The Cutting Edge- Where is the Real Threat?

 

I was talking to a neighbor today. He was sitting on his front stoop and I was standing, with my mask on, dropping off a small sack full of stuff from my garden. Just neighborly. He was espousing on the prevalence of corruption in the use of Medicaid and social services in general. He was talking bull shit. 

I was only half listening. I was thinking, “if you were on the highway and all of a sudden, out of nowhere a semi-tractor-trailer pulled out of the line of traffic coming at you from the opposite direction what would you do? What if the line of traffic coming at you was a bunch of cars? And there out of the blue this monster tractor trailer hauling bulldozers pulled out into your lane and was coming straight for you, what would you do? I know what I would do, get outta the way if possible, but if I had to get into a crash something would it be better to collide with a car or two or the Semi. Ummmmm? 

So…you’ve go all these people who may or may not be desperate for the money milking the food stamp and Medicaid system and that is a problem in the welfare system of the country. I get it. Bad thing. But you also have about a thousand people who are billionaires who get and take advantage of every tax loophole and kink in the commercial system of taxation in the United States of America because they can hire the best lawyers, put money in the hands of the most powerful politicians and grease the skids of every situation that exists in the stock market. They  exploit the ecosystem and take it for all it is worth screaming bloody murder about government control and the bureaucracy. That is not a semi tractor at all!!!  It is a freight train that is headed straight for every household and pocket book in America. It is the juggernaut that Lincoln, Roosevelt and Kennedy fought but it is yet to be beaten.  

So which is the force that should be tamed? The welfare mother who is scamming  “Enfamil”? The overburdened, tax paying worker on the construction site or the wet-back in the restaurant commercial kitchen washing dishes? The tax payer filing a 1040 EZ, paying into Social Security, and struggling with a healthcare system rigged to bankrupt us all? Is that really the threatening specter hanging over America, Or is it the Billionaires? The people who really control the congress and the White House. Where should the concern of the American public be aimed? Think it over Dummy! You are being duped.