Bullshit Statistic of the Week

The response is, of course, “so what”? It’s what the government is for, asshats.

@Tommmcatt May Just Have Some MJ In His System As Well, So What?: The premise is that we have to cut guvmint bennies because all those po’ folk are sucking at the teat. (See also: The Poor Don’t Pay Income Taxes.) It’s a meta-revival of the old Welfare Queen meme, which was successfully used to transfer wealth upward.

And it’s insidious, because, well, these are honest-to-gosh Census statistics: Wealthy Welfare conveniently falls in a different category. As we used to say in philosophy, if you grant the premise, you’ve lost the game.

The unsaid statistic of this and every week is 100%, the number of US households that will gladly take any government benefits they can get.

Nojo and the WSJ left out the benefit to capital owners of state and federal government efforts to eviscerate the labor movement and cut those costs.

Let’s not forget the antidumping and countervailing duties against foreign manufacturers of everything from steel to plastic forks. Allows them to charge more for nearly everything you buy.

Speaking of Our Boring Campaign…

Now that I’m finally getting around to importing the Hamster Archive, four years ago at this time Swampsow was musing about a Unicorn assassination and challenging the Florida delegates, which led me to resort to Kitties and Shooting a Dog, which Mommy wouldn’t let me post because the Cynics Party didn’t have balls.

Maybe boring is better.