Starve what "Beast"?

We either need to change/rectify the language...or accept our current reality. My next attempt to change language is defining the "beast".

You see the picture above? That’s pretty scary, isn’t it? That beast would kill babies, slaughter countries, rape and pillage, and STEAL YOUR SOUL!


Well I am sure that the beast above isn’t the beast that was discussed here:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast




So what I need to know is what in the hell is the beast they are speaking of?


Is the beast that allows the elderly to not have cat food at the dinner table? Well that’s Social Security. Security…doesn’t sound scary to me. What about you?


Maybe it’s the beast that also gives the elderly medical coverage? That’s Medicare? Care…doesn’t sound like it’s a killer to me. What do you think?


I know! It’s the educational system that we as tax payers pay for so that people can learn and be productive citizens? That’s the beast right? Productive citizens? Doesn’t sound very destructive to me. What say you?


Well before you answer that lets look at what it takes to “Starve the Beast”…


Deregulation…a process that either de-funds, repeals, or removes agencies that protects us by investigating or enforces laws. Getting rid of protective agencies…so they wish to remove shields that protects us from harm…I’m a little nervous.


Privatization…taking public (Government run) entities away from the government and giving them to private organizations that will run them to make a profit. Like military, hospitals, and if they could have their way Social Security. Mercenaries, profit driven healers, stock brokers for retirement savings. Sounds like a lot of risk is involved.


Cutting taxes for everyone…well I would imagine that to many that’s great. Less taxes to pay is always good, right? I mean if I make $60,000 I could get an extra 600 to 1,000 dollars. Imagine if you make more than a million a year...or even more you are getting back a great deal. 

Cool? Unless its also those that through deregulation and privatization get richer and creates wealth by harming us.


Where are we going to get health care from? Its very expensive and due to deregulation there are no laws for me to use to seek retribution for the harm. What about the military that is now more Blackwater than it’s a volunteer force? As a private that makes 17 thousand a year doing the same thing a mercenary is doing while making 170 thousand. Or what happens when the de-funding of education creates an environment that makes it almost impossible to earn a living wage. A wage that no longer has a minimum, so many of us will make so little that we have a boom in homelessness. Yes I said homeless. Where else could you be?


Don’t worry we have starved the beast, right?

Or did we feed this one?

Or this one?

Or this one?

Or this one?

It looks like the only thing we starved is this one…