A Home Truth or Two

Terrance, Republic of T:

Maybe facing the possibility of living in poverty does add a much needed dash of adventure to one’s old age. Maybe programs like Social Security and Medicare are depriving people — old and young — of that adventure. Maybe worrying about where your next meal is coming from, or how you’ll get medical care makes life less dull. Maybe programs like food stamps and Medicaid sap life of its suspense and mystery. Maybe getting medical care in a livestock stall is more interesting than getting it in a community clinic or doctor’s office. Maybe health care reform is making life a little less interesting less interesting.

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If anything the safety-net programs Ryan, Romney and the Republican party are wont to portray as beachheads for a brand of communism that hasn’t existed in any form large enough to threaten the “American way of life” in decades, are all that stands between the one percent and and real trouble.

And the people in red states are more dependent on government benefits.  Because in fact we are interdependent.  That's Terrance's conclusion.  Bet you can't prove him wrong.