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Did You Know? Americans Can't be that Stupid? Can they?

Did you know that in the land of the free and brave. Where everyone is cherished equally. Where talent and hard work is rewarded. Where everyone can live the American Dream. Where entrepreneurialism thrives. Where everyone can be a millionaire.  It's all bullshit!

I came across these recently. The first graph shows that the bottom 80% in America (that's pretty much everyone!) got relatively poorer over the boom years. They did so in order to ensure that the Top 20% and in particular the Top 1% got richer. Far richer! Now that is stupid! Unless of course you are in the top 1%!!

This graph shows that Americans don't think they are stupid. They think that wealth is distributed more evenly. But it's not. Not by a long way. It also shows how they would like wealth to be distributed. So why don't they make it happen?

By the way this information is a little old (2007/8). The situation is far worse now because of lay-offs and the fact that most of the ordinary American worker's wealth is tied up in property i.e. his/her house. And we all know which way property prices went over the last 3 years. It hasn't been a Tea Party over the last few years. Has it?

Data out this week shows that more Americans are falling into poverty. Did you know that 46 million Americans now live below the poverty line? This is the highest figure for 52 years since records began. And while all Americans are poorer in recent years, it's those at the bottom who have fared worse.

With elections due in 2012, the simple message is: Tax the Wealthy! Despite what all these rich Republican folk think (I wonder if they are in the 1% .....hmmmmm. Makes ya think, doesn't it!) it would be stupid to do anything else. But Americans aren't that stupid? Are they?

So instead of "It's the economy, stupid!" it should be "It's the inequality, stupid!"

Sarah Palin likes skunk

In Joe McGinniss's soon to be released biography of Sarah Pain (sorry Palin) he alleges that the wannabee presidential candidate had an extra marital affair and has a penchant for cocaine and marijuana.

While I could believe the allegation about extra marital sex (those shoes, those shoes......who wouldn't!?) I was surprised to learn about her liking for weed. Until I remembered this song. Now I know what the reference to skunk means!

This brother and sister combo (or husband and wife - maybe both?) recall the drug fueled days. Now I know what happens at all those tea parties.........

After all this, I'd be inclined to vote for her now!

She's a cold blast from Alaska ingrained with common sense,
She's not a Harvard lawyer but she knew what the Founders meant.
A cold blast from the north that freezes Congress in their tracks,
With God and the Tea Party, she's gonna take it back.

Sarah Palin, she won't listen to their bunk,
Sarah Palin coming South to hunt some skunk,
Sarah Palin – she'll throw 'em all in jail,
And when she gets to Washington, it'll be cold as hell.

Sarah has the wisdom to walk through an open door,
She's stomping out the wretches where the evil lies in store.
She will scrub the floors and sweep the riff-raff into cracks,
With God and the Tea Party, she's gonna take it back.

Sarah Palin, she won't listen to their bunk,
Sarah Palin coming South to hunt some skunk,
Sarah Palin – she'll throw 'em all in jail,
And when she gets to Washington, it'll be cold as hell.

SPOKEN WORD:

Congress pats themselves from some new bill they just passed
I watch as my freedom slowly runs through an hourglass
They think they spend our money better than we do
But they can talk until they're blue and old
'Cuz if they ever gave us anything
They always wanted something in return . . . Sarah knows!

OPERA-STYLE:

Saraaaaah's marching onnnnnnnn onnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

CLOSING DEDICATION:

I'd like to dedicate that to the Tea Party and all the patriots.

Scarlett Johansson's Phone Hacked

There are those people who would shamelessly seek to exploit the fact that nude photographs of Scarlett Johansson are circulating the internet following the illegal and disgraceful hacking of her phone.

Sofia Notes will not fall into the trap of seeking cheap publicity by exploiting this indecent act. Sofia Notes finds this kind of prurient, distasteful voyeurism disgusting and condemns it wholeheartedly.

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