Class Warfare II

Swear to God, I woke up this morning and it was raining bullshit...from the pages of the Free Press.

In fairness to Wonk, he makes a a valid point: while the auto industry's comeback is very welcome news, we can no longer depend on it here in Michigan (or any other community dependent upon the auto industry) to be the cureall it once was. But then...but then...he has to get into the beltway conventionalism, which in short means "survival of the fittest" which is really short for the wealthy elite, which leaves somewhere around 95% of us fucked. He says Michigan has to switch from "big" to "smart" (good luck with that, considering we just elected the republicans to overwhelming majorities, and if you look up stupid in the dictionary there's a picture of the gop elephant next to it). Here's how he defines "smart": "more people will be left to their own devices" (what the fuck?...is this a nation or Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson?), "government will be doing less" (again, what the fuck?...with their utter incompetence--and even more important, their complete lack of concern for the welfare of others--the private sector makes the public sector look like an anal retentive book collector , I somehow doubt most Americans want to end up like some third world nation with children starving in the streets), and "the most dramatic cuts in public employment and services are yet to come"(ditto...why is it always the middle class and the poor who are expected to accept job losses and cuts in needed services? for what, so we can give out more corporate welfare? for what, so the wealthy can put more money in the bank?).

Over the years I've learned that you can't argue with stupid, but when it comes to defending the middle class you can't give up, either.

Peace,
emaycee