You won a Republican administration!

[KingFlorez]

Congrats, you have are lucky enough to live under a Republican administration. First off You'll loose your job to some Central American worker because we allowed our corporate friends who employ you to move their jobs overseas to countries with no worker protections or decent living wage. But, don't worry though you should be able to get a job at McDonalds for minimum wage which we just cut to a reasonable $1. This better anyway because it's in walking distance of your home, since gas prices are too much for you to afford to drive.

That's not all though! If you get hurt on the job and it's your employer's fault we've made sure your nice boss is protected with our sweeping legislation. We also outlawed all those pesky unions always annoying your great employer with silly things like worker protection and living wage. If you get sick, well that's your fault you should have taken personal responsibility, healthcare is a privilage not a right. Don't expect any of that paid sick leave, that stuff is communist and cost you employer too much money. Don't get down though, we have a nice job for you with food and lodging when we draft you to go to sunny Baghdad.

If you get injured we'll ship you back, but just because you fought for your country and are a veteran don't expect anything from us, get a job you lazy bum. The best job you can find is scrapping gum from under park benches as we have caused a major jobs crisis. The best place you can afford to live is a run down shack on the edge town as we've abolished all affordable housing. The rent on the shack doesn't allow you to buy a lot of food, so you have to live off cheap ramen noodles. That cough you've been getting is a lung ailment caused by the chemicals our corporate friends have put in the air, because we abolished all that silly evironmental protection stuff. When you need medicine, you must choose between it and food because the pharmacutical companies have raised prices sky high. As you sit in your freezing shack, eating your cheap ramen noodles (while we Republicans sit on some big ranch in Texas stuffing our faces with gourmet food!) you realize the rewards of having a Republican administration!




I know it's an exaggeration, but I thought it was funny

[Ouabache]

1. I like it

spot on.

Seems like it could be worked into a good game show skit on Saturday Night Live.

[Autonomy]

2. Reminds me of the NSA interview scene from "Good Will Hunting"

:7

[jsamuel]

3. would be funny, but not very far from reality

[oscar111]

4. 100,000 homeless dead/year, says it is NOT an exaggeration

your great essay is not an exaggeration.

the million homeless cannot even afford the rent of your essay's shack.

your essay was not an exaggeration, it was too mild!

100,000 dead corpses prove it.

GOP reagan started mass homelessness in '80.

[Oerdin]

6. Cite?

I'm going to need a reputable source on that before I buy it.

[oscar111]

10. source: see Poverty forum, my post "scholars"

in it i have six academic journal articles cited.

I recall from memory in the nineties, an article saying the homeless die at three times the normal rate. Apply that to the widely stated three million homeless over the course of a year. 1OO OOO excess dead is the result.

I dont have time to get to a college library so i posted the journal articles for some scholar to review the source articles for us all and report the death rates in each one. No help so far, but you are welcome to read the six journals.

I did get one source online, but it was the Canadian one .. i dont use its death rate since freepers will say "but that is not the US".

Its death rate is six times the US rate. ours, three times normal... canada, they die at eighteen times the normal rate.

Heat, cold, rat bites, thrill beatings, hunger.. makes sense.

[oscar111]

5. RECOMMEND FOR GREATEST PAGE butt at bott of OP.

[scarletlib]

7. But best of all remember while you are homeless, sick and

hungry that you live in the best country in the world -- because those two gay guys down the street can't get married. It doesn't get any better than that!

[Swamp Rat]

8. It's a Modest Proposal

Give Bushler&Co some more time. They'll live up to it.

[KingFlorez]

9. kick n/t