Witchy Woman

Ultimately, we're really not as great as we think we are, with stats pulled from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

If that wasn't enough evidence for you, how about the fact that women's (especially marginalized) programs are usually the first ones to have their funding cut? Oh, and the Simpson-Bowles recommendations are basically that people should pay more out of pocket for their own health care and retirement.

"Henry Allingham is the oldest living link to the 9 million soldiers killed in World War I.
He is 112 now, nearly blind, mostly deaf and uses a wheelchair — none of which stops him from trying to remind everyone of those long gone.
"I don't want to see them forgotten," he says quietly, speaking after the opening of a Royal Air Force Museum exhibition on the conflict. "We were pals." "

Veteran's Day.

–Mort Kondrake, The Beltway Boys, Fox News via William K. Wolfrum Chronicles

Funny, you'd think that we are actually helping the economy what with all the food we eat, the larger sized clothing we require (which is more expensive), the fact that we can't walk more than a block without wheezing and so have to drive everywhere and using more gas, all those doctor's visits because of our failing health, which are out of pocket because insurance won't cover us, the outrageous diet plans we try, the gym memberships we never use... If you think about it, we are the ones saving the economy!

It's the skinny ones that are destroying the economy! They don't eat, they jog instead of going to the gym, they walk everywhere and don't use gas, are so healthy they don't need to go to the doctor, or when they do they're covered by insurance and so are sucking the money out of the insurance industry.

Get fat and save the economy. It's your patriotic duty.