that there is much difference between either the Democrats
or Republicans make me laugh.
Read a quote today, its an old one. Coming all the way from
Robert Heinlein of "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" fame.
The human race divides politically into those who want
people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
The place where any political argument becomes funny and/or
depressing is when someone actually thinks that there'll be a difference
between a Democrat or Republican. Left/Right it doesn't matter, they're both
the same thing coming from a different direction.
So there seems to be a few things that are getting all the
publicity this election cycle.
First, the Scott Walker thing. Victory for Republicans, or
so they said. I heard unions described as "thugs" and that they were
bankrupting the state governments. But finally, a white knight showed up in the
personage of Scott Walker and crushed the unions and their collective
bargaining rights. Now government employees can't get those sweet raises they
always get and they can't get all the benefits that civilian companies no
longer give out.
First of all, I'm a Federal employee and I haven't gotten a
raise in 3 years. Secondly, all I can see here is instead of people banding
together to raise everyone up. They decided that they were going to tear the
other side down.
Not since the industrial revolution and the days of
Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Mellon has so much power been given to
the employers.
Now the prevailing wisdom says that we should just let the
businesses and business owners do what they do and naturally they'll create all
these jobs and the economy will boom and everyone will be happy.
Oh, how quickly we forget our history. The industrial
revolution was remembered for many things, among them were the corporations and their penchant for paying
their workers next to shit, and then making them buy everything from the
company store on credit. Oh, and they also engaged in price fixing and
monopolistic practices till they could fix the market and charge whatever the
hell they wanted.
From that situation grew the unions. Jeez, hasn't anyone
seen Newsies?
Secondly, Obamacare. You've got one side screaming TAX and
one side screaming something else.
Now maybe Obamacare is a bad idea. Hell if I know. I know
that at least he's doing something. Because there aren't many arguments that
our health care system isn't broken.
Most Americans spend their lives one medical emergency away
from the poor house. That's wrong.
Constitution says we have the right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. Well, you can't pursue much sick, and if you're bed
ridden then liberty means shit, so from where I'm sitting health care would be
included in that right to life.
Here's a piece of this debate that I have never been able to
figure out. Insurance for me is pretty cheap because we're in a huge pool. All
federal employees pay into the system and the government throws in some also.
Now that says to me that if the entire country were in this pool. Then the
price would go down.
Instead of 2.1 million federal employees you would have the
entire nation of 330 million. Blue Cross would have to give you some kind of
group discount...right?
Another thing that bothers me. I'm always hearing that
everyone's rates go up because the fucking poor people and the illegals are all
going to our hospitals and not paying their bills so the hospital passes those
expenses on to us. (Sounds like a nicely packaged argument to get the poor to
kill each other) However, if everyone has insurance, then all the bills get
paid and then prices should go down right?
Not a fucking chance America. Prices will never go down.
They will only go up. Because we have willingly and idiotically thrown over 80%
of the nation's wealth into the hands of 1% of the population. And they have
created a political system which requires membership in the 1% to gain
entrance. (You know any poor Senators?)
THEY RIGGED THE FUCKING SYSTEM, MORONS!
We live and toil in their world. We live paycheck to
paycheck. They tax us to death, and then if we don't pay up they take
everything you own. We buy their products, we work our lives away in their
businesses while they go golfing.
They even managed to turn the tax system on its head. Its
cliche but its true, Warren Buffet pays less in taxes on his income than his
secretary does. And why? Because she earns her income with her labor whereas he
earns his income passively with his investments. Capital gains tax is less than
the income tax. We're about the stupidest bunch of fucktards ever, given the
fact that we allowed this.
And we handed it to them. We built a country that was
supposed to be the antithesis to Great Britain and its monarchy and aristocracy.
It took us about 200 years or so, but we just allowed our
own to be created.
And now we're reaping the whirlwind of that, as they take up
more and more of the wealth, and we work harder and harder just to keep our
heads above water and a roof over our heads.
But I went off on a tangent there. I'm talking about the
difference, or better yet the lack of difference between Democrats and
Republicans.
Republicans talk about lowering taxes and fighting Obama's
socialist policies while telling the country that they will fix social
security. Talk about talking out of both sides of your mouth.
Let's get one thing straight people. Social security is a
socialist as it gets. Take from the laborers and give to the retired. And do
they pay social security on investment income?
Democrats talk about all these wonderful social programs
they want to implement, all the while telling everyone they won't raise taxes.
Again, talking out of both sides of your mouth. You can't
have more and pay the same. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Somehow,
someway, someone paid for it.
I don't really much care about them, because if at any time
the American people really wanted those fucks gone they'd be gone. What I do
care about is the fact that American's are so blinded by the flashing lights
and sirens the government and media put in front of them they can't see just
how bad they're being fucked by the 1%.
America has gone to sleep, and allowed two groups (Dems and
Republicans) to compete for the spoils of our labor. The funniest part of it
all is that people actually believe that these politicians actually give a rat
shit about anyone but themselves and the special interest groups that paid
their way into the aristocracy.
Someday we, as a nation, might wake up. But it certainly
doesn't look like it'll be anytime soon. I just hope that when we do wake up
its not too late.
I'm done.
Later, I love you Mom...
