Yes, I have strong opinions about politics. Who doesn't, really? It's like saying, "Confession: I have a tongue. Let me proceed to shock you with it."
Anyway, one of my political opinions is simply that absolute truth should be the absolute goal when informing the people about the state of our still fat-cheeked-burping-and-slurping-baby union. (Imagine the 50 States with a diaper covering Texas, a bow on baby-fuzz-head Alaska, and a bottle nipple stuck in the rut of Manhattan. Yerp, preeetty infantile.)
I've often thought about how exactly our country ended up on the verge of that horrifying "fiscal cliff"; or, as the anti-climax of the new year came and went, the "fiscal hill."
How, I wondered, is the gap between rich and poor getting bigger and Bigger and BIGGER? How come the formerly sturdy middle class is getting siphoned down a drain of unfortunate economic circumstances and joining the discontented ranks of the dirt poor?
And,
HOW COME NO ONE'S POINTING TO THE EVER-RICHER RICH PEOPLE WITH THEIR TOILET PAPER MADE FROM THOSE SILLY FIVE DOLLAR BILLS? I MEAN, WHO USES THOSE ANYMORE? THEY'RE PRACTICALLY LIKE THE PENNY.
Ed Asner, being the epic, sonorous-voiced man that he is, created this cartoon short about how exactly our little goo-goo-ga-ga country got to where it is. At just under 8 minutes long, it's definitely worth your time to watch. It doesn't matter if your views are right-winged or left-winged. Nobody can fly. No, this is about money and power, and what happens to those who have too much of it.
Watch:
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