Damn The Poor

Instead of anger and discontent toward a self-serving upper class, it has been turned on the poor.   Words and phrases like “Entitlements,”  “Welfare,”  “Nanny State,” and “THEIR cost of living increases,” dot the lexicon and drive both the focus and what passes for debate.  Plutocrats and their servitors rule, and others are ruled, whether they know it consciously or not.

Heroes

Are we an educated people, or an easily directed and emotionally-malleable one?

We readily identify with the emergency-related “heroes,” the police and first responders whenever some “incident” occurs, and that’s fine.  But there are heroes of other sorts.

How many people know who Yuliya Tymoshenko is?  Her bravery in fighting a thoroughly corrupt and often evil system that wants to see her dead goes unnoticed outside of Europe and a few State Department people.

And where are all the Ayn Rand lovers when the relatively unknown in America Mikhail Khodorkovsky is their John Galt?  

The Unexplained

I have yet to have it explained to me why any fully functioning adult in this country who works full-time should receive a wage rate that is below the poverty level.

An Excess of Irony

The irony of those in government, or those in the military, who receive, by the impoverished modern private sector standards, generous retirements: The funding for these government/military retirements come from taxes, yet so many of these people, especially the military ones, are ideologically rigidly anti-tax, and generally support the candidates who want to gut the government’s funding.