Born from decades of cultural, educational and most importantly economic neglect in the name of profit, a new lowly type creature has evolved from the ashes: The American Grunt.
Unhealthy, uneducated and now unmotivated, this uncompetitive work prospect has nowhere to turn but reality TV, crime, video games, drugs/drink or for the lucky ones, a dead-end job or the U.S. Military. The older and former middle-class American can look forward to depression, despair and disillusionment.
Because of much of the above, many of this new breed of citizen have been arrested, charged and convicted of a variety of low level "crimes of circumstance" by their late teen years. With a criminal record following a person around in this dark but digital age, one's past is now one's future.
Unfortunately, much of what is happening is happening by design. After all, what is the point of maintaining a healthy educated and culturally refined citizenry, when smart upwardly mobile citizens will demand to be handsomely compensated for their labor. Wherever smart people can be found and bought on the cheap, that's where all the quality jobs will go.
While the voices of industry insist this is just standard business practices in the free market system of Capitalism, others now see it as an undeclared class war being wage against the "common man". The American people have simply been left behind by American and international business seeking higher profit margins elsewhere.
Sure, an argument could be made for personal responsibility. Perhaps, people should have been paying closer attention to the changing times. Still, one can argue, the average citizen being armed only with a minimally developed intellect, couldn't possible foresee the future corporate schemers and scammers had in store for them. In the absence of the Forth Estate, the fate of the lower class has been sealed.
Without a strong, well funded, courageous and conscientious press working solely on behalf of the people, the decline in the average American's quality life will continue in silence.
Yesterday, as predicted the American Press found the time and space to cover how New Jersey Governor Chis Christie would handle his scandal and Hillary Clinton's 2016 hit list, while scant little attention was given to Congress passing a 1.1 trillion budget without including funding for the long term unemployed.
When one considers the ongoing impact of vicious and arbitrary cuts to social programs dedicated to assist the working poor, the elderly and America's youth because of the Sequestration legislation, it is clear that those charged with investigating, reporting and holding the powerful accountable for the people's plight have chosen to look the other way.
For the American press to prioritize the interest of Democrat and Republican 2016 presidential prospects over the issues plaguing the people today, demonstrates said American Press' total uselessness beyond that of light entertainment value.
With no independent entity devoted to exposing the plots, and schemes and scams of corporate culprits and the corrupt authorities enabling them, the Dark Age of the American Grunt has arrived.
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