Frustrating

[chris_gerrib]

As readers of this blog know, I found this current election very frustrating. First, had Clinton won narrowly with implications of Russian hackers providing help, the entire Republican establishment would be up in arms over it. But because a Republican did it, it's okay.

Second, this article, entitled Why Obamacare enrollees voted for Trump, also drives me nuts. Beneficiaries of Obamacare are convinced, or have convinced themselves, that Trump and the Republicans won't do what they say they will and take their benefits away. They're also convinced that, unlike themselves, "undeserving poor" are getting freebies that they aren't.

Having said all of this, all I can do is point out the truth.

Comments

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

enjoy what wealth I generate in the next few years behind the walls of a safe zone in some kind of SF dystopia

Oh?  Well, just for your information, back in Ye Olde Days one of the promised joys of Heaven® was to be able to look down on the sinners roasting in Hell® and gloat.  “Neener neener, serves ya right, ya losers, hey, you wanna drink of nice cool water?  Too damn bad, ah hah-hah-hah…”

No joke.  Look it up. 

So yah, if the oil is at $1000 a barrel and the insanely over-extended Federal Debt Ceiling has finally cracked and fallen in and the “urban underprivileged” have decided that if the welfare checks and foods stamps have stopped (and the iron-barred local grocery stores are looted to the walls) then Whitey in the rich suburbs must be made to pay directly, but Whitey has had decades enough of that already and is better armed, resulting in a viciously genocidal race war…

Then you can safely huddle behind your medieval-fortified “gated community” walls and private paramilitary-armed police and listen to the gunfire, with your solar radio tuned in to occasional, ludicrously optimistic, indeed downright delusional “news reports.”


        “Most of the GIs I knew sort of winked at the news they heard, but not
        until later in the war, after Tet, did they really seem to be broadcasting
        such sterile news that it flew right in the face of reality, what the
        average GI was seeing…

        “When you found in the heighth of battle, with the country coming to
        pieces all around you, and Armed Forces Radio News consisted of what was
        happening at the State Fair in Burning Stump, Montana, then its
        credibility became simply destroyed.”

        - Don North, ex-Armed Forces Vietnam Network reporter

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Funny thing, of all the stuff I worry about, the US debt to GDP ratio is pretty much the bottom of the list :) - in terms of size it's just not that scary, sure the number sounds pretty scary, but the US economy is insanely big.

I'm far more worried about un-secured, insured private debt and what that would do when/if it blows up.

At some point we have to deal with wealth concentration because while money isn't a zero-sum game, the amount of money around doesn't grow anywhere near as quickly as it accumulates at the top.

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

At some point we have to deal with wealth concentration

And it's funny, y' know, how “dealing with“ that always seems to end up involving great quantities of barbed wire and armed guards - at the national borders if nowhere else, and usually it's plenty else.

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The “cure” is far worse
than the “disease.”