“The reform impulse just keeps short-circuiting every time the Democrats try to switch it on. They talk about healthcare – and immediately have to say things like this about Obamacare: ‘It’s a heck of a lot better than starting from scratch.’ They talk about getting college tuition under control – and everyone remembers that the problem is decades old and that the Dems have done virtually nothing about it all those years. What was without a doubt the worst moment of them all came at the Democratic convention back in July, when Senator Elizabeth Warren pronounced on the current state of middle America as follows:
“Look around. Americans bust their tails, some working two or three jobs, but wages stay flat. Meanwhile, the basic costs of making it from month to month keep going up. Housing, healthcare, child care – costs are out of sight. Young people are getting crushed by student loans. Working people are in debt. Seniors can’t stretch a social security check to cover the basics.”
It was a powerful indictment of what Warren called a ‘rigged’ system – except for one thing: that system is presided over by Barack Obama, a man that same Democratic convention was determined to apotheosize as one of the greatest politicians of all times.”
Thomas Frank, October 6, 2016
“Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.”
Upton Sinclair
Young people are crushed by student debt because they are dumb asses that borrow money to get degrees in lesbianism and transvestite studies. Child care costs are a burden because people are to stupid to do the math. It doesn’t pay for mothers to work when the costs of childcare, transportation and other costs of working are more than the pay. Seniors can’t stretch their So cial Security checks to cover basics because they lived a lifetime making poor decisions.
The politicians are certainly scum for utilizing these issues to cater to the Free Shit Army. However, the FSA deserves what they are getting.