Hit Men Conning Middle Class Americans
Will the Republicans succeed in conning Middle Class America -- again? The gays are coming! The terrorists are at the door and the Dems want to provide homeless shelters for them? The immigrant hordes are descending and will rape your children unless you vote Republican?
Well, Rove's simplistic appeals -- repeated over and over and over again by a chorus of lined up voices, ranging from the right wing thunk tanks to the bought commentators, has worked before. The techniques -- big and little lies repeated over and over and over again pioneered by the Nazis have done it -- have gotten Middle Class America to put the noose around its own neck!
Needless to say 'death' taxes will not affect anyone -- unless one has an estate ranging at $4 million or more to leave to heirs -- then not very much. No family farms have been sold at auction to meet this alleged menace.
A living (minimum) wage will not put people out of work - it will actually create jobs as those at the bottom of the heap have a bit more to spend at their neighborhood groceries.
For anyone who knows the facts, the constant lying on so many fronts is an outraging manifestation of betrayal of our American ideals -- equal opportunity, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The huge budget gaps being built up by the Republicans in pursuit of ego tripping wars abroad will leave us all impoverished in ways that would have been inconceivable but a few years ago.
Will Americans wake up this time, see through the fog of lies emanating from our despicable greedies and their well paid hit men? We shall see.
No, we Democrats need not form a united front against our greedies -- we merely need to keep pointing out the obvious -- as Krugman has as usual this morning in his NY Times op ed:
Class War Politics
By PAUL KRUGMAN
An important new book called "Polarized America" suggests
that our bitter partisan divide is really about two words:
class warfare.
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/opinion/19krugman.html?th&emc=th
(Available only to TimesSelect subscribers)
Excerpt for those who do not have access:
So what's our bitter partisan divide really about? In two words: class warfare. That's the lesson of an important new book, "Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches," by Nolan McCarty of Princeton University, Keith Poole of the University of California, San Diego, and Howard Rosenthal of New York University.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/igs/WP2005-11/
for download (700+ k):
http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=igs
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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 cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndingPoverty
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
Well, Rove's simplistic appeals -- repeated over and over and over again by a chorus of lined up voices, ranging from the right wing thunk tanks to the bought commentators, has worked before. The techniques -- big and little lies repeated over and over and over again pioneered by the Nazis have done it -- have gotten Middle Class America to put the noose around its own neck!
Needless to say 'death' taxes will not affect anyone -- unless one has an estate ranging at $4 million or more to leave to heirs -- then not very much. No family farms have been sold at auction to meet this alleged menace.
A living (minimum) wage will not put people out of work - it will actually create jobs as those at the bottom of the heap have a bit more to spend at their neighborhood groceries.
For anyone who knows the facts, the constant lying on so many fronts is an outraging manifestation of betrayal of our American ideals -- equal opportunity, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The huge budget gaps being built up by the Republicans in pursuit of ego tripping wars abroad will leave us all impoverished in ways that would have been inconceivable but a few years ago.
Will Americans wake up this time, see through the fog of lies emanating from our despicable greedies and their well paid hit men? We shall see.
No, we Democrats need not form a united front against our greedies -- we merely need to keep pointing out the obvious -- as Krugman has as usual this morning in his NY Times op ed:
Class War Politics
By PAUL KRUGMAN
An important new book called "Polarized America" suggests
that our bitter partisan divide is really about two words:
class warfare.
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/opinion/19krugman.html?th&emc=th
(Available only to TimesSelect subscribers)
Excerpt for those who do not have access:
So what's our bitter partisan divide really about? In two words: class warfare. That's the lesson of an important new book, "Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches," by Nolan McCarty of Princeton University, Keith Poole of the University of California, San Diego, and Howard Rosenthal of New York University.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/igs/WP2005-11/
for download (700+ k):
http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=igs
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndingPoverty
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
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