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Sean Hannity "the people most likely to benefit are the middle class...this is new green deal radicalization."

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Golly, Republican Sean Hannity doesn't like when the middle -class get benefits. Obviously benefits are for the wealthy!

In Marxist theory, the middle class is the merchant class, the bourgeoisie. The very rich.

But Hannity doesn't strike me as a Marxist. In the US the middle class represents the well-heeled working class, the peti-bourgoeoisie, who can afford nice cars and homes and to dine and shop at bougy joints.

A shrinking demographic.

Many Boomers are upset with this proposal, stating "I paid ALL of my student loan."


For many Boomers - that's a lie. Because prior to the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform by Republicans under W Bush, Boomers and those older discharged their student loans in bankruptcy.

The reason why Student Loans were singled-out as not being able to be included in bankruptcy in 2005, is because Boomers and older were all doing that - especially if they were going through a divorce - it was a "clean start."

As with a lot of things in life and Boomers - they got what they wanted and have prevented generations after them from having the same advantages in life that have have enjoyed.

And also, in the heyday of most Boomers, tuition was couch change.
My tuition at Brown was couch change, my tuition at UCLA Extension was couch change.

As a nation we argue about the dumbest things sometimes. Arguing about a higher minimum wage, for instance...if we had enough good stable decent paying jobs with a modicum of a career path, we'd hardly be arguing about minimum wage jobs because those would go back to being jobs for kids and seniors who want to pad their Social Security "just enough" without triggering cuts to their old age pensions.
We sent many of those good paying jobs overseas. That wasn't to help us, it was to help the poor put upon rich folks, you know, the PERSECUTED rich folks?

We argue about helping people with tuition debt (student loans) but if we simply went back to making college more affordable, there wouldn't BE a student loan debt crisis, it would just be the handful of folks who made bad choices. Most people would chuckle and say that tuition is couch change again, like it was once upon a time.
But when you see well over a TRILLION dollars, you KNOW it can't be chalked up to "poor life choices"... because when it's a trillion dollars plus, it can't be, just like it can't be "a majority of teachers just deciding to be lazy bums" when referring to the teacher shortage.
We're paying good teachers crap and treating them like crap.

We argue about healthcare costs but once upon a time it was illegal to run health insurance at a profit. We allowed leadership to sunset that concept and now we are face to face with the monster that took its place, and yet we argue if it's right to call it a monster.
Sorry, it IS a monster and our forbears knew this, which is WHY they used to prohibit the idea.

Face facts, all this crap we're dealing with now stems largely from the wide-ranging attacks on the New Deal and on public goods and services.
And we know who spearheaded those attacks back then and who is leading them now.

It's time to accept the fact that their ideas were crap then, and crap now, and it's time to reverse that kind of thinking.

I accepted that long ago, but thus far the thought police have had a hard time getting everybody re-educated.

The concept of Middle Class has changed a lot since Marx: They USED to be business owners, highly paid professionals like doctors and lawyers, and people who had modest inheritances but had to keep working to get by. The Upper Class was pretty much Old Money: People who never had jobs and never would. At best they clipped their bond coupons to send in, but most of them had people for that. The Working Class were people with jerbs: Easily replaced factory workers, farm workers, miners, guys with lunch pails. And the Poor were the people who didn't have or couldn't perform those jerbs, for one reason or another.

These days in America, The Upper Class is mostly invisible, behind their estate walls and guarded gates, in their limos, or their private planes. There are a few show-offs who seek notoriety as a hobby. (IE. Musk and Trump) The Poor are ever with us. The Working class all have been convinced by media and politicians that they are Middle Class, and entitled to owning a house, leasing new cars, attending Ivy League colleges, etc. That's why so many of them live paycheck to paycheck and file a lot of bankruptcies. The "Working Class" label is derogatory, and associated with Socialism. As if socialism wouldn't benefit most of the Poor and Working Class.

That's actually The Big Lie of the last 80 years, not that the election was stolen by [Israeli Space Lasers, Hugo Chavez, election equipment manufacturers, The Deep State, Demoncrats, etc.]. That's small potatoes lying, there. After just two years, it's falling apart and true believers are going to prison.

Lindsey Graham is calling for violence in the streets if Trump is indicted.



A US Senator calling for violence? Miss Lindsey must really want to experience that prison love that he’s read about.

MAGAts are now threatening the National Archives with violence. What kind of people threaten librarians?

Gator Guy and emotional support gator sleep in the same bed.



Hope the gator doesn't go to bed hungry some night.

Looks to be the same size as the one down at Victory Point. Still small enough to be cute.