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George Carlin appreciation thread
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George Carlin The real owners of the country
George Carlin The Best 3 Minutes of His Career "The American Dream"
"There's a reason education SUCKS, and it's the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better, don't look for it, be happy with what you've got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the REAL owners, now. The REAL owners, the BIG WEALTHY business interests that control things and make all the important decisions -- forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. YOU DON'T. You have no choice. You have OWNERS. They OWN YOU. They own EVERYTHING. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations; 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 they own all the big media companies so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear. They gotcha by the BALLS. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying -- lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want -- they want MORE for themselves and less for everybody else. But I'll tell you what they don't want. They DON'T want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that, that doesn't help them. That's against their interests. That's right. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fukkED by system that threw them overboard 30 fukkin' years ago. They don't want that. 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, and just dumb enough to passably accept all these increasingly shyttier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're comin' for your SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY. They want your fukkin' retirement money. They want it BACK. So they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it ALL from you sooner or later -- 'cuz they OWN this fukkin' place. It's a big CLUB. And YOU AIN'T IN IT. You and I are NOT IN the big club. 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. All day long, beating you over the in their media telling you what to believe -- what to think -- and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-workin people -- white collar, blue collar -- doesn't matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-workin people CONTINUE -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these RICH COCKSUCKERS who don't GIVE a fukk about them. They don't give a fukk about you, they don't GIVE A fukk ABOUT YOU. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU -- AT ALL. AT ALL. AT ALL. You know? And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care ... that's what the owners count on, the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dikk that's being jammed up their a$$holes every day. Because the owners of this country know the truth -- it's called the American Dream ... 'cuz you have to be asleep to believe it."
George Carlin's Final Words To The World...
George Carlin on "The American Dream".
George Carlin The Best 3 Minutes of His Career "The American Dream"
"There's a reason education SUCKS, and it's the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better, don't look for it, be happy with what you've got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the REAL owners, now. The REAL owners, the BIG WEALTHY business interests that control things and make all the important decisions -- forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. YOU DON'T. You have no choice. You have OWNERS. They OWN YOU. They own EVERYTHING. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations; 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 they own all the big media companies so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear. They gotcha by the BALLS. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying -- lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want -- they want MORE for themselves and less for everybody else. But I'll tell you what they don't want. They DON'T want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that, that doesn't help them. That's against their interests. That's right. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fukkED by system that threw them overboard 30 fukkin' years ago. They don't want that. 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, and just dumb enough to passably accept all these increasingly shyttier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're comin' for your SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY. They want your fukkin' retirement money. They want it BACK. So they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it ALL from you sooner or later -- 'cuz they OWN this fukkin' place. It's a big CLUB. And YOU AIN'T IN IT. You and I are NOT IN the big club. 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. All day long, beating you over the in their media telling you what to believe -- what to think -- and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-workin people -- white collar, blue collar -- doesn't matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-workin people CONTINUE -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these RICH COCKSUCKERS who don't GIVE a fukk about them. They don't give a fukk about you, they don't GIVE A fukk ABOUT YOU. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU -- AT ALL. AT ALL. AT ALL. You know? And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care ... that's what the owners count on, the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dikk that's being jammed up their a$$holes every day. Because the owners of this country know the truth -- it's called the American Dream ... 'cuz you have to be asleep to believe it."
George Carlin's Final Words To The World...
George Carlin on "The American Dream".
VegetasHairline
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This thread should have way more replies than it does. George Carlin was one of the greats.
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Fukk your corny debates
He was more than a comedian. He was a polemicist and a philosopher, and he helped influence and shape my worldview as a youth. 
GOAT comedian.
GOAT comedian.
yeah because TLR enjoys intellectual conversation
A.V.
reTIreMEnt: THE ALBUM (01/22) ALL DSPs
Before I heard of his comedy, I knew him as the conductor from Thomas the Tank Engine
Holy
a legend
skullet rocking cac
.........actually i love george carlin, i always saw duckman as george carlin in cartoon form, dude got arrested for saying "dirty words" and then went on to make money off it, and to think he used to be like a clean cut good looking white dude before the 70s
.........actually i love george carlin, i always saw duckman as george carlin in cartoon form, dude got arrested for saying "dirty words" and then went on to make money off it, and to think he used to be like a clean cut good looking white dude before the 70s
Got to see him live right before he died. Easily my favorite comic of all time.
BelowTheMasonDixon
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First white comedian I actually took serious. Dude was dope. Definitely one of the greats.
lol real shyt here
Here it is!! Detroit Eligible To File Chapter 9; 401K- Pension Haircuts (@ .16 cents on the dollar worth) Allowed Judge Rules
""If you like your current Pension.. You can keep it!!" :-)
George Carlin had a sensible quote on this, "They're coming after your f'ing pensions and they're gunna get them too!"
This is the CA Progressive Governmental Employees Worst Nightmare. They've proselytized for years that if the cities/counties go bankrupt then they still get their pensions and the bondholders take all the hit.
This is landmark for the relationship between Federal Bankruptcy Code and alternatives.
Update, and it's official:
JUDGE: DETROIT ELIGIBLE FOR IMMEDIATE BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION
DETROIT TO REMAIN UNDER BANKRUPTCY COURT PROTECTION, JUDGE SAYS
As somewhat expected - though hoped against by many Detroit union workers - Judge Steven Rhodes appears to have confirmed Detroit is eligible for bankruptcy protection (after pointing out that the city's accounting was accurate and it is indeed insolvent) making this the largest ever muni bankruptcy.
JUDGE RHODES SAYS HE WILL ALLOW PENSION CUTS IN DETROIT'S BANKRUPTCY
DETROIT JUDGE: NOTHING SEPARATES PENSIONS FROM OTHER DEBT
The city will now begin working toward its next major move - the submission of a plan to re-adjust its more than $18 billion in debt - including significant haircuts for pension funds (possibly 16c on the dollar recovery) and bondholders. With Detroit as precedent, we can only imagine the torrent of other cities in trouble that will be willing to fold.
He did provide an "out" though:
RHODES WARNS THE CITY THAT JUST BECAUSE PENSION RIGHTS CAN BE IMPAIRED, DOESN'T MEAN HE WILL APPROVE A PLAN WITH STEEP CUTS
Via Bloomberg,
Before the bankruptcy, Orr proposed canceling $3.5 billion in future pension obligations and at least $1.4 billion in unsecured bonds. The debts would be replaced with a $2 billion note paying 1.5 percent interest.
But, of course:
Detroit must ask “what is necessary to invest to attract business?” Spiotto said in a phone interview. “If you don’t solve the systemic problem, you are just going to repeat it.”
Summary from Reuters:
Detroit is eligible for the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history because the city is broke and without Chapter 9 bankruptcy would continue on the path that has led it to insolvency, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
The judge also ruled that while the city did not negotiate in "good faith" with creditors, there were too many of them to make such negotiations practical.
Appeals are expected, but the ruling by U.S. Judge Steven Rhodes sets the stage for Detroit to file a plan of financial readjustment by March 1. The city's attorneys said they were not sure if the filing would occur before the end of the year.
The ruling came 25 days after the end of an eligibility trial during which Detroit's labor unions, retirees and pension funds argued against the city's July 18 bankruptcy filing.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-03/detroit-bankruptcy-judge-rules-allow-pension-cuts
Bankrupt Detroit can cut pensions; implications big for California
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-03/detroit-bankruptcy-judge-rules-allow-pension-cuts
Judge: Detroit can cut employee pensions - USA To
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-03/detroit-bankruptcy-judge-rules-allow-pension-cuts
Detroit Ruling on Bankruptcy Lifts Pension Protectio
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-03/detroit-bankruptcy-judge-rules-allow-pension-cuts
Judge: Detroit pensions can be cut in bankruptcy - E
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-03/detroit-bankruptcy-judge-rules-allow-pension-cuts
""If you like your current Pension.. You can keep it!!" :-)
George Carlin had a sensible quote on this, "They're coming after your f'ing pensions and they're gunna get them too!"
This is the CA Progressive Governmental Employees Worst Nightmare. They've proselytized for years that if the cities/counties go bankrupt then they still get their pensions and the bondholders take all the hit.
This is landmark for the relationship between Federal Bankruptcy Code and alternatives.
Update, and it's official:
JUDGE: DETROIT ELIGIBLE FOR IMMEDIATE BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION
DETROIT TO REMAIN UNDER BANKRUPTCY COURT PROTECTION, JUDGE SAYS
As somewhat expected - though hoped against by many Detroit union workers - Judge Steven Rhodes appears to have confirmed Detroit is eligible for bankruptcy protection (after pointing out that the city's accounting was accurate and it is indeed insolvent) making this the largest ever muni bankruptcy.
JUDGE RHODES SAYS HE WILL ALLOW PENSION CUTS IN DETROIT'S BANKRUPTCY
DETROIT JUDGE: NOTHING SEPARATES PENSIONS FROM OTHER DEBT
The city will now begin working toward its next major move - the submission of a plan to re-adjust its more than $18 billion in debt - including significant haircuts for pension funds (possibly 16c on the dollar recovery) and bondholders. With Detroit as precedent, we can only imagine the torrent of other cities in trouble that will be willing to fold.
He did provide an "out" though:
RHODES WARNS THE CITY THAT JUST BECAUSE PENSION RIGHTS CAN BE IMPAIRED, DOESN'T MEAN HE WILL APPROVE A PLAN WITH STEEP CUTS
Via Bloomberg,
Before the bankruptcy, Orr proposed canceling $3.5 billion in future pension obligations and at least $1.4 billion in unsecured bonds. The debts would be replaced with a $2 billion note paying 1.5 percent interest.
But, of course:
Detroit must ask “what is necessary to invest to attract business?” Spiotto said in a phone interview. “If you don’t solve the systemic problem, you are just going to repeat it.”
Summary from Reuters:
Detroit is eligible for the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history because the city is broke and without Chapter 9 bankruptcy would continue on the path that has led it to insolvency, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
The judge also ruled that while the city did not negotiate in "good faith" with creditors, there were too many of them to make such negotiations practical.
Appeals are expected, but the ruling by U.S. Judge Steven Rhodes sets the stage for Detroit to file a plan of financial readjustment by March 1. The city's attorneys said they were not sure if the filing would occur before the end of the year.
The ruling came 25 days after the end of an eligibility trial during which Detroit's labor unions, retirees and pension funds argued against the city's July 18 bankruptcy filing.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-03/detroit-bankruptcy-judge-rules-allow-pension-cuts
Bankrupt Detroit can cut pensions; implications big for California
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-03/detroit-bankruptcy-judge-rules-allow-pension-cuts
Judge: Detroit can cut employee pensions - USA To
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-03/detroit-bankruptcy-judge-rules-allow-pension-cuts
Detroit Ruling on Bankruptcy Lifts Pension Protectio
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-03/detroit-bankruptcy-judge-rules-allow-pension-cuts
Judge: Detroit pensions can be cut in bankruptcy - E
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-03/detroit-bankruptcy-judge-rules-allow-pension-cuts
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