Sunday, October 05, 2008
sunday matinee
Folks, I sure hope that y'all didnt actually want health care in this country, because unless you're willing to sacrifice the military budget (ours is equal to the rest of the worlds) we're going to have to pay for the War and the Bailout somehow, and increasing taxes is, as Bill Maher described it, the "third rail" of politics. What else do you suppose we'll loose?
props to Kel
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I sooooo do not like either candidate.
Candidates are pretty irrelevant at this point to the economy. We're in the middle of a slow-moving train wreck, and there isnt much anyone can do to stop it. The real question is, what's going to be done after the last boxcar spills its crates? The Great Depression was met with a massive government program to put people to work, keeping the people busy and fed even though there wasnt a whole lot going on business-wise. A lot of time was spent on infrastructure, which came in useful when things got better.
Who do you suppose is more likely to do something like that this time? Democrats, or Republicans?
I'm not crazy about Obama, as far as I can tell he's another politician with a Machine. But McCain is a Republican of the recent mold, someone who's response to any situation is to propose tax cuts, then reduce services (the whole point of government is service to the people, not service to the corporations), just as the Republicans have been pushing for over the last quarter-century. I dont expect anything but more of the same destructive stupidity from him, and the only reason I can think of to vote him into office is that the added misery he'll bring to the country will help speed its awakening.
Actually, that's not totally true; Another good reason to elect him would be to place a check on Democratic excesses in Congress, except that the Democrats have shown no signs of doing anything but going along with the Republican president, so I'm not sure that'd work this time around.
People came to America to escape the feudal system, and here we've managed to recreate it, comforting ourselves with words like "capitalism", "competition" and "self-reliance". I find it interesting that the decline of America is concurrent with the decline of Unions. America, when you think about it, was created as one giant (more perfect) Union, the Constitution intended to be used by the People to battle the Aristocracy Corporation and its trickle-down system, where the People did the work and the Bosses got the Spoils.
And now we seem to have returned to square minus one.
Except that now, the Aristocracy doesnt even have to worry about Noblesse oblige.
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