you have got to be kidding me!  did anyone catch the state of the union address last night?  i would like to know what union these fuckers are living in?  all of the optimistic double speak, all of the standing ovations, promises and more promises... did you recognize one person in that room of floating heads that actually represents you?  these are a bunch of rich rich people, they are all in the top 2% of the nation's wealth and they are somehow supposed to be a representation of the "people?"  i don't know anyone who is going to lose thier ass if we don't compete in a "world economy."  everyone i know is having enough trouble getting by in the local economy!  please explain to me how the fed cutting interest rates is going to help me buy groceries this week?  our politicians talk a whole lot of smack and nothing actually gets done.  nothing even changes from party to party.  i get the distinct impression that they are all just playing good cop bad cop with us, keeping us divided (thus conquered), and all the while there is some giant sell-off going on right under our noses.  these fuckers behave like corporate CEO's that know the inside scoop.  they put on a brave front, tell everyone in the company to be positive, work a little harder and all of this will turn itself around, meanwhile they are selling off thier juiced stocks and preparing for a quick getaway to the island they bought in the dutch antilles!!  i feel like we have been sold to china and just haven't seen the papers yet.  that is the state of the union.  if you have the temerity to actually vote for president ask yourself this question:  who counts the votes?  do you trust these assholes to give you the honest count?  even though the popular vote means nothing... even though the last two elections were fraught with fraud and deception... even though the votes are tabulated by machines that are in the control of the people who are trying to be elected... and even though the media won't even report on all of the candidates... lets pretend that all of that is just a coincidence... do you trust these liars to tell the truth about the numbers when it all comes out?  if 80% of the people in this country voted for ron paul, for example, do you think they would tell us, or do you think the news would look exactly as it does today, tonight, next week.  the truth is, the union has been co-opted by the wealthy, and it is too late to wrest it back by voting.  wake the fuck up!  there can be no bloodless revolution.  not anymore, we are past the point of no return.  when we get out of bed some morning in november and the saudi's want to collect on the 14 billion dollar bailout of citicorp, and the chinese want to collect on the @%*& billion dollar aid package, etc... and our "leaders" have all absconded with the paltry remains of our national treasury, then who gets to be president?!  will it matter then?  they are pissing it away in front of our faces and have the gaul to give each other standing ovations!  it is just too much.