Saturday, October 26, 2013

Grand Theft. By Eric Smith

Republicans are trying to destroy Social Security, Medicare, pensions, etc. because they say they are entitlements. Well yes they are entitlements but they are entitlements people paid for out of their own pockets and when you pay for something guess what, you are entitled to have it.

Republicans say that what they're doing is reform. No, what they're doing is not reform, it is outright theft. They are seeking to take away and deny people those benefits that they paid for. They are literally stealing from the aged, the sick, and the infirm. In regards to their efforts to reduce benefits to veterans & their survivors they are literally stealing from those who paid for these benefits with their health and their lives.

Why the hell are so many people putting up with this? Why is it being tolerated in so many quarters? Stealing is stealing and it doesn't matter if that theft is being perpetrated by some rich white guy in Congress or some poor African American fellow in our inner city. It is the same damn thing because what it all comes down to is someone taking from or denying someone that which they didn't pay for, which doesn't belong to them, and which they have no right to have.

Just because that rich white guy uses a piece of legislation rather than hold a gun to someone's head like that poor African American fellow does in the inner city to steal from somebody doesn't make this thievery any less of a crime or any less evil. These two kinds of scoundrels are cut from the same soiled cloth. They are crooks; nothing more and nothing less!

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