America's Shame

Gloom from the NYT:

Facing eviction from her Tennessee apartment after several months of unpaid rent, Alexandra Jarrin packed up whatever she could fit into her two-door coupe recently and drove out of town.

Ms. Jarrin, 49, wound up at a motel here, putting down $260 she had managed to scrape together from friends and from selling her living room set, enough for a weeklong stay. It was essentially all the money she had left after her unemployment benefits expired in March. Now she is facing a previously unimaginable situation for a woman who, not that long ago, had a corporate job near New York City and was enrolled in a graduate business school, whose sticker is still emblazoned on her back windshield.

“Barring a miracle, I’m going to be in my car,” she said.

You'd have to be a f*cking socio-political Jedi master to figure out how the GOP is still existing, let alone doing well in the polls, when you consider how many times over this story could be repeated with different names in different locations. While smug pr*cks like Boehner and Cantor whine for Wall Street and push deficit suicide by extending the Bush tax cuts, everyday middle-class folks all across America are becoming de facto hobos. WTF???

How did this Ayn Rand wet dream become reality? How can a party that exists only to screw the majority while acting as fluffers for the wealthy still get to call the shots? Even allowing for the Obama admin's self-defeating centrism and their infinite capacity for snubbing their own base and ceding power to the GOP, it's a f*cking mystery.

There are around about 1.4 million Americans who've been unemployed longer than 99 weeks. Now, thanks to anti-middle class Republicans and flaccid Democrats, they're about to be cut off and lose everything. But they aren't living in a vacuum. If you're not a '99er', chances are you'll have one or two in the family or you'll know someone who is. So why the f*ck are we letting this happen? Why do we vote for the bastards who'd sooner the unemployed crawl off and starve?

I am no socio-political Jedi master so I remain baffled.