Demand more bread and better circuses!

Here we are in the middle of the collapse of the American empire and I have to say I'm highly disappointed in the caliber of circuses being provided.

All we're getting is a bunch of bloggers on the right and left (as if there was such a thing) shooting snarky comments back and forth during commercial spots in the Michael Jackson funeral coverage. Or we get the Sarah Palin drama or that guy who had the babe in Argentina.
Are we that friggin' stupid that we fall for this shit? Do we care? I don't think so. I think our imaginations have just been dumbed down by the constant years of listening to political bullshit.
Meanwhile the masters at Goldman Sachs laugh at us and send their minions in the government to vacuum up any left-over dollars they may have missed on the last go round.

I say if they plan to bring it down around our ears, they should at least pony up for a good show!
Get a clue, rich dudes. Look to the Roman Empire. Those guys knew how to put on a good show.
They had food orgies and people fighting wild animals and each other...to the death! Come on, anyplace that has a vomitorium has to be party central.

So what do we get? Some pathetic Court TV trial to send Bernie Maddoff up the river while all the real crooks pose for the camera in the background. They could have at least injected a little drama and action into it.
I would have rounded up all his "victims" (oh boo hoo, the bad man lied to me) and sent them into a big room with Bernie. Then I would have turned out the lights and let them all bitch-slap each other for being such dumb-asses, while filming it all with night vision cameras.
Then I would have opened all his properties to the homeless that live closest to each, turned them loose and filmed that too. Let's see some major breakage and pillaging a la Katrina. Let's see some people down at street level getting some! Let me see a guy who hasn't had a bath in 6 months jump into some silk sheets!

Here's another idea. We can take all the newly empty shopping malls and turn them into arenas.
(ooohh look...jobs!) The multi-story malls would work the best.
The upper levels would have a few beer stations, food courts and clear viewing areas of the bottom floor.
Down at the bottom level, we herd in a troupe of homeless people. Maybe start with the guys that hold signs on corners, they're really irritating. Then turn the lions loose on them.
Talk about a show! The lumpenproles who still have a job would go nuts. Nacho sales would go through the roof.
We could even have special nights...Illegal Alien Night or Home Grown Domestic Terrorist Night.
If they work it right, every minority group could be whittled down one by one. Then it would be childs-play for their goons to round up the few survivors and send them to the work farms.

It seems the masters are an unimaginative bunch though. If they played it right we could all have fun in the apocalypse.

Write your representative now. Demand more bread and better circuses!