Secure This

Feel the economy, as it swells and throbs with awesomeness, fuck you straight up the ass:

The average cost of a family insurance plan that Americans get through their jobs has risen another 7.7 percent this year, to $11,500, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. In only seven years, the cost has doubled, while incomes and company revenue, which pay for health insurance, haven’t risen nearly as much.

In fact, incomes are down—and wages “make up the lowest share of the nation's gross domestic product since the government began recording the data in 1947, although corporate profits have climbed to their highest share since the 1960’s.”

All we ever hear from the Bush administration and the GOP is how they’re making us safer. But all they’re talking about (and speciously, at that) is safety from terrorism. There are all kinds of ways in which many Americans are much less safe than they were four years ago—and the rising cost and decreasing availabiliy of healthcare is one of them. Without healthcare, or shitty coverage that leaves you gravely exposed financially should disaster strike, you’re not safe, your savings aren’t safe, your house isn’t safe (and less safe than ever, thanks to the ass-sucking bankruptcy bill), and your dependents aren’t safe.

Fuck national security. How’s your domestic security, America? Is your job secure? Do you have guaranteed and affordable healthcare? Do you feel like you’ve got a safety net, or are you living on a precipice with nothing below but an abyss waiting to envelope you with a single misstep?

How about it, Security Moms? Does voting Republican ostensibly to keep your kids safe from terrorism even fucking matter if you can’t afford their bloody innoculations?!

Fuck!