I heard a wag today claiming that ObamaCare will soon be a resounding success, and that even GOP members will be clamoring to extend it. So we have nothing to worry about. Right.
Just like with the Social Security Act? Not to mention the Full Employment Acts of 1946 & 1978 too?
re: 1946 - "Thus, because of the planlessness of the twenties - because ofthe lack of courageous action immediately following the collapse — the nation lost 105,000,000 man-years of production in the thirties. - Full Employment Act of 1945, Hearngs, p. 1104"
re: 1978 - "The Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 established an interim 5-year target of 3 percent unemployment for individuals 20 years of age and older, and 4 percent for individuals age 16 and over within 5 years, with full employment to be achieved as soon as practicable thereafter."
Somehow that never quite became "practicable" - primarily due to the need to maintain CEO salaries, stockholder dividends and bankster bonuses. Turns out there's quite a gap between an Act and it's enforcement.
Forget about a free lunch. There's not even any equitable lunch if the Middle Class doesn't demand EVERY SINGLE PENNY it requires to be the resilient backbone of this nation.
If we don't demand citizen rights, the only general welfare of the people we'll ever get is Corporate Welfare, for the squeaky wheeler-dealers.
As an analogy, show me a human physiology where every one of the tens of trillions of cells isn't kept in a state of adequate readiness. Even adipose cells - the "idle rich," are maintained only as a reserve, to be drained upon demand.
Force readiness applies to a citizenry, as well as to a physiology, and to our national defense agencies. They're all just systems, which are either organized ... or not.
Say, here's a thought. Why not just combine the right to bear arms AND the right to hold a force-readiness job?
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