About that socialism

One of many great Socialist ideas

 Don't know about you, but I sure hope all those folks who voted for Trump because "Socialism!" will be turning down their Social Security checks and eligibility for Medicare.  Also think that any of them who are first time home buyers should turn down that FHA loan and pay premium dollar for their first mortgage.  And college loans--forget the government, go to a bank and get a market based interest rate and pay thousands more over the course of their repayment.  Same thing for anyone starting a business--why use the Small Business Administration when you can get gouged by a for profit bank?  And don't even get me started on all the medical breakthroughs provided by the NIH or the CDC.

I'm not holding my breath--most of those folks who voted republican because "Socialism!" firmly believe in socialism for me but not for thee...especially when the "thee" is black and brown folks.

256,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Little piggies, part the second

Nothing more need be said

For the past year, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been trying to rewrite an Obama era rule known as the Borrower Defense to Repayment, which basically helps students who were cheated out of money by for-profit colleges, so as to give for-profit colleges who grifted people out of thousands of dollars the fruits of their cheating.

Isn't this akin to convicting a bank robber, and then saying, "What the hell, here's the money you stole--enjoy!"

Nothing quite like the rich helping the rich to get even richer--and what an embarrassment Betsy DeVos is to everything that decent people consider proper.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

What did you do this weekend?

Joe Biden, filling in for the traveling President Obama, used the President's weekly address to America to tout why we should raise the minimum wage.  Dannell Malloy, the Democratic Governor of Connecticut, on Thursday night signed a bill passed by the Democratic controlled legislature to become the first state to increase the minimum wage to $10.10.  Congressional Democrats are working on bringing votes on legislation aimed at increasing the minimum wage, reducing the pay gap between men and women, lowering the interest on college loans, and closing tax loopholes for corporations that do business overseas.  No, they won't pass, but at least we're trying.

Republicans, meanwhile, are spending this weekend kissing the ass of billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who is trying to figure out which one of them, by running for President in 2016, can help him add to his estimated $40 billion dollar net worth, and just for shits and grins, fuck over America's working class to boot.

I know the Democratic Party is a long way from perfect, but anybody who claims there's no difference between our country's two parties is either a scared shitless republican or not paying any attention whatsoever.

Peace,
emaycee