Republican and Tea Party Strategies:
Strategy: Example 1. Anti-Sex (unless its them) Newt Gingrich, abstinence only, and the GOP politician divorce rate 2. Anti-Planned pregnancies Defund Planned Parenthood 3. Anti-Adequate Health care for all but the wealthy Protect the Insurance Middlemen and charge it to the consumer. 4. Anti-Science Creationism, defund environmental planning, make outrageous costs for science education. defund NASA 5. Anti-Art Recast the foundational human brain activity as frills 6. Anti-Humanities Recast the pursuit of values in human communication as a frill. 7. Anti-Elders Make them pay for Elder costs after giving their lives to American business 8. Anti-Labor (definition of insane is unbalanced.) Empower the rich, depower the worker. Redefine systemic insanity as normal and balance as "stagnant." 9. Anti-Religion (except for their own) Constant lies about almost every religion other than Fundamentalism, define complaints as "Anti-Christian"- redefine Christianity as the worship of money and call it "responsibility." 10. Anti-Competence (except for the rich) Make education too expensive and give the poor vouchers that are inadequate for a good education as in vouchers for Elder care (same strategy) 11. Anti Higher Education (except for the rich) Make education too expensive and give the poor vouchers that are inadequate for a good education as in vouchers for Elder care (same strategy) 12. Pro-money (especially for them) The doctrine of cost effectiveness over everything including life itself. 13. Pro-American chauvinism Call it "American Specialness" although value all serious European culture above American serious complex culture and secretly hate the Europeans for being "better." 14. Pro-Local provinciality. State's "rights" and mean that local politicians can treat their citizens any way they please with no help from the nation. 15. Pro-Guaranteed Minimum Income And call it a voucher for education and healthcare. 16. Pro-Government control of Individual Morality And call it Pro-Life. "You may think you know what I said but what you heard was not what I meant." Old Cherokee saying "It's not what I said but what you believe I meant that matters." Ilana Rubenfeld "Whether a system works or not speaks to it's quality but not it's morality." Gunther Schuller REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D and N Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 6:50 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] FW: Sharp Drop in American Enthusiasm for Free Market, Poll Shows >From Sam Smith's Progressive Review, posted April 6, 2011 No fault Capitalism and Lemon Socialism Three decades ago we had another fiscal disaster known as the S&L crisis. More than 1600 banks closed. The GAO estimated that the scandal cost the government $160 billion and set a precedent for the government bailing out rich bankers which would come to haunt us again. The Review was one of the few in the media to raise questions about the bailout, including this comment, which seems eerily contemporary: The S&L solution is the most egregious example to date of no-fault capitalism and lemon socialism. The former is the remarkable principle that - notwithstanding all the fawning over the ""free market economy"" - our largest business institutions are philosophically, fiscally and criminally exempt from the ultimate consequences of laisse faire. The latter is the equally inconsistent principle that to maintain the free market the government is responsible for anything out of which private enterprise can't make a profit. It may not, however, help support this magnificent non sequitur through activities that might actually provide income for the government, No, the rules of the game are that a major industry is allowed to make whatever mistakes it wishes in pursuit of the holy grail of free enterprise, the costs of which to be fully borne by the taxpayer, Natalia On 4/7/2011 1:47 PM, michael gurstein wrote: -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sid Shniad Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 2:16 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Sharp Drop in American Enthusiasm for Free Market, Poll Shows http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/btglobalizationtradera/684.p hp World Public Opinion.org April 6, 2011 Sharp Drop in American Enthusiasm for Free Market, Poll Shows American public support for the free market economy has dropped sharply in the past year, and is now lower than in China, according to a GlobeScan poll released today. The findings, drawn from 12,884 interviews across 25 countries, show that there has been a sharp fall in the number of Americans who think that the free market economy is the best economic system for the future. When GlobeScan began tracking views in 2002, four in five Americans (80%) saw the free market as the best economic system for the future--the highest level of support among tracking countries. Support started to fall away in the following years and recovered slightly after the financial crisis in 2007/8, but has plummeted since 2009, falling 15 points in a year so that fewer than three in five (59%) now see free market capitalism as the best system for the future. GlobeScan Chairman Doug Miller commented: "America is the last place we would have expected to see such a sharp drop in trust in the free enterprise system. This is not good news for business." The results mean that a number of the world's major emerging economies have now matched or overtaken the USA in their enthusiasm for the free market. The Chinese and Brazilians, 67 percent of whom regard the free market system as the best on offer, are now more positive about capitalism than Americans, while enthusiasm in India now equals that in the USA, with 59 percent rating the free market as the best system for the future. Among the 20 countries polled in both 2009 and 2010, an average of 54 percent today rate the free market economy as the best economic system, unchanged from 2009. <http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/images/apr11/FreeMarket_Apr11_graph1 .jpg> Americans with incomes below $20,000 were particularly likely to have lost faith in the free market over the past year, with their support dropping from 76 percent to 44 percent between 2009 and 2010. American women have also become much less positive, with 52 percent backing the free market in 2010, down from 73 percent in 2009. The poll was conducted by telephone in China and the US, and by telephone, in-person, or online in the 23 other countries between June 24 and September 18, 2010 by the international polling firm GlobeScan and its national partners. Before today's public release, only clients of GlobeScan's "Radar" reports have had access to these results. National results are considered accurate within +/- 3.0 to +/- 4.9 percent, 19 times out of 20. GlobeScan Chairman Doug Miller added: "The poll suggest that American business is close to losing its social contract with average American families that has enabled it to prosper in the world. Inspired leadership will be needed to reverse this trend." Fieldwork was conducted in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the USA. Interviews were conducted via face-to-face, by telephone, or online (Japan only) between June 24 and September 18, 2010. Polling was conducted by GlobeScan and its research partners in each country. Some urban-only surveying was conducted in certain developing countries, following generally accepted research standards in each country. The margin of error per country ranges from +/-3.0 to 4.9 percent, 19 times out of 20. For more information about GlobeScan see www.GlobeScan.com <http://www.globescan.com/> <http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/images/apr11/FreeMarket_Apr11_graph2 .jpg> Questionnaire Please tell me if you strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or strongly disagree with each of the following statements? READ AND ROTATE STATEMENTS. CODE ONE EACH. 2bt) The free market system and free market economy is the best system on which to base the future of the world 01 -- Strongly agree 02 -- Somewhat agree 03 -- Somewhat disagree 04 -- Strongly disagree VOLUNTEERED (DO NOT READ) 05 -- Depends / neither agree nor disagree 99 -- DK/NA !DSPAM:2676,4d9dff80308681602639591! _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
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