Showing posts with label blissful ignorance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blissful ignorance. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Temporarily Cheaper Is Always Better


Save Money. Live Better – Wal*Mart Slogan
Traditional families shop price, happily oblivious to foreign labor standards or environmental controls
Sending your job overseas helps your neighbors enhance their lifestyles via savings on cheaper goods
Offshoring also applies to your darling children’s food, but not to worry about where it comes from
You can look the other way when they import those low-cost generic drugs - They’re probably safe
Otherwise disgusting offal can be extruded into profitable but less expensive snacks - Like McNuggets
Cheaper building materials designed to barely meet code will quickly fail in a fire or an earthquake
Asian designers & engineers cost less and work better with our offshore suppliers and manufacturers
The Cheap And Disposable keeps their peasants employed and our shoppers busy returning to stores

There’s less disappointment if the lowest price choice is DOA 1 out of 3 times, right out of the box
Eating, wearing and buying cheap food, clothes, toys, eGizmos & household plastics is our way of life
Its actually feels quite patriotic to offshore a corporation to reduce costs – and increase your bonus
And, when stuff breaks we just curse ‘cheap chinese sh*t’, But not the All-American brand importer

These days the so-called late adopters are really just smart folk waiting for the imported knock-offs
Cut-Rate imported foods & drugs are made to higher standards than their plastic junk, Sure they are!
But, industry self-regulation mandates a handsoff & not responsible attitude toward foreign suppliers
That’s why the cheaper at any cost philosophy has been so very profitable for clever multinationals

We don’t condone workers slaving 7x18 & living 15 to a room,but we do support it with our purchases
It’s not our problem if our need for savings removes environmental issues from producers priorities
It’s also certainly not our concern that peasant laborers cannot afford to buy the products they build
After all, most of that bad stuff happens faraway and overseas so it cannot possibly affect us at all

So, it’s OK if stripmining the ocean is the most efficient way to cheaper AllUCanEat seafood nites out
And burning coal to power our air-conditioners wins if it costs patriotic consumers the very least
Subsidizing frack-first & declare bankruptcy later due to clean up costs yields us cheap energy today
CorPro subsidized,water-gulping,pesticided,GMO-based monocrops on vast tracts yield $1.00 snacks

It’s just smart business to produce meat by focusing solely on cost-containing its factory production
Funny how the cable, internet & cell oligarchies don’t have to compete on price though, ain’t it?
You must admit, its easier & less confusing for consumers to simply shop the bottom line-all the time
Meanwhile, foolish trend-setters pay 3-4X as much for the same stuff we’ll pick up later at Wal*Mart

Uninspected chinese baby food is far cheaper than ours and probably theres no longer melamine in it
Same goes for their tainted drywall that was the cheapest available but got lots of people real sick
They’ve certainly decontaminated those chicken stick snacks that killed off 3-400 of our family dogs
And Wild Caught Alaska Salmon that’s such a buy but ‘product of China’:Not to worry…it’s clean, right?

Those dirt cheap imported phones, tablets & laptops aren’t pickled in spyware either…They promise!
Its a shame we cant outsource healthcare cause maybe then we could even compare treatment costs
And don't forget, we need disposable, quietly-illegal pickers to cheat so we can have cheap tomatoes
So, it’s such a great deal, it doesn’t matter if we buy way more than we need and toss half of it away

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Don’t Worry About These Boring Facts


It’s OK...You can stay fixed solely upon unemployment, GDP, gun control, abortion and your next eGizmo
You needn’t ever ponder upon the fact that each gallon of gas you waste produces 19 pounds of CO2
Not to worry that NASA predicts irreversible collapse and the NSF warns of dire climate changes
Don’t be concerned that 80 thousand acres of rainforest and 135 species disappear, every single day
Your Timmie likely isn’t among the 535k American kids aged 1-5 who has brain-destroying lead levels

Forget about the fact that soil erosion from careless corporate farming costs $37.6 billion per year
That your kids rank 21st out of 23 developed countries in numeracy should not cause you to lose sleep
Its just alarmism when engineers say we must spend $3.6Tr by 2020 on boring infrastructure projects
Just keep ignoring the food animal holocaust that goes on out of sight and enjoy your factory chicken

Keep on watering your lovely bluegrass since that impending water shortage surely wont affect you
You have health insurance at work so you don’t even need to think about how much that care costs
You only have a couple drinks a day so the $223.5 billion yearly toll for alcohol abuse isn’t your issue
So what if 47 million Americans are on food stamps, it’s only like 1 out of 6 of all of us, anyway

You’re barely 10-15 pounds overweight so don’t be fussing over this whatever obesity epidemic
Don’t worry cause you rarely have time to exercise – you’re part of the 80% of us who never do
Should you be concerned just cause we toss 100 billion plastic bags after one use every year? Nah.
Like you should be upset that kids spend more time with tv & smart screens than on all school stuff

The disappearance of monarch butterflies & honey bees cannot possibly have a consequence for you
In terms of your life, the fact that 21% of US adults can’t read at a 5th grade level is quite immaterial
Just cause 97% of wacko climate scientists believe in that Global Warming scam doesn’t make it true
No need to get riled up about a little mercury from those patriotic coal-fired power plants in our fish

Don’t get upset just cause there’s all kinds of drug leftovers in our lakes, rivers and tap water, either
It’s no big deal if 36% of so-called baby-boomers now aged 55 and over have less than $10k saved up
No worries that the 14 million on disability don’t count as unemployed but cost us $260 billion a year
Look, don’t get all riled up just cause it costs $500 to get one stitch for a little cut at New York ERs

The $4-6Tr we will wind up spending on misguided MidEast crusades should not keep you up at night
Don’t stress out just because 1.372 billion people on earth must survive on less than $1 per day
Not to sweat the 22,000 homeless kids in that greatest of all the world cities - New York, NY USA

The 40% of Americans who believe in Creationism do not pose a threat to either you or the nation
Factory fleet overfishing & bycatch kill have no connection with your taste for AllUcanEat seafood
There’s really no need to panic just cause 95% of income gains from 2009-2012 went to that top 1%

Does your 24x7 eConnected family even care that now the design of your eToys has been outsourced?
It’s probably OK that al-Qaeda isn’t almost dead but, in fact, growing from africa across to asia
What do you care if the $19B/yr ivory smuggling business blows away cute Save The Rhino campaigns And, does it really affect your family at all that the US ranks 46th globally in freedom of the press?