Witness Wisconsin. The Class War is focused on Wisconsin, where billionaire David Koch has completed the total corporate capture of the Wisconsin Governor's mansion and State Senate. David Koch's toadie, Governor Walker, is implementing policies that only really benefit the David Koch's of the world, the millionaire and billionaire crowd, you know, like Michael Bloomberg's dinner parties. Everyone must make a "Shared Sacrifice" in suffering so the tax cuts for the rich can never end. And the expense is clearly being taken out of the working class. It is happening in Wisconsin, and it is coming soon to a State near you.
In fact, you are likely already there.
Witness New Jersey. Newly elected Governor Chris Christie decided that Fifty THOUSAND or so new jobs that might be created if a new rail line were built between New Jersey and New York was too expensive. But OH NOES, TEH GUVMINT SPENDING! And thus, more Hoovernomics ensues. Not to be outdone, Gov. Christie is cutting taxes for the rich while slashing and burning the NJ education system. For Governor Christie, an old George W. Bush employee, this is just like old times, selling off your state bit by bit to the whims of the special interests and wealthy who put you there.
But it doesn't end in New Jersey either.
Witness Ohio, where Billionaire Rupert Murdoch just helped elect a new GOP Governor John Kasich, immediately upon arriving in his office killed a huge job creating bill to create infrastructure and build high speed rail. Kasich quickly pleased the Oilgarchs who own him by stopping Big Oil's biggest threat in Ohio, efficient non petro energy public transportation. A few months ago ThinkProgress.org reported on this . . .
The newly elected Republican governor of Ohio, John Kasich, who ousted Ted Strickland, a Democrat, has also reiterated a campaign pledge to kill a $400 million stimulus-funded rail project in his state. “Passenger rail is not in Ohio’s future,” Mr. Kasich said at his first news conference after the election. “That train is dead.”
Due to being totally OWNED by the billionaire crowd, Republican policies are all failures for working class people. You simply can not govern in a way that deliberately strips rights and benefits from the majority of society without pissing a lot of people off. Sadly, the Republicans do it on purpose, their policies suck and make people mad, and then they blame Teh Guvmint, as if they had no part in Teh Guvmint coming to suck as bad as they claim it always will. Republican policies ARE the problem, they just give us the blind, numbing, ideological hatred and bigotry for free.
Witness Arizona, where the skies are clear and the bigotry roams free, like tumbleweed passing through every town. After 8 years of economic mismanagement under George W. Bush's 8 year imitation of Herbert Hoover areas like Arizona Republicans needed someone to blame for the fiscal woes of Arizona, someone who was unlike the wealthy, mostly white people who finance their campaigns. That is when the Arizona Republican party rediscovered BROWN PEOPLE! Why, they were the perfect people to blame! And blame them they did, until the State of Arizona began losing a TON of revenue because people who are not from Arizona don't want to take their business to an openly racist State like Arizona where the climate is like Hell in May. Another instance of idiotic, self serving and self defeating Republican policies that hurt the local economy while only serving the interests of those who pay their campaign funds.
Witness Michigan. For fuck's sake, witness Michigan. The class war has eaten Michigan alive. Unemployment rampant. Jobs shipped overseas are not coming back. Home values are in the toilet. Anyone who wants a vision of America if we continue following the Unfettered Free Trade union busting imperial military Shock and Awe show should look at Michigan, where the people used to thrive and now their value has been gobbled up by Wall Street in the name of profit, profit, profit. The new Republican Governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, has the obvious cure for Michigan's deficits and unemployment, more tax cuts for businesses.
NEWS FLASH!:!:!:!
Tax Cuts CREATE Deficits. Deficits are CAUSED by cutting the intake of tax revenue. Conservatives seem to be creating deficits on purpose through their tax cut fetish, which feeds into their anti spending fetish, rinse, wash, and then repeat until you are drowned in a cynical bathtub full of bullshit.
Shared sacrifice, we are told, except for the rich can NEVER be taxed.
Bullshit.
And the rich, whom the Conservative movement serves alone, they get their wars from profit, their bailouts, their tax cuts and their deregulation, and our jobs go overseas, we get fraudulently foreclosed on, our pay gets cut, and the class war goes on and on, while the income inequality gap gets wider and the fraudulently wealthy become more and more entrenched in power.
This is NOT how Democracy is supposed to work. This is how corruption and corporate capture works.
Witness Florida, where the new Governor, Rick Scott, spent $50 million out of his own pocket to win the election, and he earned that money by committing FRAUD. Rick Scott is a criminal, and Florida elected him. Dear Florida, why oh why must you subject yourself to these lying, crooked Republicans. When even Rudy 9/11 Guiliani calls you a fraud, it is getting embarrassingly obvious.
" This is not a guy who should be governor, it is as simple as that ." Giuliani said about Scott, the former head of the Columbia/ HCA hospital chain that in the 90's was immersed in the largest Medicare fraud case in history. Scott's former company ended up paying 1.7 billion dollars in fines and penalties.
"If we nominate somebody who has had serious fraud problems in the health care system that is going to be a big mistake," Giuliani said to reporters outside a Boca Raton Republican event.
Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/...
In State after State, from Texas to Maine to wherever it is Republicans are in control, you are seeing implemented a "Shock and Awe" shock doctrine that is exploiting the current economic crisis to achieve the goals of the wealthy patrons of elected Republicans. This is making the crisis worse. And remember, these deficits, this economy, this is all a crisis create by the Republicans themselves. Their policies suck and outrage people, and then the Republicans run on the outrage they have caused! It is a cycle, a 3 card monte game where you are always going to get screwed unless you are Too Big To Fail.
Witness Wisconsin, where the Governor who is owned by Billionaire David Koch is doing his damnedest to keep his Corporate Master pleased. The class war is REAL, and the billionaires, millionaires and corrupt politicians know that the only way they get to keep their tax cuts for the rich is by taking it out of teachers, the elderly, the sick, children, the working class, and whatever minorities they can demonize in the process. This is class war. We CAN NOT LOSE.
Protest. Strike. Organize, organize, organize.
Because this is not going to end in Wisconsin either.
Peace and Love to all,
MOT.
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