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The buying of the government 2004 (Part 1)
Bush II brought to you by...
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- Growing up with your chip
- Merck execs' bailout loot
- One economic factor rising
- Hot peppers and 4-year tacos
- Your right to sue threatened
- Name that school!
- Growing up with your chip
- Merck execs' bailout loot
- One economic factor rising
- Hot peppers and 4-year tacos
- Your right to sue threatened
- Name that school!
Do Something!
September's Lowdown
Corporate kings grab our tax subsidies but create no new jobs. Obama fiddles.
By gollies, when the economic going gets tough for America's workaday people, you can always count on our tough-minded political leaders to get going! Get going, as in: rush like hell to find some gimmick to make it look like they're doing something without actually, you know, doing anything.
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Growing up with your chip
How on earth, wondered a bunch of law-and-order bureaucrats and some electronic nerds, could we get Americans to accept carrying ID that we can track 24/7?
For the kids, that's how! To protect your kids from terrorists, kidnappers, molesters, and you name it, we should electronically track them. Out of love, of course.
Thus, the school district of Spring, Texas, is now issuing radio frequency ID cards to its school kids, so police can track each of them on a computer screen. Did little Jeannie stop off at her friend's house rather than going straight home after school? With her RFID tag, the authorities know where she is. Indeed, authorities in Spring are now considering having the RFIDs implanted under the skin of each child. Then they could track them 24/7.
"It makes me feel kind of like an animal," observed one 15-year-old girl who seems likely to rebel. But younger kids risk growing up thinking this is normal—the new American way.