Throwing long term unemployed off the bridge ?

       I just voted YES to your on line poll ( Jan. 7 )  : " Do you support extending federal unemployment benefits for the long term unemployed? ? "  But it is about time politically literate Americans consider a proposal made by the Green Party and many democratic socialists and many New Deal progressives years ago: a guaranteed income -one that protects basic human dignity- for all Americans ? Republicans worry about big budget deficits. May I suggest-after more than a decade of a failed foolish war on terrorism,  several decades of a failed foolish war on drugs- that we make a drastic cut in the police state budget ?

          And where are all the dedicated pacifists hiding lately ? Are they stupefied by our Nobel Peace Prize president ?  All the pacifists have been pacified ?