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<blockquote data-quote="WhatCrass" data-source="post: 908145" data-attributes="member: 32493"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">One of my favorite journalists wrote this great piece on how FedEx treats its workers when they get injured and how our CEO owns members of Congress with $18 million worth of bribes (AKA "reelection donations").</span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Boycott FedEx</strong></p><p></p><p> <strong><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/boycott_fedex_20100222/" target="_blank">Chris Hedges: Boycott FedEx - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig</a></strong></p><p></p><p> <strong>Posted on Feb 22, 2010</strong></p><p></p><p> By Chris Hedges</p><p></p><p>Dean Henderson’s career with FedEx ended abruptly when a reckless driver plowed into his company truck and mangled his leg. His doctor will decide this week if it needs to be amputated. No longer able to drive, stripped of value in our commodity culture, he was tossed aside by the company. He became human refuse. He spends most of his days, because of the swelling and the pain, with his leg raised on a recliner in the tiny apartment in Fairfax, Va., he shares with his stepsister. He struggles without an income and medical insurance, and he fears his future. </p><p></p><p>Our destitute working class is beginning to grasp that Barack Obama and other elected officials in Washington, who speak in a cloying feel-your-pain language, are liars. They are not attempting to prevent wages from sinking, unemployment from mounting, foreclosures from ripping apart communities, banks from looting the U.S. Treasury or jobs from being exported. The gap between our stark reality and the happy illusions peddled by smarmy television news personalities and fatuous academic and financial experts, as well as oily bureaucrats and politicians, is becoming too wide to ignore. Those cast aside are reaching out to anyone, no matter how buffoonish or ignorant, who promises that the parasites and courtiers who serve the corporate state will disappear. Right-wing rage is being fused with right-wing populism. And once this takes hold, a protofascism will sweep across our blighted landscape fueled by a mounting personal and economic despair. Take a look at Sinclair Lewis’ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can't_Happen_Here" target="_blank">“It Can’t Happen Here.”</a> It is a good window into what awaits us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WhatCrass, post: 908145, member: 32493"] [B][SIZE=2]One of my favorite journalists wrote this great piece on how FedEx treats its workers when they get injured and how our CEO owns members of Congress with $18 million worth of bribes (AKA "reelection donations").[/SIZE] Boycott FedEx[/B] [B][URL="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/boycott_fedex_20100222/"]Chris Hedges: Boycott FedEx - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig[/URL][/B] [B]Posted on Feb 22, 2010[/B] By Chris Hedges Dean Henderson’s career with FedEx ended abruptly when a reckless driver plowed into his company truck and mangled his leg. His doctor will decide this week if it needs to be amputated. No longer able to drive, stripped of value in our commodity culture, he was tossed aside by the company. He became human refuse. He spends most of his days, because of the swelling and the pain, with his leg raised on a recliner in the tiny apartment in Fairfax, Va., he shares with his stepsister. He struggles without an income and medical insurance, and he fears his future. Our destitute working class is beginning to grasp that Barack Obama and other elected officials in Washington, who speak in a cloying feel-your-pain language, are liars. They are not attempting to prevent wages from sinking, unemployment from mounting, foreclosures from ripping apart communities, banks from looting the U.S. Treasury or jobs from being exported. The gap between our stark reality and the happy illusions peddled by smarmy television news personalities and fatuous academic and financial experts, as well as oily bureaucrats and politicians, is becoming too wide to ignore. Those cast aside are reaching out to anyone, no matter how buffoonish or ignorant, who promises that the parasites and courtiers who serve the corporate state will disappear. Right-wing rage is being fused with right-wing populism. And once this takes hold, a protofascism will sweep across our blighted landscape fueled by a mounting personal and economic despair. Take a look at Sinclair Lewis’ [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can't_Happen_Here"]“It Can’t Happen Here.”[/URL] It is a good window into what awaits us. [/QUOTE]
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