For decades the Republicans have enabled American corporations to reduce average middle-class incomes to increase corporate profit margins as the cost of living has risen, pushing many into poverty (and forcing them to use government social services), while at the same time the Republicans were pushing legislation to reduce those services, making it almost impossible for them to survive.
It was the Republicans who created the welfare state by outsourcing jobs - thus driving more people into unemployment. It was the Republicans who created the welfare state by busting labor unions and depressing wages for common working people. It was the Republicans who created the welfare state by allowing the cost-of-living to sky-rocket so much over the last 30 years, all to enrich the corporations more.
In turn, this forced millions of working Americans into poverty and made them co-dependent on government services such as jobless benefits, Medicaid, and food stamps - and drove many into early retirement for reduced Social Security benefits at the age 62 - all to enrich the corporations more.
Then after the Republicans created this welfare state, they attacked those in the welfare state by attempting to deny them of all the government benefits they needed just to survive, while at the same time, allowing the corporations (and wealthiest 2%) have more tax breaks to further under-fund the federal, state, and local governments - denying the funding of all these social services.
The Republicans, for the last 30 years, have been successfully waging a two-pronged attack on the average working American...squeezing every penny they could from them, sucking them dry, and then leaving them to shrink, shrivel and die on the vine. Then afterward, denying them help from their fellow countrymen with reduced government services...and vilifying them as just lazy free-loaders on the government dole, just looking for a free government "hand-out". The Republicans and their corporate masters have been winning this class war that they have cleverly waged on the American working people.
It's wasn't enough that the Republicans (who are only beholding to the banks, corporations, and the wealthy) had killed off the middle-class for average working Americans and reduced them to poverty as the "new poor" in America, but also the Republicans have been attempting to deprive them of any humane existence at all.
The Republicans are now trying to prevent us from curbing ever more Wall Street abuse, greed, and corruption by under-funding the SEC to investigated and prosecute all the other Bernie Madoffs, those who helped destroyed the economy and housing market for the middle-class and average working Americans.
The radical Republicans have been accusing the liberals as being the "radicals", when really, who has been doing the most to break the backs of working Americans, increasing their "worker productivity" (squeezing more), just to enable the few to further enrich themselves that much more?
It was the Republicans who created the welfare state, the Democrats only supported "welfare" (social services) to care for the needs of those that the GOP created and wanted to completely destroy.
Let's be honest, who are the REAL "radicals" in this country today? The greedy Wall Streeters and corporate CEOs (with the help of their political GOP enablers)? Or the average working people who only wanted to earn an honest and decent living...like they once could 30 years ago?
Oh, and don't you know? The Republicans also created the CORPORATE Welfare State.
Conspiracy theories all say the government creates problems to solve through reducing liberty. They say the depression was planned - the Great Depression and the Long Depression - and all the recessions, bubbles and busts. They say wars are entered into because of situations allowed to happen (Pearl Harbor and most probably 9/11) to bring the mindset into Fear-based response and volunteer to be controlled.
ReplyDeleteAll these things go on behind the scenes with the appearance of "right action" but with underlying motives. I saw a video about a guy who was being recruited (but refused) into the Counsel on Foreign Relations and told of "an event" (before 9/11) that would create the conditions to tighten the stranglehold on US citizens. He said the Rockefellers financed the woman's rights movement to tax the other half of the population.
And the TEA Party is financed by big money too. Why would big money finance a "grass roots" organization? To make people think they are creating change for their own good instead of being the pawns most of us are.
I stopped being a pawn in February of 2008. Now I am among the forgotten/ignored masses with no chair at the table of life. Hard to place in any chess game of employment during good times, I am now a polished, well-dressed, highly educated and experienced example of the unemployable...not because of the Republicans - but because of elite agenda and all of the enablers.
Let's not blame Republicans (even though you used to be one) because NAFTA was signed by a Democrat. Democrats were in the super majority during a lot of the time jobs were being shipped over seas. But the Republican-created Welfare system was one step that appeared to be humane but was really, like you say, a means to make people dependent on the government.
I think back to signing up for unemployment over 3 years ago. I had no idea the "recession" was just beginning. I had no clue I'd be among the millions left to sink or swim. The unemployment compensation softened the blow for a couple years as rejections mounted. Now, with all of the bad news and no "safety net for the people who have been out of work the longest" (Barack - YOU LIE!), we are being led to turn on each other and blame each other.
I so want to see people come together with others they have more in common than different (ie, the masses). So May It Be.
why would you say democrats where in office when jobs were shipped. it is generally the party before that sets the tone for what happens in the future. these things dont change over night. but democrats are making it hard for a go-getter like myself to keep my money in my pocket. i dont wann a pay for everybody elses health care. what about bill and hillary's menage a trois with wall street. they are in for the money too just like all repubs. politicians are like cops. rookies come in the game with honor. but a few mistakes that need to be covered up and before u know it they are balls deep in the throat of all Americans. hillary supports bills signing the repeal of the glass steagal act and has received over $640,000 total for giving 3 speeches with goldman saachs. who is too blind to see what is going on. she is bought, paid for, and should be wiping her mouth.
DeleteI blame both parties, however the repubs are being the more aggressive right now. The dems are just sitting there with their heads up their arses and neither doing nor saying much of anything to put a stop to it. And YES I still blame Wall Street for the majority of the problems. And I still ask, "WHY ISN'T WALL STREET IN JAIL?"
ReplyDeleteIt isn't mere corporate welfare that Republicans are after. The concept of the nontaxable or tax exempt nonprofit is heavily invested in providing welfare to the tune of 5% of after expense earnings. That is a huge investment in perpetuating the welfare systems that allow tax free living for most of the middle markets who thrive upon the paradigm, but it is doubtful that it was invented by Democrats. The tally of nonprofits in either Republican or Democratic camps could be insightful news for comparison to decipher profit strategies.
ReplyDelete"It isn't mere corporate welfare that Republicans are after"?
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans just voted to extend the oil subsidies. Would'd you consider that corproate welfare?
Its not corporations, its lack of education.
ReplyDeleteeven idiots going to college thinking that will pave the road for them. foolish. choose your life. live your life. dont rely on me. i dont mind a safety net. but dammmmmn. dont tell me you want a big mac after i just gave you cheeseburger. business is business. I love how people talk shit about corporations. then go shop at walmart like its ok. that is SLAVE labor. not OK when its black people. but now its chinese and we support it.
DeleteHow many of the Wall Street bankers that were partly responsible for the 2008 recession did the Obama administration convict for their criminal behavior? 0! As in not even 1! Despite the broad support and mounds of evidence that would have undoubtedly put some the financial elite in prison, Obama and Holder choose not to even charge the individuals that are responsible for the millions of people that still suffer today because of it. Its a reality that doesnt exist in the minds of those that cant think for themselves. They are just idiots that point the finger at anyone or any group they are told to by the left, while supporting those that have the ability to change things but choose not to because of their own special interests.
ReplyDeletethat is because demoGOD bill clinton signed the repeal of glass steagal act of 1933 in 1998 or 99 not sure. google it if u dont know about it. sanders even says its gotta be reinstated. hillary is standing behind bills signature on the bill saying it wouldnt have made a difference. are you kidding. no accountability. the law was put in place after the great depression to break up big banks, investment banking, and insurance companies to prevent another economic collapse. soooooo if this is not pointing the finger at bill clinton then wtf. i am not retarded. i know that there was a lot more on the line than just investment banking and insurance companies being " too big to fail" but i would love to hear an educated arguement try to tell me that less than ten years after it is repealed we have the worst collapse in 100 years. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! this is Bill and Hillary's menage a trois with wall street. i am surprised to see bill and hillary in the same flick. work for your own money!!! government dont owe you nothing more than it took from you minus what it used for all you use. dont make government bigger and build your own life. socialism ends in communism/corruption. government will get too big and take all your money sucking away your need want or desire to work and succeed on your own because lets face it. why should i be the only one working if i get the same as you for free. I quit!!! do side work and pay no taxes. i am ambitious. i work hard. but socialism will end my desire to do awesome shit.
DeleteThis was posted in 2011. I'm firmly behind Bernie Sanders these days. I think Obama, Eric Holder, the Clinton (etc) are all the same, and only a LITTLE better than the GOP. The last decent Republican was Dwight Eisenhower and the last decent Democrat might have been LBJ (expect for Vietnam). FDR was my favorite and Bernie could be the next one.
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ReplyDeleteToday I laugh at myself --- BOTH parties created welfare by outsourcing all our best jobs and keeping wages low,
DeleteAlthough President Franklin D. Roosevelt focused mainly on creating jobs for the masses of unemployed workers, he also backed the idea of federal aid for poor children and other dependent persons. By 1935, a national welfare system had been established for the first time in American history. Roosevelt was a democrat.
ReplyDeleteI supported Trump over Clinton after the DNC screwed Bernie ;)
DeleteBud, as much as i agree with your last line on the blog, I feel as if that is never going to happen, just look at facebook and the inner political wars going on there. The world is divided and it is only going to get worse as each new generation develops. Most people have no compassion or caring for anyone other than themselves and at times even that is in question. Hate is dominating today's culture and is spreading like cancer. I can only say that we cannot look to government for any answers as they are major villians in how the world is being shaped. Only divine intervention will save us and whether you believe it or not is our only hope and a few will see that and embrace it but most will not.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. I wrote this post years ago, and it's now out-dated.
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