It is a sad time in our country's history. The hardest struck sector of this economy are pauns in a game where 750 billion dollars in tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent is as important to the right as tax cuts for the middle class and unemployment for those hardest hit by this economy. It is unconscionable. President Obama is buckling under his conscience, not wanting to leave the down trodden and hard working to go without the help they so desperately need; Yet 3/4 of a trillion dollars in deficit spending is more important to the right. It truly is as the media has been saying: the right is holding the unemployed hostage to outright greed. A dollar given back to those most needing it is going to stimulate the economy. That money will go right back into the economy creating and supporting the jobs americans need. a dollar going back to the wealthiest 2% is going to be squirreled away until the economy improves if it does.
I wish the democrats would just let them expire and propose something like a stimulus bill for everyone equivalent to the amount the middle class would receive. there's more than one way to skin a cat. There is posturing on both sides, the votes on extending the bush tax cuts for everyone on the first quarter million, had no real chance of passing; but it illustrates how brazen the right is. If President Obama were to allow the Bush taxcuts expire, The right would present it as a tax hike. It's a sick game of rhetoric and misinformation.
I seem to remember a certain John McCain working across the aisle with one of my political heroes, Russ Feingold to reform Campaign finance. But McCain Has turned an about face on this very issue allowing 527's to misinform the electorate in his name. Not that the left has not used 527's; MoveOn.org represents many democratic points of view, but they also challenge the left to grow a back bone and not cave to the right. I can't remember an ad by MoveOn that wasn't factual. the right on the other hand distorts facts and mongers fear convincing their base of things that just are not true; death panels will decide your fate, democrats will take away your guns, Obama is not a U.S. citizen. I don't like to pass judgment on people who are ignorant or just plain unintelligent; However,the right convinces them of these lies and their 527 straw men flood the airwaves with sound bites and misinformation that plays into this; The wealthy then laugh all the way to the bank.
It is sad; I often wonder how bad it will have to get before people realize figures like Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, even George W. Bush are merely puppets of propaganda for anyone who can pay enough. Or that the right wing is not out for their best interests.
the only hope I have for 2012 is that if Caribou Barbie gets the republican nomination, I think there are enough people on the right who just aren't that into the tea party; that they will realize just how clueless she is, and how important the role of president truly is. I shudder to think what may happen if she has her finger on the button. Misinformation however it is perpetuated is a web of lies. A government elected on lies has no accountability, and no reason to do right by their electorate.
