Butterscotch said:
I agree, all anyone thought was we want 'change' but like you say they would have voted Pee Wee Herman just to get something different. But it is not different, it's the same old guard recycled again and again, it only depends on who's the pariah of the moment, then they vote the other way. In the end, nothing changes, and there is nothing to celebrate. We ALL lose. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, and the ones before that, and back again, in circles, going nowhere.
ya know I just don't know how you can really say that.
here's some reasons why........
just what period of American political life are you talking about?
Surely NOT when FDR wrested Americaout of in Hooverville [previous president]and gave safety nets to the old with Social Securty.
It has raised 2/3rds of the previously poor elderly up into a deccent life.
ANd it has ALSO helped the disabled live better lives even have given many years of life to those whoes poverty and disability together might have furthuer hasrmed ot killed them outright way faster.
What about food stamps?
Then there's that mix of awful parinoia with some genuinely helpful prgrams from Nixon [which i didn't know about till after he died - the good stuff, this is]...Environmental Protection agency and OHSA [safety for workers]. Maye some part of his Quaker upbringing kicked in.
OHSA and the EPA started getting undermanned & underfunded so these laws weakend during Reagon's terms onward.till CLinton came in.
then the demoting of these laws started up again under team Bush.
Of course when THESE Neo-con Republicans started to cut funding.....programs for the Disabled, esp disabled poor, or those getting benifits just above the Medicaid cut-off, too. They have suffered over the last 6 years.
And how do you feel about the handling of Hurricane Katrina?
DO you know during President Clinton's presidency FEMA was considered one of the best working agancies. We would have seen alot quicker & more effective rescue/releif work down there in Lousiana, Missassippiu etc if THAT FEMA
still had been in place!
" '.....meet the new, same as the old boss...' ", Butterscotch??
:l
I believe there's a song line that goes " it t'aint necessarily so...."
Be
cause it
suuuurree isn't, in many ways.