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Ben Bernanke and Zhu Zhu Pets

December 21, 2009 at 4:45 PM Leave a comment

UPDATED BELOW

This is a tale about this year’s “it” toy, “Zhu Zhu Pets” and the caste system in the United States:

Lawrinowicz worked for Target for eight years before he was fired. He and other employees worked overnight at their Target unloading items. Before leaving for the day at 5 a.m. the next morning, he and six other employees lined up to buy a few of the plush hamsters each. He bought two. (Well, below the store limit of four per customer).

A few days later, Lawrinowicz was called into the human resources office and told employees were not allowed to purchase “popular items” until the store opens at 8 a.m. That would seem an appropriate response and he returned to work. However, two weeks later, all of the workers and their team leader were called in and fired pursuant to the company’s policy about buying “two-day ad items.” None of the employees ever saw a posting on the policy, though the store insisted it was posted.

This is the way the lower caste is treated in this country. They get fired and screw them if they might have a point that they “never saw a posting on the policy.” Contrast that to the way the highest caste is treated, which is illustrated by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.  He looks the other way while the U.S. economy crashes. Millions of people lose millions of dollars and millions of jobs.  Does he get fired?  No.  As a matter of fact, he gets rehired when the term of his job expires.

UPDATE:  More here on Bernanke’s history of blowing monumentally important stuff off.  Guess he kinda got tired of doing his job.   (Makes me feel all the sadder for the Target workers who are so innocent in comparison.  The disparity in the way the classes/castes are treated in the United States is despicable.)

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