Neoliberalism: The Ideology That Dares Not Speak Its Name

[David Horn]

(01-07-2017, 05:10 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:

(01-07-2017, 01:18 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(01-07-2017, 10:14 AM)Odin Wrote:

(01-05-2017, 08:49 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: How in the world does someone who gives all that sensible advice end up supporting the party of entitlement?

Because the notion that the Dems are the "party of entitlement" is a lie? All those people who voted for Trump because they refuse to retrain themselves or go back to school and just want their old jobs back are some of the most entitled fucks around.

At least they want to work, unlike all the people who voted for Obama and Clinton because they would maintain increased food stamp allotments and make it easy to get on and stay on Social Security disability.

You do realize that a heck of a lot of people on food stamps are working, don't you?  Forty percent of all people on SNAP are either working or living with someone who is working (usually that person is a child).*  And they work the hardest jobs in the country, cleaning houses, washing dishes, painting houses, stocking shelves at Walmart, caring for people with Alzheimers at nursing homes.

Of the remainder, another chunk are elderly.  Another chunk are 50-year-olds whose back has given out after years of lifting up people in order to change their bedpans.

Fact is that many jobs don't pay enough for working families to pay their bills without some assistance.

* Source is USDA, Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Households in Fiscal Year 2015.

Bravo Jenny, but facts tend to be ineffectual in changing opinions ... especially these days.  That said, making them known is still valuable, so press on!