Name something for war criminal Reagan? I suggest the Ronnie Reagan Toxic Waste Dump.
To suggest throwing out Floyd B Olson for that moral midget Reagan is just one more step in the corporate/ruling class attempt to overthrow democracy and install greedy parasites at the top of the food chain, and push all the rest of us down into serfdom, slavery, and ecocide. Their agenda is a disaster. Capitalism has revealed itself to be anti-democratic, mean, violent, militaristic, life-destroying. Three cheers for socialism, a social safety net, medicare, medicaid, universal education, publicly financed elections, welfare for the poor. Floyd B Olson was on the right track. Reagan and his henchmen have shown us just how bad, corrupt, and toxic is rule by big money, blue blood families, and corporations. Don't trust anyone over $1,000,000,000.00 --David Shove On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Steve Nelson wrote: > In his article about the petition drive by the Taxpayers League, Conrad > Defiebre quotes the Taxpayers League president David Strom as saying, > "It is finally time to put official celebration of socialism and > communism firmly in the past," he said. "Floyd B. Olson represents the > failed path of socialism. It is ridiculous that we still celebrate his > vision while not properly honoring Reagan's visionary leadership that > liberated so many." > > Liberated? Reagan's greatest achievement was in liberating corporations > from any responsibility for their actions--other than making the most > money as fast as possible. > > It was under his leadership that we began to hear about how government > was bad and corporations were good. All our woes would be solved if we > would just free up our corporations from silly regulations like the > Clean Water and Clean Air Acts and stop taxing them so they could create > jobs. > > Of course, we aren't supposed to remember how the corporations used > these windfall profits to buy out their competition and shut down > competing businesses. Or how they dumped all their workers who had > livable wages and benefits and then turned to temp agencies to hire them > back at low wages and no benefits. That was real liberating. > > And the art of the hostile takeover was perfected leaving many small > towns and cities devastated when their major employers were taken over > by corporations with no stake in the community and sold off to create > boosts in the next quarters profits. > > Who was it that Reagan liberated? Corporations and the wealthiest > individuals in our country who liberated from their fair share of our > tax burden and from having to have any kind of social conscience at all. > > Let's not forget that the homeless man sleeping on the heating grate on > a cold winter's night is there because he wants to be! > > And remember how school kids all over the country worshipped at Reagan's > feet when they didn't have to eat those awful vegetables! All they had > to do was put plenty of ketchup on those hamburgers because that was > reclassified as a vegetable for school lunch programs. > > Oh, yes, this is a great man to name a road after in Minnesota. After > all, what did Floyd B Olson do except introduce public unemployment > insurance, old age pensions, a mortgage moratorium on farms, and a > progressive income tax, which he managed to get passed in the middle of > the depression by dedicating it solely to education for its first 20 > years. He also helped to establish cooperative business enterprises > because he believed some things belonged to the people and needed to be > managed by the people. > > Of the people, by the people, for the people--what a terrible > anti-liberation concept that must be for the Taxpayers League. > > Let's honor Reagan and our national slide into a government of the > corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations. That definitely > deserves a monument so let's save it for our first privatized toll road > and leave the Olson Memorial Highway alone. > > Steven M Nelson > > Willard Hay > > http://citizenshipchronicles.blogspot.com/ > > Get UP! Get OUT! & GET INVOLVED!!! > > > _____________________________________________ > To Join: St. Paul Issues Forum Rules Discussion > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _____________________________________________ > NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul > > Archive Address: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
