Who Can Beat Trump?

[pbrower2a]

(09-23-2018, 05:42 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(09-23-2018, 11:50 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(09-22-2018, 10:51 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Show me a welfare recipient who isn't dependent on the welfare system. If you find one then explain to me why they're still on it.

I am for now. I had a bad back that created all sorts of subsidiary problems, including clinical depression. Medicaid will take care of my teeth, an ugly subcutaneous cyst, and the depression from a back pain. It will also solve some behaviors that created family problems. Physical therapy has started to solve a really-bad back problem that practically crippled me and pain that made me a miserable person to be around.

Without question, work is more satisfying than welfare even in a depressed area. I may have to move, but at least I will have a month of payments to facilitate a necessary move to some place where the jobs available better suit my talents. Hollow as consumerism is, it certainly beats poverty.

You're most likely are for the rest of your life. You remind me of a brother in law. He always feels as if he's getting the shaft. He talks big about himself. He talks as if he's the best at whatever he does and talks as if he's the most important person who works where he works as he's bounced around all over the place from company to company to job to job when his back ain't hurting or his sickness is cured or his finger feels better or his mind is back into it or his personal issue is resolved or the economy is better or whatever excuse has is better or he runs out of money and has no other option but to get over it and work. 

Hey, look at the bright side, you could be like me. You could be dealing with your back issue, seeing  the medical bills you owe for your treatment while shelling out 1500 hundred dollars a month to keep your insurance policy. Oh yeah, I think Obamacare is great for the fortunate poor person but I don't it's so great for the more fortunate people who used to have insurance that was about half the price.

I have plenty of cause for pessimism. I am far too old to start any business that depends upon merchandising, a trade, or (the business most started from scratch) food service. This is a horrible time in which to start a small  business, as giant entities are able to crush upstarts due to a tax structure that favors vertical integration and breadth of geographic scope. Economies of scale hurt anyone who must compete with the giants of retailing with such things as advertising and tax compliance. Forget manufacturing, banking, or fast food, which used to be cottage industries. It's going to take another 1930s-style depression to render the corporate behemoths extinct and create niches for small-scale business.

Needless to say, you have seen what I have said about the bureaucratic elites who administer the economy on behalf of owners, mostly heirs... I generally expect no humanity from them. They seem to think that the rest of humanity exists only to make those already filthy rich even more filthy rich by suffering on their behalf and accepting their allotted roles -- but always remembering to show how much they love the plutocratic order that we have.  Well (expletive deleted) Donald Trump, who exemplifies everything wrong with America if it isn't meteorological in cause.

By the way -- we have the most expensive medical-care system because the government fully endorses the monopolization of the business. That is the choice of the Hard Right, people aligned with the heirs and the corporate bureaucrats who exploit us all badly. That includes you. Monopoly profits fund the lobbying firms who are the government in all but name.