Sunday, February 20, 2011
Seriously?
Like Harrogate, it has been a long time since I blogged here. Typically I blog at Pieces of M, as my blogging has been focused on my job search, my work and teaching, and my mothering. However, the things going on in the U.S. are really pissing me off. Sure I get that the U.S. is in serious debt. I get that. I also get that the budget needs to be cut, or my great-great-grandchildren will also be in debt. That said, I don't think the way to go about it is by cutting programs that benefit/provide services for individuals without insurance or who can't afford insurance. I mean seriously, cutting Planned Parenthood and PBS? Reproductive rights and the arts? Seriously Republicans? Could you be a little creative at least? Like, I don't know, taking a pay cut or increasing taxes on individuals who make over $200,000 a year?
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When you draw the camera back just a little and look at the last ten years, there is a mountain of evidence to suggest that our politics are just not capable of producing good policy, either internationally or domestically.
Why this is, it's impossible to pinpoint. But a reasonable person might well conclude that this is simply not a fundamentally decent country, and therefore not a country capable of producing decent politics. However paradoxically true it may be that lots of decent people occupy the country.
It's all about the dollar. The true mask of power....
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