How about taking August off? Europe does. Why don't we?
