CDC News Release - (Amended per censorship ruling):
After generations of bigly ["evidence-based"] research it has been found that from ten weeks on, the developing kovfefe ["fetus"] is highly snowflake ["vulnerable"] to environmental factors. Though some dispute this research, it is clearly founded solidly on fake news ["science-based"].
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Monday, December 11, 2017
Entitlement Cuts
The confusion around entitlements has begun in earnest once more. Here are some important facts:
- Social Security is an entitlement
- Medicare is an entitlement
- Veteran’s benefits are entitlements
- Unemployment insurance is an entitlement
This is not an opinion, and it’s not a pejorative; it is reality of their budget classification. In the examples above (‘Contributory’ entitlements), an individual is ‘entitled’ to the benefit because of a contribution that they have made.
There are also ‘non-contributory’ entitlements, for which one qualifies through need, rather than because of a prior service, or monetary contribution. These include Medicaid, SNAP, housing assistance, WIC, Head Start, among others.
This confusion is no accident. Those who aim to cut entitlement spending hope to ‘divide and conquer’ the opposition, by pitting us against one another. They have found powerful—if unwitting—allies in those who can believe that their entitlement can be spared, if only we will stop calling it an entitlement.
Be assured, that as willing as those currently in charge may be to make cruel cuts to the non-contributory entitlements that help the most vulnerable among us, it’s the big fat pots of money in the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds that their sponsors are after. They must be stopped, but will not be stopped by denial, or confusion around labeling.
Entitlement cuts (and the word ‘reform’ has no place here) are as malevolent as the pending tax code changes. They are elements of an effort to restructure our society, further skewing the already lopsided distribution of wealth, in favor of the tiny, extremely wealthy plutocratic class.
- Social Security is an entitlement
- Medicare is an entitlement
- Veteran’s benefits are entitlements
- Unemployment insurance is an entitlement
This is not an opinion, and it’s not a pejorative; it is reality of their budget classification. In the examples above (‘Contributory’ entitlements), an individual is ‘entitled’ to the benefit because of a contribution that they have made.
There are also ‘non-contributory’ entitlements, for which one qualifies through need, rather than because of a prior service, or monetary contribution. These include Medicaid, SNAP, housing assistance, WIC, Head Start, among others.
This confusion is no accident. Those who aim to cut entitlement spending hope to ‘divide and conquer’ the opposition, by pitting us against one another. They have found powerful—if unwitting—allies in those who can believe that their entitlement can be spared, if only we will stop calling it an entitlement.
Be assured, that as willing as those currently in charge may be to make cruel cuts to the non-contributory entitlements that help the most vulnerable among us, it’s the big fat pots of money in the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds that their sponsors are after. They must be stopped, but will not be stopped by denial, or confusion around labeling.
Entitlement cuts (and the word ‘reform’ has no place here) are as malevolent as the pending tax code changes. They are elements of an effort to restructure our society, further skewing the already lopsided distribution of wealth, in favor of the tiny, extremely wealthy plutocratic class.
Monday, December 4, 2017
Christmas at the Trumps
The family in the White House observes many of the same holiday traditions that less disturbed people do – but with just a little twist.
With the season upon us, they will enjoy watching classic movies like It’s a Wonderful Life, and A Christmas Carol. But they all know to not let the old man watch the final act of either movie. He doesn’t believe in these endings, and watching them gives him nightmares, making him wake up throughout the night, shouting ‘Fake News! Fake News!’
So Melania or one of the kids will distract him, while somebody changes the channel. If he asks, they just tell him that that he saw the ending, and that he didn’t miss anything important. They assure him that Tiny Tim died, but not before the Cratchit family was bankrupted by medical bills. Or they tell him that George Bailey jumped off that bridge, but it didn’t matter anyway, because he had never been born … and that all is well in Trumpsville.
Sure, it’s a little deception, but it helps him sleep like a baby … an evil, highly dysfunctional baby.
With the season upon us, they will enjoy watching classic movies like It’s a Wonderful Life, and A Christmas Carol. But they all know to not let the old man watch the final act of either movie. He doesn’t believe in these endings, and watching them gives him nightmares, making him wake up throughout the night, shouting ‘Fake News! Fake News!’
So Melania or one of the kids will distract him, while somebody changes the channel. If he asks, they just tell him that that he saw the ending, and that he didn’t miss anything important. They assure him that Tiny Tim died, but not before the Cratchit family was bankrupted by medical bills. Or they tell him that George Bailey jumped off that bridge, but it didn’t matter anyway, because he had never been born … and that all is well in Trumpsville.
Sure, it’s a little deception, but it helps him sleep like a baby … an evil, highly dysfunctional baby.
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