Kinda sad that he lumped 'welfare' in with war and debt. I have gotten really tired of this effort to portray the poor in the US as villainous, whether it's that they're lazy, they want handouts, or that they're unskilled. We're in the midst of expensive wars, economic collapse from a totally unregulated financial sector, a bloated, corrupt drug war, and these people want to blame the poor for our wretched state of affairs?

I hate the impression that all the rich people worked hard and all the poor people didn't. That's complete bullshit, most of the poor people I've met are constantly busting their asses just to scrape by, it's not like they sit around and pity themselves. Multiple jobs, attempts to pursue education, saving money... but it's not always as simple as 'go educate yourself and get a job.' How the fuck are you supposed to find a job when you can't feed yourself? When you don't have a home address? When there are no jobs? In fact, many of the unemployed and underemployed are over-educated. It's like the population grew but the wealth didn't seem to. It's all been concentrated at the top, and the fat cats are looking down and telling us we need to cut welfare, cut programs that serve the poor, cut education, cut infrastructure, cut taxes for the ultra rich! It's trickle down treason, the nightmare of the Reagan era resurrected.

This will go down in history as a period of staggering madness, I cannot wait for the weather to warm up so all the forgotten people in this country can swell into the streets and stall this entire machine.