Someone today sent me an article from an online source, an OpEd piece by a guy from the Hoover Institute. I read it quickly and deleted it. You know the kind of thing: “America is worn out by labor unions, academia, pension plans, medical benefits, etc. (And for further rhetorical flourish this is presented as an important generational shift—e.g., young people don’t understand why any of these things might matter, doncha know?)
The more I think about this gaseous bromide I see that it contains the real, longstanding GOP agenda which has always been to return America to 1880. No unions, no expectation of college, no pension, no benefits of any kind. By George those were good days! You could really make money back then! Why I’ll just bet today’s young people are bananas with the prospect of living without college education or social programs. I’ll bet they’re just dropping to the ground and rolling wildly in giggling fits. What a great time we’re living in, Mr. Hoover Institute! By jinkies!
Meanwhile, Uncle Sam, wrapped in a cloak of world history keeps laughing at the wrong places in the joke. He puts out his skinny yellow wrists and says, “What about the three million living veterans with disabilities? What about our infant mortality rate? Who has a happy flag for that?”
The plan, ever since Reagan has been to eliminate the government’s role in sustaining the middle class. Wahoo, Mr. H.I.! Ain’t starvation a kind of fanfare!?
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 
Thanks for sharing this. Times are changing though. Are we ready for what is coming along?
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