Yay! Good News On DOMA
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teleen_fictionThe Obama Administration has announced that it will no longer defend DOMA, which is another baby step forward in the fight for equal marriage rights in the US.
While I realize that the battle for Civil Rights for African Americans was a different struggle and that I shouldn't compare the two, I still find myself wondering if we'll look back in fifty years with the same utter disbelief that I have now when I look back and see pictures of "Colored Only Entrances" and Jim Crow laws.
It's disheartening and sad to me that people are still finding ways to marginalize other people and no one sees the essential truth - 400 individuals in this country earn 50% of the wages. So 400 people make more than the other 300 million put together and the only way for them to keep getting away with that is to keep dividing us.
They blind us with stories about how gays will destroy the US way of life and women will get drive by abortions if the Pro-Life movement doesn't do everything in its power to save the innocent babies, but it's all just distraction. Every time a law is passed that legislates my uterus or who I'm allowed to love, it forces me to focus my energy on fighting for basic human dignity, which leaves those 400 people free to piss in their solid-gold toilets.
Before anyone says it, I'm not talking about becoming communist and redistributing the wealth, but seriously? When 400 people earn HALF of all the money that there is to be earned, something's not right. There's no way that those 400 people are actually doing half of the actual WORK in this country, so what some call 'redistribution of wealth', I call 'equal pay for equal work.' Or fair compensation for work done. A CEO doesn't work as hard as a construction worker, sorry. Or a stripper, lol. Or a fucking schoolteacher. Or a doctor.
But 400 people earn 50% of the income AND get so many tax breaks that I'm betting that they pay less as a percentage of their income than a schoolteacher does.
That's some serious bullshit right there.
Damn. I meant for this to be a happy post!
While I realize that the battle for Civil Rights for African Americans was a different struggle and that I shouldn't compare the two, I still find myself wondering if we'll look back in fifty years with the same utter disbelief that I have now when I look back and see pictures of "Colored Only Entrances" and Jim Crow laws.
It's disheartening and sad to me that people are still finding ways to marginalize other people and no one sees the essential truth - 400 individuals in this country earn 50% of the wages. So 400 people make more than the other 300 million put together and the only way for them to keep getting away with that is to keep dividing us.
They blind us with stories about how gays will destroy the US way of life and women will get drive by abortions if the Pro-Life movement doesn't do everything in its power to save the innocent babies, but it's all just distraction. Every time a law is passed that legislates my uterus or who I'm allowed to love, it forces me to focus my energy on fighting for basic human dignity, which leaves those 400 people free to piss in their solid-gold toilets.
Before anyone says it, I'm not talking about becoming communist and redistributing the wealth, but seriously? When 400 people earn HALF of all the money that there is to be earned, something's not right. There's no way that those 400 people are actually doing half of the actual WORK in this country, so what some call 'redistribution of wealth', I call 'equal pay for equal work.' Or fair compensation for work done. A CEO doesn't work as hard as a construction worker, sorry. Or a stripper, lol. Or a fucking schoolteacher. Or a doctor.
But 400 people earn 50% of the income AND get so many tax breaks that I'm betting that they pay less as a percentage of their income than a schoolteacher does.
That's some serious bullshit right there.
Damn. I meant for this to be a happy post!
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Date: 2011-02-23 10:04 pm (UTC)I cannot THIS enough!!!
They do keep us divided. I just commented to my friend yesterday that people who complain about welfare are stupid because they refuse to look at who has all the money and keep them hoping with jokes like "trickle down economics." And it is not socialism or commuinism to point out the flaws of this kind of thinking.