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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

GOP's America: Only the RICH need aply

Ronald Reagan opened the floodgates of the worship of the all-mighty dollar ... as if only rich folks were good Christians or good Americans. Since then, our nation seems ever more driven to greed - indeed, the Bush tax cuts wrestled moolah from the wallets and billfolds of the poor and the middle class and threw it at the wealthiest of the wealthy. And yet, HOW MANY NET JOBS WERE CREATED IN THE DECADE FOLLOWING THE BUSH TAX CUTS?
It seems obvious that Senators and Representatives benefit from low taxes for the rich, which is one good reason for their proclivities. Voting on attendant measures, therefore might be a terrible but unnoticed conflict of interest.
Secondary education, the one great leveler for any society, is out of reach for most without mountainous and ruinous debt as its legacy ... difficult to pay back when many companies, holding hundreds of billions of dollars in profits, are not hiring broadly. And if and when they do hire, the positions are more often than not $10-$12 an hour and lacking benefits. Try paying back an $80,000 college bill on that scenario!
These days, most bankruptcies are not caused by houses repossessed or under water but by MEDICAL CATASTROPHE. Why then are medical insurance companies not subject to anti-trust laws like every other business except ML Baseball? The cost of a sparse policy is galloping further out of reach for most of us.
When did America become the land of the rich, with government of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy?
The GOP has been assiduously attempting for years both to eliminate the poor altogether (don't they cheer at the mention of folks with no medical benefits dying?) and to crush the middle class. A well educated worker pool who'll take ANY JOB means more black in the bottom line. So far, they are doing a fabulous job of making the rich richer .. while the rest of us poor slobs are sucking hind tit.
A cat named Grover Norquist and the billionaire Koch Brothers are behind a lot of this class war - a class war that's been raging for decades and was NOT started by any progressive.
If you want to kill America, vote RED next time out.

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