The Bait and Switch

[daredtowork]

70. Did you see the whopper above?

Walmart exec (still on payroll of Walmart foundation!) overseeing the "lean-sizing" of Medicare!

The emphasis on "incentives" suddenly makes sense, too - that's straight out of the Senior Executive Payola mind. I wonder if anyone thought to point out how and why the VA waiting list scandal happened, too.

Wouldn't it be an interesting world if the cadillac-sized incentives went to people struggling on the ground instead of the people already floating around in the upper atmosphere? Like say: person gets off of welfare - $100, 000 bonus!!! Suddenly don't only have job, they can pay off debts and make a down payment on a house! Actually - it wouldn't hurt if the reward for getting a job was just the wiping out of welfare debt in the places welfare is paid out as a LOAN rather than a subsidy. The State is all thrilled to get it's money back, but the poor person is set up to fail all over again as they struggle to pay back their debts with their minimum wage job. They may have student loans or child support or liens on traffic fines...and then they have to pay back welfare on top of that? You have to wonder if half the homeless people are just poor slobs who after tearing their hair out for a few weeks of that finally couldn't take it any more and gave up. Even sleeping on a sidewalk was better than the constant grabs at poor people.

Hmm - where to start a movement? GIVE BIG FRAKKING BUSINESS BONUSES TO POOR PEOPLE WHO JUMP FROM WELFARE TO WORK