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undergroundpanther

(11,925 posts)
Wed Oct 22, 2014, 02:43 PM Oct 2014

when will this end?

I'm so tired of republican assholes. I'm so tired of having to pay to exist? Why must I suffer just because I'm disabled? Poverty is a form of abuse. I'm so below the poverty line it's so hard to live.How long are people going to suffer this fucking oligarchy of putrid rich assholes,tolerate banks scamming,hedge fund managers making bets with other peoples lives. How long are americans going to put up with being used,thrown away,worked to death,deprived,abused and made to suffer by people with too much preying upon those with barely enough?I wonder do Americans want to be slaves hoping for a scrap from a rich pig who could care less if you live or die as long as you obeyed the rich and worked from youth to death.
Does anyone remember when things were more equal,when everyone had enough for vacation ,to have, a secure home,to live a little? When living on disability was a little easier and section 8 wait lists were like 4 years instead of ten or twenty and there were people and programs that helped,that have long been destroyed to appease the rich whom barely pay tax anymore. If we took the money away from all the oligarch pigs each person could be a millionaire living off interest. But no Americans have forgot what it means to have some,is it because they've gone without for so long or clinging to the vain hope they will make the next big thing and join the oligarchs are people really that stupid?

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when will this end? (Original Post) undergroundpanther Oct 2014 OP
No. 2naSalit Oct 2014 #1
but was life like it is now undergroundpanther Oct 2014 #3
Um, no for the most part everyone is much better off now then in the past snooper2 Oct 2014 #5
Life wasn't all that different 2naSalit Oct 2014 #6
I remember. I used to hope I'd live long enough to see the oligarchs headed for the guillotine Glorfindel Oct 2014 #2
if things only get worse undergroundpanther Oct 2014 #4
K and R. Lady Freedom Returns Oct 2014 #7
Neck surgery.... Nanndoc Feb 2016 #8

2naSalit

(86,318 posts)
1. No.
Wed Oct 22, 2014, 02:46 PM
Oct 2014

I've been around since the mid 1950s and I don't remember ever having the kind of secure life you recall.

undergroundpanther

(11,925 posts)
3. but was life like it is now
Wed Oct 22, 2014, 03:06 PM
Oct 2014

People used to have pensions,people got better wages, some could have homes now there are more people in poverty like during the crash of 1929. People were not being scammed out of homes in massive numbers.Inequality was not as bad financially as it is now.I am 47 and the damage the Reagan monster has done and republican psychopaths and their propaganda has damaged so much.I can tell the damage done I feel it everyday. I am weary yof it. I wonder how much people will take until they realize they never had to let the rich take it all until we are serfs.

2naSalit

(86,318 posts)
6. Life wasn't all that different
Wed Oct 22, 2014, 05:32 PM
Oct 2014

then than it is now... at least for we invisibles. I don't see whole lot of difference compared to how it was back then when there was no such thing as welfare and food stamps/SNAP. Sure, we have some progressive upgrades but those all happened decades ago and have receded back to (almost) what it was like before so no, I don't think we're doing very well considering the programs that were put in place way back in the 60s if you compare it on all levels with what we have going on today.

I do agree with your assessment of what happened to initiate the social decline but we're pretty much back to where we were before so the R's model had succeeded, they are just waiting for the green light to go in for the kill now-a-days.

Glorfindel

(9,714 posts)
2. I remember. I used to hope I'd live long enough to see the oligarchs headed for the guillotine
Wed Oct 22, 2014, 02:58 PM
Oct 2014

but I have just about given up. Maybe the next generation can straighten things out.

undergroundpanther

(11,925 posts)
4. if things only get worse
Wed Oct 22, 2014, 03:12 PM
Oct 2014

Why live? Im disabled and I never asked to be financially abused like this. My disability was not wanted either,but here it is..so because Im disabled I have to suffer this life of grinding poverty? I really hope that someone sees the injustice of this. If people keep themselves so blind there is no hope of things getting better,for everyone.

Nanndoc

(2 posts)
8. Neck surgery....
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 10:37 PM
Feb 2016

Hi I found your post about the neck surgery that you were going to have.
I'm on the same situation/problem.
My throat is closing because I have cervical osteophytes that's pushing my esophagus.
I also live in Maryland and would like to know which doctor did your surgery. I'm really scared and need your help.
My email is nanndoc@live.com
Thank you
Luciano

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