I’m on welfare – and I love it. Right, I knew it, you’ll say; pulling out the stereotype book and starting to build an image of a Liberal out of the little cardboard cutouts. But you’re more wrong than you imagined. I should love Bush, because he just keeps handing me the handouts.
This week, The Republicans voted 53 - 44 to defeat an effort to scale back the Capital Gains and Dividend tax breaks – they stopped those nasty liberals you love to hate right in their tracks. Imagine me not having those extra bucks to spend on my sports cars and boats! Hell, it’ll all trickle down anyway – last week I slipped one of my gardeners an extra five bucks and told him to spend it wisely.
Imagine the giving that money to provide medical care for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans instead! What nerve! I want every penny of that $70 billion to go to rich people and powerful corporations so they can afford to support the government that keeps my gravy train rolling. I can’t imagine anything more unpatriotic than giving even $18 billion of it to help veterans – that’s just plain socialism.
OK, enough cynicism, but from the way I’m hammered by military types and veterans when I criticize George Bush, you’d think he was sending them to Disneyland and paying them like Enron executives. Bush has been screwing them all along, trying to take away combat pay from troops he sent into harm’s way to boost his sinking ratings; troops who are getting shot at and blown up every day while their families struggle to make ends meet.
But such is the power of propaganda, of stereotypes, that the guy in the rented trailer thinks Bush is standing up for him against people that want to take his hard earned cash. Yep, Guys like me get a bigger break from this government than the single mother whose husband didn’t come back from Kabul. It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.
3 comments:
So true. Sometimes I stop and ask myself why I get so irritated by the injustice of it all when I benefit from all the welfare-for-the-rich handouts and the ones who get screwed are the ones voting for it.
There is a quote I read somewhere that said "democracy is a system where the government robs the poor and makes them think they voted for it." So true.
Sounds like Noam Chomsky, but not only is it true, I don't think people really want democracy. They just want an autocracy that shares their bigotry.
Don't worry Capt. Fogg, not all veterans have drunk the Bushit flavored kool-aid. Sometimes I think those who claim to be veterans, really aren't. They can't talk the talk, much less walk the walk. There's a certain, oh I call it "vetdar" that vets have. ;)
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