on strike against the bankers

well, the chicago window factory sit in that shook the nation's bankers with the thought that workers might start to attack the other source of their employers' profits -- the bankers with their loans -- has come to an end, establishment news sez: "The workers’ anger grew after they learned that the company owners had formed a new window company, Echo Windows LLC, and bought a new plant in Red Oak, Iowa, where labor costs are cheaper." what's next, mexico? indonesia? i thought they were strapped for cash and couldn't get a loan? well, i suppose they just wanted to maintain a steady rate of profit of some pre-set quantity... "A spokesman for the company would not comment about the Iowa factory. Union officials also said they were creating a foundation to collect donations to try to reopen the factory here." good old union, helping the employers out.

through their establishment-friendly "unions" (no more than interclass "unions" of interests, the robustly muscled left arm of the State), workers have made deals with employers that assumed that they had plenty of money that they skimmed off the top of the labor of the masses, that assumed that money and value really came from work and time. now the employers have been cut off from the teat of easy loan money, and the workers are left out in the cold. the protest signs, which read "you got bailed out, we got sold out," should have read "you got free money, we got expensive money." money is indeed expensive; it's paid for with hours that otherwise would have had a million possibilities, with a freedom that could have been anything -- freedom exchanged for an illusory stability. now all the stability's gone; the house and the factory and the car, all paid for with loan money, all never really yours, are now being reclaimed by the banks, whose time has apparently come. so many credit ratings, so little time, so much profit to be made ... and everyone's credit got thrown out of whack by the thousands of AAA ratings given to CCC packages of securitized loans, even the bosses'. Of course they have plenty money saved, I'm sure, but "what, you think i'm going to dip into my own pocket for that?"

When the boss acts like he can't pay, take it to the next level; because apparently the banks are the ones really profiting off our labor; the employers that workers have always fought with such ideology-softened gusto were not the ones creating money out of thin air by lending and re-lending and re-lending ad infinitum; they were just trying to pay back the high-interest loans created in that process that allowed them to have a business, and, using the machinery they got with your labor and their loans, to squeeze the most possible out of you whenever they get a chance.

everything costs so much, but those who build it all are still paid so little. the bigger the loan the more magical money out of nothing, so over time large scale projects have come to cost millions when they should only cost thousands... or nothing at all if we ever create a rational society where everyone gets whatever they want for free and works for fun, instead of paying for everything and living a work-gripped hell. this week the workers at republic windows perhaps foreshadowed with their saga a greater epic tale to come, wherein the workers of the world will unite, since they have nothing to lose but time and a fat loan to gain... or perhaps an even greater one where the employers of the world will break up, since they have nothing to lose but their gains and a new world to spin.

the banks and bosses are witches,
creating money out of nothing
and doing weird rituals in the woods of global commerce.
burn em at the stake
and see whether they melt like a pollution coated glacier!
throw em in the lake
and see if they float like an inflated dollar!