Killing Us Softly: Uncle Sam wants you ... to die

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/7659

Killing Us Softly: Uncle Sam wants you ... to die
by Alan Bisbort | May 24 2007


Our government is trying to kill us, one by one. That's the only way I can figure it. Maybe this is because they know they can't afford to keep all 300 million of us around until we get old because they've pissed away our Social Security nest-egg. Maybe that's why they want us to die in their illegal preemptive wars (eight more Americans dead this week, for those keeping score at home). Or by succumbing to the pollutants they've allowed their partners in crime to release into our air and water. Or by being trapped in mineshafts or behind levees they were supposed to keep safe. Or by being so crushed by debt that we're driven to despair and vent our rage on each other or ourselves. Or by making it so easy for all of us to get guns that the job of killing each other will be much quicker. Or by pissing off the rest of the world sufficiently so that nukes or bio-weapons rain on our heads. Hell, we can't even look forward to eating pet food like our grandparents are now having to do. As the recent wave of pet deaths have shown, they've poisoned our pet food too!

Only one conclusion is possible: The Republican Party has been trying to kill us. They have set up a system of such massive ineptitude and unaccountability that we can't focus on any real solution. Under Bush, and with his six-year majority in Congress (until this January), the federal government has been one big Ba-Da-Bing Club, with favors parceled out to those who are part of the family and the creeps in charge hiding out in a back room, impossible to reach except through a series of greased palms. We are just now beginning to understand how corrupt the system has been; I would wager future revelations will astonish and disgust the historians.

The Food and Drug Administration -- theoretically in charge of keeping what we ingest -- is just one more link in the chain of deadly Mob-style governance. It's so corrupted by corporate influence and packed with partisan hacks that Phil Leotardo's New York sanitation engineers look like models of efficiency and responsibility by comparison.

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The real beauty of the scam is that they don't even have to grease palms. They simply axe the funding for the agency. Since 2003, the FDA has cut field staff by 12 percent, which led to a drop of 32 percent in food inspections, which led ... well, you get the idea.

Andrew Kimbrell, director of the Center for Food Safety said, "I call it 'Katrina on your plate.' You've got an agency, the FDA, that's understaffed, under-funded, without leadership, and is not doing its job, and it's causing a real-life suffering and death."

Like I said, they're trying to kill us. Thus, the question every American must ask themselves is this: Am I willing to die for George W. Bush?
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[Demeter]

1. The Party of Death--It Has Always Been So. What's Worse IS the Democratic

capitulation. This is NOT what is meant by "playing the victim card", guys!