Dear George,
The success of the corporatist state will be in direct proportion to the increase in the number of working poor. They are far more exploitable than the working well-to-do. A man with a healthy savings account will not squat and ask, “What Color?” every time someone says, “Shit!”
A person is part of the working poor demographic if he is forced to work in overdrive just to make ends meet. Do you notice something interesting about this definition? Of course, you don’t, so let me spell it out for you. The definition does not refer to income. You can be making big bucks and still be part of the working poor. Let me give you an example.
Take, for example, an assistant vice president in a multinational corporation making an annual salary of $250,000. On the surface, this looks great. Except, he has just refinance the mortgage on his Mcmansion taking out a interest-only mortgage to tap out his equity so he can pay down his credit card debt, which he proceeds to run up again. Consequently, he has a drawer full of maxed out credit cards, and his debt-service ration is 25% of his after tax income on a credit card debt that is twice his annual salary. Throw into the mix two kids in college, each of whom got a Beemer for a graduation present to show what a good father he was because he had little time for parenting as he worked long hours just so he could give his family the good life. Throw in a $35,000 a year membership in the local country club and you have a member in good standing of the working poor. Here is a man who is going to squat and ask, “What color?” before anyone says, “Shit!”
George, a viable goal for FY2007 would be a thirty-five percent increase in the pool of working poor, which you could accomplish by continuing to screw the upper middleclass. Nobody will complain. When the well-off fall, it’s not seen as a tragedy, but as God’s punishment for greed. Let me rephrase that: It’s God’s punishment for a half-baked greed; God rewards felonious greed. The half measures really piss him off. What many middle managers fail to realize is that God doesn’t like it if you screw your colleague to get a promotion, but He is tickled pink if you milk the company pension fund dry. He is with you from indictment to conviction.
Never forget that indentured servitude built America. So let us return to that hallowed tradition so our prosperity may continue even as we sink into penury.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
9:07:13 PM 
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