Prozac Problems
Here’s some great advice from the “we’re not elitists like those damn Democrats” Bush Administration : Don’t have a job? Take Prozac.
There’s only one problem with that of course. Unemployed people don’t usually have the kind of healthcare that would cover yuppie pill-popping. Of course, if Bush wants to soften his reluctance to healthcare reform that doesn’t involve handouts to big pharma and screwing the little guy, I’d be willing to give this proposal a second look.
Yeah, I know the prozac line was a joke, but I’d imagine it’s only funny to people who think the suffering of the un- and under-employed is funny too.
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The first half of the sentence is equally disturbing. “Don’t like your job? Just get a new one,” says the woman who has obviously never tried job-hunting without an expensive education. As a college student living in a city, I’ve seen how hard it is to find unskilled work. It took me 8 months of living off my savings account (money I’d made before I came to college) for rent and food, and letting my parents pay my tuition, before I managed to get a $6/hour job at Pizza Hut. Thankfully I like the environment enough to be happy there, because I don’t know where I’d go next. Unemployment is brutual in this city, and I see it every time I walk down the street and get stopped twice per block and asked to spare some change. If you’re lucky enough to have a job, you probably still aren’t lucky enough to have the option to “just find another one”.
Comment by Emily — July 30, 2004 @ 6:26 am
That kind of insensitivity never goes over well and we can only hope voters notice. Marie Antoinette thought the “let them eat cake” comment was cute too and she got her head cut off. All in all, not a bad response.
Comment by Becky — July 30, 2004 @ 7:25 am