What are we fighting for? The scraps. Yep, the scraps.

[Horse with no Name]

The CEO's have already gotten their billions in bonuses. No doubt it comes off the gross profit these days. Then the expenses...and that leaves...the scraps.
Instead of this administration seeking to take away the tax breaks for the wealthiest...they want to reduce the deficit using the SCRAPS...which leaves less scraps for us.
I have no idea why anyone in this country is OKAY with this...and I don't care WHICH party tries to pull this shit, NOBODY in this country should have to struggle for the snippets of scraps that the upper class is willing to let slide to us. NOBODY.

[RandomThoughts]

1. Hence why the structure has to change.

It is the concept that some can decide, then they think they should only give scraps.

And I think that verse was a logic argument to correct, or expand thought by showing an error in a form of thought, not to validate it.

And I am due beer and travel money, and many experiences.

[Bonobo]

3. People's minds need to change first.

We have been brainwashed to believe that some deserve to have less than others.

This is true from an international perspective as well as from a domestic perspective.

If you are poor, fat, dark, short, ugly, crippled, whatever... you deserve less.

Especially the poor. In America, there are such strong subconscious notions that they simply have brought in on themselves.

It is intimately tied to the concept of the American Dream and the "free market".

The freedom is an illusion just as the dream is a dream.

Unexamined preconceptions about the poor are something that need to be brought to our conscious consideration.

What is a person's life worth? How should we treat people? What is the basic level of dignity and kindness they deserve? What does one owe in order to receive such treatment?

We can kill civilians and walk over and past the homeless for the same reason.

[emilyg]

2. Kick

[TBF]

4. We used to get scraps - now we don't even get crumbs . K&R nt

[Raine]

6. Yeah they decided even the crumbs were too much for us

they even have to have that now.

[Newest Reality]

5. I tend to wonder if the economic situation

combined with the deadbeat rich and crew cleaning-up is something other than just another greedy grab like the good ol' days?

We have a perfect storm of crises brewing and grabbing what you can may be part of the game before the window closes. Just speculating.