What Did You Expect, America?
by SusanG At Daily Kos
Would you hire a babysitter who hates children and thinks they should be eliminated? Or who declares for years in your hearing that children are irritants who should be starved to be small, unseen and mute?
Would you hire cops who think laws are stupid and useless and should be abolished?
Would you hire a conductor for your orchestra who believes music itself an abomination?
Then why would you hire - and you did hire them, America; they are your employees, after all, not your rulers, despite their grandiose pretensions - members of a political party who think government is useless, ineffective, bloated and untrustworthy?
You've hired for your kitchen the chef who spits in your food because he despises preparing meals.
You've hired for your yardwork the gardener who sets out to kill your roses to demonstrate his assertion that they will die in your climate.
You've hired for your office the accountant who's staked his career on proving no accurate books can be kept.
In electing Republicans, America, you put people in charge of institutions they overtly, caustically loathe and proudly proclaim should not exist. Good thinking, USA, and stellar results: Katrina, Iraq, Medicare D, trade and budget deficits, mine disasters and on and on and on and ...
Conservatives have declared officially for decades that they hate public programs and love private business. Why then, do Americans profess shock when these same people run the public credit card up to bunker-busting levels to line the pockets of friendly corporations, leaving taxpayers - current and the as-yet unborn - the bill? It's the dine and ditch mentality writ large, and American citizens are the unfortunate waiters having their lowly pay docked to cover the deadbeat loss - and their future grandchildren's pay docked as well.
We are witnessing an orchestrated, unprecedented transfer of public wealth to private pockets, a national one-party feeding frenzy that's making beggars and beseechers of us all, and yet many Americans stand around muttering in a daze of semi-apathetic befuddlement about gosh darn how did all this come to be and how sure as shit, uh-huh, those Republicans shore were right, government doesn't do a the little guy a damn bit of good, no sirree bob. Better drown it some more. Cut them taxes, privatize something, anything, pronto!
Kee-rist on a pogo stick.
If you put people in charge of running a project they are ideologically committed to proving a failure, it will fail.
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Would you hire a babysitter who hates children and thinks they should be eliminated? Or who declares for years in your hearing that children are irritants who should be starved to be small, unseen and mute?
Would you hire cops who think laws are stupid and useless and should be abolished?
Would you hire a conductor for your orchestra who believes music itself an abomination?
Then why would you hire - and you did hire them, America; they are your employees, after all, not your rulers, despite their grandiose pretensions - members of a political party who think government is useless, ineffective, bloated and untrustworthy?
You've hired for your kitchen the chef who spits in your food because he despises preparing meals.
You've hired for your yardwork the gardener who sets out to kill your roses to demonstrate his assertion that they will die in your climate.
You've hired for your office the accountant who's staked his career on proving no accurate books can be kept.
In electing Republicans, America, you put people in charge of institutions they overtly, caustically loathe and proudly proclaim should not exist. Good thinking, USA, and stellar results: Katrina, Iraq, Medicare D, trade and budget deficits, mine disasters and on and on and on and ...
Conservatives have declared officially for decades that they hate public programs and love private business. Why then, do Americans profess shock when these same people run the public credit card up to bunker-busting levels to line the pockets of friendly corporations, leaving taxpayers - current and the as-yet unborn - the bill? It's the dine and ditch mentality writ large, and American citizens are the unfortunate waiters having their lowly pay docked to cover the deadbeat loss - and their future grandchildren's pay docked as well.
We are witnessing an orchestrated, unprecedented transfer of public wealth to private pockets, a national one-party feeding frenzy that's making beggars and beseechers of us all, and yet many Americans stand around muttering in a daze of semi-apathetic befuddlement about gosh darn how did all this come to be and how sure as shit, uh-huh, those Republicans shore were right, government doesn't do a the little guy a damn bit of good, no sirree bob. Better drown it some more. Cut them taxes, privatize something, anything, pronto!
Kee-rist on a pogo stick.
If you put people in charge of running a project they are ideologically committed to proving a failure, it will fail.
The rest here (link)
7 Comments:
The monumental degree of incompetence exhibited by this administration is normally seen only at places like the Darwin awards, which are of necessity presented posthumously. One suspects that without 24-hr supervision by the Secret Service, Bush would by now have helped the human gene pool by removing himself from it. Choked to death on a pretzel say, or taken a fatal header off a Segway. Sorry, just daydreaming there.
i truly am losing hope that those among us who are intellectual and sane will win the day. america seems to be populated with people who are apathetic at best and complete morons at the worst. i have been called crazy, a moonbat(whatever the hell that is) and i had one guy tell me he was glad that i wasn't in charge of security for his family because i said that we either live in a free society or not. he thinks we can have it both ways. then- he tells me that the warantless wiretapping acutally ended in 2005. completely missed my point because he wanted to. no one understands that these people don't want to give back power. they will do what it takes to keep it and if that means fucking americans over to do it- well they will. if every last democrat in the america were dead- they would be happy. that is what frightens me. i have begun to practice blending in when the dicatorship comes.
Spocko, I saw your comments on FDL's book salon with George Soros -- very good. I liked the angle you were pushing.
In a way, your point is kind of heartening. They've got armies of professional, paid, full-time bullies working overtime to crank out their propaganda and silence the other side, and we're just a bunch of hobbyists with scrounged equipment. And we're starting to kick their asses... (The Left always has had the vast majority of the creative talent, and the best graphic artists.)
So only now- after 40 years of democrat control, only now- after decade after decade of bloated spending has the government failed. Yep pesky republicans- if only the democrats could have at 4 more years of control- it would have been utopia. C'mon Spocko explain the logic in that. You can blame republicans for a lot of crap, but the blame for most (if not all) of the failure of the government on the tax and spend policies that have been in place for decades. I’m not exempting Bush from that- he hasn’t seen a budget item he hasn’t liked yet. I think he’s as conservative as Rupaul! Government deficit? Name the entitlement program even alluded to by democrats to be cut. Even a Washington cut will do ( where a proposed 40% increase is cut to 30% increase but is acclaimed as a 10% cut). They seem to have no problem trying to cut the military budget however. Democrats seem to have missed the part in the constitution about why the government was formed:
1: form a more perfect union, establish justice and secure domestic tranquility
2: provide for the common defense
3: promote general welfare (not provide welfare)
4: secure the blessings of liberty
I don’t see anything about taking my money in the form of taxes and giving to someone else in the form of entitlements in there.
Funny thing is, though, Jim, it hasn't been Democrats in control for the last 40 years, it's always been Democrats sharing power with Republicans. It's only been since 2000 that the Republicans (if you can call them that) have had absolute control.
And it's only been under Republicans that things have spiraled out of control.
Tax and spend? Well that's why you have government. Under the present oligarchy, the lower income 90% of the population is disproportionately taxed to support a military-industrial complex that enriches only 0.1% of the population.
Hey Spocko: America didn't expect it, because America didn't really vote for the Reptilican Party.
Kelley B,
America has been under a 2 party system with one party controlling the congress at a time starting just slightly past the founding of the country. Or are you trying to say that somehow when the democrats are in charge they are kind enough to dole out power to the republicans out of the goodness in their hearts?
In fact our current system pretty much precludes any sharing of power because the controlling political party gets to pick who sits on what committees and guarantees a majority role on that commitee regardless of the margin of marjority (if there were 49 republicans and 51 dems the dems get to control ALL of the committees- not just 1). And forget about changing parties- look at what happened to Jim Jeffords and Zell Miller). I would agree that there have been some conservative democrats and some liberal republicans but that does not mean that they "share" power.
As far as your claim that taxing and spending is what a government is for- well the constitution begs to differ. Nowhere does it say the goverment is here to take money from person X to give to person Y. As far as the lower 90% paying the taxes, I'm not sure how you file your taxes, but mine show brackets with the more you make- the higher the percentage that gets taken. Want to take a look at the raw data:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/03in05tr.xls
It's in excel so run the numbers- make over 29 grand and according to congress- you're rich! you (and those above you) get to pay most of the taxes make below that and you pay 3%.
Gee, Jim, was your crib flaking off big chunks of lead-based paint when you were an infant? If government doesn't play a role in making life better for everyone, the system of government will devolve, indeed has devolved into a form of corporate feudalism. If you think the "lobbyist bribes politician, gets tax cuts, uses 1% of tax cuts to bribe more politicians, gets lower minimum wage" cycle of activity has anything to do with either democracy or free enterprise you are delusional.
How does it promote the general welfare to have a minimum wage that can't come close to allowing the wage earner a chance at a decent living? The declaration of independence's statement about all men being equal, were it to be interpreted as the founders intended would be looked on as suspiciously close to communism in today's warped political environment. There is a much greater division between rich and poor in America, and much lower social mobility than in the European countries that America's first settlers left for greater opportunities. Are you trying to tell me this is a good thing?
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