The Builders of the Pyramids - a photo on Flickriver

            According to popular accounts, the pharoahs had a vast army of slaves, controlled by a mixture of state religion and overt violence, who they used to construct the engineering marvels that survive to this day.

After their pyramids and tombs and sphinxes - monuments to the vanity of the leader - were built, those who built them were entombed inside and left to die of starvation.

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Here in America, Democrats and Republicans have joined together in a common cause: the abandonment of the entire working class.  If you make less than $100,000 a year, you are irrelevant: your needs and views and concerns are irrelevant, your education and health and happiness are irrelevant.   As they hand out hundreds of billions of our tax dollars in corporate bailouts to the millionaire CEOs and Presidents of Boeing and Enron and Worldcom, they all but outlaw private bankruptcy and advocate "tough love" - i.e. no assistance of any kind - for the 98% of this country who are not already on top of the world.  Our foreign aid mirrors this perfectly: we give more aid to to one of the tiniest and wealthiest countries on earth (Israel) than we do to about 4 billion of the world's poorest people in Central and South America, Africa, and most of Asia.  

The Democrats and Republicans have turned their back on us.   They are cashing in our future to throw themselves the bigegst party in history.  I wonder what would happen if all of us who lack homes, who lack access to education and jobs, all of us who are sick and can't afford the treatment we need, all of us who have been impoverished because of pharmaceutical expenses or skyrocketing rents, each and every burger-flipper at McDonalds, everyone who has ever had to go hungry for a single day... what would happen if we all turned our backs on the Democrats and Republicans?

Taken in: United States / New York / New York / Downtown (show map)

Taken on: August 23, 2005

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