Those are words from
Bill Moyers and more below:
And they are proud of what they have done to our economy and our society. If instead of practicing journalism I was writing for Saturday Night Live, I couldn't have made up the things that this crew have been saying. The president's chief economic adviser says shipping technical and professional jobs overseas is good for the economy. The president's Council of Economic Advisers report that hamburger chefs in fast food restaurants can be considered manufacturing workers. The president's Federal Reserve Chairman says that the tax cuts may force cutbacks in social security - but hey, we should make the tax cuts permanent anyway. The president's Labor Secretary says it doesn't matter if job growth has stalled because "the stock market is the ultimate arbiter."
Let's face the reality: If ripping off the public trust; if distributing tax breaks to the wealthy at the expense of the poor; if driving the country into deficits deliberately to starve social benefits; if requiring states to balance their budgets on the backs of the poor; if squeezing the wages of workers until the labor force resembles a nation of serfs -- if this isn't class war, what is?
It's un-American. It's unpatriotic. And it's wrong.
Some Reminders since I don't think WE are Mad Enough
Republicanism is essentially an ideology of class warfare of the Super Wealthy Bush Class against everyone else. Republicanism has become, since Reagan, an increasingly international ideology to advance the interests and power of the Super Wealthy worldwide. This Super Wealthy international class is best thought of as the Bush Class. It is the real "ownership class" that controls all the major media outlets, the oil companies, the defense contractors and the levers of power around the world. This class owns most of the wealth on the planet.
The Bush Class does not really believe that the strength of the American nation comes from the middle class and the working class.
They believe that the Wall Street CEO class and those living off of massive inherited wealth are those who should determine all public policy in the nation. They are blinded by their Republicanism ideology and selfish greed. Estate tax cuts which real only impact the Super Wealthy get priority over middle class tax cuts and over real earned income!
Republicans spend liberally the taxes and lives of the middle classes and working Americans in Iraq in a war that serves their ideology but not the interests of the American nation.
Iraq is really about retaining domestic political power for Republicanism and earning profits for the Bush Class instead of fighting Islamic terrorism. Iraq is creating more anti-American terrorists instead of curbing the threat of Islamic terrorism! The Bush policies in Iraq are again blending Iraq (or Arab) nationalism with Islamic fundamentalism to create a new major international enemy. These policies are not rationally advancing American interests.
The Bush Republicans are trying to create a huge international threat on the scale of the former Soviet Union out of the relatively small threat of the Bin Laden organization in the minds of the American people. They keep American distracted from their economic agenda and erode our civil liberties at every turn by magnifying the size and scope of the Islamic terrorist threat. This tactic allows them to misuse genuine American patriotism to their own selfish ends. It is eroding American freedom at home to no good purpose.
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I have posted several diaries of late with Halliburton as my focal point. My mantra is "Follow the Money". They were ignored, but that's okay for now. But mark my words, Halliburton and it's Ilk, all the players,all the susidiaries is the reason for the loss of Democracy in America. It is not politics per se, It is Money. The new Bankruptcy Laws, the fight for Social Security privatization is about protecting and feeding the wealthy.
Every economic policy adopted by Congress, and by every state, assumes that the proper purpose of economic activity is the creation of private profit. In the current political climate, profit-making is even equated with democracy. Business schools treat increasing productivity--that is, the rapid and efficient accumulation of profit--not only as economically necessary but as a patriotic duty.
The list of corporations revealed to have practiced unethical and possibly illegal accounting methods continues to grow. Their motivations are purely based on greed.
Since 1980, the average pay of regular working people increased by 66 percent, while CEO pay grew by 1,996 percent. In 2000 the average CEO made 531 times the average hourly worker's pay.(2) Yet, the GOP continues to support fiscal policies that would benefit the wealthy while the average American worker struggles to maintain the status quo, much less get ahead.
Recently it was reported that during campaign 2000 Bush flew on private corporate jets owned by Enron and Halliburton. Both corporations also helped fund the Bush campaign's recount efforts in Florida. Now Public Citizen has revealed that the Bush-Cheney recount fund avoided disclosure laws for eighteen months and their disclosure forms to the IRS contained thousands of errors and omissions that may result in fines up to $850,000.(5) The Bush campaign spent $13.8 million on the recount efforts as compared to the Gore campaign's $3.2 million. Gore's campaign filed its report in a timely fashion as required by the IRS.
It appears that the Republican Party is not merely practicing class warfare -- they have refined it to a science in order to benefit corrupt corporations and the wealthy!
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I am adding this link which gives a great recap of the Money Facts about War profiteering in Iraq
Finally, It is not about GOD and the wing-nuts, Jeff Gannon or terrorists, although they have been entertaining diversions. It's The Money Stupid! Never in my most cynical moments did I think it was just the money. Now I do and I had lost the 'money-factor' years ago so my personal fight is over. I pray that the rest of you will fare better.
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