Friday, January 29, 2010
Quibbling over scraps
About 1.1 million Facebook users have joined a group called "Making Drug Tests Required to Get Welfare" (link, if it works). I have yet to see a group of Facebookers over a million strong demanding the money back the real welfare queens made off with (i.e. the Wall Street bankers et al.). These are all presumably middle- to lower middle-class folks. This is where their concern lies, that people who are just trying to get by not get any help because they have a drug problem? How callous and misled. People are still under the delusion that people have it "easy" when living on a welfare check, doing drugs and living it up. It's hard for me to accept that people would be so shallow when cutting off any other perspective as to why certain members of our society are on drugs in the first place and need help. When certain people tell me a revolution is inevitable within the next ten to twenty years, I can't help but hope it's not considering the public level of stupidity. If the Teabaggers are any indicator of some sort of revolt on the horizon, I say I'd rather see the masses wallow in a pit of ignorance and consumerism until we're all vaporized (*crosses fingers*).
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