La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for November 19, 2015

How ironic.

Ryan also went to college on SocSec and wants to get rid of it for everyone else.

You keep implying that the Republicans aren’t doing a good job in congress. You are totally mistaken. They were financed by rich folks and they are doing a great job for them. Their intention is to keep everything just as it is, unless they can manage to return to the “good old days” of the 19th century, before there was a middle class and when only the landed gentry were voters. And, they have a great strategy for accomplishing this: 1. Disenfranchise everyone you possibly can, unless they are dependable Republican voters. 2. Produce ads and media emphasis which emphasizes those politicians who are corrupt and incompetent. This undermines the people’s trust in their government and makes them feel like helpless pawns, so they tune out the whole process and accept the status quo. 3. Support the “job creators”, those who are the recipients of a huge portion of the GNP, although that GNP was produced by working people, who are receiving less benefit from it every day. This gives them the money to accomplish the other two goals, and leaves everyone except the “job creators” with increasingly less money to mount a counter campaign. 4. Having supported the “job creators”, expect them to return the favor by financing Republican candidates, since there aren’t enough Middle Class people stupid enough to do it. So, this is the way we are going lose the Middle Class and become a country inhabited only by the very rich 1%, and a 99% who are too busy working two jobs to survive to notice.

And that’s the difference between unskilled not in demand workers and skilled in demand workers. That is why unions unfortunately are on the drop. When corporations can ship jobs overseas to make their products at lower cost they will, and don’t squeal it’s the republicans fault NAFTA was Bill Clinton’s baby. If you wish to have a secure job, you need to work hard to get the education or training for it. The military, not Army or Marines, is an excellent no cost place to get a skill. And trade schools are great. College not so much unless your doing engineering or medicine.

Obama shut down coal, so they have all the family time they want.

Natural gas and cheap oil shut down coal. That, and the mine owners using machinery to replace humans. But everything must be Obama’s fault.