Bush 's and Cheney's Personal Tax Breaks?
Unfortunately we have a sleeping giant of a population that seems unready to awaken at this point. I find some of my students quite caring, but this is the quietest generation I have encountered since my own which was known as the "silent generation." I don't think much that we can do will awaken them. They are stressed out, running scared, and not about to become active in any demonstrable way. We are the 'elite' that is under constant attack by the greedies -- as 'liberals', cowards, traitors -- a constant barrage of personal attacks beamed through the visual media which stun and halt action.
In the paragraph above I was responding to a CUNY colleague's concern that with a contract 3 and 1/2 years in abeyance, we ought to be mobilizing our constituencies on behalf of our students facing ever larger tuition increases and ourselves as faculty coping with declining real salaries and reduced protective benefits (medical and retirement). I saw an awakening unlikely from the experience of my own classrooms and many of my colleagues, seemingly overwhelmed by the battering by misinformation combined with personal attacks on us as the paragraph suggested.
Then it hit me that we had spent another few days with more Cheney spin, his hunting accident distracting attention from the real issues relating to him -- his authorizing an attack on Valerie Plame by his chief of staff, Libby, also announced this week to which he countered that he could disclose any classified information that he wished and also the Pillar report that the Bush administration had manipulated classified information to launch its attack on Iraq -- plotted out long before 9/11.
It then struck me that NO ONE has pointed to the personal gains of both Cheney and Bush embedded in their tax reductions for super wealthy investors, which both are. How do we awaken our fellow Americans to how badly they are being had by this horrendous program? Perhaps it is time that we started yelling about the personal gains and losses involved in the Bush-Cheney programs -- personal gains by them as individuals and losses by the rest of us in public services and mostly by those killed and badly wounded by the Bush-Cheney wars? We occasionally hear of the numbers of dead and wounded -- what precisely are the benefits this year for them of Bush's and Cheney's tax reduction programs?
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort
to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
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In the paragraph above I was responding to a CUNY colleague's concern that with a contract 3 and 1/2 years in abeyance, we ought to be mobilizing our constituencies on behalf of our students facing ever larger tuition increases and ourselves as faculty coping with declining real salaries and reduced protective benefits (medical and retirement). I saw an awakening unlikely from the experience of my own classrooms and many of my colleagues, seemingly overwhelmed by the battering by misinformation combined with personal attacks on us as the paragraph suggested.
Then it hit me that we had spent another few days with more Cheney spin, his hunting accident distracting attention from the real issues relating to him -- his authorizing an attack on Valerie Plame by his chief of staff, Libby, also announced this week to which he countered that he could disclose any classified information that he wished and also the Pillar report that the Bush administration had manipulated classified information to launch its attack on Iraq -- plotted out long before 9/11.
It then struck me that NO ONE has pointed to the personal gains of both Cheney and Bush embedded in their tax reductions for super wealthy investors, which both are. How do we awaken our fellow Americans to how badly they are being had by this horrendous program? Perhaps it is time that we started yelling about the personal gains and losses involved in the Bush-Cheney programs -- personal gains by them as individuals and losses by the rest of us in public services and mostly by those killed and badly wounded by the Bush-Cheney wars? We occasionally hear of the numbers of dead and wounded -- what precisely are the benefits this year for them of Bush's and Cheney's tax reduction programs?
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort
to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
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