Ironies of the week:
1. Bush insisting on TV that he’s a ‘free trade’ guy.
Sorry, but isn’t this the administration that slammed it doors on the importation of incredibly affordable Canadian pharmaceuticals?
2. The Right Wing bombasting on about Obama’s agenda to “redistribute the wealth” in America.
What? The most massive ‘redistribution of wealth’ in the history of the world took place in the last eight years. Only unlike Robin Hood, the Bush administration’s ‘redistribution’ robbed the US Treasury, the incomes of the middle class and the safety nets of the needy and gave it all to the corporate rich. They planted a derrick over the Treasury and sucked the revenue of three generations straight up to the top. Sucked it dry.
3. The Big 3 US automakers coming to Washington wanting bundles of tax dollars in bailout.
Excuse me? The guys who successfully helped lobby for lower corporate taxes? Lower capital gains taxes? Lower income taxes on higher incomes? No estate taxes?
The guys who opened auto factories all over the world to find cheap labor, not only escaping even more US corporate taxes but further depriving the US Treasury of the income taxes once paid by several million autoworkers?
I see. They helped hack the tax revenue milk cow into hamburger, and now they show up needing a quart of cream? Thinking they actually DESERVE a quart of cream? If it wasn’t so sickening it would be funny.
Looking around at this country now, it almost seems like capitalism is a failed experiment. Except maybe the last 40 years in this country haven’t been about capitalism, but about covert Economic Fascism. Maybe our democracy has been hijacked by Big Business.
That would sure reconcile a lot of contradictory, senseless recent history. Maybe curing our woes is as simple as practicing a working democracy instead of only paying lip service to it?
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