YOU!

Like a lot of elitists, I get the New York Times home-delivered to my computer each day. The damn kid that delivers it usually misses the porch and I have to retrieve it from the bushes but, at least that 44 year old kid is working for a living and not mooching.

Recently, two-term presidential sure thing, Newt Gingrich referred to President Obama as "The Food stamp President". Evidently, a lot of people believe that, due to his socialist/Muslim agendacies (sic- MY NEW WORD!!!) Obama wants EVERYONE to be on welfare and to pay for this welfare, he wants to tax the living shit out of job creators. 'Redistribution of wealth' is what they call it. With that kind of attitude, it's no wonder our nation's job creators have been creating jobs overseas for the last 40 years! They saw this coming and even various iconic republican presidents like Ronald Reagan and a couple of George Bush's could not stop the socialist juggernat that Barack H. Obama was going to be.

Also evidently, more people are using government social services than ever before. Some argue that Obama makes this easy for them and that- again- he encourages people to do this. That, they might add, is THE reason so many people are 'on the dole' with their hands out. They are lazy and they want it this way. There are, in this Obama administration, more people than ever recieving government assistance. So, there you go. End of story. This has got to stop! Sums it all up, quite nicely. Damn moochers!

Not so fast. There is a recession going on. It's been in all the old-fashioned newspapers and those home-delivered to the 'net. It's been on the nightly news since about 2007 as well. Your neighbors have probably mentioned it. There are five year old children who have known nothing but recession in their young lives. It's, by most accounts, the worst economy since The Great Depression of the 30's.

And that just might be why there are so many more Americans recieving government assistance. As Paul Krugman points out in the link to follow, the saftey net didn't get bigger, more people fell into it.

You take away that saftey net and we're in to numbering Great Depressions like Great Wars.

The GOP wants you to believe that, once you take away welfare, unemployment compensation and the like, people will get off their lazy asses and work. Even better, take away Unions and minimum wage laws and you will make it easy for everyone to work. It's that simple!

It's that stupid. People, are that stupid. The article also notes that 40+% of people who have received social security, unemployment and medicare believe they "have not used a government program". They are like the B-list actor, Craig T. Nelson who told Glenn Beck that, in his hard times he was on welfare and unemployment but "nobody helped (him)!"

Well, by "nobody" I guess he meant  everybody?

We are everybody whether we own up to it or not. No matter how Ayn Randian you may fancy yourself to be, you did not get to be such an effete son of a bitch all by yourself. You had help. The architect doesn't own the building anymore than the steelworker. Struttin around like you own the place just makes you look stupid, even if you do own the place.

If you are a republican or a teabagger or you simply exist amongst them in a red or a blue state, even if you haven't been hurt too much by this recession, it behooves you to be an everybody and think about everybody. This one will end. A lot of smart people are saying it's getting better every day. More people are working than at this time last year and yada yada. We've always had recessions and we always will. The only thing we the people can control is how horribly severe they are. We can control this by being an everybody and looking out for eveybody. There are 300+ million of us here. That's a lot of everybodies! When there are not enough jobs for everybody (and you are a body) you have to consider how you would want to be treated by those body's that have while you have not. Would YOU like to be on the receiving end of: "Fuck you, you're on your own!"?

Now, you might think that will never happen to you because, well, you are you! Or because you have weapons and a stockpile of candied yams and you can string a troutline and you know that squirrels is good-eatin'. Or, you're rich and you've got gold and that'll get you a loaf of bread in hard times. I think there are people, rich and not, who not-so- secretly desire Armeggedon. The Apocylpse could be fun. Who really knows until we get there? You are you and whether a socialist-liberal teacher instilled that in you in some elitist public school or your stock portfolio tells you you are you, you ARE special because you are you! Should anyone tell you different? Well, it depends on who you are, I guess.

I'll tell you this: if you don't care about others because they are not you, fuck you!

I feel better now. How 'bout you?

Here's the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/opinion/krugman-moochers-against-welfare.html?_r=1&ref=paulkrugman