fat-cat corporate fuckers stand with their hands out while dying kid worries about the homeless

Citi has now joined the beggar’s parade of corporate bloodsuckers who are stealing your tax dollars to fund meaningless shit in order to promote their pathetically degraded “brands”.

yes, AIG and Citi spend millions of bucks shoving their names into the faces of unsuspecting sports fans.

your money, people. you are paying to Citi-ize the new shea stadium (why the mets would even want it there is mystifying). you are paying to put AIG-ify the soccer uniforms of a team in manchester, england.

AIG stupidly tries to justify their million dollar jerseys by saying it’s not a new deal, merely some negotiations around an ongoing, years-long deal. just maybe, if they hadn’t made a habit of squandering their capital on such useless crap, they wouldn’t have needed a fucking bailout in the first place. then, even more stupidly, they get into a fight about semantics with wonkette — WONKETTE! of all places — which posted a hilarious article this morning titled “AIG Using Taxpayers’ $150 Billion to Annoy Comedy Blog” after a series of emails from AIG’s so-called media rep, someone so tuned in to current events that they don’t even know wonkette spoofs the news rather than reporting it.

morons, all of them. just like the multimillion dollar executive morons at Citi.

while our hard-earned money is being flung wholesale into this bonfire of incompetence, chicago is busily enforcing a new zero-tolerance policy against homeless people riding “too long” on the subway and new york city is working hard to keep homeless men out of local drop-in shelters.

hello, chicago? new york? we’re getting ready to have a whole lot more homeless people, fucking homeless people will be dropping from the goddam trees outside Citi Stadium and begging for AIG soccer jerseys to put on their freezing asses. you think this is a good time to reduce services? to “crack down” on the good-for-nothing homeless? shit, yo mama might be homeless next. better think again.

why not take a lesson from canada (you know, that ridiculous country where people with medical problems are entitled to medical care) and set up something like their homeless nation, a resource website by and for the homeless. (happy side note! while researching this, i discovered similar resources here in the states, the homeless shelter directory and its companion, the angel forum, where homeless people can search for specific resources and get answers to questions. go mike! – whoever you are — for founding and funding these sites. he’s even created a homeless population counter widget, which will soon make its appearance here on GAWM.)

dunno how to build a website? you could always make a few (hundred) sandwiches, the way friends and family of the nearly-dead 11-year-old brenden foster did. brenden’s last wish (he may even be gone by now, when this movie was recorded he’d already outlasted his death sentence by a couple of days) and deliver them to local tent city residents.

a dying boy looks around him on his way home from the clinic and sees only how he might be of service to people facing very hard times. executives at AIG and Citi (and soon, no doubt, detroit) look around them and see only ways to profit from the same fucked population.

russell mokhiber of multinational monitor eloquently states that there is no possibility of economic justice in this country until the misbegotten statute recognizing corporations as “natural persons under the law” is revoked. i can’t think of a better moment to bring that issue to the table, because the actions of american corporations today, in the midst of this crisis, are nothing short of unnatural. 

inhuman, even.

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