The welfare state (or who's got your back?)
FoTPC writes a great rant that everyone ought to read:
I'm all for the welfare state. While I like to see people take personal responsibility in their lives, not everyone can do that. Some people are incompetent, mentally disturbed, down on their luck, or for one reason or another, incapable of working. And some people, like my own brother would love to work but have had their jobs, and all of the ones like them, sent offshore so companies can make ever more profit through virtual slave labor.
And in the meantime people like my brother are told to find new jobs or get re-educated. Yeah, right. My brother got more education and there are still no jobs. And so now he has lost everything, his home, his car, his savings, everything. Gone. He has been reduced to zero. And after 5 years of looking and schooling and looking some more, out of desperation he took a job as a hotel clerk for $8 bucks an hour. How is he supposed to live off that? And he still doesn’t have a car.
Where my brother once had a good middleclass job and the American dream, it has been turned into a nightmare. And rather than caring for it’s citizens, especially its poor, America cares nothing unless you are a celebrity or rich or both.
America does not have my brother’s back. He is a Vietnam Vet who still carries shrapnel in his head from battlefield injuries and who has won the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for his battlefield experience. He answered the call and put his life on the line for this country and America does not have his back.
If America cares nothing for my brother, I guess I should not be surprised that America does not have the backs of the incompetent, mentally disturbed, or other people incapable of working or down on their luck either. You want them to work? Are you going to hire them? If not, what are they supposed to do? Die? That was the Nazi solution. Is that what America wants? Is that the kind of society we are? What does that say about us?
For me, I would rather have the type of society that cares for the least of us, giving help to those who need it, the poor, not those who don’t, the rich. And I will gladly pay my taxes to support welfare rather than supporting war, especially illegal, immoral wars based on lies! Yes, I am all for the welfare state and I see it as something to be god damn proud of! Thanks for reading my rant.
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Stumble It!
posted by ThePoliticalCat @ 7:27 PM
5 Comments:
No wonder so many vets are so disgusted with the way they've been treated once their back home.
Where are all these warmongers now? Why aren't they supporting these soldiers now?
Well, they support the WAR, you know. Not the people (cannon fodder) who fight in it. War is the best argument for birth control and a drastic reduction of the human population. Only when there are too few of us to throw away will our "leaders" - or rather, the oligarchy - cease throwing away human lives like so much trash. Of course, they'll just build machines to fight their wars, so the net result will probably be the same - feeding the vast military-industrial machine at the expense of all life.
I think you have hit on a phrase for a new bumper sticker or tee shirt.
Support the war, not the cannon fodder!
What do you think?
How about "Support the cannon fodder, not the war"? I really don't like war. On the other hand, if we put an elephant on the shirt to represent the GOP, we might just have a top-selling item.
And of course, that is exactly the point! (Support the cannon fodder and not the war)
On the other hand, I would like to swap out our soldiers with the yellow bellied chicken hawks (read rethuglicans) who support the war. Let them go fight it, oh and by the way, don't give them any body armor, or clean water to drink, or any other support while they do it. And don't give them any real bullets either.
And good point on the tee shirt design. I like it!
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