Dear George,
Prole alert! They’re starting to get restless and unruly on you. It was bound to happen sooner or later. In our forty-year effort to restore order and stability to the State, the oligarchy has played hardball. This has involved a delicate balance of propaganda and repression, with propaganda creating the anxiety that makes repression possible.
Over time, it is natural for the proles to start pushing back. We see this in two bills that are working their way through Congress.
The first is the Healthy Families Act that would mandate paid sick leave for all workers. The second is the Employee Free Choice Act that would make it easier for employees to form a union.
It is tempting to think you can shut the proles up by throwing them a few scraps, such as giving them one paid sick day and making union votes nonbinding.
Big mistake, George! Do that and you’ll be swamped by a tsunami of rising expectations.
Take the opposite approach: ratchet up the control and declare the democratic republic null and void. Let’s get real, America has never been a democracy. All this talk about “liberty” is so much PR fluff to scam the proles into thinking they were free even as the State leeched away their freedoms. We have done this with an elegant finesse that is a light unto the world. Where terror was once an instrument of oppression, apathy now is.
As the State and the Corporations have merged to form the Corporatist State, it is time for some creative cross-pollination. Corporations can layoff or fire employees without cause. You are headed in the right direction with the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions act that allow for incarceration without cause. Conversely, the State can take a person’s life. Should not Corporations have the right to shoot an unproductive or difficult employee? Mass executions are much more cost-effective than layoffs. Here again, we’ve made some progress in this direction. Our multinationals in Latin America are able to look in the other direction as labor organizers are assassinated.
The foundation is in place, George. All you need do is build on it.
Your Admirer,
Belacqua Jones
4:56:56 AM 
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