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Caught Between Barack and a Hard Place
Ah yes, life is so much more difficult these days. And don't forget that since Bush has been President, not only have things gotten worse but fruit goes rotten a whole lot quicker for poor people like the Obama's. That's because Bush gave tax cuts to the rich and their fruit lasts longerThe New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/10/080310fa_fact_collins?currentPage=1
by Lauren Collins
March 10, 2008
Michelle Obama and the politics of candor.
. . . Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: were a divided country, were a country that is just downright mean, we are guided by fear, were a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day, she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. Folks are just jammed up, and its gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, Im young. Forty-four!
From these bleak generalities, Obama moves into specific complaints. Used to be, she will say, that you could count on a decent education in the neighborhood. But now there are all these charter schools and magnet schools that you have to finagle to get into. (Obama herself attended a magnet school, but never mind.) Health care is out of reach (Let me tell you, dont get sick in America), pensions are disappearing, college is too expensive, and even if you can figure out a way to go to college you wont be able to recoup the cost of the degree in many of the professions for which you needed it in the first place . . . See, because, we went to those good schools, and we didnt have trust funds. Im still waiting for Baracks trust fund. Especially after I heard that Dick Cheney was sposed to be a relative or something. Give us something here! . . .
The life that Im talking about that most people are living has gotten progressively worse since I was a little girl. . . . So if you want to pretend like there was some point over the last couple of decades when your lives were easy, I want to meet you!
You know, she said, in my household, over the last year we have just shifted to organic . . . Now were keeping, like, a bowl of fresh fruit in the house. But you have to go to the fruit stand a couple of times a week to keep that fruit fresh enough that a six-year-oldshes not gonna eat the pruney grape, you know. At that point its, like, Eww! Shes not gonna eat the brown banana or the shrivelledy-up things. Its got to be fresh for them to want it. Whos got time to go to the fruit stand? Who can afford it, first of all? . . .
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/10/080310fa_fact_collins?currentPage=3
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