If Shithead Hall of Fame Inductee™ Kathleen Parker is to be believed, Americans “don’t really want an egghead elite”, well, tell that to the 202 lawyers in congress. For some odd reason, we fail to vote in plumbers, janitors, and that guy that sleeps on your couch to higher political office (However 28 Congresspeople do not have a college degree, so there's hope yet!). Ms. Parker, the elegant headmistress of flip flopping finishing school says we’d rather prefer a state educated corporate money fueled cad over an Ivy league educated corporate money fueled cad.
For some reason, and of all people it seems, “independents” are a very forgetful bunch. If, as Ms. Parker suggests, this is a brain vs. gut situation, did we not have that “gut” mindset during the W. years? Also, claiming that some of the GOP dumb themselves down should more appropriately be called pandering. As this is to Ms. Parker's bread and butter to her readers.
More to the point, and I think it will become more clear in the coming election year, is that there’s really no discernible difference between anyone who represents the two major political parties anymore. If Mitt Romney wins the Republican Clown Car Rally, my case will be made in it’s entirety. The wrench in the works is this goddamned American love affair with the “cowboy” mythology that will continue to bite this country in the ass and give us the go ahead push over the waterfall. Rodeo Rick Perry is yet another character yee-hawing his way on stage for the bottom feeding know nothing voters to latch on to. If there is some truth to the idea that most voters spend about 15 minutes researching a candidate or issue to vote on, then yea, we have a lot to be worried for.
But that’s par for the course when it comes to the voting public, it’s a sad fact, but it’s preferred to the know-nothing political operative who would be given the power to shape society itself via political office. It’s one thing for your right leaning aunt to hear “something” from “someone”, it’s quite another Michelle Bachmann was told by “someone” in a crowd about adverse side affects to a vaccine. Really Michelle, you couldn’t be bothered to grab (or make up) a name for that?
I’m talking about the idiocy that most of these current crop of GOP possess, not word gaffes, which seems to be the only rebuttal the right wing has to this argument. Obama claiming that there are 53 states is no where near comparable to Palin not knowing what newspapers she reads, to quote a classic example. If Obama had one-millionth of the word buffet power that Palin had, he wouldn’t have even been able to sniff the front lawn of the White House.
Happily, there are websites such as Politifact.com, that do cover a lot of this nonsense from all sides of the government. Sadly, these sites never make it to the unwashed masses, which is where it is most problematic.
In addition to that, the fact that corporations now have the infinite ability to contribute to campaigns and super PAC’s means that the inundation of misinformation from television and radio ads during the next election year will be at a fever pitch. Recall the pain train from 2010? Yeah, that was nothing.
Now, before you try to pull off my tin foil hat, there has to be some acknowledgement that having an even keeled, pragmatic person run a branch of government is something we should strive for. Our ability to have a beer with him is not. There’s lots of talk lately of class warfare, of which there is no doubt to it’s existence. But before that began there’s been a constant battle over intellectualism versus I-know-what-I-know aka ignorance.
If there’s one thing you could boil the TEA party down to is a strong desire to not be told what to do. Sure, that’s inherent in most people, but as a movement the TEA party embodies this revulsion to authority with gusto.
And make no mistake, I’m not saying common sense and ignorance are one in the same. Ignorance can be fixed with knowledge, stupidity cannot. Stupid can be confused for ignorance, and hence we have all these non-players actually having a shot in the GOP Clown Car Rally to the White House. Sure, some can run a business, be a governor, but we all know a lot of dumbasses in our very lives that run things they probably shouldn’t be to varying degrees of success. What these people excel at is patronizing and pandering to lower common denominators. The eerie simplicity of “this bill is 100 pages, I would cut it like 5 paragraphs” ideal and the fact that the presenter wouldn’t be laughed off the planet should make people reconsider.
Further, these people are vying to be the face of our nation, sure we can’t hide all our soft headed population under the floorboards forever, but we do need to have some sort of global respect. Walking around with your chest puffed out and trying to strike fear in anyone is not great foreign policy.
To sound far more elitist than I should be allowed, haven’t we done enough for our knuckle dragging brethren in society? We have warnings on plastic bags to not put them over your head, secure lids on hot beverages that explain that said beverage is very hot, on and on. We now have to entertain their notions of higher political office out of what, fairness to all? Would you get into someone’s car if it looked like it had had it’s fair share of scrapes and dings? Go hunting with someone who shot off their own foot? Seriously though, it’s only an entire nation right? What could possibly go wrong letting the short bus rider’s think they’re people?
Sure, lets let them entertain themselves by playing in the shallow end of the political pool. Let them be comptrollers and mayors of 234 person towns. But handing them the keys to the world? No fucking way!
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Life Through Sepia Colored Glasses
Say what you will about him, but Old Man Jack Krier does have one consistent theme throughout his writings: blamelessness. It’s always someone else’s doings no matter the topic of the day. It makes you begin to wonder if it’s in the DNA of baby boomers, or just a really specific generational tick shared amongst a LOT of old people.
It’s also why I’m not surprised that the TEA party is predominantly old white people. Regardless of party, selfishness holds no real political party. But I’m fairly certain it’s a majority republican held ideal. Like the old adage “as a youngster I was democrat until I had something to lose then I became republican“.
What I cannot truly fathom is Mr. Krier’s staunchly held belief that things were better in the olden days. I’d honestly like to take the sepia colored glasses from his face, but I think there are superimposed in some sort of fever induced face/glasses melding. In a recent “column” (read: email forward) How wasteful the older generation Mr. Krier relates the tale of a little old lady being admonished by an probably young cashier that the older generation “did not care enough to save our environment”. This “column” then goes on to explain how things were in the olden times, before someone/something/probably the illegal’s dumped tons of trash in large piles, then called them landfills and walked away. How someone filled our rivers, oceans are air with manufacturing pollutants, which was probably fish poop and cow farts right? But oh no, back in the olden times people returned glass bottles to the stores, hung up clothes to dry and didn’t drive two blocks to get something.
It’s utter…to use olden time parlance…hogwash! How much of this attitude was actually dictated by the times and how much is actual mythical brainwashing? Before the mainstream use of plastics for bottling, wouldn’t it be prudent to return recyclable glass items? Especially since they were often BOUGHT BACK, you know that little cash value 5 cent/10 cent redemption on your bottles that resides there to this day? I have even bought milk in a glass container and had to pay a $5 deposit on the bottle, this was two weeks ago people? Am I now too doing my part in the whole “green thing”? Where’s my olden time medal of excellence in the face of political correctness/green police?
Cars have always been prohibitively expensive items. Not quite luxury items, but still every single person does not own a vehicle now, and more importantly didn’t in the past either. However, olden time cities are made predominantly for and cater to foot traffic. Compare New York City to Kansas City. You can bike or subway most places in the NYC without need for a car. Kansas City….well, not so much. It’s so spread out in KC that a car is a necessity to get to most business’s, and seeing as they’re cutting a lot of their mass transit budgets, doesn’t look to get any better. And biking? Forget about it! While there is an intuitive to get more back paths around town, it’s going to take a long while, and a lot of that is mostly just carving up existing not made for bike lane roads with a little “bike lane” paint.
Joining Mr. Krier on this TEA Party bandwagon is another old white man editor of newspapers Rolf Yunglas. In recent memory has been advocating that the TEA Party is just like the rest of us. Does anyone else get the feeling that “us” is inclusive? He talks about “some poll” (good journalism right there) that says that 51% of Americans think unfavorably of the TEA Party. He then goes on to explain that the TEA Party IS America, so why is it getting “co-equal” blame for the debt crisis theatre experience? Well, Mr. Yunglas, let me share something with you. You see, the TEA Party mistakenly believed that the soft head ambivalence of independents was actually a mandate to take part in a bigger regressive GOP agenda. Most of America, dare I say 49% or so, don’t give two shits about government until either tax time or election years. They don’t pay attention to the machinations going on in the beltway, and they sure a shit have no idea what their state assemblies are doing. So when the “other” party doesn’t get it done, they naturally just flip to the other side to see if that will work. Problem is, independents lack any fortitude to stick with a plan to see it through, that’s why it’s so appalling that many people just assume that one branch of government can somehow turn the tides of an economy in 18 months. It’s foolishness, and that foolishness leads to ever increasing poor decisions, and thus the TEA Party was given a small foothold in the House of Representatives.
Again, this wasn’t a mandate. But when that small group of small minded people took a chunk of the House hostage during the debt crisis theatre revue, they exposed themselves. Do you really think the GOP is going to let itself be burned alive by the likes of a “astro-turf” roots based corporate fueled “movement”? No sir! Naturally, they’re going to, pardon my analogy, throw that TEA Party nonsense overboard.
On top of this, it’s becoming ever so clear that the TEA Party has no real ideas, and the ones they do have are regressive and bad for the country. Also what may have worked two centuries ago with far less states and citizens cannot even begin to bridge the cap of a modern society made up of millions of people with various needs. It cannot fly in the face of the globalization this country fosters and it cannot turn it’s back on deals brokered in the past, regardless of party affiliation.
The idea to play chicken with our economy was a GOP idea. The TEA Party was sitting at that table, thumping along in time with the rest of the GOP Carnival side show band. I surely didn’t see any “left leaning socialist spend more tax more” liberals saying “Hey, lets just do nothing and see what happens,”. This wasn’t future debt that the beltway was fighting over, these were bills that we promised to pay, the money was already spoken for. The TEA Party and the right were ostensibly saying “Hey, don’t pay your bills…nothing’s going to happen,”. So the bottom of that argument not only looks insane, it paints a horrible picture to the independents that this “side” of the coin, doesn’t have the general best interests at heart. Therefore, they’re not so high up on these so called “patriots”.
If anything this could be a lesson to those of the TEA Party. As with most uninvolved participants to the game politic, they got had. To some of their credit, they realize this. At a recent Sarah Palin tour stop a fan asked her if she came to hock books or announce her candidacy. If she wasn’t going to run she needs to get out of the way. Good on you, Mr. Patriot.
Mr. Krier, Mr. Yunglas, and the rest of those right wing buffoons have a limited memory, or at least one for the truth. Sure, the olden times were full of simple things with simple people, but simple doesn’t mean stupid or unreasonable.
It’s also why I’m not surprised that the TEA party is predominantly old white people. Regardless of party, selfishness holds no real political party. But I’m fairly certain it’s a majority republican held ideal. Like the old adage “as a youngster I was democrat until I had something to lose then I became republican“.
What I cannot truly fathom is Mr. Krier’s staunchly held belief that things were better in the olden days. I’d honestly like to take the sepia colored glasses from his face, but I think there are superimposed in some sort of fever induced face/glasses melding. In a recent “column” (read: email forward) How wasteful the older generation Mr. Krier relates the tale of a little old lady being admonished by an probably young cashier that the older generation “did not care enough to save our environment”. This “column” then goes on to explain how things were in the olden times, before someone/something/probably the illegal’s dumped tons of trash in large piles, then called them landfills and walked away. How someone filled our rivers, oceans are air with manufacturing pollutants, which was probably fish poop and cow farts right? But oh no, back in the olden times people returned glass bottles to the stores, hung up clothes to dry and didn’t drive two blocks to get something.
It’s utter…to use olden time parlance…hogwash! How much of this attitude was actually dictated by the times and how much is actual mythical brainwashing? Before the mainstream use of plastics for bottling, wouldn’t it be prudent to return recyclable glass items? Especially since they were often BOUGHT BACK, you know that little cash value 5 cent/10 cent redemption on your bottles that resides there to this day? I have even bought milk in a glass container and had to pay a $5 deposit on the bottle, this was two weeks ago people? Am I now too doing my part in the whole “green thing”? Where’s my olden time medal of excellence in the face of political correctness/green police?
Cars have always been prohibitively expensive items. Not quite luxury items, but still every single person does not own a vehicle now, and more importantly didn’t in the past either. However, olden time cities are made predominantly for and cater to foot traffic. Compare New York City to Kansas City. You can bike or subway most places in the NYC without need for a car. Kansas City….well, not so much. It’s so spread out in KC that a car is a necessity to get to most business’s, and seeing as they’re cutting a lot of their mass transit budgets, doesn’t look to get any better. And biking? Forget about it! While there is an intuitive to get more back paths around town, it’s going to take a long while, and a lot of that is mostly just carving up existing not made for bike lane roads with a little “bike lane” paint.
Joining Mr. Krier on this TEA Party bandwagon is another old white man editor of newspapers Rolf Yunglas. In recent memory has been advocating that the TEA Party is just like the rest of us. Does anyone else get the feeling that “us” is inclusive? He talks about “some poll” (good journalism right there) that says that 51% of Americans think unfavorably of the TEA Party. He then goes on to explain that the TEA Party IS America, so why is it getting “co-equal” blame for the debt crisis theatre experience? Well, Mr. Yunglas, let me share something with you. You see, the TEA Party mistakenly believed that the soft head ambivalence of independents was actually a mandate to take part in a bigger regressive GOP agenda. Most of America, dare I say 49% or so, don’t give two shits about government until either tax time or election years. They don’t pay attention to the machinations going on in the beltway, and they sure a shit have no idea what their state assemblies are doing. So when the “other” party doesn’t get it done, they naturally just flip to the other side to see if that will work. Problem is, independents lack any fortitude to stick with a plan to see it through, that’s why it’s so appalling that many people just assume that one branch of government can somehow turn the tides of an economy in 18 months. It’s foolishness, and that foolishness leads to ever increasing poor decisions, and thus the TEA Party was given a small foothold in the House of Representatives.
Again, this wasn’t a mandate. But when that small group of small minded people took a chunk of the House hostage during the debt crisis theatre revue, they exposed themselves. Do you really think the GOP is going to let itself be burned alive by the likes of a “astro-turf” roots based corporate fueled “movement”? No sir! Naturally, they’re going to, pardon my analogy, throw that TEA Party nonsense overboard.
On top of this, it’s becoming ever so clear that the TEA Party has no real ideas, and the ones they do have are regressive and bad for the country. Also what may have worked two centuries ago with far less states and citizens cannot even begin to bridge the cap of a modern society made up of millions of people with various needs. It cannot fly in the face of the globalization this country fosters and it cannot turn it’s back on deals brokered in the past, regardless of party affiliation.
The idea to play chicken with our economy was a GOP idea. The TEA Party was sitting at that table, thumping along in time with the rest of the GOP Carnival side show band. I surely didn’t see any “left leaning socialist spend more tax more” liberals saying “Hey, lets just do nothing and see what happens,”. This wasn’t future debt that the beltway was fighting over, these were bills that we promised to pay, the money was already spoken for. The TEA Party and the right were ostensibly saying “Hey, don’t pay your bills…nothing’s going to happen,”. So the bottom of that argument not only looks insane, it paints a horrible picture to the independents that this “side” of the coin, doesn’t have the general best interests at heart. Therefore, they’re not so high up on these so called “patriots”.
If anything this could be a lesson to those of the TEA Party. As with most uninvolved participants to the game politic, they got had. To some of their credit, they realize this. At a recent Sarah Palin tour stop a fan asked her if she came to hock books or announce her candidacy. If she wasn’t going to run she needs to get out of the way. Good on you, Mr. Patriot.
Mr. Krier, Mr. Yunglas, and the rest of those right wing buffoons have a limited memory, or at least one for the truth. Sure, the olden times were full of simple things with simple people, but simple doesn’t mean stupid or unreasonable.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Shithead Hall of Fame Nominee: Rebekah Rast (The Americans for Limited Government)
I’ll never understand the right’s obsession, nay fear, of socialism “sneaking” in to our lives. It’s readily apparent that America has been picking and choosing chunks of governance philosophy for most of its existence. They fear this socialist uprising, yet bat no eyelash to the bulldozing of separation of church and state. For some reason, to top all of this off is the mystifying, stymieing, protection of the wealthy that most of the right is embracing with open arms.
Unfortunately, our media is helping push this bologna along with the objective eye that news has two sides. Typically, an opinion piece in the paper will be festooned with a writers affiliations (if there are any). It’s a great way to tell a buzzword, dog whistle laden, think tank hit piece from your neighbor down the street’s Fox News, buzzword, dog whistle laden bile explosion. Problem is, not that many newspapers or websites will run these credits with the words, and just lay them out there as fact. Hence, we get the old fashioned “Well I heard, that in the one place, they do (insert evil Liberal overreach)” or the fast belief that Sharia law is somehow invading our court system. You know, that silly tin foil hat bullshit that somehow is given credence because it’s run nonstop of 24 hour “news” networks, then picked up by major networks as a “B-Side” to the other side of a story.
Rebekah Rast, from The Americans for Limited Government (is there really any other?), writes about how a school in Detroit is doing the socialist bricklaying by allowing ALL children to get free lunch. This is done as to not shame the poor kids, who “…would skip important meals to avoid being identified as low income”. She goes on to further twist that this would then lead to the rich believing they should be privy to welfare checks, food stamps and government assisted housing.
It’s bullshit to assume that “rich” people would just start taking government subsidies, when wealth provides you with the hubris to turn your nose up at those who are living below you. There’s a pride in it, and you can see it every day if you look hard enough. Even those with barely a leg up over their more impoverished neighbors still cast a dejecting eye at those perceived below them.
As a child, I consumed a fair amount of free and reduced meals. I was never shamed of it, as I was a growing boy and constantly hungry. I was not ill care for at home, however. But my parents, who worked full time, did not have the time to brown bag me a frou-frou bagged lunch. Did I feel like a got the short of the stick sometimes, especially when friends would pull out warm wishing little notes with their sandwiches and puddings? Of course. But I was being fed and taken care of, with the tax dollars my parents put in to make sure of it.
Ms. Rast also mistakes, as I assume she NEVER ate a free lunch, that the stigma is wrought from consumption of free lunch. If you are poor, people know it. Kids are insanely keen and harsely judge, from an early age and probably learned from their parents, on appearance and in the rough and tumble world they roam, eating a free lunch is the least of your worries. It’s not like you can hide your ratty clothes, or lack of general hygiene.
To top this all of the “Healthy-Hunger Free Kids Act” will not even be put in place until 2014! It’s not even set in stone, yet we have groups like The Americans for Limited Government up in arms about it’s societal implosion and road paving to Russia fear baiting horseshit. It’s the same with “Obamacare” most of what that bill does doesn’t even come in to real action until 2014 and already it’s safe to say its impact will be negligible, in fact I’m sure the health care companies, who run on and for profit are so saddened by the sudden influx of new cash cows! The horror, America!
While the newspaper I found this appalling garbage in rightfully credited it to a writer from the very think tank she represented, many will not. They will post this up in the opinion section as if it were written by someone from town, or just another side of a story that’s patently false in every sense of the word. Even more disgusting is the fact that Ms. Rast quotes the president of the very think tank she’s writing for. Are you rewarded with head pats for a job well done Ms. Rast?
It’s been proven that a well fed child performs better in school, is more alert, and functions better in the classroom. It is also entire reason that the school provides food for children, and expanded it to include breakfast. There is a general societal/cultural awareness to make sure we take care of our children, as it a cornerstone for the supposed “future” these right wing buffoons are always going on about.
Most discouraging of all is this backhanded methodology in dealing with any of the societal woes facing American today. That if we took this twisted think tank logic and applied it elsewhere the kind of howls would erupt from the right wingers. For example, what about farm subsidies? Why should taxpayers have to prop up farmers when they lose their crops to drought, malfeasance or lack of forethought? Doesn’t that create a stigma when a poor farmer needs government assistance to help replenish his drought ridden farmland. Or the copious tax breaks to Agriculture monoliths like Monsanto, who are continually punitive to small farmers who will not use their products?
There’s always going to be an element of selfishness cloaked in piety, it’s (mostly) the American way for the upper class of this society. Ms. Rast is one of many think tank stooges that continues to fan the flame of class warfare in this country that has been brewing for some time. Though it is disguised as the classic “oh no they’re trying to get socialism in our America” nonsense, it is indeed a dog whistle for those among the right wing to avoid doing their part to help their neighbors and communities. Because what is not told is that these “lesser” people if they cave and fall, they take everything with it. The crime rate explodes, house values already at precarious levels fall even further. Look no further than the fanciful fever dream Detroit Ms. Rast and her think tank provided in her column. It’s STILL being ravaged by this recession and it’s decline didn’t start nearly three years ago when Obama became president as you are lead to believe.
It’s going to be a sad day when using our taxpayer dollars to repair and propel our great societal net is viewed as anything less as the least we can do for those less fortunate than the rest of us. I personally am perfectly fine in paying more taxes to keep every child who hungers fed. This is our future we’re talking about here, do we wish to set a good example, or a poor one? You’d think that the great societies who brought us these programs, who laid out a plan, would be inspiration enough. Sadly, wealthy people out there seem to think you can take it with you when you go, or are more than happy to pour taxpayer money down their corporate whore holes to continue to spread buffoonery much on par with Ms. Rast and her think tank overlords.
Unfortunately, our media is helping push this bologna along with the objective eye that news has two sides. Typically, an opinion piece in the paper will be festooned with a writers affiliations (if there are any). It’s a great way to tell a buzzword, dog whistle laden, think tank hit piece from your neighbor down the street’s Fox News, buzzword, dog whistle laden bile explosion. Problem is, not that many newspapers or websites will run these credits with the words, and just lay them out there as fact. Hence, we get the old fashioned “Well I heard, that in the one place, they do (insert evil Liberal overreach)” or the fast belief that Sharia law is somehow invading our court system. You know, that silly tin foil hat bullshit that somehow is given credence because it’s run nonstop of 24 hour “news” networks, then picked up by major networks as a “B-Side” to the other side of a story.
Rebekah Rast, from The Americans for Limited Government (is there really any other?), writes about how a school in Detroit is doing the socialist bricklaying by allowing ALL children to get free lunch. This is done as to not shame the poor kids, who “…would skip important meals to avoid being identified as low income”. She goes on to further twist that this would then lead to the rich believing they should be privy to welfare checks, food stamps and government assisted housing.
It’s bullshit to assume that “rich” people would just start taking government subsidies, when wealth provides you with the hubris to turn your nose up at those who are living below you. There’s a pride in it, and you can see it every day if you look hard enough. Even those with barely a leg up over their more impoverished neighbors still cast a dejecting eye at those perceived below them.
As a child, I consumed a fair amount of free and reduced meals. I was never shamed of it, as I was a growing boy and constantly hungry. I was not ill care for at home, however. But my parents, who worked full time, did not have the time to brown bag me a frou-frou bagged lunch. Did I feel like a got the short of the stick sometimes, especially when friends would pull out warm wishing little notes with their sandwiches and puddings? Of course. But I was being fed and taken care of, with the tax dollars my parents put in to make sure of it.
Ms. Rast also mistakes, as I assume she NEVER ate a free lunch, that the stigma is wrought from consumption of free lunch. If you are poor, people know it. Kids are insanely keen and harsely judge, from an early age and probably learned from their parents, on appearance and in the rough and tumble world they roam, eating a free lunch is the least of your worries. It’s not like you can hide your ratty clothes, or lack of general hygiene.
To top this all of the “Healthy-Hunger Free Kids Act” will not even be put in place until 2014! It’s not even set in stone, yet we have groups like The Americans for Limited Government up in arms about it’s societal implosion and road paving to Russia fear baiting horseshit. It’s the same with “Obamacare” most of what that bill does doesn’t even come in to real action until 2014 and already it’s safe to say its impact will be negligible, in fact I’m sure the health care companies, who run on and for profit are so saddened by the sudden influx of new cash cows! The horror, America!
While the newspaper I found this appalling garbage in rightfully credited it to a writer from the very think tank she represented, many will not. They will post this up in the opinion section as if it were written by someone from town, or just another side of a story that’s patently false in every sense of the word. Even more disgusting is the fact that Ms. Rast quotes the president of the very think tank she’s writing for. Are you rewarded with head pats for a job well done Ms. Rast?
It’s been proven that a well fed child performs better in school, is more alert, and functions better in the classroom. It is also entire reason that the school provides food for children, and expanded it to include breakfast. There is a general societal/cultural awareness to make sure we take care of our children, as it a cornerstone for the supposed “future” these right wing buffoons are always going on about.
Most discouraging of all is this backhanded methodology in dealing with any of the societal woes facing American today. That if we took this twisted think tank logic and applied it elsewhere the kind of howls would erupt from the right wingers. For example, what about farm subsidies? Why should taxpayers have to prop up farmers when they lose their crops to drought, malfeasance or lack of forethought? Doesn’t that create a stigma when a poor farmer needs government assistance to help replenish his drought ridden farmland. Or the copious tax breaks to Agriculture monoliths like Monsanto, who are continually punitive to small farmers who will not use their products?
There’s always going to be an element of selfishness cloaked in piety, it’s (mostly) the American way for the upper class of this society. Ms. Rast is one of many think tank stooges that continues to fan the flame of class warfare in this country that has been brewing for some time. Though it is disguised as the classic “oh no they’re trying to get socialism in our America” nonsense, it is indeed a dog whistle for those among the right wing to avoid doing their part to help their neighbors and communities. Because what is not told is that these “lesser” people if they cave and fall, they take everything with it. The crime rate explodes, house values already at precarious levels fall even further. Look no further than the fanciful fever dream Detroit Ms. Rast and her think tank provided in her column. It’s STILL being ravaged by this recession and it’s decline didn’t start nearly three years ago when Obama became president as you are lead to believe.
It’s going to be a sad day when using our taxpayer dollars to repair and propel our great societal net is viewed as anything less as the least we can do for those less fortunate than the rest of us. I personally am perfectly fine in paying more taxes to keep every child who hungers fed. This is our future we’re talking about here, do we wish to set a good example, or a poor one? You’d think that the great societies who brought us these programs, who laid out a plan, would be inspiration enough. Sadly, wealthy people out there seem to think you can take it with you when you go, or are more than happy to pour taxpayer money down their corporate whore holes to continue to spread buffoonery much on par with Ms. Rast and her think tank overlords.
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