This article gives the impression that Republicans aren't creative. That
they have an inability to learn to do new things and go new directions.
I disagree. They decided what it is that they are suppose to do for
their masters, as they are the open Corporate Political Party, and they
pound away at it, and have eroded much of all the gains made in 1952 to
1960.
1958 was the height of the American dream. We had the most for the least
then. A man could not only support a wife and 2 kids, AND pay for a
house, but DEBT FINANCING, that is mortgages and credit cards, being
hocked up to your ears, and always owning more money (though that is
counted as wealth in the wealth indexes today) then one had in the bank.
People back then had more money in the bank, percentage wise for value,
then they have in debt now, and they owned what they had then, instead
of paying on it.
For 59 years the Republicans have plugged away at what Herbert Hoover
insisted was their goal, and they've gotten it for those that got them
elected, and for the last 50 years have had more and more Democrats
competing with them for the same uncontrolled Government spending,
deficit spending and inflation.
If you wonder why the Party of a Few, has profited so well, follow the
money. Who finds the elections, who controls the Media, who is it that
gets favorable Legislation, Corporate welfare while our Social Programs
and infrastructure are cut to ribbons.
It is no longer a good political party against a bad Political party, it
is out and out Class Warfare, the Elite after every last dime and bit of
property that you have, and then making you work for slave wages to
produce what others who still have a dime, will give them, yet is only
worth a penny, but they can't get it anywhere else as it is a Monopoly
controlled everyday necessity.
Most people are unaware that the rich, during the last Great Depression,
got Filthy Rich, they were at the top of their predatory food chain, and
the anti monopoly laws that were designed to protect us from them, while
we worked for them and bought the goods they manufactured, were
dismantled during Clinton's 8 years and the fist 4 of GW's, the economy
was managed for another Depression..... after all it is just good business.
Scott
Who Says Republicans Have No New Ideas?
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
13 February
Quiz: Which of the 2012 presidential aspirants delivered the following
words at the Conservative Political Action Convention, now underway in
Washington?
/We have seen tax-and-tax spend-and-spend reach a fantastic total
greater than in all the previous 170 years of our Republic.
Behind this plush curtain of tax and spend, three sinister spooks or
ghosts are mixing poison for the American people. They are the
shades of Mussolini, with his bureaucratic fascism; of Karl Marx,
and his socialism; and of Lord Keynes, with his perpetual government
spending, deficits, and inflation. And we added a new ideology of
our own. That is government give-away programs....
If you want to see pure socialism mixed with give-away programs,
take a look at socialized medicine./
If you guessed Jim DeMint, you could be forgiven. He talks a lot like
this. But you'd be wrong. Newt Gingrich didn't utter these precise
words, either, although he uses much the same language and offers the
same themes.
You'd also be wrong if you guessed Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Tim
Pawlenty, Ron Paul, Haley Barbour, John Thune, Mitt Romney, or Mitch
Daniels. (Sarah Palin isn't attending.)
But again, your mistake would be understandable because these words
sound a lot like theirs. Any of them could have delivered this message -
and all of them have, over and over again. It's the Republican message
of 2011.
*The perfectly correct answer is Herbert Hoover.*
*Herbert Hoover didn't deliver these words at this week's Conservative
Political Action Convention, though. He delivered them at the Republican
National Convention in Chicago on July 8, 1952.*
*That was almost sixty years ago.*
Republicans haven't come up with a single new idea since. They haven't
even come up with a new theme.
Herbert Hoover, you may remember, didn't have a sterling record when it
came to the economy.*As president, he presided over the Great Crash of
1929 and ushered in the Great Depression. He had no idea for what to do
to help the nation out of the Depression except to balance the federal
budget. *By the time he was voted out of office in 1932, *one out of
four Americans was unemployed.*
*By 1952, Hoover had been proven irrelevant and hidebound.*
After Dwight D. Eisenhower won the 1952 Republican nomination and went
on to become president, *he wisely disregarded everything Hoover had
advi*sed.
Under Ike, the marginal income tax on America's highest earners was 91
percent. Eisenhower also commenced the biggest infrastructure program in
the nation's history - the National Interstate and Defense Highway Act,
which replaced America's meandering two-lane roads with 40,000 miles of
straight four and six-lane highways. He signed into law the National
Defense Education Act, which trained a whole generation of math and
science teachers, and upgraded American classrooms for the future. The
Federal Housing Authority subsidized home ownership. The Defense
Department spawned future technologies in aerospace and telecommunications.
*Did the US suffer fascism, socialism, deficits and inflation, as Hoover
predicted? No. The US economy soared*. *The median wage rose faster than
ever before. And the incomes of America's working class and poor rose at
the fastest pace of all.*
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/Robert Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the University of
California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations,
most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has
written twelve books, including "The Work of Nations," "Locked in the
Cabinet," "Supercapitalism" and his latest book, "AFTERSHOCK: The Next
Economy and America's Future
<http://www.amazon.com/Aftershock-Next-Economy-Americas-Future/dp/0307592812/>."
His 'Marketplace' commentaries can be found on publicradio.com
<http://marketplace.publicradio.org/collections/coll_display.php?coll_id=20102&refid=0>
and iTunes./
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