This is all done to reduce wages, because it increases corporate profits.
And now they're still talking about destroying Social Security.
As corporate swell Rush Limbaugh said :
"Roosevelt is dead. His policies may live on, but we're in the process of doing something about that as well".
Believe it - they are dismantling all the New Deal social programs they can, just to undermine incomes (and with it economic demand) and consolidate power in the hands of fewer people.
This is what happened: 30 years of pro-corporate republican policies. From Reagan down (military spending, cuts to social programs and anything that supports the middle class). Deregulation of financial markets and banks (SnL scandal, junk bonds). This concentrated wealth in fewer and fewer hands, and started the gutting of the middle class, to the point that individuals have to work multiple jobs just to stay where they are.
They outsourced, off-shored, downsized and 'right-sized' jobs.
What you are looking at are the effects of 30 years of pro-corporate social and economic policies, down to replacing pensions with corporate 401ks and mandating corporate health insurance - all to enslave you and tie you to your corporation.
And the effect is the same as it has always been (1920s) - a total collapse of demand (salaries/incomes).
This is why tax cuts for the rich are such a waste - people need jobs, and they need their neighbors to have jobs. They don't need lower taxes.
Did your republican father also say "To hell with America"?
These individuals are anti-democratic (opposing voting rights, disrespecting outcomes of and stealing elections), they are against the constitution (way back from not applying constitutional protections to their fellow citizens), they are against economic sovereignty (look at how enthusiastically they advocated sending America's manufacturing base to China and India).
No, my right-wing father didn't say that, but to him "America" meant mostly the military anyway. To him, might made right and playing dirty was just routine. He was an oil company executive, a foul person. Whenever I hear Janeane Garofalo say, "If someone considers themselves 'conservative' at this point in time, whether they're Republican or Libertarian, there is something wrong with them psychologically," I think of my father and know that Janeane is right.
They are demonstrative about their obstructionism. They know that much worse is go come, economically. And when things fall apart, they are going blame it all on Obama, and say "Look how vehemently we opposed Obama".
There answer to everything SPEND SPEND They have spent 3 times in one year then the last 8 and what have they accomplished . It's not just the Repubs. it is Americans that are fed up up there lack of leadership and it showed that in the voting in Mass.
The republicans have no right to criticize anyone on anything. Spending? They have spent and engaged in wars of choice forever. Reagan and his Star Wars. And most recently Bush and his invasion of Iraq. Rumsfeld said it would 'only' cost $40 billion. Make that $1,000 billion now. Or $2,000 billion.
America needs to re-boot it's economy, and that is going to cost money. They need to return the manufacturing base, and that is only slowly being done.
It isn't simply 'how much' money that is being spent, it is what it is being spent on.
Bush p***ed trillions away in unnecessary wars. The Obama administration is trying to invest in productive ventures, hampered only by repubs whining about more tax cuts for the rich.
This admin has accomplished slowing the economic crash. That has bought the US time to rearrange it's economy. The only danger is that there isn't the political will to do that.
hmm I wonder if having a Black president has anything to do with the defacto filibuster tactic the republicans are using. Id better not play the race card, because thats never the case, lol.
"That's why I am proposing a $400 billion dollar tax cut..."
*applause*
"on our upper income earners!"
*thunderous applause*
Yes, the Republican Congress had nothing to do with the deficit.
nafaidni 2 years ago
The problem is that even though the Republicans abuse the filibuster they'll abuse the lack of a majority even more.
Again the principle of "Republicans are always wrong no matter which side they are on," rears it's ugly head.
CavemanSynthesizer 2 years ago
This is all done to reduce wages, because it increases corporate profits.
And now they're still talking about destroying Social Security.
As corporate swell Rush Limbaugh said :
"Roosevelt is dead. His policies may live on, but we're in the process of doing something about that as well".
Believe it - they are dismantling all the New Deal social programs they can, just to undermine incomes (and with it economic demand) and consolidate power in the hands of fewer people.
tigerone1970 2 years ago
This is what happened: 30 years of pro-corporate republican policies. From Reagan down (military spending, cuts to social programs and anything that supports the middle class). Deregulation of financial markets and banks (SnL scandal, junk bonds). This concentrated wealth in fewer and fewer hands, and started the gutting of the middle class, to the point that individuals have to work multiple jobs just to stay where they are.
They outsourced, off-shored, downsized and 'right-sized' jobs.
tigerone1970 2 years ago
What you are looking at are the effects of 30 years of pro-corporate social and economic policies, down to replacing pensions with corporate 401ks and mandating corporate health insurance - all to enslave you and tie you to your corporation.
And the effect is the same as it has always been (1920s) - a total collapse of demand (salaries/incomes).
This is why tax cuts for the rich are such a waste - people need jobs, and they need their neighbors to have jobs. They don't need lower taxes.
tigerone1970 2 years ago
As my right-wing father used to say, "I didn't say anything about fair."
colibri1 2 years ago
@colibri1
Did your republican father also say "To hell with America"?
These individuals are anti-democratic (opposing voting rights, disrespecting outcomes of and stealing elections), they are against the constitution (way back from not applying constitutional protections to their fellow citizens), they are against economic sovereignty (look at how enthusiastically they advocated sending America's manufacturing base to China and India).
They make Osama bin Laden look like a patriot.
tigerone1970 2 years ago 2
@tigerone1970
No, my right-wing father didn't say that, but to him "America" meant mostly the military anyway. To him, might made right and playing dirty was just routine. He was an oil company executive, a foul person. Whenever I hear Janeane Garofalo say, "If someone considers themselves 'conservative' at this point in time, whether they're Republican or Libertarian, there is something wrong with them psychologically," I think of my father and know that Janeane is right.
colibri1 2 years ago 2
The republicans are betting on armageddon.
They are demonstrative about their obstructionism. They know that much worse is go come, economically. And when things fall apart, they are going blame it all on Obama, and say "Look how vehemently we opposed Obama".
That is all the 'ideology' they have left.
tigerone1970 2 years ago
Control of the White House = No Leader
Control of the House= No Leader
Control of the Senate = No leader
There answer to everything SPEND SPEND They have spent 3 times in one year then the last 8 and what have they accomplished . It's not just the Repubs. it is Americans that are fed up up there lack of leadership and it showed that in the voting in Mass.
ekjohndeer 2 years ago
@ekjohndeer
The republicans have no right to criticize anyone on anything. Spending? They have spent and engaged in wars of choice forever. Reagan and his Star Wars. And most recently Bush and his invasion of Iraq. Rumsfeld said it would 'only' cost $40 billion. Make that $1,000 billion now. Or $2,000 billion.
America needs to re-boot it's economy, and that is going to cost money. They need to return the manufacturing base, and that is only slowly being done.
tigerone1970 2 years ago 2
@ekjohndeer
It isn't simply 'how much' money that is being spent, it is what it is being spent on.
Bush p***ed trillions away in unnecessary wars. The Obama administration is trying to invest in productive ventures, hampered only by repubs whining about more tax cuts for the rich.
This admin has accomplished slowing the economic crash. That has bought the US time to rearrange it's economy. The only danger is that there isn't the political will to do that.
tigerone1970 2 years ago
@ekjohndeer
There are still 3 major dangers 30 years of repub governments have left the US in.
1) Consumer Debt
2) States going bankrupt
3) Deregulated derivatives markets
Especially the last has left the WORLD with over $192 trillion in derivatives, even though global GDP is about $60 trillion.
That could blow up everything, depending on how it is wound down.
tigerone1970 2 years ago
How are they spending?
The stimulus bill is the only major thing that has passed, and many economists said it was neccessary.
Other than the stimulus bill, nothing has been passed because the Republicans are filibustering everything. (80% of all legislation in fact)
steel1968 2 years ago
hmm I wonder if having a Black president has anything to do with the defacto filibuster tactic the republicans are using. Id better not play the race card, because thats never the case, lol.
NubianTribesman 2 years ago 2