Friday, December 31, 2021

ending '21

 

 
Whose reality
What fantasy
Which community decides
and applies psychology
to authorize?
 
 
 
Even after all these years
and subsequent experience
certain moments shine.
 
 
 
Meaningful, and in that sense
valuable
 
 
 
Been caught up in the Holidays' wave
of creative bliss
 
 
 
Dare say it's evil -- the GOP plot to destroy
our economy and public health for
propaganda against the Democrats.
 
 
 
 
 
apparently people are unaware and happily so
of all the actual work done so far by this
administration despite almost overwhelming
oppositional tricks and ugliness – complaining
without knowledge makes it so much more
tantrumy and sad
 
 
 
apparently to be a responsible leader these days
you have to learn to go blind to racist/terrorist
messages in print, voice, and person
 
 
 
a real issue with a "free market" is that those
who have gotten to the top tend to want to stay
there and use dirty tricks, corrupt politics
and other unsavory methods to trample
competition thus rendering the market theirs,
not free
 
 
 
 
we used to have public education that
emphasized civic knowledge -- the point of public
education was to have an educated citizenry to
participate in a well reasoned democracy.  Now
our political reality is a Reality TV game show,
much more like football than Jeopardy.  It has
become the major tactic of a highly competitive
either/or to keep the public ignorant of how
our system is meant to work and
heap on the propaganda.
 
 
 
 
so you think the moment the bill is signed
the money will be distributed?  It is to fund programs
over time, more or less slowly spent.  Meanwhile, as
programs benefit people's lives, the economy will
be growing and people will need fewer services.
Besides, I thought it was paid for
through a billionaire's tax.
 
 
 
Of course some child credits would go for drugs --
people can't afford their medications or their kids'. 
That is addressed in BBB with a severe lowering of
drug prices.
 
 
 
freedom other than the freedom to barely survive
until you don't, is dependent on a well-working
social system that upholds that value and defends
it by acting responsibly.
 
 
 
 
The thing is that the costs are not the costs
but rather investments to improve the lives of
so many millions of Americans while making
it easier for them to work productively and
expand the US economy leading to greater
and greater tax revenues and much less
output for social services.  Then, there
are the environmental benefits to hopefully
keep a working planet without which
no economy is possible.
 
 
 
12/21-30/21

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