“Detroit has a champion sport’s team that has not been seen in decades. We are priced out of ticket purchases, so one would think that at least local fans would be able to watch these events on tv, but NO! Prime and Peacock, and Pelican and Peaches have come into the ‘pay-2-watch world’ showing no concern for the local fans not able to see their beloved teams during these playoffs.” — Maureen Taylor, Michigan Welfare Rights
The system of capitalism is based on the extraction of maximum profits at all times. Wars are saturated in the killing of working people on all sides while the corporate persons who also have children don’t get engaged in combat, but the money it takes to stage these conflicts is always available.
Every entity run by these corporations feed on the working class especially the poorest sections, while we are continuously ‘lulled to sleep’ with routine explanations about how wonderful our patriotic sacrifice is.
Farmers are suffering. School children are suffering. Teachers are suffering. Auto-workers are suffering. The gap between the top 1% and the rest of us grows larger each minute, but we can’t see the forest from the trees.
Now, yet another assault has surfaced on a point hardly worth mentioning.
Detroit has a champion sport’s team that has not been seen in decades. We are priced out of ticket purchases, so one would think that at least local fans would be able to watch these events on tv, but NO! Prime and Peacock, and Pelican and Peaches have come into the ‘pay-2-watch world’ showing no concern for the local fans not able to see their beloved teams during these playoffs.
Follow the money in even this unessential area of understanding, and you will find what the late Rev. Jesse Jackson said years ago is still true…”The poor have too much money, and the rich don’t have enough!” Working class people can’t get a break anywhere.
This story is from a Facebook post by Maureen Taylor
