The following correspondence originally took place on my Facebook wall, upon my post, “Diversity is Life!“…
Rayn: Truth!
“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.” – Maya Angelou
Stacie T.: My least favorite color is orange, but a sunset wouldn’t be a sunset without it.
As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Truth Beckons,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…
“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.” – Maya Angelou
My Commentary: Truth!
The following correspondence originally took place upon my Facebook wall…
Jason R.:
“Entitlements? I PAID CASH for my Social Security insurance. Our benefits are NOT some kind of charity or handout! Congressional benefits… premium federal healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days! – Now THAT’S welfare! And they have the nerve to call my retirement an entitlement??? Repost if you are sick and tired of their crap!”
Rayn: Indeed, Jason! Payments for SS/medicare were snatched out of every one of my paychecks without my consent since I was 15 years old! Anyone who would label such an arrangement as an “entitlement,” “charity,” or a “handout” is either sorely mistaken, or outright lying! As for Congressional benefits, I agree 100%. The so-called “public servants” who accept these outrageous “benefits” sure think very highly of themselves compared to the ones they “serve,” eh? Disgusting! And, sadly, a quick examination of the numbers, and the intricacies of the system, shows that the Social Security trust fund worked well enough, mathematically, to leave it as a major target for LOOTING by our own government, time and time again!
What Happened to the $2.6 Trillion Social Security Trust Fund:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2011/07/13/what-happened-to-the-2-6-trillion-social-security-trust-fund/
This is exactly why Social Security insurance’s biggest failure (besides not being voluntary) has been to put such a precious asset as our nation’s retirement into a single set of thieving, government hands, without our direct, daily, and individual oversight – all under the completely illogical and arrogant notion that “we the people” are unable to be trusted not to steal from ourselves, to understand the math involved in such a system, or even possibly, to have a few different versions of such a system in circulation, to meet the many different needs of the INDIVIDUALS that make up this country!
Speaking of welfare, how about CORPORATE WELFARE? According to the Cato Institute, the U.S. federal government spent $92 BILLION on corporate welfare during fiscal year 2006, alone! And, to add the the egregious nature of this virtual theft, recipients included such companies as BOEING, XEROX, IBM, MOTOROLA, DOW CHEMICAL and GENERAL ELECTRIC!!! Meanwhile, the same politicians that demand reforms for social programs largely REMAIN SILENT on this issue!!!!
The Corporate Welfare State: How the Federal Government Subsidizes U.S. Businesses:
http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/corporate-welfare-state-how-federal-government-subsidizes-us-businesses
The following correspondence originally took place upon the Facebook wall of my friend, and fellow Autistic self-advocate, Jason Ross…
American Police State victim, Jmyha Rickman, a student at Lovejoy Elementary School in Alton, Illinois
Jason R.: Girl, 8, Handcuffed and Thrown in JAIL for Two Hours After Throwing Tantrum at Her School:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289090/Jmyha-Rickman-Girl-8-handcuffed-jailed-throwing-tantrum-school.html
Rayn: More American Fascism, Exposed! Disgusting!
The following correspondence originally took place upon the Facebook wall of my friend, and fellow Autistic Self-Advocate, Jason Ross, after he posted captioned artwork being shared from here…
Jason R.:
[020] “A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her cheekbone broken by an Israeli settler in Hebron. Tove Johansson from Stockholm walked through the Tel Rumeida checkpoint with a small group of human rights workers to accompany Palestinian schoolchildren to their homes. They were confronted by about 100 settlers in small groups, who started chanting in Hebrew “We killed Jesus, we’ll kill you too!”, a refrain the settlers had been repeating to internationals in Tel Rumeida all day.”
These Israeli settlers walk around Palestinian land in large groups like roving Klansmen with assault weapons as they intimidate local Palestinians. They tear down their olive trees and other infrastructure in order to make sure they can’t live on the land. via I Acknowledge Class Warfare Exists
