“Not too bright folks! Not too fucking bright! But if you talk to one about this, if you isolate one time and you sit him down rationally and you talk to him about the low IQs and the dumb behaviour and the bad decisions, right away they start talking about education. That’s the big answer to everything. Education. They simply need more money for education. We need more books, more teachers, more classrooms, more schools. We need more testing for the kids. He said, ‘Oh well, you know, we’ve tried all of that and the kids still can’t pass the test.’ He said, ‘Ah, don’t you worry about that! We’re gonna lower the passing grades.’
That’s what they are doing in a lot of these schools now. They lower the passing grades so more kids can pass. More schools pass. The school looks good. Everybody’s happy. The IQ of the country slips another two or three points. And pretty soon all you’ll need to get into college is a fucking pencil. Got the pencil, get the fuck in there, it’s physics. Then everyone wonders why in 19 other countries graduate more scientists than we do.
Education. Politicians know that word and how to use it on you. Politicians have traditionally hidden behind three things: the flag, the Bible, and children. No child left behind. No child left behind. Oh really? Well, it wasn’t long ago you were talking about giving kids a head start. Head start. Left behind. Someone’s losing fucking ground here.
But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this. There’s a reason education sucks and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever, be fixed. Never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now. The real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice.
You don’t.
You have no choice.
You have owners.
They own you.
They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the State Houses, the City Halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
They got you by the balls.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table to figure out how badly they are getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard thirty fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want OBEDIENT WORKERS. OBEDIENT WORKERS. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduce benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now, they’re coming for your social security money. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back. So they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.
And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later because they own this fucking place . IT’S A BIG CLUB AND YOU AIN’T IN IT. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice and nobody seems to care.
Good honest hard-working people, white-collar, blue-collar, it doesn’t matter what colour shirt you have on. Good, honest, hard-working people continue. These are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you. At all. At all. At all.
And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain wilfully ignorant of the big, red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day. Because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
American stand-up comedian George Carlin on how politicians and their owners got you by the balls
“Not too bright folks! Not too fucking bright! But if you talk to one about this, if you isolate one time and you sit him down rationally and you talk to him about the low IQs and the dumb behaviour and the bad decisions, right away they start talking about education. That’s the big answer to everything. Education. They simply need more money for education. We need more books, more teachers, more classrooms, more schools. We need more testing for the kids. He said, ‘Oh well, you know, we’ve tried all of that and the kids still can’t pass the test.’ He said, ‘Ah, don’t you worry about that! We’re gonna lower the passing grades.’
That’s what they are doing in a lot of these schools now. They lower the passing grades so more kids can pass. More schools pass. The school looks good. Everybody’s happy. The IQ of the country slips another two or three points. And pretty soon all you’ll need to get into college is a fucking pencil. Got the pencil, get the fuck in there, it’s physics. Then everyone wonders why in 19 other countries graduate more scientists than we do.
Education. Politicians know that word and how to use it on you. Politicians have traditionally hidden behind three things: the flag, the Bible, and children. No child left behind. No child left behind. Oh really? Well, it wasn’t long ago you were talking about giving kids a head start. Head start. Left behind. Someone’s losing fucking ground here.
But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this. There’s a reason education sucks and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever, be fixed. Never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now. The real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice.
You don’t.
You have no choice.
You have owners.
They own you.
They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the State Houses, the City Halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
They got you by the balls.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table to figure out how badly they are getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard thirty fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want OBEDIENT WORKERS. OBEDIENT WORKERS. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduce benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now, they’re coming for your social security money. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back. So they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.
And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later because they own this fucking place . IT’S A BIG CLUB AND YOU AIN’T IN IT. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice and nobody seems to care.
Good honest hard-working people, white-collar, blue-collar, it doesn’t matter what colour shirt you have on. Good, honest, hard-working people continue. These are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you. At all. At all. At all.
And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain wilfully ignorant of the big, red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day. Because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”