"What a revoltin' development this is!" catchphrase of actor William Bendix on his 50s TV series The Life of Riley
aloha again,
greetings from the State of Paralysis (per Paul Krugman,Nobel winner)
SCREED ALERT
i sit here with a new pressure sore on my lip amidst the ruins of disability activism. Marty Omoto! volunteer crip acvtivist extraordinaire is washing his hands of this whole disjointed mess. he proclaims,rightly me thinks, that there is no actual DISABLED COMMUNITY merely a series of fuedalistic & discrete limitations stuck in their traditonal rivalries for the almighty government dollar.we need a new Helen Kellar to unite us but there is none.
almost everything i have spent the last dozen years working for is about to be wiped out with one disastrous budget debt (WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING??? see Naomi Klein's SHOCK DOCTRINE for the financial & philosophical underpinnings).the cities & counties who have been cut to the bone before are now being told to crack open the bone,suck out the marrow and send it to the Sacto Spendthrifts with a promise of repayment...eventually.
adult day care-closed,Adult Protective Services-closed,IHSS services -proposed 90% cuts,public transit kneecapped,social workers fired,teachers fired,classes expanded in size by half, school supplies-not in this century!,prisons are over crowded with non violent drug offenders( 3 Strikes is yet another disaster like the aptly named Prop 13), county workers furloughed,no money for anything else besides tax cuts...the rich are getting richer while the middle class,excuse me THE FORMER MIDDLE CLASS, are being scattered from their ad hoc tent cities by the uniformed leaf blowers that are the Police (look up Coxie's (sp?) Army in the 1930s and the role played by the HEROIC McArthur & Eisenhower).the CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEAR is crapping all over us.Chris Rock once described TRICKLE DOWN THEORY as whichever crumbs fall off the table of the mega rich-that's yours,now fight over it!
SIGH. it is to cry.i was all set to write about abortions but this strikes me personally and immediately. the tale is that Eskimos ( the Inuits),in times of crisis, put the elderlry on ice flows to die. i am told freezing to death is rather painless unlike fighting over dumpster treasures or watching legions of Alzheimers zombies wandering into traffic.
WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE HAVE WE BECOME? billions for occupation & Coporate Tribute but NOT ONE RED CENT FOR SINGLE PAYER despite the equivilent of one and a half Californias (@ 45 millions) walking naked in this medical sh*tstorm.
FACT half of all bankruptcies are filed by people WHO HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE. FACT Medicare admin overhead runs 3 to 5%,FOR PROFIT OVERHEAD RUNS 11 TO 35%.we pay twice as much for less than half the services.i am seething over how easily we are being bamboozled. don't get me started on Max Baucaus and OBAMA THE CHRIST has sold us down the river with his compromises & phony "explantions". charisma is no substitute for National Health Care.maybe i should stop now before the Secret Service kicks in my door, remember that The Patriot Act is still in effect.and one more thing...
"The law,in its majestic equality,forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges,to beg in the streets,and to steal bread." Anatole France
this crap never changes.
in other news,
people will soon be dying in the streets here unless The Dims grow some spine.FAT CHANCE,maybe we can use the corpses for compost??? or is that Too Nasty? WELCOME TO MY WORLD...
namaste
semper pissed
mega
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