First of all - my apologies. I promise lighter reading fare in the days ahead. I know you check in here for relief from the stress of the workaday world. It's just that... I feel compelled to seek an explanation.
One of my personal shortcomings is a low tolerance for stupidity....
...Which is why I seldom follow the news anymore.
Over the past couple weeks, ignoring my own better judgment, I have taken to occasionally listening to news programs during my commute. The resultant simmer of anger and frustration that sometimes boils into road rage has convinced me that a car is not the place to listen to the news.
Is there someone out there who can explain the new math to me?
It's now the "norm" to have 9.875 percent unemployment. (We should be "okay" with this for the long term apparently. We should be okay with the U.S. losing a half million jobs in one week.) Only we don't really have 9.875 percent unemployment, the government just chooses not to acknowledge the additional 8 percent who have given up looking for work and have exhausted their unemployment benefits. - Is this something like what we used to call carrying the remainder or rounding off?
The government will now require people who can't afford health insurance to buy it anyway. Then the government can include the underemployed in the new tax that will be applied to worker's health benefits. Thereby ensuring the underemployed will have even less of the money they didn't have before. Is this the new algebra in which people with empty pockets are represented as x's and y's that cause no moral discomfort?
It used to be that the United States was intolerant of even 4 percent unemployment. And it used to be that Americans had the option of buying food before insurance.
So in addition to the new math, maybe someone can explain the new democracy?
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The problem here is that the new democracy is now quasi-socialism, because Obama tricked us into believing he was a good decision. I fell for it. Really, though, the last election was a lose-lose because we had the choice of Obama or Palin. And yes, I said Palin, becuase I don't think McCain, who I like to call Mr. Puddles, would have made it very long before dying or being killed.
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