IT TAKES A REPUBLICAN NOT TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TAX CUT AND SOCIALISM OR “SPREADING THE WEALTH.”
OBAMA MADE A MISTATEMENT WHEN IN CASUAL CONVERSATION WITH “JOE THE PLUMBER” HE MENTIONED THAT HIS TAX CUTS APPLIES TO ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE MAKING $250,000 A YEAR OR LESS. HOWEVER, HE ALLEGEDLY WENT ON TO SAY THAT HE THOUGHT WE NEEDED “TO SPREAD THE WEALTH”.
THE TRUTH IS THAT ONLY THE VERY RICH HAVE BENEFITTED FROM THE BUSH TAX POLICIES SINCE HE TOOK OFFICE IN 2000 WHILE THE AVERAGE TAX PAYER SAW HIS INCOME DECREASE BY $2,000.
Obama feels it is time to give the average person on Main Street a break and therefore a tax cut is in store for them. A tax cut is not Socialistic, not Communist; and Obama is not a Marxist for proposing a tax cut for those earning under $250,000
. Bush cut the taxes of the very rich and I did not hear one single Republican call Bush a Socialist, a Communist or a Marxist for tilting the redistribution of the wealth to the wealthiest of our citizens
Republicans are queer little people when it comes to winning an election. They will gladly tell any lie, twist any issue necessary to bamboozle the voters and confound their minds on matters proposed by their Democratic competition.
It is a pathetic way to run a campaign, but the Republican Party has three issues they have been running up the flag pole for well over fifty years—strengthen the nation’s defense, lower the countries taxes, disembowel the federal government.
They have strayed a long way from their party founder’s contention that “government should do for people what they cannot do for themselves or so well.”
All Americans want a strong defense to protect our homeland and our homeland’s people. All Americans want the lowest possible tax rate to do the job government should be doing. And finally, we would like to have a small government.
However, the facts are that Reagan who ran on the Republican’s obsolete platform promised to balance the budget prior to the conclusion of his first term, but not only did he not balance said budget by the end of term one, by the end of term two he increased the deficit by 300%.
He promised to reduce the size of the federal government’s multifaceted and gigantic size only to leave office with a significantly larger federal government apparatus than when he landed at Washington National Airport to take office.
He did promote the common defense to the point that he was on his way to building a labyrinth of security devices called Star Wars or the Protective Defense Initiative [SDI] in spite of the fact that many renowned scientists held fast to their belief that this extraordinarily expensive device simply was unworkable.
Karl Marx argued that to defeat America he would never have to drop a bomb or fire a shot. He would terrify the military-industrial complex into spending more and more on defense until the country bankrupted itself. Guess what, with what has occurred in the past few months Karl may have been right. Bush has dropped us from a surplus to deficit of nearly 1 trillion dollars just from the unnecessary war in Iraq to the unfinished war in Afghanistan. To add debt to deficit, we have just bailed out $700 billion worth of bad debt held by U. S. banks and are being called upon to save the asses of the Big three automakers, along with dozens of other American companies from bankruptcy and the loss of thousands more American jobs.
When President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office he warned the country against the frightful power of the military-industrial complex in his very last speech to the nation:
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.”
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society
Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”
Since the Reagan Revolution which put effective government on the shelf and followed the mantra of Reagan himself: “Government is not the solution, Government is the problem,” and consequently from George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, government has been the instrument employed by the neo-conservatives not to solve the problems facing the common man, but the instrument of the rich and mighty to grow richer and more powerful.
Reagan did a terrible disservice to our people by making his lingering hatred of government at all levels the object of ridicule and disdain.
The Bushes spent their twelve years as heads of state in nearly bankrupting the country via tax cuts for the rich, an unwarranted war in Iraq and an unfinished war in Afghanistan, destroying our previously vigorous financial sector, our vital real estate markets, our previously flourishing stock market and a solid and abundant credit reserve. George W. Bush has turned out to be the most wretched president in modern times.
Their method emanated from their misguided concept of “free market economic.” They simply did not provide any degree of oversight to any aspect of the government’s operations.
The war in Iraq costs us billions of dollars more than necessary simply because the defense department and their various oversight operations were placed on pause. The military knows how to win combat operations, but they know nothing about nation building. In the process of attempting to glue Humpty Dumpty back together again we lost billions of dollars in stolen money by contractors, stolen ammunition from insider trading arms for favors, and pure old corruption allegedly by Cheney’s old Halliburton’s buddies and many of the independent contractors the Bush government hired to get the nation of Iraq working again after we did a superb job of demolishing it.
As a result of Bush’s reliance on hands off free market management of government departments, Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac’s issuance of loans to people who were hopelessly incapable of repaying the loans, and banks who purchased bundles of loans without proper inspection of the loans and the borrowers, the falling prices of houses for the first time in a decade and the ever increasing jobless rate which compounded the rate of foreclosures, we are closer now to the boundary of bankruptcy as a nation than we have been since the 1930’s.
The purpose of the tax cut to the middle class, the massive investment in the rebuilding of our antiquated infrastructure, the freeze on foreclosures, and the many other programs the president-elect proposes to put into place beginning January 20, 2009 after the inauguration of Barack Obama as the forty fourth president of the United States of America, is to put “buying power” into the hands of the middle class, to jump start the economy and to give the bulk of our citizens a new beginning.
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