Global warming is all in our minds. Also an apparent figment of our imagination: more than 100 people (so far) who have died as a direct cause of the current heat wave sweeping California.
While NASA has actually removed the phrase “to understand and protect our home planet” from its mission statement, an obvious sign that the idiotic monkey-hear, monkey-repeat global-warming deniers in Washington have them under their ridiculously fat thumbs, they’ve also been cutting or delaying programs intended to figure this climate change thing out.
So, has the politicization of science gone from merely hurting children by denying the obvious reality of evolution to actually killing people by denying the obvious reality of the global warming catastrophe?
So who’s on the side of citizenry, if our government wants to roll over and play stupid while we roast in the ever-increasing temperatures that are currently making our little planet a little less inhabitable each day? (Certainly not Republicans, who defiantly show their disgust with the poor by continually voting not to increase the minimum wage, all the while voting to give themselves raises and give tax cuts to the poor rich people in this country.)
What’s the real deal here, then? Is the U.S. government trying to enslave its own people by creating an environment where we have no recourse or protection from calamity without paying? Has America finally been turned over to Big Business? Where has all this incredible ignorance come from, and why is it actively trying to take us back to the Dark Ages, when common people were literally at the mercy of all-powerful tyrants? And how is it that We, the People, are actually letting this happen to us?
2 replies on “Denying reality in Washington”
With all due respect, comrade, raising the minimum wage is not the panacea for poverty. Basic knowledge of economic principles would reveal such a fallacy, but apparently there is little room for facts in most leftist dogma. I would recommend reading Walter Williams for a primer on the relationship between wages, employment, and economic prosperity.
Sooo… what? Keep the minimum wage where it’s at? Indefinitely? Or forever? Rich fools don’t care what it’s like at the bottom, but the FACT (something right-wingers may not be too familiar with) is that people out there, on West Sides all over America, are going crazy trying to make ends meet. I’ve considered a career in the pharmaceutical distribution business myself when i couldn’t quite pay the rent. Lucky for me, i managed to scrape by and lost a little weight in the process. But a lot of Americans have kids, and kids don’t need that kind of life.
Sure, prices go up and inflation happens whenever the minimum wage is raised. But that’s a flaw in business. Employers need to forget about that extra 2% on their bottom lines. They need to look elsewhere to recoup their “losses”. Riding on the backs of the impoverished is just lazy business.
Keeping the workers poor is never the solution… comrade. If you’d been there, you’d know that.
Why are right-wingers so cold-hearted and mean-spirited, so uncaring? You got your piece of the pie, now let someone else step up for theirs and quit hogging America.