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Happy Bastille Day

by: susanthe

Fri Jul 15, 2011 at 00:00:00 AM EDT
The latest on that Strafford County budget:

"It'll be the first time since 1972 that we will have to institute a waiting list," said Strafford Nutrition Meals on Wheels Director Emily Sylvain, the day before her new fiscal year kicked in on July 1.

The nonprofit agency, which, according to Sylvain, has had annual level funding from state and federal sources of $516,000 for the past 12 years, is now having to deal with the loss of $75,000 in county funding.

A waiting list, for seniors to get meals. I am so ashamed that this is happening in my state.

And, I'm starting to see more and more similarities:
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Bastille Day! Time to load "Casablanca" in the DVD player n/t (4.00 / 3)

One of the best scenes in the movie (4.00 / 2)
La Marseillaise (sorry, embedding disabled)

With the Bedroom Gestapo holding forth in Concord these days, we can also relate to this later dark period in French history.

2012 is sooner than you think. Ready?

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Serves me right for not being more musical. n/t (4.00 / 2)

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Whenever a particular population is irrationally targeted for (0.00 / 0)
deprivation -- i.e. it is undeservedly punished -- the real or ulterior motive is to send a message to someone else. The message that's obviously perceived to be in need of being re-enforced is that "if you don't work, you don't eat."  Apparently, our working population has been insufficiently compliant and appreciative of their jobs in recent decades.  So, the message has to be sent that it could be worse -- that, even if you work like a slave in your productive years, you're not entitled to a "free lunch" in old age.
Then too, deprivators are cowards.  So, they pick on the aged, infirm and poor. Women and children are also fair game, since they're unlikely to fight back. Besides, it's not useful to alienate the entire workforce as long as you're depending on someone to work. Not until robots and electrically generated power can be totally relied on will it be possible to make the deprivation universal.
Why would humans want to do that?  Some experience an incredible high out of exercising dominion over their own kind. Some, like the Pope, don't even mind wearing really funny clothes while they do it.
Otherwise, power needs to be punitive to be perceived.
It occurs to me that by focusing on the effects, expressing empathy for the deprived, we inadvertently prompt even more deprivation -- that, if kicking a dog once isn't noted, the dog will be kicked again and again. Of course, taking note won't stop it.  There has to be an intervention, an imposition of restraint. "Fighting back" is not the issue.

P.S. The link in your post doesn't work.  Try this:
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pb...

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