I just got a government brochure about joining the poor. I mean even more than I have. I must say it don't look good. Starvation beatings by cops living in ice water rats eating your toes when you sleep, and still getting Jury Duty. Um...no I think I'll wait for a better offer.
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I bet the authors of that brochure have cushy salaries and a snug pension plan on the public dime.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is capitalism and the sociopaths who run it. Government is just an an adjunct.
I think we could have had a just world with a decent life for most everyone if we had decided to work for that starting fifty or sixty years ago: the path not taken. So now we get Charles Dickens' worst nightmare, where Scrooge decides to let Tiny Tim drop dead.
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Yep he let the kid "drop dead". Then ran horse horse carriage over him a dozen times to make sure. All in all a good day for Business.
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Much easier than that! All he had to do was fire Bob Cratchit, and when his father couldn't afford to feed the family, the sickly kid died from malnutrition and consumption, or maybe a spot of pneumonia, scarlet fever, or the like. The infirm are easy to get rid of - it's just a matter of pulling the crutches out from under the crippled. Thomas Malthus woulda loved it, and so do our fearless leaders.
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Ah! To live in such an Age!
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