Americans are more reliant than ever on government aid, according to the Wall Street Journal. Anathema to any capitalist worth his salt, and we can’t have that!
All the more reason to elect Donald Trump, right? So he and his cold-hearted cronies can get rid of the detritus and leeches and immigrants siphoning all that precious money from the already-rich who could make better use of it somehow? Just tell people to pull themselves up, get a life– or get out– and stop whining, right?
Forget the aging population and economic distress. Such handouts smell too strongly of socialism, and goodness knows we can’t have that, what with all the socialism we already have and which people have depended on since the 1930s.
There’s something un-American, somehow, about providing a safety net. But maybe “safety net” by another name is simply an indication of a government that is responsive to genuine need, a government that isn’t totally in the pocket of the “self-made”, the venture capitalists and the real whiners who appear to not care about anything besides unsustainable growth and their own well-being. And who think they’re indispensable and somehow the only heroes.
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