THE CURMUDGEON CHRONICLE ©
AN IRREVERENT VIEW
Time Line: September 5, 2010
Date Line: Chicago IL
Karl Rove’s teaching and methods have taken hold. They are being used by Beck. Limbaugh & Co. to provide opinions for those who refuse to think for themselves. The big lie, followed by references to God, the flag, underpinned by racial slurs, (expressed or implied), are used to make people vote against their own interests.
If the polls are accurate and the trend is maintained through the midterm election, I fear our country will suffer at the hands of the oligarchs of big oil, unregulated financial institutions, arms and munitions makers, and their political minions and allies. No matter whether you are a conservative, liberal, progressive or unaffiliated, you must agree that liars and merchants of deceit should not rule our country. The need to call them out and stop them at the polls is evident; and their lies must be denied in the voting booth.
To set the record straight on a few of the current falsehoods:
1. The President was born in this country and is a citizen by birth;
2. He is not a Moslem or a Socialist;
3. He is facing problems that dwarf any former administration’s since Lincoln’s, none of them created by his administration. The stage was set with NAFTA twenty years ago and a foolish war in Iraq.
4. He is lied about and vilified by a small, virulent, minority determined to aggrandize the few at the expense of the many.
5. The President and this Congress did not cause the loss of our jobs and manufacturing capabilities. That was the creation of the people who now claim that government is at fault.
6. Jobs are not created by executive fiat or in a vacuum. There must be employers and demand for products made. Without both elements employment cannot keep pace with the growth of population
7. Our government is estopped from forcing US companies to hire in this country nor can it order companies to stop outsourcing. Since Clinton’s NAFTA and free trade programs the manufacturing capability of the US has fallen by over 65%. The alleged compensatory offset in the service and technology sector is being demonstrated to be an economist’s pipe dream. Indian outsource firms claim US companies use their services because we do not graduate enough engineers. The fact is that jobs which should be available for US engineers get filled in India because it is cheaper to do so. The ranks of unemployed US engineers in all disciplines has grown by astronomical percentages since NAFTA, Free trade, and outsourced work forces have become the tools of destruction for the US economy.
8. The people lying to us suggest that what will cure unemployment is a reduction in their taxes. It is ludicrous to imagine that a tax cut for the top 2% of the population will create jobs in an environment that has no employers, manufacturing base, or the plants to house workers. Nevertheless, that is what they are selling to people who should be diametrically opposed to that notion.
9. What the electorate should demand is a tax on employers who have outsourced jobs and eliminated industries that filled US demand for products they made. A useful tax policy would penalize imports of products that flood our markets, at subsidized prices, from China and India. Both of those countries are intent on taking over our fading position as the largest economy in the world.
10. There are lies about healthcare: consider “death panels” and no more contact with your doctor. The legislation makes health insurance and medical services available and more affordable for most citizens: it goes part of the way to assure availability and fair pricing. Roveists call it “Obamacare” to denigrate it, but in fact it reduces costs and preserves the profits and growth of the insurance industry.
11. There is the allegation that the administration has run “roughshod over the rights of the minority”. There has been no cooperation between the two sides of the aisle. I don’t care whose fault that is; as a citizen I want my government to be above the petty political jockeying typified by the current minority screaming for bi-partisanship while promising that if elected they will change the rules to their liking and brook no interference.
We have good reason to be frightened.
Regardless of political leanings Americans should vote for principles, not political parties. The democratic stronghold in mass was right when they voted for their current Republican junior Senator. They chose a person who thus far has voted his conscience, not the Party line.
We can either learn from Massachusetts or return to the world as orchestrated by Karl Rove.
Howard Stamer
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