Gotta make room!
Posted on 01/09/2008 3:52:03 AM PST by databoss
Who do these control freaks think they are?
Our rulers.
Originally it was only the socialist/marxist types ("From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.") But lately, even putative "conservatives" have signed on to the program too.
Select one:
A) God have mercy (because our fellow man ain't gone none left for us).
B) Stick a fork in us, we're done.
I gotta be honest with you . . . I have ZERO sympathy for someone who has forgotten how this country was built on the backs of people who lived on their own land, in their own homes, for generation after generation.
But that's so "traditionalist", isn't it.
"First, they came for the old widowed grannies..." (But I was a greedy young thing, who thought he would live forever, and never grow old.)
You, too, will some day become a "useless eater" in Lord Stalin's Western Paradise, my friend.
Gee, I wonder if she can play any musical instruments? (The musically-endowed folks in those photos seem like much happier campers than the rest of their contemporaries.)
I don't know if there's ever been any research, but I think it's clear that the ability to play a musical instrument would often result in a much improved quality -- and length -- of life.
Is that a gated community?
'Cuz if it is, I know where they can find a slightly-used over-the-gate "welcome to our community" type sign, that really dovetails nicely with the spirit of responsibility and duty they have embraced. Only drawback is it's not in English. It says, "Arbeit Macht Frei"
Whoa, you are one cold piece of work, dude!
It's not like grannie moved in from way up in the hills, and decided to plunk herself down in your nice upscale suburban utopia, and then sits there were her hand out and a "feed me, sucka" sign hanging around her neck.
This country is gone to hell in a bucket. When a "culture" reaches the stage at which it treats its elderly as disposable "non-producing assets", who, when they can no longer pull the plow, will be sent to the glue factory rather than put out to pasture... when a society reaches that stage, it's at pretty much a terminal stage.
Things do get worse -- at an exponential rate.
So is the notion of driving the elderly out of their lifelong homes, by process of ratchetting up the tribute they must pay to the local lairds, and when it reaches the point at which they can no longer pay the tribute, they're relieved of their homes.
Slavery is another way of saying "100% tax rate."
Wrong!
Elderly slaves, who could no longer do productive work, were provided free room and board for the remainder of their lives -- at a zero percent tax rate!.
What we have now is in certain ways far worse than slavery.
Maybe if "the institution of slavery" had been managed by accountants and MBA types, it would have resembled what we have today.
Get’s “620 Social Security check per month ($7,440 a year), and has to pay $12,000 a year in property taxes on the house that she has lived in for 43 years.”
Hope she can handle working like this when she’s 90! If not will the street be her new home?
"Arbeit Macht Frei"
Liberals are so compassionate, aren’t they?
As always!
Gotta make room!
Ahh. Soylent Green.
Yup. The parallels were too striking for me to resist pointing out.
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