Coping With Welfare Equals Losing 13 IQ Points

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38. Unfortunately, the big monied people own Congress

And also the Ovel Office.

Traditional methods of us citizens having the ability to participate in "free elections" are non-existant. (Here's one proof: the media already lets us know that Corporatist Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic contender for the Oval Office.)

Poverty is becoming a systemic situation. Big Money decides that we need more wars, more subsidies for the Fat Cats, like Monsanto, while telling the 95% of us who really do not benefit from endless wars and subsidies for companies, that we need to face facts and get used to austerity.

I live in a Calif. county with an 18% unemployment situation. We were starting to prosper, and then Eric Holder saw to it that our med marijuana dispesnaries were shut down. So if we had been left to our own devices, we would probably be coping with a 12% unemployment rate, but if you can no longer grow for a dispensary, man the counter at the dispensary etc, you have to be on welfare. (Most companies will not hire anyone admitting to using cannabis for a health ailemnt, and many companies also slam a job applicant with a drug test.)

The people in this nation do care about every single thing you mention, but we haven't got much power.