Yes, murder. Strong word? Yes it is. I already wrote a piece on the welfare cuts in this state and the consequences that they indirectly cause. There was one that I did not see though. At least, not right away.
One after the other, our social programs have been being taken away, anything that will help the poor to survive is being eliminated. Where are they to go? Our Elected Officials tell everyone, "to the churches!!" The churches are already overloaded, they cannot help. "Get jobs" is the other reply. OK, if you still hold to this answer, then you are severely brainwashed and need help finding your way back to reality. PLEASE seek help. This is NOT an answer! This is an answer that has been fed to you, and it is not reality. The poor have no place left to turn. Even IF they could get a job, it would not pay enough to live on.
Our Elected Officials have taken away all means for the poor to live. Put yourself in their place, what are they to do? Everyone is hurting, they cannot turn to anyone in their family or circle of friends. They cannot get work. They cannot get any help. They are losing their homes, have no food, have no money. What would you do??? Seriously, what would you do?
When a person loses their career, they lose EVERYTHING including their identity. When you have lost your identity, you do not have anything left. A person is tied to their career. Everything that they are is tied up in what they do. This applies to disability as well as jobs moving overseas and not being able to find another job in their field, or having to take a job that pays next to nothing. It is degrading.
When millions of jobs leave, and none are created to replace them, people have no place to go. Stores and shops close because people have no money to buy goods. Prices fall- wait, when did prices fall? Oh, that's right, they HAVEN'T fallen- gee, maybe that is one of the problems with our economy. Prices have instead gone UP, and up, and up. No jobs have come to replace ones that are gone. It is a vicious cycle now. Prices go up and up as greedy companies squeeze every cent possible from people to make up for the lost profits that they refuse to pocket themselves, incomes go down. Unemployment ends, still no more jobs. Less money to buy goods with, so companies raise prices more to make up for it.........on and on it has gone.
So, here is a person with no way to live. This will lead to desperation. Robbery maybe? What do they have to lose, even if they shoot someone in the process? Nothing to lose is a dangerous way to be. Especially for those facing the desperate person. This could be your wife, your child, any family member or friend being robbed by a person that has nothing to lose, and lots of anger, frustration, and desperation. The result could well be murder. Because our Elected Officials took everything away from the person.
OK, so maybe, they do not have the heart to kill someone else. They still have nothing, no way to live. Again, what do you do when you have no way to live? Nothing, no place to go, no one to turn to, nothing.
I predict ( and of course this WHOLE article is nothing but my 2 cents worth anyways) suicide rates will climb. This is all that these people will have left, is death.
Why do I say this? Because I, myself, have already considered this if cuts continue, I am not able to work. If disability is cut, I have no way to live. And this is the only option that I can see. Recently I found out that I am not the only one seeing things this way. Other people affected by cuts have the same thought. Will it be our fault if everything is taken away, and we cannot live? I consider this to be murder, by our Elected Officials. They have taken away every program that could help people that have no way to live, and have not given any of them any other option, no jobs, no nothing. THIS is MURDER of the poor. And I fully believe that each and every Elected Official should serve a life term for every person that dies due to their legislation, be it suicide, freezing to death, starvation, or being killed by a desperate person. The blood shall be on their hands, they caused it to happen. Maybe they should suffer starvation themselves, or freezing to death? Maybe they need a dose of reality.