Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2015/08/12/income-inequality-turns-negl.html
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But I thought America had the finest health care in the world?
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When I was a small child visiting my grandmother in West Virginia, I wasn’t allowed to play in the stream behind her house because of all the people straight-piping their sewage into it…
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Just another bit of the horror of living in Obama’s America! /sarcasm
Wait, income inequality producing death for poor and brown people where a weak public health care infrastructure allows disease to run rampant?
Nevermind, that’s Conservative Utopia. Carry on, and good luck in 2016!
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Emphasis on the fines.
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When I hear “People are only poor because they choose to be” on a regular basis what surprises me is that things aren’t much worse.
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I think we’ve got apples and oranges here. Growing income inequality is a recent issue, but these populations have been poor for generations. It’s not Trump’s fault, this time.
Remember when we had public health departments?
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“They have a lot of mistrust of a tall, bald white man coming to see them,”
These people are living on the fringe!
We’d better criminalize harboring such filthy proletarian diseases. Not only is there a risk that they might infect their betters; doing so will incentivize them to live more cleanly.
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And now that the War on Drugs is becoming unfashionable, we’ll call it the War on Disease and still lock up a disproportionate number of black folks!
It’s a win-win!
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They aren’t being imprisoned; it’s just that their sense of personal responsibility is so weak that we’ve been forced to resort to a ‘managed freedom’ treatment model. You understand the difference, I’m sure.
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“disproportionately affect” not effect.
Just the classiest
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I see what you are saying…
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