The democrats and republicans have always blamed the other for this ill or that but the truth is they both are in bed together. The bubbles that caused the economic meltdown were promoted through policy advocated by both parties. The party that holds the White House tends to get the blame (we need our 2 minute hate) but the truth is when one looks at the Congressional Record, who voted and who advocated in committee, the real reason is almost always across party lines without exception. They all supported this mess and what led up to it.
Democrats love to blame Bush for Iraq but the simple fact is Clinton and the Congress in 98' (democrats and republicans) passed the
Iraq Liberation Act (notice Sec. 4, paragraph 2) with a 360 to 38 approval vote in the House and a unamious consent vote in the Senate and all subsequent votes have been to affirm that decision in respect to Iraq, even to this day, so democrats can scream all they want about Bush but the truth is, their party representatives in the Congress loaded the gun and handed it to Bush and told him to shoot it! Now they and their President are not only loading more but in new and more exotic places. Murray Rothbard was correct when he took Randolph Borne's quote "War is the health of the State" and said, "Warfare and Welfare is the Health of the State."
And the same thing goes for the economic meltdown. When the Federal Reserve was created in 1913', many people said that the dollar would become worthless and America would become a debtor nation. Well it took 100 years but here we are. Do we blame Obama or even Bush and the current Congress for what Wilson and his buddies created in the first place? We blame Obama and Bush for the current choices or inactions dealing with an effect but they were not the root cause.
Bretton Woods took nearly 30 years to collaspe but do we blame Nixon and allow everyone from FDR through LBJ to escape their part in all of this? Does Reagan share sole responsibility for the national debt ignoring what was accumulated before and then after Reagan? But here's the real key factor in all of this. Has the folks who hired all these people in the first place ever uttered a real word of objection, ever stood up and shouted STOP! Ever had the guts to walk to one of them and tell them point blank I refuse to lend any support to you or others like you who refuse to have backbone and stand up and address the real problems and honestly search for the root causes, no matter where that search may lead, and then change what we are doing and try and help to make it better. No? If the buck in the private world stops at the boss, the one who hired the worker, then why is that any different in the public world? Or am I just being arrogant again? Que up the bucket head dog video as I feel it will be needed very shortly.
Economics is not something that happens immediate and overnight, it's a long process over time. You might get some immediate changes from actions but these are ever rarely sustainable over the longterm and the politicians know this. All they have to do is manipulate the system long enough to get through the next election cycle and then their job is to only manipulate it again to get to the next election cycle. Why make the hard choices and actual fix something when you can take the easy way out but your still getting rich and holding power so why should you care? This has been going on for well over 100 years and time is finally catching up. They are losing the means to manipulate unless they now resort to more draconian measures to protect themselves and mark my word, they are and will be doing that.
Did the good democrats who champion the little guy ever once sit down and look at the hard facts at how gov't (yes even their favorite party) actually creates an underclass to serve the master in the first place? A class that grows daily with no real change in sight. And tell me, what does a dollar that continues to lose value do to the poor and those who can't find a job? So the gov't needs to step in you say? OK. Where does the money come from? Corporations? And I have no love for them either but the simple fact is, they embedd these taxes back into the products and services they sell to the very underclass you say you want to help and I want to see them helped too and I doubt you'll find anyone here who doesn't want to do the same. I know it sounds good but we've been doing this all for the last 100 years if not more and where has it gotten us now? Did you ever think it's the corporate lobbyist who control gov't anyway who created and push this sham just as a means of promoting feel goodism while they laugh their
off rolling in greater and greater profits, thanks to gov't interventions, cartelizations and monopolies of industries all but barring entrepreneurial entry into the market place and all they do is take the average folks money from the right pocket, move it around a few times so they lose sight of it and put it back in their left while convincing them this is all something new. And we poor saps feel grateful!
Stop thinking money and start thinking "your labor!" White collar or Blue Collar makes no difference. Your labor is the commodity, the value, the worth, not a state created monopoly private corporation whose created from thin air medium of exchange they have a monopoly system on that we all are chasing. Locke should have said "the right to life, liberty and the fruits of your labor" because it's the fruits of labor that create property in the first place. Life and liberty is the fruits of labor but for some reason we just seem to not grasp that point.
And did the good republicans ever look at the hard facts of where their party kills the true free market system (don't say a word about democrats, look at yourself since you claim the defender of) and violates time and time again long established good and sound economic principles that destroy the individual entrepreneurial spirit that made America the freedom and economic marvel of the 19th century? It's own imperialism not withstanding. Oh and the defense of the unborn. A positive quality no doubt and although I share in that belief personally, I don't advocate a State goon with a gun to enforce it but here's where your good christian values goes flying out the window. Save the unborn but champion the unwarranted killing of the young "BORN" child in open warfare and then wash it all away with the claim of collateral damage. Those who claim to be followers of Christ, (a banner often waved by republicans) no matter how nominal, please show me any parable, lesson, teaching of Christ where the killing of any innocent person for any means is a justifible and accepted process? Right to Life you are? The only difference between yourself and an abortion doctor is that you wait until they are born and unlike the doctor, you get someone else and pay them to do the killing for you all in the name of your own needs and self interests. Now if ever there was a true definition of greed!
But take heart repubs, you have a good friend indeed in your crusade of death and destruction
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See dems you are no better when all is said and done! So much for "It's for the children" or "it takes a village!"
So to you party clowns, go ahead and live in your dream world but one day soon you will be forced to awaken to a nightmare and on so many levels it won't be pretty.
