Obama MISERY INDEX, June 05, 2009

World Net Daily ^ | June 05, 2009 | Jerome Corsi

[Yosemitest]

THIS IS AN EXCERPT.

The Obama administration is certain to prolong and deepen the economic recession, with the result that unemployment and inflation will increase, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert contends.

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"Now, as president, Obama has repeatedly blamed the current economic recession on President Bush, alleging his administration 'inherited an economic mess' that will take years to resolve," Corsi wrote. "However, a close look at the table below shows that the Misery Index under President Obama is increasing, as unemployment edges close to 9 percent."



The Misery Index, created by economist Arthur Okun, is obtained by adding the unemployment rate to the inflation rate.

In 1976, while running for president, Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter used the Misery Index to argue that incumbent President Gerald Ford had not improved the economy.

Ironically, Corsi noted, the index came back to haunt Jimmy Carter's presidency.

As the table indicates, the Misery Index for the Carter presidency averaged 16.26, compared to 16.00 for President Ford.

For April, the last month for which data is available, unemployment is at 8.9 percent and the rate of inflation is – 0.74 percent, resulting in a Misery Index of 8.16.

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If the Misery Index under President Obama reaches double-digit levels, he will join seven presidents since the end of World War II whose presidencies involved economic downturns – Presidents Truman, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush.

Red Alert's author, ... also noted Obama is in the smaller group of five previous post-war presidents under whose leadership the Misery Index increased – Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Carter and George H.W. Bush.

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[Yosemitest]

FASCIST Obama is putting Jimmy Carter to shame.

[Yosemitest]

WELCOME BACK, CARTER
June 10, 2009

Well, I'm glad that's over! Now that our silver-tongued president has gone to Cairo to soothe Muslims' hurt feelings, they love us again! Muslims in Pakistan expressed their appreciation for President Barack Obama's speech by bombing a fancy hotel in Peshawar this week.

Operating on the liberal premise that what Arabs really respect is weakness, Obama listed, incorrectly, Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries (huh?).

But why be picky? All these inventions came in mighty handy on Sept. 11, 2001! Thanks, Muslims!!

Obama bravely told the Cairo audience that 9/11 was a very nasty thing for Muslims to do to us, but on the other hand, they are victims of colonization.

Except we didn't colonize them. The French and the British did. So why are Arabs flying planes into our buildings and not the Arc de Triomphe? (And gosh, haven't the Arabs done a lot with the Middle East since the French and the British left!)

In another sharks-to-kittens comparison, Obama said, "Now let me be clear, issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam." No, he said, "the struggle for women's equality continues in many aspects of American life."

So on one hand, 12-year-old girls are stoned to death for the crime of being raped in Muslim countries. But on the other hand, we still don't have enough female firefighters here in America.

Delusionally, Obama bragged about his multiculti worldview, saying, "I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal." In Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan and other Muslim countries, women "choose" to cover their heads on pain of losing them.

Obama rolled out the crucial liberal talking point against America's invasion of Iraq, saying Iraq was a "war of convenience," while Afghanistan was a "war of necessity." Liberals cling to this nonsense doggerel as a shield against their hypocrisy on Iraq. Either both wars were wars of necessity or both wars were wars of choice.

Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan -- nor any country -- attacked us on 9/11. Both Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as many other Muslim countries, were sheltering those associated with the terrorists who did attack us on 9/11 -- and who hoped to attack us again.

The truth is, all wars are wars of choice, including the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, both World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the Gulf War, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. OK, maybe the war on teen obesity is a war of convenience, but that's the only one I can think of.

The modern Democrat Party chooses -- really chooses, not like Saudi women "choosing" to wear hijabs -- to fight no wars. But the Democrats couldn't say that immediately after 9/11, so they pretended to support the war in Afghanistan and then had to spend the next 7 1/2 years trying to come up with a distinction between Afghanistan and Iraq.

Maybe next they can tell us why fighting Hitler -- who never invaded the U.S. and had no plans to do so -- was a "necessity" in a way that fighting Saddam wasn't. (Obama on Hitler: "Nazi ideology sought to subjugate, humiliate and exterminate. It perpetrated murder on a massive scale." Whereas Saddam Hussein was just messing with the Kuwaitis, Kurds and Shiites.)

Meanwhile, Muslims throughout the Middle East are yearning for their own Saddam Husseins to be taken out by U.S. invaders so they can be liberated, too. (Then we'll see how many women -- outside of an American college campus -- "choose" to wear hijabs.) The war-of-choice/war-of-necessity point must be as mystifying to a Muslim audience as a discussion of gay marriage.

Arabs aren't afraid of us; they're afraid of Iran. But our aspiring Jimmy Carter had no tough words for Iran. To the contrary, in Cairo, Obama endorsed Iran's quest for nuclear "power," while attacking -- brace yourself -- America for helping remove Iranian loon Mohammad Mossadegh.

The CIA's taking out Mossadegh was probably the greatest thing that agency ever did. This was back in 1953, before it became a collection of lawyers and paper-pushers.

Mossadegh was as crazy as a March hare (which is really saying something when your competition is Moammar Gadhafi, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Saddam Hussein). He gave interviews lying in bed in pink pajamas. He wept, he fainted, and he set his nation on a path of permanent impoverishment by "nationalizing" the oil wells, where they sat idle after the British companies that knew how to operate them pulled out.

But he was earthy and hated the British, so left-wing academics adored Mossadegh. The New York Times compared him to Thomas Jefferson.

True, Mossadegh had been "elected" by the Iranian parliament -- but only in the chaos following the assassination of the sitting prime minister.

In short order, the shah dismissed this clown, but Mossadegh refused to step down, so the CIA forcibly removed him and allowed the shah's choice to assume the office. This "coup," as liberal academics term it, was approved by liberals' favorite Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, and supported by such ponderous liberal blowhards as John Foster Dulles.

For Obama to be apologizing for one of the CIA's greatest accomplishments isn't just crazy, it's Ramsey Clark crazy.

Obama also said that it was unfair that "some countries have weapons that others do not" and proclaimed that "any nation -- including Iran -- should have the right to access peaceful nuclear power if it complies with its responsibilities under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."

Wait -- how about us? If a fanatical holocaust denier with messianic delusions can have nuclear power, can't the U.S. at least build one nuclear power plant every 30 years?

I'm sure Iran's compliance will be policed as well as North Korea's was. Clinton struck a much-heralded "peace deal" with North Korea in 1994, giving them $4 billion to construct nuclear facilities and 500,000 tons of fuel oil in return for a promise that they wouldn't build nuclear weapons. The ink wasn't dry before the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes.

But back to Iran, what precisely do Iranians need nuclear power for, again? They're not exactly a manufacturing powerhouse. Iran is a primitive nation in the middle of a desert that happens to sit on top of a large percentage of the world's oil and gas reserves. That's not enough oil and gas to run household fans?

Obama's "I'm OK, You're OK" speech would be hilarious, if it weren't so terrifying.

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[CutePuppy]

All these indices involving Presidents are imprecise because of Congressional impact on the economy, but at the very least the indices should be calculated by starting 1 year after President taking the office and ending 1 year after his leaving the office, because that’s when the real impact of his economic policies show the most effect.

You would see Republican Presidents greatly benefitting from this “normalized” shift, to the detriment of Democratic Presidents. James Glassman had some very good short study on that more than a year ago.

[Yosemitest]

Take a look at http://www.miseryindex.us/ and see if you don't find what you're talking about.

This chart goes from Jimmy Carter to Fascist Obama.

[tessalu]

Obama has spent more money than the first 43 presidents of the USA altogether. He did that in just 3 months time. I was sure that Obama's intention was to bankrupt the USA, but I did not know that he could do it so fast. Even before he was elected, he wrote Senate Bill 2433, so that he could pass out the American funds to all poor people in Africa and around the world. This man had no thoughts for the USA. How long are we going to put up with this?

[Bon mots]

[Yosemitest]

Here's the mind of Fascist Obama, from another poster LomanBill.

"Yuri Bezmenov on demoralization" Interview with Yuri Bezmenov (ex-KGB) by Edward Griffin - 1984

This shocking video transcription exposes KGB's subversive tactics against western society. In this interview, Yuri Bezmenov explains how Marxist ideology is deconstructing America's values, destabilizing the economy, and provoking crises in order to sovietize the free world.
 
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1
 
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Transcript:

ED GRIFFIN:  (introduces Mr. Bezmenov)


Our conversation is with  Yuri Alexandrovic Bezmenov. Mr. Bezmenov was born in 1939 in a suburb of Moscow.  He was the son of a high ranking Soviet Army officer.  He was educated in the elite schools inside the Soviet Union; and became an expert in Indian culture and Indian languages. 

He had an outstanding career with Novosti, which was, and still is I should say, the press arm or press agency of the Soviet Union; it turns out this is also a front, for the KGB. 

He escaped to the West in 1970 after becoming totally disgusted with the Soviet system; and he did this at great risk to his life.  He certainly is one of the worlds outstanding experts on the subject of Soviet propaganda; and disinformation and active measures.


ED GRIFFIN:

Well, you spoke before about "ideological subversion" and that's a phrase that I'm afraid some Americans don't understand. When the Soviets use the phrase "ideological subversion" what do they mean by it? 

YURI BEZMENOV:

1. Ideological subversion is the process which is [a] legitimate, old word, and open. You can see it with your own eyes.  All American mass media has to do is to "unplug bananas" from their ears, open up their eyes,  and they can see it.  There is no mystery.  

 

It has nothing to do with espionage. I know that espionage intelligence gathering looks more romantic.  It sells more deodorants through the advertising.  That's probably why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond types of films. But in reality the main emphasis of the KGB is NOT in the area of intelligence at all.

 

According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.

 

It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.

 

The first stage being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.

 

Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion.  Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science.  Members of parliament, representatives of business circles. 

 

Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups:  those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation;  [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution. 

 

Same way as in a small town of Hua in South Vietnam; several thousands of Vietnamese were executed in one night when the city was captured by [the] Viet Cong for only two days; and American CIA could never figure out - how could [the communists] possibly know each Individual, where he lives, where to get him; and [in order that they] would be arrested in one night basically in four hours before dawn, put on a van, driven out of the city limits and shot.

 

The answer is very simple.  Long before communists occupy the city, there was extensive network of informers; local Vietnamese citizens who knew absolutely everything about people who are instrumental in public opinion - including Barbers and Taxi Drivers.  Everyone who was sympathetic to United States was executed.  Same thing was done under the guidance of the Soviet Embassy in Hanoi, and same thing I was doing in New Delhi. To my horror, I discovered that in the files were people who were doomed to execution.  There were names of pro-Soviet Journalists, with whom I was personally friendly.

ED GRIFFIN:

Pro Soviet?

YURI BEZMENOV:

Yes, absolutely.  They were idealistically minded leftist communists who had made several visits to the USSR; and yet the KGB decided, that come Revolution, or drastic changes in political structure of India - they will have to go.

ED GRIFFIN:

Why is that?

 

YURI BEZMENOV:
 

Because they know too much.   Simply, because, you see the useful idiots; the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of Soviet or Communist or Socialist or whatever system; when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies.   That's why my KGB instructors specifically made the point, "never bother with leftists, forget about these political prostitutes - aim higher"  this was my instruction.   Try to get into, uh, large circulation, established conservative media.  Reach filthy rich movie makers, intellectuals in so-called academic circles. Cynical, ego-centric people who can look into your eyes with angelic expression and tell you a lie.  This are the most recruitable people; people who lack moral principals - who are either too greedy or too, uh, suffer from self-importance, uh, they feel that they matter a lot.  Uh, these are the people who KGB wanted very much to recruit. 

 
ED GRIFFIN: 

But to eliminate the others; to execute the others, don't they serve some purpose - wouldn't they be the one's to rely on?

YURI BEZMENOV: 

 

 No they serve purpose only [up] to the stage of destabilization of a nation.  For example, your leftists in [the]  United States; all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders.  They are instrumental in the process of the subversion; only to destabilize a nation.  When the job is completed, they are not needed anymore.  They know too much.  Some of them, when they get disillusioned - when they see that Marxist-Leninist come to power.  Obviously they get offended; they think that THEY will come to power.  That will never happen, of course; they will be lined up against the wall and shot.  But they may turn into the most bitter enemies of Marxist-Leninists when they come to power;  and that's what happened in Nicaragua.  You remember most of these former Marxist-Leninists were either put to prison or one of them split and now he's working against the Sandinistas

 

It happened in Grenada when Maurice Bishop, he was already a Marxist - he was executed by the new Marxists who was more Marxist than this Marxist.

 

Same happened in Afghanistan, when, uh, first there was Taraki he was killed by Amin, then Amin was killed by Karmal with the help of KGB. 

 

Same happened in Bangladesh where Mujibur Rahman, very pro-soviet leftist; was assassinated by his own Marxist-Leninist military comrades. 

 

It's the same pattern everywhere.  The moment they serve their purpose, all  the useful idiots are either executed entirely; all the idealistically minded Marxists.  Or exiled, or put in prisons like in Cuba many former Marxists are in Cuba, and in prison.  

 

So basically America is Stuck, with demoralization; and unless, even if you start right now this minute; you start educating new generation of Americans - it will still take you 15 to 20 years to turn the tide of uh, ideological perception of reality; uh back to normalcy and patriotism.  

 

 

The result? The result you can see -- most of the people who graduated in the 60's, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them. You can't get rid of to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. In other words [for] these people the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible. To rid society of these people you need another 15 or 20 years to educate a new generation of patriotically minded and common sense people who would be acting in favor and in the interests of United States society.


ED GRIFFIN: 

And yet these people who have been programmed and as you say [are] in place and who are favorable to an opening with the Soviet concept - these are the very people who would be marked for extermination in this country?

YURI BEZMENOV:

Most of them, yes. Simply because the psychological shock when they will see in [the] future what the beautiful society of EQUALITY and social justice means in practice, obviously they will revolt. They will be very unhappy [and] frustrated people, and Marxist Leninist regime does not tolerate these people. Obviously they will join the [ranks] of dissenters; dissidents.


Unlike the present [1984] United States there will be no place for dissent in future [2008, "Hate Speech" Colorado SB200] Marxist-Leninist America.

[Now] you can get popular like Daniel Ellsberg and filthy rich like Jane Fonda for being a dissident [and] for criticizing your Pentagon. In [the] future these people will simply be [he makes a squishy noise] squashed like cockroaches for criticizing the government. Nobody is going to pay them nothing for their beautiful [and] noble ideas of EQUALITY. This they don't understand and it will be the greatest shock for them, of course.



The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years. Actually, it's over fulfilled because demoralization now reaches such areas where not even Comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him the concentration camps...he will refuse to believe it.... until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom.

 

When the military boot crashes - then he will understand.  But not before that.  That's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.

2. The next stage is destabilization....

 

this time, subverter does not care about your ideas and the patterns of your consumption.  Whether you eat junk food and get fat and flabby doesn't matter any more.

It only takes 2 to 5 years to destabilize a nation. This time what matters is essentials; economy, foreign relations, [and] defense systems. And you can see it quite clearly that in some... sensitive areas such as defense and [the] economy, the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideas in the United States is absolutely fantastic. I could never believe it 14 years ago when I landed in this part of the world that the process will go that fast.

3. The next stage of course is crisis, which may take only up to 6 weeks to bring a country to the verge of crisis.  You can see it in Central America now; and after crisis, with the violent change of power structure and economy, you have the period of so called "normalization" [which] it may last indefinitely.  Normalization is a cynical expression, borrower from Soviet Propaganda.   When the Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia in 1968, comrade Brezhnev said "Now the situation in brotherly Czechoslovakia is normalized".  This is what will happen in [the] United States if you allow all the shmucks to bring the country to crisis. 

To promise people all kinds of goodies, and the paradise on Earth.  Uh to destabilize your economy to eliminate the principal of free market competition; and  to put a big brother government in Washington D.C.; with benevolent dictators like [1984] Walter Mondale [2008 Obama] who will promise lots of things -  Never mind whether the promises are fulfilled or not.  He [the dictator] will go to Moscow to kiss the bottoms of a new generation of Soviet Assassins.   Never mind [nothing to see here, move along],  he will create false illusions that the situation is under control.  

 

Situation is NOT under control.   Situation is disgustingly out of control. 

Most of the American politicians, media, and educational system train another generation of people who think they are living at the peacetime. False. United States is in a state of war; undeclared, total war against the basic principles and foundations of this system. And the initiator of this war is not Comrade Andropov of course - it's the system. However, ridiculous it may sound, [it is] the world Communist system, or the world Communist conspiracy. Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.  You don't have to be paranoid about it.  What actually happens now; that unlike myself, you have literally several years to live on unless United States wake up.  The time bomb is ticking.   With every second the disaster is coming closer.  Unlike myself, you will have nowhere to defect to, unless you want to live in Antarctica with penguins. 

 

This is it, this is the last country with freedom and possibility.

ED GRIFFIN:

Okay, so what do we do? What is your recommendation to the American people?

YURI BEZMENOV:

Well, the immediate thing that comes to mind is, of course, there must be a very strong national effort to educate people in the spirit of REAL patriotism, number one. Number two, to explain [to] them the real danger of socialist, communist, welfare state, Big Brother government. If people fail to grasp the impending danger; nothing ever will help the United States.  You may kiss goodbye your freedoms, including [sending] homosexuals to prison inmate.   All this freedom will vanish in 5 seconds - including your precious lives.

The moment at least part of [the] United States population is convinced that the danger is real, they have to FORCE their government, and I'm not talking about sending letters, signing petitions, and all this beautiful, noble activity, I'm talking about FORCING [the] United States government to stop aiding Communism....

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1

 

 

[Yosemitest]

So you see, FASCIST Obama is currently on stage III of their plan "bring the country to the verge of crisis".

Don't you see it?

And like all other times in history,
the only way out of this mess is to KILL THEM.

[Islander7]

Your post begs for clarification. You would not want 0bama’s SS to misconstrue your intentions.

[olezip]

"Now, as president, Obama has repeatedly blamed the current economic recession on President Bush, alleging his administration 'inherited an economic mess' that will take years to resolve," Corsi wrote. "However, a close look at the table below shows that the Misery Index under President Obama is increasing, as unemployment edges close to 9 percent."

Is anyone else curious about the timing and source of the financial crisis that occurred near the end of the Bush Administration? While all financial institutions tanked, George Soros made 8% profit. He is a multi-billionaire money changer with a reputation for causing financial crises. He is also a Bush hating leftist.

If not George Soros, just how was the crisis orchestrated? Why can the banks already return the money they "borrowed" so soon? What is really going on in our economy?

Are you aware that more jobs have been lost with the stimulus than if the government did nothing? If the government did nothing, we have have more employment today.

[Yosemitest]

I like your tag line.
No clarification is needed.
If the Secret Service members were doing their job, protecting us from enemies, foreign and domestic,
Obama wouldn't be in office, period!

[Reeses]

unemployment + inflation rate

The formula needs to be updated for deflation, which does not reduce the misery, but increases it likely more than inflation. Obama is fast climbing the Carter chart. Why didn't they update it for last month's BLS numbers? Obama has gained a closer position to Carter in just one month.

[Reeses]

the only way out of this mess is to KILL THEM.

Oh please, we don't need another 4 federal holidays for government workers. The best revenge is living well. The second best revenge is watching those with malice fail spectacularly.

[Reeses]

Is anyone else curious about the timing and source of the financial crisis that occurred near the end of the Bush Administration?

Bush tried hard to make it to the end of his term before the real estate bubble burst. He didn't make it. This wasn't Soros, it was failure by Congress and Bush to stop the bubble from growing because they liked the economic numbers at the time.

[Yosemitest]

"Is anyone else curious about the timing and source of the financial crisis that occurred near the end of the Bush Administration?
While all financial institutions tanked, George Soros made 8% profit.
He is a multi-billionaire money changer with a reputation for causing financial crises.
He is also a Bush hating leftist."

Yes, I'm curious.
But I believe there's more at play here, than just material values.
Where did I read:(?)

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places."

Is there not a price to pay for not OBEYING our God?

"If not George Soros, just how was the crisis orchestrated?"

I believe you just named "the puppet-master", but he's not alone.
There are many other of Satan's minions eagerly waiting to do his bidding.

"Why can the banks already return the money they "borrowed" so soon?
What is really going on in our economy?"

Both are very good questions, and some of the answers you seek might be answered in post #7 above.
But I don't have all the answers. I'm just telling you what I think.

"Are you aware that more jobs have been lost with the stimulus than if the government did nothing?
If the government did nothing, we have have more employment today."

Yes, I am, and I think most of my friends are, also. We're not as blind as they believe us to be.

[Yosemitest]

I'd advise you to look again at history.
You know, World War I and World War II....

[Yosemitest]

Correction to post #15 link ...

"There are many other of Satan's minions eagerly waiting to do his bidding."

Now, it works...

[Yosemitest]

"...it was failure by Congress and Bush to stop the bubble from growing because they liked the economic numbers at the time."

Bush could have VETOED that Stimulus Bill, and he'd been a lot better off.
And so would we!

[Reeses]

You are inviting the government to go through everything you own with a fine tooth comb. If anything is out of order you will regret it.

[Yosemitest]

The government already has everything I own.
I'm retired military, and can't even get descent health care.