Soulstar Speaks

Fabrication

christiansoul:

no longer will I buy
into the fabrication,
falsified reality
they’re sellin’ to this nation
why must we consume the status quo
as if it’s sustenance
buy and sell us like cattle
to try to rewind the present tense

land of the free
the home of the greed
watch us bleed
from their ivory towers
where need
isn’t known
all we’ve ever seen is pain
blood, sweat and tears
leave a stain
still we remain
proud Americans
refusing the medicine

my brethren betrayed
by the leaders who think they
are better than the rest of us
constantly messin’ with us
never fails, and never ends
if it were up to them
we would never win…
read between the lines
for in the answer, the question begins

- christianSoul

THIS.

“The people camped out on Wall Street are not leaving unless and until they are cleared out by force. They look all kinds of silly in their outfits, and some of their statements don’t make a whole lot of sense to people like you, but they have put down roots, and you better get used to them. I’m sure the whole phenomenon is quite perplexing to you - really, why don’t they just go home? Don’t these people have jobs?

I hate to be the Irony Police, but that’s pretty much the whole point. They can’t, and they don’t. Have homes and jobs, I mean. There was a guy out there a few days ago holding a sign in front of a mortgage-lending institution that read “These People Took My Parent’s Home.”

There are all sorts of people walking around Wall Street yelling their lungs out at you because, well, they really would like the opportunity to find gainful employment, as well as a future, but that nifty shell game you and yours pulled off (on our dime) wound up immolating the economy of the common man/woman, and so the common man/woman has decided - in lieu of anything else better to do - to spend their you-created idle hours on your doorstep.”

- An Open Letter to Wall Street, by William Rivers Pitt on Truthout

(via cognitivedissonance)

Couldn’t have said it better myself.