[lbo-talk] what this world needs...

tfast tfast at yorku.ca
Tue Apr 4 21:08:14 PDT 2006


Good on ya Grimes. Best to the point rant i've read here in a while ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Grimes" <cgrimes at rawbw.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:52 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] what this world needs...


>
> CB: Yea, he's right. There's already rednecks aplenty, so we only need a
> _few_ more...
>
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>
> Yeah, right-on. Fuck this phony white working class identity shit. Get
> your head together jack-offs. You voted for capitalist pig bosses
> for decades now and you're paying for it. So suck it and quit you're
> whining.
>
> Remember this little Dylan song in the commie working class tradition of
> Woodie Guthery and others from back when:
>
>
> Come gather 'round friends
> And I'll tell you a tale
> Of when the red iron pits ran plenty.
> But the cardboard filled windows
> And old men on the benches.
> Tell you now that the whole town is empty.
> ....
>
> The iron ore poured
> As the years passed the door,
> The drag lines an' the shovels they was a-humming.
> 'Til one day my brother
> Failed to come home
> The same as my father before him.
>
> Well a long winter's wait,
> >From the window I watched.
> My friends they couldn't have been kinder.
> And my schooling was cut
> As I quit in the spring
> To marry John Thomas, a miner.
>
> Oh the years passed again
> And the givin' was good,
> With the lunch bucket filled every season.
> What with three babies born,
> The work was cut down
> To a half a day's shift with no reason.
>
> Then the shaft was soon shut
> And more work was cut,
> And the fire in the air, it felt frozen.
> 'Til a man come to speak
> And he said in one week
> That number eleven was closin'.
>
> They complained in the East,
> They are paying too high.
> They say that your ore ain't worth digging.
> That it's much cheaper down
> In the South American towns
> Where the miners work almost for nothing.
> ...
>
> The summer is gone,
> The ground's turning cold,
> The stores one by one they're a-foldin'.
> My children will go
> As soon as they grow.
> Well, there ain't nothing here now to hold them.
>
> That's neoliberalism, globalization, the new economy and all the rest
> of that fancy bullshit we've been fed going on now for
> decades. Meanwhile you stupid redneck jerks voted for the ever
> thieving bosses---to keep the n-words down, the mexicans out, and old
> glory waving at the courthouse---where by the way, they sent half your
> kin off to the penitentiary and the other half off to bullshit wars to
> keep the bosses money safe.
>
> So explain to me how we need more of that.
>
> And now, at last some South American towns are wising up to this
> yankee shit and kick'm out. Ask Hugo Chavez how to do it. Then one day
> maybe we'll get our country back from the bosses like Bush, you sold
> out to.
>
> CG
>
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