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Sunday, January 22, 2023

POSSIBLE DISLOCATIONS

 Now that even Orange Julius Caesar himself has said that, 'no Republican should vote to cut so much as one penny from either Social Security or Medicare' (although God alone knows how sincere this is) we need to take a good, l-o-n-g look at everything that would be lost by the deep cuts over which the MAGA fascist Randians are salivating,
"Get a job," the Randians snarl. 'Join the makers'. That is, those who will make already obscenely rich white males (whether they're really men or not is very questionable indeed) still richer. Nothing else but that.
In point of fact, a great many, if not most, able-bodied recipients of government money (and many that aren't) actually do have jobs. Those jobs might not pay any, or little, money, although, so long as those who do them have their moderately comfortable incomes, more than make up for that in job satisfaction. That is, a great many of the people who do very necessary, albeit unpaid, jobs--that is, volunteers--are retirees or only partially disabled. That's a whole segment of very necessary work but work for which people are unable or unwilling to pay. What happens when those who do them need to be better paid?
And think of the grandparents, both grandmas and grandpas, who provide either primary or backup childcare for their grandkids and other children. What happens if and when they can't afford to do that anymore? There'll be a lot of people who won't be able to afford child care. If you run a business, you know what a headache that can be, am I not right?
Now let's go to the sections of the economy that depend to a large extent on money spent by retirees or the disabled, medically and otherwise. How many sectors of the economy collapse if these people don't have money to spend on what are necessities to them? Still with me? Want to contemplate that? Does it or doesn't it amount to a wholesale cave-in of some pretty necessary parts of our economy?
These biped monsters basically seem to think that, if some white males somewhere are not made rich by some endeavor or other, those endeavors are, ipso facto, worthless and don't deserve any consideration! At least that's what it looks like to this aging palefaced Anglo-Scot!
And I feel that outlook reeks, to put it quite mildly! It reeks of undeserved self-importance and, above all, of unslakable, downright satanic, GREED! And that greed is NOT GOOD AT ALL!!
Unfortunately, I don't have the facilities to do this, but I think someone (or groups of people) ought to take a comprehensive look of everything and everyone in our country who would be adversely affected by deep cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid--primarily but not exclusively--and publish it and share it virally! If you can think of anything and anyone, feel free to share with, where necessary, explanations of how these people and their endeavors would be so affected!
Come one come all: let's make a long, long list, bring it to Congress and shove it into the ugly face of the House's current majority! Who's with me in this? Let's get rolling NOW!