Today ( Monday ) is some anniversary of the ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act ( The ADA Companion Guide: Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) and the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA)
). Of course, the commies over at NPR were making a spectacle of themselves, literally having orgasms ( it isn’t that they are a bad thing-organisms- just that other peoples are gross ) over the fact. Oh look, they scream in delight, we have spent billions to give a relative handful of people a fuller life. Aren’t you glad we are in charge of your tax dollars so we can do the right thing by others? Aren’t you glad all corporations have been nationalized so that evil free markets ( The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
) are reigned in? Aren’t you happy, citizen? You better be happy! No? Stazi!!! Look, it sucks that some people are crippled or disabled or gimps, or whatever. I wouldn’t like it if it was me or mine. That is not the point. The point is, if caring for others is what makes you happy, go for it. Don’t point a gun at my head and force me to be charitable. Take it out of your own paycheck. Leave aside the fact that subsidizing cripples is very cost inefficient ( tripling the cost of construction on all new buildings, just on a chance that a guy in a wheelchair might come in ). Leave aside the fact that somehow, throughout all of history, those born bad or bruised in battle have somehow gotten by with no help from outside the family or church. Leave aside the fact that just like Medicare and Social Security, this program of government checks will one day be eliminated, dooming millions. You can’t legislate compassion by compulsion. It never lasts. Family help, and church help, and benevolent organizations ( in effect, a private pool of insurance ) are cheaper and more efficient and longer lasting. Home Of The Free. Free to do as they are dictated to ( wounded vets are a slightly different kettle of fish, so please don’t get into a tizzy over that. Although the argument is the same. Dedicated facilities are one thing, retooling a nations entire infrastructure to benefit a very small minority another. And check your tampon at the door, Nancy. This is logical, not emotional ).*
Public educated idiots will swell up with pride at the sight of the flag, instantly reverting to programming, confusing country with government. Love it or leave it, these colors don’t run. Our dictatorship is better than your dictatorship. Etcetera. Hate me, the messenger, but the sad fact is that we have never had a free market economy. Government stimulus has been around for a long time. We took militia members, used them to take the land, used them to forcibly transfer taxation privileges from the British nobility to the American lawyer elite, then gave them a chunk of the same land they had fought for as payment. We took more land from the displaced eastern seaboard Indians and gave it to immigrants ( The Immigrants
) to open up unfarmed land. We gave railroads most of the money to build their rail on public granted land. As then, so now, risk to the taxpayers and reward to the corporates. We spent millions and wasted hundreds of thousands of lives so that JP Morgan ( Morgan: American Financier
) wouldn’t lose his loans to Germany and our allies. We vaporized a good portion of a million Japanese so that we could colonize the globe, using the military to force the bank and corporation customers to hold still for fleecing. I could go on and on but I’m just building up to the point of this drivel. The newest and latest and greatest government stimulus/taxpayer supported subsidy. The Intelligence Sector.*
How do you stimulate the economy with military spending without wasting too many valuable machines built with depleting ore stocks fueled by imported oil? Hire a bunch of mercenaries at eight times the cost of military troops. Even the cooks and dishwashers ( Haier HDC1804TW 4-Place-Setting Tabletop Dishwasher
). Use foreign owned semi trucks instead of domestically produced helicopters to ferry supplies. Forget what it costs, that’s what printing presses are for. But what about the home front? You don’t want to use the National Guard ( Pewter Belt Buckle - National Guard - Pewter Belt Buckle
) for security, they are all over in Iraq. Security guards don’t make enough, and even if you nationalized them and paid them a huge amount of money, the simple act of standing sentry over water purification equipment or pipelines would make for bad public relations. It would actually be smart strategically, but we can’t have the SUV driving soccer moms thinking we live in a police state. It’s apparently okay to have ninja SWAT troopers all over the place in New York City or an airport, but not in rural countryside. Besides, by concentrating forces in urban areas you maximize control and further protect your men. A few guards on a lonely stretch of pipeline would be sniped and not missed until the next radio check. So, what else can you do to spend a pisspot full of cash with little infrastructure and out of the public eye? Beef up the intelligence gathering sector.*
There was a big stink lately about the inability to guess the size of the workforce of the CIA ( Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin
) and such, at least for their subcontractors. And why not? That gives the government plenty of leeway to fudge the figures on the unemployment numbers ( “ in the Great Recession, unemployment was held down to single digits by the ESTIMATED hundred thousand new employees hired for intelligence gathering against the Great Demonic Forces Of Fuzzy Foreigners each and every month” ). What a great idea. Hire a bunch of cubical warriors to scan telephone records for unpatriotic phrases, analyze satellite photos for alleged nuclear missiles and watch bank deposits for suspicious activity. The wrong enemy is being watched. Nothing effective is being accomplished. All our attention is diverted. But we increase employment and stimulate the economy. Remember, it’s just more paper hot off the presses. The War On Domestic Terror, happily approved of by citizens with government checks.END
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8 comments:
Normally, I agree with you, but I'd like to point out that disabled persons pay taxes as well, and paying for facilities that THEY can't access without those building adjustments sucks as well.
I do agree that there is a point of going overboard. I work for an architect who has to design these facilities. When I started back in mid 80's, handicap requirements was basically grab bars in one stall, and a water fountain with dixie cups that allowed the wheelchair bound person to get water.
Now, there are all kinds of requirements and clearances, floor slopes that cannot exceed this.
I thought it silly too - until I was forced to temporarily get around in a wheelchair due to injury. I'm here to tell you, even with just one bum leg, it SUCKS having to maneauver one of those things to take a dump. Holding doors with automatic closers that press against you trying to get past. Or climb a sidewalk curb without a ramp. Now add rain or snow - screw that.
Just saying there are two sides to every story. Thanks for writing the post - it does stimulate some good debate.
jim are you saying that the founding fathers would reconize the map but not the form of goverment in this country today???
I enjoy not salutimg the Federal Flag. When I was go to events such as childrens graduations in Texas.
I won't stand for the Flag, then usually many others take the que and sit down also.
Washington has been occupied territory for a long time.
Bison,
How much do you pay in taxes working at the food bank or whatever?
It has been my experience that married,filing jointly and 2 or 3 personal exemptions don't even pay taxes on a poverty level salary .
Why is it the people who pay little or nothing bitch so much about taxes.
Besides, the money the government pays the disabled and the elderly doesn't stagnate. It gets spent and continues on in circulation. Kind of like a permament stimulus.ha ha ha
How many people work in professions providing for the elderly and disabled? You want to put all the nursing assistants,caregivers out of work. Want to cut the cab drivers earnings in half?
I have been a fan of yours for a long time and I notice you have real issues with the disabled and the old. Cops get a pension,and everybody else gets a undeserved welfare check. Apparently you respect cops.
If you were diagnosed with MS or something crippling tomorrow would you have a sudden epiphany and realize your were too harsh or would you squeeze one off in your temple to spare us all the burden of taking care of your gimp ass.
How about nazi health care. You get sick, we just shoot your ass with a 22LR. There,all better now. Cured for under a nickel.
How about IQ tests in first grade? You don't score in the top twenty percentile we just march you out to the playground and kill your ignorant ass before we waste anymore money trying to teach you something.
The problem is who decides who is good enough,healthy enough, young enough? YOU?
Re: Anon 10:25
You're a bull-shitting freeloader who currently enjoys sucking on the Fed-Gov tit (teat- I know how to spell it). Why you would read this blog, which is about how to survive the aftermath of people like you, is a real fu*#ing mystery.
If you are 'disabled', how is it that you pay taxes?? The truth is: you don't! TRUTH is a harsh mistress.
In your honor, I will likely run down a couple of 'disabled' fu*#ers like you who are plugging up the front parking spots at Wally World. Watch the 'News' and remember that it is because of YOU.
If you're 'crippled', there's a reason. Think about that. One more thing: I'm ALMOST serious ;)
Good post Jim. You're one of the few who have the courage to keep everyone honest in their thinking.
MR- relax, I also respect the work done by firefighters and most of the military and others. You are still concerned over the one time I used "pension" instead of "retired" or whatever. I'm not making an exception for LEO's. Some are total assholes, a lot are helping to destroy lives over BS, non-violent laws. I'm saying that, while nobel and respect worthy, a lot of government paid jobs/programs are unsustainable and will end ( and some were always BS of course ). Part of the welfare state. The good and the bad, the just or the parasitic. Also, although my direct taxes might be low ( from my paycheck, not my writing income which is taxed higher )or refunded, indirect taxes take a heck of a lot more. When you complain about lower wage earners getting all their taxes back on a refund, do you also blame Big Oil for obscene profits? The government takes more in taxes on gas than the oil company gets. Its the hidden taxes that make the big difference.
Tax is an expense that is passed along in products and services. If you consume anything you pay the tax that the provider of your goods and services pays, by paying the passed along price increase.
In short, if they raise the tax of a business (or shareholders)they will raise the price of their services and products.
Cops and firefighters have a primary function of protecting the interest of the elite business such as insurance. Cops enforce laws to make you buy insurance and minimize loss to insurance companies (like,seat-belt, helmet and vehicle insurance laws). Firefighters jobs are to minimize damage to insured property, people are also insured and are an expense to the insurance companies if they die.
WE are forced to buy insurance. As well as, forced to pay the wages and retirement of those sworn to uphold and protect the interests of elite and insurance industry.
You wrote "Of course, the commies over at NPR were making a spectacle of themselves, "
I think what you meant to say is: 'making a testicle of themselves'
NPR is the voice of reason;for the unreasonable.
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