America once fought a war against poverty now it wages a war on the poor -Must Read

[Beartracks]

34. Imagine a school that decides there are only so many A's that can be earned.

It doesn't matter how hard any one student works, or how smart you are; only a few students are going to get an A.

Oh -- and a small number of those students are already guaranteed most of the A's because their families sit on the school board. And the school board, of course, limits the availability of the A's.

Never mind that meeting all the learning requirements should merit you a good grade; in this school, Republicans would say, you just need to work harder so that you can be sure to get one of the only A's left. And in that way, somehow, magically, everyone will graduate with honors.

Obviously this is an off-the-cuff metaphor for how Republicans view American society, but this is precisely how they ideologically propose that Americans are to be able to provide for themselves -- they promise voters that 10% of the nation's wealth will, magically, provide for the health and livelihood of 90% of the people, "if you just work hard enough." And it's a lie, because it's simply not possible under the current school board rules.

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