America is having a “jobless recovery” — this absurd little phrase is the latest rich people idea of economic prosperity. So, with the headline unemployment rate at 9.7% which is a total deception, the real unemployment rate some say is near 17% but likely closer to 25%. Now, even the employed are so poorly paid, they are turning to food stamps for survive.
US families turn to food stamps as wages drop.
Let the country complain about socialism; however, make no mistake America is heading there at a rapid rate. When people cannot make enough wages to support themselves and have to turn to food stamps, this is clearly socialism. What is the alternative? Let them starve to death? Clearly, this would be just fine with the privilege, greedy and rich in America but as the numbers continue to increase among the poor, socialism is the solution.
At some point there will be minimum laws — minimum housing, food, health care and transportation. We need these laws now. But there is a last ditch effort to avert minimum health care as the Republicans try to keep the greedy, for profit health insurance industry — the very industry who literally kills people every day, in every significant city in America.
Obama’s Wednesday health care speech will be an opportunity for him to do something big. If I was him, I would point out how dysfunctional Congress has been with health care reform. I would say that enough is enough and propose a simple Medicare For All plan. It will be a very simple proposal — let anybody sign up for original Medicare that wants to. Let people keep their for profit private health insurance companies if they want. But, also let anybody sign up for Medicare who wants to. Everybody knows what will happen — Americans without insurance and millions and millions of people with health insurance will seek out Medicare. Meanwhile, original Medicare will get better — private health insurance will go away. The only real solution to health care is government run single payer insurance.
Let the greedy Republicans scream all they want. As the unemployed numbers increase, as the number of people on food stamps increase, the greedy rich will have to get more and more extreme. More crazies will emerge from the right with their stupid ideas about guns, religion and survivalism.
America is doomed.
Hi,
Ugh, I liked! So clear and positively.
Pett
Minimum Laws? Are you kidding? We have maximum laws!! We have more laws than Russier and Chiner (I like to pronounce the names of those countries like that so I sound like a Kennedy and then everyone will know that I’m not prejudiced or any shit like that. They know that “I Care”). We have the world’s largest incarcerated population, 25% more than any of the commies. The land of the free is now the land of the detained. The land of the incarcerated. The land of the confined. As for minimum housing, I have seen a more stinking public housing than I care to look at. Abandoned, Broken, Abused, Unkept, Crackish, Druggish, Hoish, Criminal Ridden, Graffitied, Littered and just generally a place that no one in their right mind would want to be. I already have minimum transportation. It’s called a 1990 Nissan PU truck. Believe me, as far as transportation is concerned, it is “minimal”. Health Care? Do you mean health care or for profit disease management? I have health care, but it is self induced. Example: Did you see the blubberbutt who couldn’t fly on Southwest Airlines from Las Vegas to Chicago because he couldn’t fit his lardass blubberbutt into a single airplane seat? HeeHeeHee. When you are that fat of a slob, you are surely going to cost the system dearly. The system needs reformed wher Tubs ‘O Goo like him get an excercise and nutrition counseling prescription rather than some “Big Pharma” dope, courtesy of me. I’d like to see a maximum law in AmeriKa. A law that maximizes the amount of laws that “da gubsamunts” can enact. A law that sets a maximum size and weight limit for lardasses. And a law that sets a maximum amount of money that “Da Gubsamunts” can confiscate and give to GM (government motors). Then maybe I could afford to buy some new minimum transportation. I agree with you on the Medicare idea. It would work, at least as a stopgap measure while the situation can be better corrected. As for guns and survivalism. Don’t know exactly what you mean. But my house was broken into last week by a welfare maggot (the alarm worked and foiled his attempt to burgle. NOw if he had done that when I was home and the alarm wasn’t set, I would have used one of my guns to permanently solve the problem. Guns are good, welfare maggots are bad. As for survival, sucking your mothers tit at birth is possibly man’s first expression of a “survival instinct”. We learn how to survive for the rest of our lives. We learn to fish, hunt, take antibiotics, aspirin, grocery shop, garden, etc… and shoot burglers, rapists, home invasionists, car jackers, etc… (who by the way, are almost all DumbaKraps or have been bred and raised by DumbaKRaps. Ain’t too many Repukikans in Detroilet or Filthadelphia). I guess I’m a survivalist. Maybe that’s why I’m still here and beating the shit (through alternative, natural medicine) out of prostate cancer.