Burried Under a Mound of Rhetoric

The economic recovery is hereby canceled. Also the Rapture is canceled. You know the one I was saying would occur sometime late next week. Well, it ain't gona happen. Instead we all have to live through the nightmare rhetoric that is the political right. When President Obama affirms "Yes we can", these people retaliate "No you can't". Our side wants to build up America and dig our way out of this recession. The political right think it's a contest of tearing American down, and seeing which one of them can screw up the economy the quickest. These people make the most dire of predictions, and when they get in office, try to make them come to pass. But there is no giant hand going to swoop down and take them off to la la land just when things are at their worst. They say you are entitled to your own oppinion but not your own facts. The Right speaks of taxes being "raised" next year, as though the liberals just did it, and it wasn't part and parcel of the bill George Bush signed in 2001. Even he knew you could sustain the stimulus for only a short while before you'd have to pay for it. Republicans don't want the recovery to occur and practicly say this. If you ask them "Well, how long do you think it will take for the recovery to happen if we cut taxes on the rich?" and they will say that basically it's too late already because there is no way we'll get out from under the mountain of debt. Of course Mc Cain blamed "Washington" for the economic problems of 2008. By the way, the recession was already under way in the summer of 2007 according to my own writings of the period. But "Washington" is dog whistle speak for "democrats". They methodically re-arrange facts as they speak, like a Christian historian. Dr. Levy says in simplistic fashion "Well you know it seems every time there is a Republican in the white house we have economic prosperity but every time we have a democrat, the size of government grows and commerce is strangled under a sea of regulations. Of course he forgets that Ronald Reagan's recession didn't BEGIN till several months AFTER he took office. And also by this time in Reagan's first term we had not yet reached the Bottom of the recession, let along talk of any recovery. But somehow the media wasn't all obsessive about Reagan ruining the country. And as far as today's deficets are concernet- - of course they're higher now because Bush did a lot of off the book accounting. The whole Iraq and Afghan wars wern't even put on the books till Obama arrived. The tea party people wern't calling the prescription drug subsedies as "socialized medicine". All we hear from people like Dr. Levy and the right is "The Obama administration has taken over the whole health care system" and others say "The President has rammed through his socialist health care agenda through a reluctant congress. If you tried to correct all their misstatements you'd be all day. My solution is just what congress is doing. They are ignoring the whole tax cut issue. That's fine with me. They can't get their precious tax cut for the richest among us unless the democrats help. It's funny how - for instance one individual who says "My business is only one third of what it used to be- - and it's all Obama's fault", basically. Yet she continues to identify with the top two percent of income earners as though an assault on them is an assault on her. One thing people forget is that most rich people don't pay 39% they pay fifteen percent because their income comes from dividends. The Secretary of the rich person pays more in taxes. Of course they quote the Bible saying that "redistribution of wealth is just wrong- - and immoral, because it says not to covet your neighbor's property." With all due respect if I speak out against my neighbor's slave plantation doesn't neccarily mean I want to be a slave owner myself. With the rich, they'll soon own everything and everybody, including all the land and the entire legal system, and all of the politicians. It doesn't take magic glasses to see the immorality in this. These people are avidly tree traders and anti economic patriot, and pro NAFTA. They may reference people taking their business to other countries. But if you suggest there be some sort of a tax law regulating this they will scream that Freedom of the rich would be violated if you took this important option away from them. According to Thom Hartman, this is one plank Americans wish were in that "Pledge to America" the Republicans put out last week. They aren't going to support keeping industries in America. Nobody is willing to do that. You point out the problem and the politicians stalwartly refuse to fix it. Of course whoever is governor will be blamed eventually for the job loss in California due to our "high taxes" and we don't have a friendly economic environment like Texas. Dr. Levy regards Governor Swartzenegger as a liberal traitor to the Republican cause and maintains his wife, Marie Shriver, turned him into a liberal. Who is to say Dr. Levy, like others already have, begin attacking Meg Whitman as a phony conservative and not really "one of us" once she has to face the same problems the current governor has to.

The Governor's race debate was held last night between Brown and Whitman. Whitman got the better of Jerry Brown in that debate because Brown was nervous and jumpy. Whitman was as cool as a cucumber on qualudes. She very methodically went through her check list agenda, often ignoring the question that was asked. A lot of good questions were asked but for instance Jerry Brown seemed to get sand bagged with charges and then have no time to refute them. Now we have Whitman's housekeeper hiring Gloria Alred as her attorney and putting on a tearful display saying she was fired in 2009. Of course she was fired. Meg Whitman found out she was an illegal. She didn't know she wasn't legal before because the housekeeper had sound documentation. Gloria Alred now says she'll have new evidence tomorrow.