#privatize this

[viceland]

RISE begins jan 27

[amazynglyme]

Why are you making fun of me I didn’t even slight you??? just asked why you’d apologize to get into my friend circle again while making fun of me at the same time behind my back (because I guess you didn’t realize I knew it was you doing it) after hoarding my ideas that only a person trying to prove they are a stalker would collect or take interest in?????

I really want to know why you’re so set on bullying me unprompted and pre-emptively before I even knew what was happening, when you could have been talking to us politely during an apology you were giving out around me, and then could have had a clearing up and resolution of whatever public conflict you felt tied to finally come to a close while allowing people see you in a more positive light? I was hoping that you meant what you said but you are actually just telling me that you lied and were trying keep me and the people around me from noticing. you wanted us around you as “friends” again while you were literally planning to harass us behind our backs and make up stories… just like last time. That’s what this is proving.

and now you’re doubling down on that when im not putting any fight or hostility towards you? Just wanting to understand what is happening and why you were motivated this way?

Do you really feel you can’t change even now? Why did you want to be in my friend circle again???? When you wanted to do this at the same time? I hope you’ll have a change of heart. I don’t want to play this game it’s not even worth it, how is it even entertaining to you?

Please can you just look at me as a person and value what means something to me? Please look at how this connects to how different the story you wanted is.

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Social Services Shenanigans, or, Privatize THIS.

the Rice County social services office is so far behind in their paperwork that a family or individual already on food support “can expect to lose their benefits for four to six weeks” when it comes time to renew their benefits by showing evidence they still qualify.

Do everything right and your family only starves for a month or two. WELP SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT HARDER ABOUT HAVING KIDS BLUH BLUH DOGWHISTLE EUGENICS TARGETING THE POOR

“We’ve got a lot of people scared and hurting as a result of some paperwork backlogs’’

BUT DEFINITELY DON'T VOTE FOR A COMMIE SOCIALIST WHO WILL TRY TO FUND THIS PROGRAM, WE WORKED VERY HARD TO SNARL UP THE SAFETY NET SO WE COULD TURN AROUND AND SAY IT WAS TANGLED BEYOND REPAIR. PRIVATIZE DEATH!

Some families, because they miss application deadlines or have incomplete paperwork, make a mistake on their application or for some other reason have had to wait three months or more to receive benefits 

Do everything right and if something goes wrong you are only fucked for half a year. Example: I have rheumatoid arthritis, an immunological disorder, and it has married my carpal tunnel syndrome. Privatize frustration.

As a result, my hands swell up in the mornings like little red balloons, tingle and go numb and become very clumsy if I happen to have ridden a bicycle or carried a box the day before. Or just whenever, really.

My right hand doesn't work correctly unless someone stabs a huge fuckoff needle into the wrist every few months and inflates it with cortisone. There are no exercises or lifestyle changes I can enact to make this problem go away. I was born with it.

I am an artist. It is my only skill.

I am right handed.

There was a misunderstanding, Tap says, that with his job loss he was receiving unemployment benefits, which he isn’t. Long story short, he was first denied Food Support and medical care benefits and had to reapply, but reinstatement took about three months.

TRIM THE FAT. CUT THE BUDGET.

Food support requests have more than doubled and health care needs increased by probably 25 percent, he says, directly related to the state of the economy. In December 2007, for instance, the county was overseeing 687 food support cases but that number jumped to 1,592 by November of last year, according to Shaw. 

TRIM THE FAT. CUT THE BUDGET. POORS ARE LAZY. ELIMINATE SURPLUS LIVES.

‘‘I would suggest we are making some progress,’’ Shaw says.

PRIVATIZE DESPAIR.

Shaw hopes to have the problem solved by the end of March.

It is now the end of August.

I think now we have seen that the welfare state does not work--after all the work politicians have done to starve it mercilessly, it has begun to fall apart completely. Privatize self-fulfilling prophecies and homicidal cynicism. Now these same heartless fucks are going to turn around and say "the system is unfeasible, look how it's failed, stop dumping money on this lost cause."

This is the support system Romney crows about, the one that's in place that means he's "not worried about the very poor". The one that has him yelling about how we're wasting money on Medicaid, robbing the GOOD poors (white, retired) to care for the BAD poors (other than white, retired).  Hollering how we need to hand Medicare over to corporations who will keep it alive by turning a profit off old age and infirmity, the way the prison industry looks at young black dudes busted for smoking weed and gets big green fucking dollar signs in their big blue watery cartoon villain eyes.

This is the world a sizable chunk of my countrymen want us to live in. This is progress. This is trimming the fat, cutting the budget, reducing spending, eliminating waste. Waste like me. Waste like you. Privatize hate. These assholes will bail out a company that fucked up after growing so huge it snuffed out the competition and became a vital organ in the American body, and then tell a dude paralyzed from the waist down, with no trace of irony, that there's no such thing as a free lunch.

You know how punks used to spraypaint EAT THE RICH on a bunch of shit? THAT is a free lunch. Just sayin'.

You better believe the revolution will not be privatized.