Donnie Downer reporting on this festive day....
Seems more Americans are using food stamps this Thanksgiving than ever before. There's something inherently wrong in that--the wealthiest nation in the history of the world having so many with not enough means to fucking eat. I know the losers on the right are quick to blame President Obama, or the black folk, or the brown folks, or too high of taxes, or too much regulation on Wall Street, but you've got to be tremendously naive to believe any of that malarkey.
There's been a systematic destruction over the last thirty years of the working class in this country and this is the upshot. From ending company paid pensions to an ever increasing employee share of healthcare, from the disappearance of merit raises to the failure to index the minimum wage to the rise in the cost of living, the playing field has become littered with the rubble of a dying American dream for far too many Americans.
How long do you suppose it is before the powers that be realize that it's going to get down right ugly when we have to begin to fight for the right to eat?
Peace,
emaycee
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