Latest numbers show something like 42 million US citizens are living in poverty. Unemployment is at 9% as accounted, the actual number is thought to be in the mid teens. Another million met the requirement for food stamps the last accounting period.
Retailers say the start of the Christmas shopping season saw a 7 to 9% jump in stores and 24% jump on line, a good chance this could be a record setting Christmas.
Parallel universes exist. Why help the poor, we don't need them, they are a drag on the economy. Imagine what the economy would look like if it weren't for the unemployed. Take a lesson from Kansas and the Governor Brownback, when they closed mental therapy centers for children, immediately a state GOP dipwad announced it had resulted in an improvement of mental health in the state based on the lower number of new cases. See, stop helping the poor and counting the poor and your numbers will improve. Economic Darwinism is pointing the finger at who we do not need, so stop helping them, learn the lesson people, stop helping them. (this public announcement brought to you by the Republican party)
From the Dead Kennedy's, ca. 198o:
ReplyDeleteEfficiency and progress is ours once more
Now that we have the Neutron bomb
It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done
Away with excess enemy
But no less value to property
No sense in war but perfect sense at home:
The sun beams down on a brand new day
No more welfare tax to pay
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
Jobless millions whisked away
At last we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonight
Gonna
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight
Behold the sparkle of champagne
The crime rate's gone
Feel free again
O' life's a dream with you, Miss Lily White
Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it's okay
So let's get dressed and dance away the night
While they:
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight
Fringe,
ReplyDeleteI read where Governor Brownback was afraid of the opinion of an 18 year old high school senior too, She posted an uncomplimentary observation about him on Twitter and his staff picked up on it. Next thing you know, she's called to the principal's office and ordered to write an apology to Brownback. The young woman in question said she was amazed that they noticed because she only had about 60 followers on Twitter. When I checked, that number was pushing a thousand and the vast majority, including me, supported her. So if the idiot governor thinks he can stifle dissenting voices, he has miscalculated badly.
NAC, Kevin that is really interesting.
ReplyDeleteMister O, I think his move is not so much directed at her but at the school district she is from, will they do his bidding or face the wrath of his finance puppets. Geeze, this state sucks.