I'm retired, for now, but private sector technical jobs are not hard to find.
I think the Romney/Ryan budget would further decimate state and local government services and jobs. Going back to the policies that got us into this mess would take us back down, instead of on a slow recovery path like Obama. We would be at about six percent unemployment if the Republican Congress hadn't squashed every Obama initiative and if it weren't for the Boosh tax cuts.
Romney won't win, not with Ryan's Medicare proposals alienating old folks. Forget Florida.
A "slow recovery". Fuck me, you people are so fucking funny. Oh no...services cut. Whatever will we do? How were people able to survive without without services? Oh, goodness.
We're looking this cycle at a very fundamental decision about our society. Are we a nanny state or do we expect people to take care of themselves?
From 15 years in the "helping" sector when you get down to actually providing services to real individuals, you learn two things:
1)The way we provide for people who really need it...the elderly, the sick, the folks who lost their job and need a hand up, is a fucking sin.
b)There are a lot of people who are able to take care of themselves who simply refuse to. And speaking from the trenches, it's a large majority.
I came to the conclusion that we could really help the lives of people who need the help if we cut off the people who are able to take care of themselves.
The fact is there are only so many services to go around and we're racing toward a tipping point. We don't need to dump the nanny state programs. what we do need to do is take a serious look at who qualifies for them. Until we do, we'll just continue to flail uselessly.
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