tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post6825842165633662594..comments2024-03-27T18:00:02.032-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Paranoia, Inc.Karen Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-49759036121339786352015-02-13T12:30:21.708-05:002015-02-13T12:30:21.708-05:00Karen,
That's the beauty of good cop/bad cop....Karen,<br /><br />That's the beauty of good cop/bad cop. <br /><br />For good cop/bad cop to work, the good cop needs the bad cop. And vice versa.<br /><br />Keep the party faithful loyal enraged and outraged and too confused, bewildered and befuddled to figure out the game both sides are playing. <br /><br />The targets of their routine are getting played as the good cops’/bad cops’ agenda whittles away at the living standards of working people and people like yourself, who depend on widow's social security disability benefits to get by.Denis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-68826209924568089792015-02-13T10:54:56.477-05:002015-02-13T10:54:56.477-05:00Denis,
The Republicans are playing bad cop again,...Denis,<br /><br />The Republicans are playing bad cop again, just as they did with the food stamp cuts the past couple of years. It allows the Democrats to posture and claim that they're fighting for the little guy, but then some threatened shut-down looms and before you know it they're all in a back room again, making another deal off the backs of the poor.<br /><br />Obama has already said he's open to "reforming" Social Security disability. Such liberal outlets as NPR and 60 Minutes have already run lengthy propaganda pieces on disability fraud, as though it were an epidemic.<br /><br /> I myself depend on widow's social security disability benefits to get by. I will be getting 75% of my late husband's benefit for the rest of my life because I claimed early. So even "small tweaks" in already meager (averaging $1100 or $1200 monthly) would be devastating to disabled people. And mind you, these payments are based on what workers and spouses paid into the system -- an insurance pool, in effect -- through payroll taxes. It's not a welfare program. (SSI, the program for the poor, would not be affected, at least not right away since funding comes from a different source.)Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-8722615064200346732015-02-13T07:43:11.985-05:002015-02-13T07:43:11.985-05:00First, frighten them. Second, demoralize them.
Th...First, frighten them. Second, demoralize them.<br /><br />The disabled have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There has been a lot of reckless rhetoric in Washington and the lame stream media.<br /><br />Michael Hiltzik, on the Senate Budget Committee room killing floor, “GOP shows it doesn't understand Social Security disability--and doesn't care,”<br /><br />http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-gop-shows-it-doesnt-understand-social-security-disability-20150211-column.html#page=1<br /><br />"Not one dime should be lost to fraud, waste, or abuse." - Sam Johnson (R-TX), Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security Chairman, Stop Disability Fraud Act of 2014<br /><br />http://samjohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=389989<br /><br />Fox News also advocates for those who want to cut Social security (don't Veterans use Social Security?) Fox News advocates for cutting unemployment benefits (don't Vets ever get laid off from jobs?) Fox News advocates for cutting food stamps (don't Veterans ever fall on hard times?)<br /><br />http://bud-meyers.blogspot.com/2013/12/fox-news-war-on-vets.html<br /><br />Republicans would rather harm the disabled rather than tax the wealthy.<br /><br />http://www.ssa.gov/people/veterans/<br /><br />Republicans want 75 Years of funding for Social Security. Recall the manufactured “crisis" with U.S. Postal workers:<br />http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/28/330524/postal-non-crisis-post-office-save-itself/<br /><br />“The Republicans (and their media outlets and "think tanks", backed by their large corporate sponsors) will both cause, then exploit, ignorance --- manipulating the less informed and less educated --- and they will also use lies and fear to convince people to vote for their pro-wealthy and pro-corporate political party, even if it means getting these people (including Vets) to vote against their own best interests; because the GOP has no shame, they will use Veterans to obtain and hold power just like they would any other group. And wasn't it the GOP who sent the most recent Vets to Iraq based on lies that primarily benefited their corporate war profiteers? 4,489 Americans dead and another 32,021 wounded for corporate profits to protect "freedom" (an often misused word).” – Bud Meyers, Blogster-at-Large<br /><br />“The #RepublicanClassWar's New Front: Social Security for the Disabled,”<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/the-republicanclasswars-n_b_6669906.html <br /><br />First they came … But not once did I ever speak out, and now they are coming for me.Denis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-4588930166138829722015-02-12T22:23:38.763-05:002015-02-12T22:23:38.763-05:00Comey sees zombies everywhere. I bet he watches ep...Comey sees zombies everywhere. I bet he watches episodes of "The Walking Dead" and thinks they are real.<br /><br />voice-in-wildernessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-43775249137724469622015-02-12T12:51:12.498-05:002015-02-12T12:51:12.498-05:00The late British Labor MP Tony Benn once said that...The late British Labor MP Tony Benn once said that there are two ways in which people are controlled. First, frighten them. Second, demoralize them. <br /><br />“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.” - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era<br /><br />"Technology has become ‘the tool of choice’ for terrorists and other dangerous criminals [including your own surveillance government]…" <br /><br />“The increasing adoption of encryption technologies could leave law enforcement agents “in the dark” and unable to collect evidence against [terrorists, violent criminals, child predators, nasty people, and ordinary people like you].” <br /><br />“Encryption threatens to lead us all to a very dark place." <br /><br />"Let us spy on you!" "It's for your own good!!" - FBI Director James Comey<br /><br />Who will explain to the people how many possibilities there are to make things better?<br /><br />This is what truly frightens the global elite and the multi-billion dollar corporations and their minions -politicians, lobbyists and other fellow travelers. They are terrified of the global awakening that is occurring across the world. <br /><br />An educated nation would be harder to govern. So the ruling oligarchy doesn't want people to be educated because they would get out of control. <br /><br />So many people feel victimized these days. Why they put up with this shit? Many are poor, demoralized, and frightened. They think the safest thing to do is take orders and hope for the best. It doesn’t have to be this way!<br /><br />“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.” - Emma GoldmanDenis Nevillenoreply@blogger.com