'Tis the season of this politician or that harping on the terrifically onerous burden we all face of "making the hard choices."
Hard choices?
Let's see, should we continue putting the squeeze on the poor and middle class or raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires? Hmmm.
How about Federal subsidies for ridiculously profitable oil companies? Maybe we should send that money to the green energy side of the ledger instead?
What makes more sense, cutting a few hundred billion from the Pentagon or eliminating Head Start and the hot lunch program for school kids? Redundant arms systems or Pell Grants?
Make it easier for corporations to ship jobs overseas or harder?
Leave a few hundred thousand troops in Iraq and Afghanistan or start to rebuild America's infrastructure?
Hand Social Security over to the thieves on Wall Street or simply raise the existing wage limits to insure its solvency forever?
Leave your healthcare at the mercy of the "for profit" insurance companies or replace what we have with a single payer, Medicare for all system?
See, for a sane and honest person, these aren't "hard" choices at all.
Ahh, "sane and honest", there's the rub...
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