Posted on 04/29/2014 4:53:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
The GOP is fighting the real enemy, the Tea Party.
The first thing that needs to be done before that can happen is the Traitorous, Trojan-Horse, Democrat Collaborating cowards, Corporate Cronyists, the GOP-E, have to be removed and replaced with Fire-Breathing, Tea-Party Patriots.
Until then, everyone is “whistling past the graveyard” thinking that the GOP will regain it’s backbone.
“The GOPe and its Chamber of Commerce and Corporate donors stand to make a fortune from Obamacare and other massive Federal Government overreaches. This is a matter of money and lots of it, not a lack of courage.”
Big business wanted to end the defined benefit pension system in private industry. Once 401K and IRA legislation was passed, corporations ran from pensions shifting the burden of retirement savings to employees with no increase in wages. They also fixed the bankruptcy laws allowing them to shed past pension liabilities through the bankruptcy process.
In the 1970’s and 1980’s big business slashed capital spending for modernizing and maintaining the factories built post WWII. The leveraged buyout boom of the 1980’s stripped productive assets from companies enriching investment banks and the 1%. By 1990 America’s factories were inefficient shadows of their former glory and needed billions of investment dollars to for modernization and streamlined to be competitive internationally. Instead of spending that money in the US, big business pushed “free trade” legislation through Congress ending quotas and dropping tariffs on imports. As soon as free trade was implemented, the investment dollars were spent building new factories in Asia instead of modernizing US factories. Wall Street banks made billions on the deindustrialization of the US. At the same time millions of middle class jobs were eliminated, wages stagnated in the US, and the inflation adjusting income of the average American began dropping for the first time in US history.
Big business and the 1% wanted cheap labor to perform unskilled jobs at prices lower than Americans were willing to perform the work. The last 4 administrations did their bidding by failing to enforce immigration laws and allowing millions of illegal immigrants to pour into the country. The wave of immigration depressed wages in the economy and dramatically increased social spending and taxation to support social spending. The financial burden hit the middle class, not the wealthy, not the corporations, not the big banks.
Now big business wants to stop spending on employee health care and shift the cost to employees or the government. Obamacare is the first step to single payer. What business wants the Republicans in Congress will deliver. Fear of losing access to big money is greater than fear of constituents. After all, what choice do those dumb constituents have anyway, vote for the Democrats?
“The financial burden hit the middle class, not the wealthy, not the corporations, not the big banks.”
Very well said. I am going to save your post to refer to next time someone tries to tell me that Obama or anyone in Washington is interested in reducing “income inequality”.
Exactly correct, I find it humorous, tho sad, how many people, even smart educated people fail to see what is right in front of them. The GOP and the Rats, are ON THE SAME TEAM, the GOP is the right hand of the oligarchy, the Rats are the left hand. The enemy of the oligarchy is or rather was the American middle class. Well the ruling class (oligarchy) solved it's middle class problem by destroying middle class wealth and importing millions upon millions of poor from third world country. Our new neighbors understand there place in society since the society they left is just like the society our rulers are building for us here. See Mexico for a good example.
As long as our rulers can trick us into believing we have a choice on election day things will only get worse and worse then now is hard to imagine.
I was born in 1963; my mother was in her forties at the time, so I was a Caesarean baby.
Some years ago, my husband and I were going through an old steamer trunk that belonged to my dad, and we came across the receipt for the anesthesiologist’s bill....it was $43.
Those were the days when your insurance man came to your house and sold you the policy you picked out for yourself. That $43 was the uninsured price; my parents thought no kids were in the picture by that time, so they didn’t include pregnancy coverage, LOL.
Yes you are right. And amnesty is going to be the final death knell for this country. Both parties are itching to do it and everyday you hear less and less about securing the border. Neither head of the Hydra wants the border secured.
As I have said before we are beyond the ballot box at this point.
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