If we can agree that most impoverished – and faux poor – Americans are uncomplicated, it is immediately clear why they became the bullseye soldiers in the army of Democrats 85 years ago.
They will believe anything.
Preposterousness has no limits.
Ever since FDR was elected king in 1932, Democrats have been obliged to memorize: We are the saviors of the underclass.
The fantasy world of government welfare for those who choose relaxing over working was born in much less time than G-d required to create the real universe. Poor Democrats prayed every night to FDR, the new father of our country. They believed his goofy promises until he dispatched 110,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps because they had chosen to be born Japanese.
Three decades later, LBJ, another major Democrat liar, was elected. As a teller of fairy tales, he gave us the War on Poverty. It worked. Only he neglected to tell us that his goal was to increase the number of poor Americans. Meanwhile he basked in questionably earned wealth.
Comes now two more Gol’-dang-we-pity-the-poor Democrats. They seek to prove 3-plus-3 equals 4 or 3 or 2 or 0. Or who cares?
They teamed in an op-ed piece last Thursday in the Los Angeles Times.
Wally Zelman of Cal State L.A. and Tom Epstein, a community college board member, argued – circuitously, of course, to fool the slow-cranking poor – that the new Republican version of O-bomb-care deliberately targets college-age students.
Holding a bowl of porridge in each hand, Tommy and Wally diligently concluded that most of the boys and girls in the Cal State and community college systems come from poor families.
Two-thirds of the students work. Half of community college students, they claim, come from households with annual incomes of less than $30,000.
Before O-bomb-care, the boys say one-third of Cal State L.A. students were uninsured. Now only 10 percent are. The proposed Republican cleanup of O-bomb-care “would obliterate these gains.”
Even if the present version is moderated, say Tommy and Wally, vaguely, the new law “will have a substantial negative effect on our students.”
That’s life, boys, when you are a Democrat who lives off the government instead of perspiration from his own brow.