NewAge Fact: America Loses Positive Attitude - It's Over

I read on Drudge we're bargaining body parts now. How much if I needed to sell an eyeball?

"Chattel slavery is alive and well today. The Germans used slave labor during the Holocaust, and though slavery is illegal everywhere, we have simply changed the name and driven it underground. Now we call it human trafficking. We have all seen the specials and heard the news reports. The poor and oppressed continue to be tricked and coerced—both physically and psychologically—into the trade as prostitutes, slave laborers, even child soldiers; but, surprisingly, it is not uncommon for poor families in rural communities to sell their children into slavery as a means of paying off debt.

On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, making slavery and its servitude illegal in all forms. Unfortunately, it is estimated that 20-27 million people are currently living in ‘forced labor’. This does not only involve human trafficking, but the exploitation of workers who have no bargaining power and are often denied adequate living conditions—even salaries—and are often under the threat of death. What value has been placed on their lives?"

Lives? Valued? In some way other than the abstract Batkid/some faceless homeless-guy-rewarded-for-returning-a-purse kind of way? 

In America? 

Please, Dale Carnegie, I'm of no worth unless dedicated to trying win over somebody rich somehow (Pull down your pants already).

Culture, baby.

Keep this up or you're never going to have a positive attitude,...