I cannot believe the people of this country, at least a majority of voters, would elect the party that put our economy in the tank, back in control.
The Large Corporate Owned pundits are screaming “The dems are going to lose the house and the senate”. The pollsters are showing a lot of the races too close to call. The tea partiers have been co-opted by big Republican money and don’t even know it. The Supreme Court has been taken over by ultra conservatives who have taken the ruling that corporations have the same rights as human citizens, under the guise of free speech, to the ludicrous extent that has opened the flood gates for hundreds of millions of corporate dollars, including huge foreign corporate money. This decision has resulted in the largest buy of negative and untruthful campaign adds ever in this country.
There are a lot of angry people out there. I’m one of them, I am deeply disappointed with the Obama administration and the abysmal failure of the Democratic Congress to get a lot of the things done that I had hopes for.
Does this mean that I am willing to turn the government back over to the extremists who got us here in the first place just to punish the Dems? I don’t think so!! This economic collapse is the direct result of Republican fiscal policies for the last thirty years.
Should we bite off our nose to spite our face? Should the middle class vote against their economic best interest? Do we REALLY want these corporate puppets back in control?
Briefly, this is what the Republicans want to accomplish:
Privatize Social Security by putting the only retirement money we are currently guaranteed into the hands of wall street. Is this what you want?
Eliminate Medicare so that if you get sick when you’re elderly and don’t have enough money to cover you medical needs, you suffer and die. Tough bounce, it sucks to be you! One alternative is Mom and Dad and Grandma and Grandpa could always move in with the kids and finish out.
Eliminate the minimum wage. $7.25 is way too much! I’m sure any of these politicians could get by on half that!
Destroy what’s left of the unions so we can all depend on the largess of Large Corporate America for good wages, health care and a good retirement......Right!
Keep us in a constant armed conflict somewhere in the world in order to keep the military-industrial complex financially healthy. They could care less about the incredibly brave young people they’re sending into the meat grinder.
Continue to give tax breaks to the wealthy. Letting the Bush tax cuts expire for them would have a net effect of a 3% tax hike. Gee, do do you think they can afford it?
Deregulate the banks and wall street completely. Historically, that worked well (see the Great Depression) and currently (see our current economy).
Privatize the Veterans Administration medical care. Ask a vet how they feel about that before you throw them under the bus
Whether you’re mad at the democrats or not, if you vote for a Republican, you are voting for all of the above.
It took thirty (30) years to bring us to our economic knees. Can we realistically expect the current administration to fix it in less than two years?
The Congress was designed to work by compromise, “not my way or the highway”. The Republican party of NO and of no ideas needs to be shrunk to the size of a postage stamp until they learn the art of compromise and let our government get back to work.
Do not be fooled by their rhetoric. The strategy is to eliminate the middle class completely. These people are not your old Eisenhower Republicans.
BRAVO, and well said! you nailed it. so many things are happening right now that exacerbate this "willful amnesia" among voters.
ReplyDelete1. our country is full of the impatient and the A.D.D. afflicted who, like clinton said sunday, think "you can stop a 200-mph freight train in 10 seconds." it took us 8-10 years to get into this mess, why would one expect it to take 20 months to get out?
2. we have a VERY uneducated and uninformed populace. when you don't read newspapers and news magazines, travel outside your comfort zone/state/city/country or attend news-related events, you can't possible have a knowledge base to counter what the parties are selling to you (and, making this worse, like you mentioned, are the millions that pro-business groups are using to crowd our airwaves). if FOX news is your only source of input, of course you will believe it. that is the only reason i can think of to explain why the voters in minnesota's sixth congressional district keep voting for someone who so obviously does not have their best interests in mind. bachmann's district has the highest foreclosure, divorce, unemployment and domestic abuse rates in the state, while enjoying the lowest college graduation rate, and yet, here they are supporting someone who voted FIVE times not to help them keep their homes, and a woman who voted against the 2010 college loan reform bill (a brilliant measure that would have kept kids in college while lowering the national debt by $60 BILLION. the GOP voted against it because it removed banks as the middle men in educational loans. for real. how can they sleep at night??) but the sixth district now has an impeccable, moderate, well-spoken, intelligent, calm and super qualified candidate in tarryl clark, yet they allow bachmann's negative and distorted ads to inform their decision making at the polls. it's mind-numbing really. i've met tarryl, i work on her campaign. the lies they have used to scare voters off are shocking, which leads to my next point:
3. americans allow republicans to scare them and lie to them. it's really the greatest political strategy on earth and voters fall for it over and over. think of the words we are hearing from the right: government TAKEOVER of health care (really?), TAX AND SPEND liberals (um, seems to me the only president in 50 years to have a balanced budget was, yep, A DEMOCRAT!!), and my favorite label, SOCIALISM. ... these are all a phraseology that is meant to alarm and paralyze despite having no basis of truth. AND IT IS STILL WORKING. like you said, the voters have learned nothing. it's both a sad commentary on the voting block and the leaders we choose. when america was at its best, the workforce was well-paid, represented and showered with good benefits. post-war america was a remarkable time when employers truly believed henry ford's notion that if you paid your workers well, they would buy the products you sell. now, instant profits are all that matter. that leaves workers without a livable wage, healthcare and any kind of financial security. lo and behold, look at the mess this country is in. and what's worse, if you talk about the division of wealth in our country you are labeled a socialist. if that were true, we would have been at our socialist-best in the 1950s.
ReplyDeletei've found myself ruminating on the notion of "taxing the rich" since attending the bachmann-clark debate yesterday in st. cloud. (while clark nailed it the event was a farce in that the moderator was the president of the st. cloud chamber of commerce and excruciatingly biased in her questioning.) anywhoo, for the past couple of years, i've actually split with the minnesota DFL on the notion of taxing the wealthiest americans. it made sense to me that it was likely that those business leaders and owners would set up shop somewhere else and minnesota would lose jobs. but like i said, the debate got me thinking: if taxing the richest americans hinders the economy and the creation of jobs, why did the economy get disastrously worse in the years directly after the 2001 bush-era tax cuts aimed at that very group?
there's just no way around it. and there's no argument the right could use to respond that would hold water. as the rich get richer and the politicians protect them, america is so much the poorer.