Nanny State in Free Fall

The American government is run on behalf of the Big Businesses who fund elections, staff government, and remove any candidate or sitting official who does not play ball.

The American media is owned by the same corporations.

Starting in the 70s, the Republican Party became a mechanism for turning business profits into political and media outcomes.

Starting in the 1980's -- with the help of lobbying and election funding -- the GOP moved corporate representatives directly into government - where they began drafting laws and spreading into regulatory bodies. This lead to the meticulous creation of tax loop holes and corrupt porky subsidies. Now we have monopolies in every sector which make unprecedented profits, but no longer pay anything close to the advertised tax rate. Once all the tax breaks, loopholes, and subsidies are factored in, many of the wealthiest corporations pay no taxes at all.

The result is permanent revenue crisis which gets resolved through the elimination of middle class programs.

The Reagan Revolution has replaced FDR's postwar middle class with a permanent underclass a.k.a. cheap labor.

Irony of Irony. During the Cold War Reagan bragged to the world that America was better than the Soviet Union because our working classes had material wealth, subsidized education (upward mobility) and well paying jobs. Meanwhile, off-stage, large corporations gathered, snickering at the world they wee about to create - a world where wages, benefits, programs and everything that sustained middle class consumer demand, was going to be cut on behalf of tax cuts. The corporations said that the money would trickle down in the form of good jobs and cheap prices. But: what did they actually do once the GOP installed them in Washington? Did the money, benefits, and jobs trickle down as promised? Or did their lifestyles, personal fortunes, and golden parachutes get bigger?

They took option B: cheap labor. They shipped jobs overseas and started a 30 year war against benefits and wages. Worse: to make up for the loss of income, benefits, and programs, the middle class was given a credit card. This is the dirty little secret of the Reagan Revolution: when the money didn't trickle down, they expanded debt to keep the economy afloat. [Does FOX News ever talk about how much consumer debt entered the system in the 80s - or why everybody received 3 credit cards offer a week?] When the consumption economy ran out of credit, it fueled the economy with last asset left: homes. Now - the middle class is jobless. Consumer debt is so high that it will take decades for people to start buying again. We are Japan and we are entering a lost decade.

But that's not all...

The GOP has been fooled into believing that they live in Ayn Rand's America. The same Any Rand whose father's pharmacy was stolen by the Stalin Government. They live inside a corporate-funded echo chamber which tirelessly repeats the same 3 economic cliches. Here is what they don't understand.

The Government no longer owns the pharmacy.

The pharmaceutical owns the government.

The GOP has raised a generation of morons and we are finally paying the price.

I read your post and I'm quite unsatisfied...:lol:

Sheesh .. could you share the blame a little so you'd seem at least a little balanced..:eusa_eh:
 
Whats the matter, HoseFuck? Tough questions make you butthurt?

Your 0ssiah has been president since 1/20/2009...

Are we supposed to ignore the shit he's done since then?

Does the buck stop with 0bama or not?

Sorry, did I say anything about ignoring Obama's debt? I just find it funny that righties are all of a sudden up in arms over the debt when 10 out of the 14 trillion was left by the previous president. I realize that Obama has responsibility, but you can't just overlook the 10 trillion that Bush left him. I don't go around blaming Bush for everything. I have plenty of complaints for Obama. But the debt? Given his role in its size, Bush's name has to be mentioned.

Barry has made things worse...

I've spent years bitching about the drunken sailor spending by the Bush Admin... Continuing to bitch about what's past serves absolutely no purpose...

How we are going to fix this shit is way more important to me than passing the buck around...

No, Obama has not made things worse. Things are not much better, but they would be worse without the action he took. Things would be even better if Obama and the Dems had willing partners in Congress. Unfortunately, they have to deal with a Rep party that has no interest in dealing with Dems. All they do is say NO and attempt to block everything. Then they offer up far-right plans that won't get through the Senate and bitch and wine when they don't get their way.

Reps only concerns are tax cuts for the rich, tax breaks for big business, cutting entitlements, and war. They obviously don't care about job creation. The House has done absolutely nothing to help create jobs. McConnell said his single most important goal is to make sure Obama is a one term president. He actually said that. He didn't say jobs or the economy. And don't give me the "Well, if Obama wasn't in office the economy would automatically get better, so he's right" argument. It's getting tired.
 
Sorry, did I say anything about ignoring Obama's debt? I just find it funny that righties are all of a sudden up in arms over the debt when 10 out of the 14 trillion was left by the previous president. I realize that Obama has responsibility, but you can't just overlook the 10 trillion that Bush left him. I don't go around blaming Bush for everything. I have plenty of complaints for Obama. But the debt? Given his role in its size, Bush's name has to be mentioned.

Barry has made things worse...

I've spent years bitching about the drunken sailor spending by the Bush Admin... Continuing to bitch about what's past serves absolutely no purpose...

How we are going to fix this shit is way more important to me than passing the buck around...

No, Obama has not made things worse. Things are not much better, but they would be worse without the action he took. Things would be even better if Obama and the Dems had willing partners in Congress. Unfortunately, they have to deal with a Rep party that has no interest in dealing with Dems. All they do is say NO and attempt to block everything. Then they offer up far-right plans that won't get through the Senate and bitch and wine when they don't get their way.

Reps only concerns are tax cuts for the rich, tax breaks for big business, cutting entitlements, and war. They obviously don't care about job creation. The House has done absolutely nothing to help create jobs. McConnell said his single most important goal is to make sure Obama is a one term president. He actually said that. He didn't say jobs or the economy. And don't give me the "Well, if Obama wasn't in office the economy would automatically get better, so he's right" argument. It's getting tired.


The economy, unemployment, gas, food, commodoties have gotten progressively worse. There are 14-20 million unemployed.
 
Just wondering, has anyone else noticed that the "Liberal Utopian" dream of government coddling you from cradle to grave has fallen flat on it's ass!

In fact, now it's even worse..

Now, they surreptitiously threaten to throw old folks over cliffs and starve babies..:eusa_eh:

Wonder how long before the masters throw the rest of their tools off the cliff, too?

Many of us actually know the answer to that.

The moment they cease being useful.
 
Yea when Mexico has a 4.5% Unemployment Rate while the U.S. has a staggering 9.4% Unemployment Rate,you know we're fucked. And they don't have the massive Debt we have either. So even Mexico is now kicking our Ass in the Economy. We very well could have the worst Economy on the North American Continent. Did you really think you would ever live to see that? So WTG Mr. President & Democrats! You've achieved the unimaginable. We suck very badly. :(

Did you forget to tell your cum-sucking corporations to hire Americans? Yes, the Party of "NO" and "DO WHATEVER IT TAKES" has managed to destroy America and drag it into a black hole.
The socialist left are the ones dragging this country down.
 
if the left runs a nanny state taking care of you from craddle to grave then the right runs a police state telling you what to do from cradle to grave.

how so.. Spectrumc01... ?

the right wants to control reproductive rights, contraception and abortion. They want to control your end of life issues, terry schivo & jack kevorkian for examples. They want to control your behavior such as when and where you can and cannot purchase alcohol, can't purchase alcohol on sundays or in dry counties. They want to control who can and cannot get married, gay marriage.
good!!!
 

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