Occupy Kazakhstan

Most Americans couldn't find Kazakhstan on a map. Do they know they're sending millions of tax dollars there every year?

Seems Kazakhstan is a strategic US ally. They've got oil. They've also got a "democratically elected" president who likes to make his critics disappear. But he's our kind of guy. He's got oil.

The oil workers have been occupying the civic square in the capital on and off for the last six months. The usual disgruntled-worker stuff. They want a living wage and health care and blah blah blah... Fail to appreciate that just because they earn a tenth of what their American counterparts in the oilfields do, doesn't mean they're underpaid.

It just means American workers are overpaid.

Which is why we'll never see Occupy Kazakhstan on our eleven o'clock news.