All hail the Emperor
His Imperial Excellency, Emperor George I comes to R-Town tomorrow. He’s doing a “town-hall style” meeting at Greece Athena High School, which I attended from [cough] 1969 through 1971 back when it was Greece Athena Junior/Senior High.
It’s all to show support for his agenda to remove Social Security from the safety of a government trust fund and hand it over the the robber barons of Wall Street.
It’s been interesting to watch the stage-managing that’s gone on for this event. Late last week the casting call went out for “young professionals”—appaently those too young to remember the savings and loan collapse in the 80s, or the life-insurance collapses of the early 90s, and who were probably too busy with video games or something to notice the Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, et. al. collapses earlier in His Imperial Excellency’s term.
Yes, get those young professionals who are still naive enough to belive the load of horseshit sold by the “financial management” firms, whose only real interest is to manage to take as much of your money as they can without you noticing. And if you do notice, who gives a shit? They have the President in their pocket.
It was exactly 100 years ago when President Teddy Roosevelt took on the robber barons of his time, the oil companies, railroads and Wall Street to bust up monopolies and bring some measure of fairness and sanity to Wall Street.
His Imperial Excellancy is doing his best to do just the opposite. Returning monolies to the oil companies, telecommunications (the railroads of our time—ever notice that transportation and communications are lumped together as infrastructure services?) and of course, to Wall Street.
(I’m not forgetting, by the way, that Teddy Roosevelt also laid the foundation upon which The American Empire is built.)
So when you see all those approving young professionals in Greece on tomorrow night’s news, remember that they were all hand-picked to be there, not only because of their views and political connections, but because of their age.
What’s sad is that older folks who ought to know better, can’t see through the Imperial aura. An older Greece businessman who I’ve done buiness with back when I lived in Greece, said to Channel 13 News, “The [Town of Greece] supervisor did call me about being on stage, but they wanted younger working professionals, so even though I’m not on stage, I am really excited to go.”
Old folks to the back of the room please.
Linkage:
- Democrat & Chronicle: Bush looks to Greece for sympathetic ear in his probable visit
- Democrat & Chronicle: Wanted: Young audience for Bush
- Channel 13: Young Professionals Sought for Bush’s Visit
- Channel 13: The Chosen Few
- Channel 13: Rochester Area Prepares For Presidential Visit
- Democrat & Chronicle: Fans, frowners rally forces for Bush visit
I’m apparently one of the “frowners”. 
