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The government class lives in unbridled oppulence!
You should write a book! “Mourning in America”.
Bingo....
After working for the UCONN(state) and TSA(fed)I can verify Dan nails it.
This is the point that Rolling Stone Magazine made in its Sept 2012 edition. They asked "What would the country look like if Mitt Romney were elected?" Their answer: Detrot. The thinking goes like this (although they didn't spell it out):
Detroit has been ruled by Democrats for decade after decade.
All of the productive people have been chased away.
An enormous class of dependent people has been created.
The whole structure of Detroit was built on pointless government programs that managed to funnel money into neighborhoods to keep them somewhat alive.
And then the money ran out and Detroit crashed and burned.
Much of the country is really like that. It's propped up by pointless government programs that manage to funnel money to various areas. If a politician (i.e. a Republican) were to engage in any serious budget cutting, all the money would disappear and neighborhood after neighborhood all across the country would crash and burn and suddenly look like Detroit.
Rolling Stone Magazine was all in favor of keeping the shell game going a while longer -- keep the Republicans out of office: we cannot afford fiscal responsibility; the impact would be too terrible.
yep
My work requires me to go to ‘inner-cities’ a couple of days a month. I shuffle my schedule and try to make sure my ‘inner-city’ days are rain soaked, it keeps most of them indoors and off the streets.
Nice sunny days? You’re just looking for trouble.
Also make sure to ‘go and get out’ before noon.
Its amazing what you can afford to drive when your fellow citizens are paying for everything that you need or want.
Yep. That's teaching. I went into it because I love English, I love language, I love books, movies, poems, reading, and writing. But it's getting more depressing every day, teaching the children of the folks described in the first few paragraphs, and being constantly blamed by society for their failures. I had a boy tell me last week that he's only staying in school till he's old enough to buy lottery tickets.
Live forever O exhalted sultan. Your articles are wonderful. A clear vision, never any BS, well written.
...these people's vote count as much as ours do...
...unless there is a way that the "welfare vote" is eliminated, this is what we will be saddled with for decades....or until the crash...
A GS-11 is not poor.
If life were just, and it isn’t, the upper echelon of the poverty industry would be wiped out with a good, stiff sequester. But no, it would hit the poor in hopes that they will riot, thus reversing the cuts and preserving the jobs of the welfare bosses. This system is like the Soviet system: the lower classes stand in bread lines, while the upper class lives in dachas by the sea and drives a Mercedes.
Communist Obamanation File. (Future Shock example).
BTTT
The government middle class is why Obama and Pelosi are against immediately increasing the taxes on the middle class. They haven’t figured out how to separate the Democrat middle class from the Republican middle class for tax purposes. I suppose that is a priority within the Democrat party, though. Obama and Pelosi keep yammering about the middle class because they know that in the 2014 elections, there are more Democrat Senators up for re-election than Republican Senators. If those government Democrat middle class taxpayers get hit with a loss of take home pay, they just might not vote in 2014.