I just read this in the local paper and I am mystified, baffled...and saddened to think that fellow humans can even think like this.
"Butte County is fiscally drowning, according to it's elected and appointed leaders...County leaders made the claim Thursday before members of the California Commission on State Mandates in an effort to demonstrate Butte is in such desperate economic straits it should be allowed to cut welfare payments to the poorest of the poor."
And what happens to the poorest of the poor after that?
Maybe the farmers up there would be willing to share some of their welfare huh?
ReplyDeleteShare? Surely, you jest kind sir. Most farmers (not all) live quite well if they can manage the bureacratic web of crop insurance, water rights and government subsidies that plague modern farming.
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