If nothing else, Sen. Joe Biden deserves a medal. How the fuck was he able to keep a straight face throughout the debate with Gov. Sarah "Joe Sixpack Maverick Hockey Mom" Palin on Thursday night? Watching it online, I was barely able to restrain myself.
The party that loves blaming low income people for all the social woes this nation faces, saying that people need to take responsibillity for their actions, blames everyone else for our economic crisis. Somehow, only Democrats - but Republican economic policies - caused this. It's Freddie and Fannie's fault! It is all the lenders' faults! Nope, the people who took out loans to buy McMansions that they could not afford are totally innocent. And, of yeah, "government is the problem."
I'm not saying that Obama-Biden are perfect. But for fuck's sake, I don't know how anyone can think that McCain-Palin are going to fix any of the problems we have today. McCain has proved that he is utterly unstable and Palin is a clueless religious fundamentalist who is essentially George W. Bush in a dress. (She even says nuclear the same way as Bush - "nucular.")
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I kinda want to kiss you right now. Living deep in brainwashed GOP land, I have had to give basic civics lessons for a week.
ReplyDelete"Even if the Democrats had wanted to draft legislation that allowed every broke minority to buy a home, the GOP has had a 2/3 majority of both houses since 1996 and the White House taboot since 2000. We couldn't pass legislation. Denny Hassert and Tom DeLay wouldn't even let our bills get brought up for a vote. It just wasn't put on the agenda."
This GOP idea that pumping money to the top to the follow the bottom is the exact same solution Coolidge and Hoover tried to stimulate the economy in the 1920s. Rather than creating new industry, that lead to overproduction of goods already being manufactured while the consumers' income remained stagnant, thus leaving the markets flooded with unsellable products and unpayable debts. Sound familiar?
When the nation faced the same issues following WWII, rather than try the top trickle to the bottom fiasco that BushCo modeled, the Roosevelt and Truman plan did the exact opposite with GI Bill. With less capital investment from the nation, they pumped the resources to the bottom tier of the economic scale for homes, businesses and education. And, the economy experienced the longest period of sustainable growth in history. The Coolidge Hoover plans, for example, produced more steel on a short term basis because they gave money directly to mining companies to produce it. But, once produced, no one had money to buy it.
Roosevelt and Hoover gave the same money to the average American to construct buildings for their own small business, thus driving up the need for steel. With the small business succeeding, the owners built new homes, driving up more need for the steel. The company did pay a higher percentage of tax, but the profits were so much larger that the corporations became much wealthier with the strength of the American consumer.
It amazes me that we have tried this trickle down tax policy three times and, all three times, we have the biggest market crashes in history within five years and that people still don't fucking get it.
You should have heard me shouting "it's Nu-CLEAR!"
ReplyDeleteI watched the debate last night on the big screen at an event hosted by Democrats Abroad. It was kind of like being at two movies at once - comedy and horror. Have to say Joe Biden really, really impressed me. I also wish they'd replaced the moderator with someone without an identified bias who could have been harder on Palin without the GOP screaming bias.
ReplyDeleteAlso, did you notice how Biden got all the hard questions first?
After the screening, we had a Q&A with some Democrats Abroad people and a Newsweek editor. Fingers crossed we'll win this one, but how are the Dems not 40 points ahead in the polls?
If we don't win this election, I vote for the dissolution of the Democratic Party.