We are just two months away from the anniversary of the mid-term election of 2010, the oft-celebrated "Tea Party Revolt" by the Right. Tea Party Republicans swept into the 2010 mid-terms, riding mountains of cash from a select few special interests, funding a few dozen astroturf citizen movements like the Club for Growth and a few dozen more foundations and other political money laundering schemes. [1]
Corporations kept their tax loopholes. The uber-rich continue to siphon the Treasury with their 3% tax break. After trillions in proposed cuts in government spending, the slashing of civil rights, the destruction of the right of labor to organize and the slashing of the social safety net, we all have a question for representatives Boehner and Cantor:
Where, in all of this, are the "jobs, jobs, jobs?
A Republican talking point, " It’s jobs, jobs, jobs, they’re concerned about their jobs..." has been a mantra of the GOP. Their promised change was to get our fiscal house in order. Balance our checkbook. Just like you would do at home.
Except, as I pointed out to you in U.S. Economy 101 (in Plain English, with Humor!): How the GOP and the Media Are Shucking You, the government is not you or me. Our $14.6T economy provides us with the time and the resources to think our way reasonably out of even the most disastrous leadership, which George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have both resurfaced to remind us about just before our next election cycle. Thanks, guys. That may be your first and only real service to America.
We were not downgraded by S&P for our lack of resources. We were downgraded for our lack of political will to do what is necessary to move the country forward.
America does not need Dr. Paul. Mr. Cantor, or the other Teahadis to sit there scolding us for our profligate spending ways. It requires reasonable people to find enough ways to grow the economy, keep good jobs here, and retain our college-educated workforce creating the intellectual capital that makes America the powerhouse that it is today.
Lectures on fiscal discipline by the Republicans are a bit like lectures on sobriety from raging unrepentent alcoholics. Republicans...
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