C_Clayton_Jones
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- Apr 28, 2011
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Rubio is a typical Republican asshole...
Actually, Rubio is a typical conservative ideologue. As Ive mentioned in other threads, this is classic rightist dogma social programs make us weak, act as a disincentive. Its predicated on the fallacy of Social Darwinism and the belief that humans are motivated only by fear and greed.
Rubio also exhibits another tenet of the right: reactionaryism, the rejection of modernity and its compelling factors and the inane desire to return to a fantasy world of the past:
These programs actually weakened us as a people. You see, almost forever, it was institutions in society that assumed the role of taking care of one another. If someone was sick in your family, you took care of them. If a neighbor met misfortune, you took care of them. You saved for your retirement and your future because you had to. We took these things upon ourselves in our communities, our families, and our homes, and our churches and our synagogues. But all that changed when the government began to assume those responsibilities. All of a sudden, for an increasing number of people in our nation, it was no longer necessary to worry about saving for security because that was the governments job.
The fact is families cant care for ill loved ones in many cases, often the medicine and treatments are too expensive and a private home not an appropriate venue for an ill or disabled family member.
Millions of Americans spend their working lives in the middle class, they earn enough to get by but have little left over for savings and retirement. And in the wake of the December 2007 recession, many Americans were forced to access those savings when unemployed. Theyre working again, saved the house and car, but their savings are depleted this last recession is what SS and Medicare were designed to address.
So it has nothing to do with being lazy or weak, it has to do with wages being static for the last 30 years, the loss of high paying jobs, and jobs sent overseas so corporations can realize greater profit.