(March 29, 2019 at 10:58 am)Yonadav Wrote:(March 29, 2019 at 10:21 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: People are, ofc, apoplectic about cuts to medicare. The reason that the cuts to special olympics funding is especially galling is that it's just plain old cruella deville shit. We've become accustomed to the usual rightwing cruelty....but that comes straight out of a cartoon.
I get that news cycles can seem odd..but the use of the news cycle to do one terrible thing, get veryone talking about it, and then do ten that fly under the radar is the point. It would be just as useful to the ghouls in charge if we focused on the one, medicare..while they did ten other things.
At some point we're going to realize that this presidency doesn't just need to end, it needs to be annulled.
Is it really Cruella Deville shit? It's a cut that has repeatedly been proposed, including one time during the Obama administration. It's basically an untouchable vanity project that only costs about 15 million a year. So of all of the proposed cuts, it is the one that never goes through. The Special Olympics has revenue of around 150 million a year, so the government subsidy is just a small part of their revenue. The subsidy is used to fund programs in which the sports teams of public high schools interact with their school's disabled students. It's not a very important program, but it is connected with a whole lot of extremely powerful political donors. So despite it having been proposed as a cut several times, it never gets cut. It's untouchable.
But here's the thing. Something like 7 billion in cuts were proposed for education. The Special Olympics cut is basically fake news. That's just a 15 million dollar cut that has even been proposed under Obama's watch. It's typical Dem bullshit. They push back on the Special Olympics cut as a big story and easy victory, and then they can totally fuck up with the other nearly 7 billion in proposed education cuts and still look like winners.
No it is not.
It may be a tactic, yes, but it is not fake regardless.
Our current right ring in the west will stop at nothing trying to paint itself at both the hero and the victim.
We are still talking about a party that will target a small part of the budget to fund promotion of penis size.
