JFN1
JFN1's JournalI'ts not just insane. It's batshit crazy insane.
Like a noxious weed blooming in the garden, it comes around very year.
This frantic pursuit of holiday perfection infecting us culturally, and individually.
You see it in the faces of drivers, and in the way traffic flows. You feel it in the air. It pummels you in the stores.
It is not enough, in our culture, to have a nice family gathering - it has to be, in a word - Perfect.™
The food must be Perfect.™
The house must be Perfect.™
The children must be Perfect.™
The atmosphere must be Perfect.™
Behavior must be Perfect.™
And so on...
But it is astonishingly insane, for the Perfect™ almost certainly cannot be obtained in a universe of quantum fluctuations and uncertainties and all the random bullshit it produces...
I'm not judging anyone - it happens in my house, too - every year. Stress - it's what's for dinner...! Comes with a side of cranberry sauce, you know - yum!
Oh, well. Just thought I'd mention it, and wish everyone a safe and happy Turkey Day!
Hey wingers - want to end welfare as we know it? We can totally do that. Easily. No problem.
It is such a simple matter, cutting back the dollars we spend on food stamps, school lunches, welfare, etc. In fact, I'll bet we could cut the funds for these programs within a few short years to about 10% of what they are now.
All that really needs to be done is for corporations to stop demanding welfare from their employees.
See, you drooling third-grade dropouts with the brain power of a common slug, when corporations fight against paying a living wage, against increasing minimum wage, against COLA increases, when they perpetually cut employee benefits (health care, pensions, etc.) they are subsidizing their business via their employees.
So, wingnuts, if you really want to cut welfare, then do it for the long term, and make these ginormous bazillionaire corporations actually pay their own damn way for once and run completely non-employee subsidized businesses. For if employees can actually survive on what employers pay them - without your unreasonably hated government assisance - you just watch how fast and deep the welfare funds are scaled back.
Corporate profits are in the millions and billions - yet too often, their employees are forced to seek government assistance just to survive. And corporations can clearly and quite easily afford to do the right thing here, despite the fact they sure don't seem to want to...
So help out, all of you Fox "News" chugging hypocrites out there - and demand corporations pay their own fucking way so we can stop spending so much (a massive and unsustainable 0.04% of the Federal budget!) on financial assistance programs.
For if these corporations paying bloated salaries to their wealthy executives are the paragons of morality you grossly idiotic wackos without a single original thought bouncing around your vacuous skulls seem to believe they are, why then, these beloved corporations you clearly believe in more than America, should totally want to do this - and want to do it voluntarily. Don't ya think so, you corrupted and unAmerican lockstepping zombie-starving fascists? Oh yeah, right...
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