Hunger Games, U.S.A.
“Something
terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We’ve gone beyond
bad economic doctrine. We’ve even gone beyond selfishness and special
interests. At this point we’re talking about a state of mind that takes
positive glee in inflicting further suffering on the already miserable…”
Cassi Creek: The very idea that anyone with a modicum of
intellect would prefer trying to subsist on the meager amount of SNAP
assistance provide by the Federal government is patently absurd. The GOP/teavangelists insistence upon gutting
the social safety nets that protect the citizens of this nation are, frankly,
among the most vicious and mean-spirited attempts to wage class warfare that
this nation has ever seen.
Blaming unemployment upon the
laid-off, out-sourced, off-shored workers of the American working and middle
class is akin to blaming children infected with Hepatitis B and other
infectious but preventable diseases for their parents refusal to allow them to
be vaccinated. Of course, we do have a
sizeable population of parents who stupidly refuse to protect their children
from such illnesses; and in doing so, infect many others beyond their immediate
circle.
The GOP/teavangelists are willing to
destroy all the existing safety nets, and any others that might be proposed in
their efforts to cover up the role of corporations and financiers, and shift
the blame for the great recession to the people who lost everything including
their homes and jobs. We seem to be
headed back to the days of child labor, poor/work-houses, and epidemics of communicable
diseases brought about by malnutrition and lack of sanitation and affordable
health care.
The rush to abolish the safety nets
seems to be driven by a desire to punish people for not being wealthy, for not
being GOP/teavangelists, and most of all, for recreational sex. The Teavangelists demand someone be punished,
and forced starvation and disease is much less expensive than making people
wear all the various scarlet letters. We’ve
watched this year as state after state tries to implement a war on education,
upon social security, upon the poor and unemployed, and upon women. Collectively these efforts are somewhat more
drastic than Dickensian, bordering on the suppression of the Kulaks by
Stalin.
Stalin, in addition to his
megalomania and cruel nature, was most likely suffering from tertiary syphilis. I’m beginning to wonder about our Congress
and their owners.
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