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Letter to the Editor 7-20-2013
The dismantling of America by the Republican goon squad led by the Koch brothers funded Tea Party, is just the most maddening thing I've watched in my entire life. To deliberately set your goal to undermine the public sector, sell off all public assets to multinational corporations glutted with 'public' tax largesse and lawless disregard for the people doing the dirty work is worse than criminal. It is inhumane, filthy, dishonest and despicable. Not to mention unAmerican.
Anyone watching the selling off of Detroit by the Republican governor and his elected goons who does NOT get so angry they take to the streets, just doesn't get it. You're next. The manufacturing jobs and equipment in Detroit were dismantled and shipped to China taking the middle class with them. Homes and businesses dependent on the auto industry that could not leave, went bankrupt. Public services have been reduced so low no one will move there. If it takes 58 minutes to get an ambulance or police to answer your call for help would you move there?
Austerity measures are designed to make YOU the abuser of public assets, YOU, the greedy 'me me me' glutton of our wealth and resources. You, the one 'suckling at the teat of state' demanding to be cared for. You, the one 'needing' state funded programs because you are too lazy to work.
Every Republican in office knows (and everyone waiting in the wings to replace any Democrat, Green party or liberal candidate presently in office) you put the onus, your ineptitudes, lies and corruption, on your opponent. Make them the 'bad' guy. Make them the ones having to undo the lies and misinformation printed or said about them. Make it impossible for them to achieve any 'liberal' agenda or goal by leaving office with the country in financial disarray and near bankruptcy. Make them spend all their money and resources trying to 'prove' they are NOT doing what the Republican party is doing behind your back. Make them spend their time and resources correcting the loss of public trust and bailing out the corporations the Republicans count on for their support and financial gain that sold YOU down the river for personal profit while hedging their bets that YOU couldn't save yourself from their corruption.
How much money did you get when the housing bubble burst? Bank of America, Wells Fargo and all of Wall Street made billions. Yet today BoA is STILL cheating, lying and dissembling on the loans they have in their control.
All of Detroit will be on the auction block; public schools, public services, public housing, you name it, ALL will be sold off to the highest bidder at firesale prices.
When the dust settles and Detroit is just another corporate town, people will get their education but it will cost more, be less comprehensive, more corporate oriented and NOT for the general public, it will be what is left after the profiteers have taken their 'share' of the tax dollars you will continue to pay. If you are the 1%, your child will go to a 'private school' funded by your tax dollars and taken as 'the best' education money can buy. Unfortunately your child won't get to go, you're too poor to pay for 'private' school. Medical services will be doled out as the need is determined to keep you 'healthy' as long as there is a place you can fill in the labor market. If you're not needed or become too old to work, you will be cast aside. Latin America is the example you can look to. It is your next stop on the economic road to poverty.
Everything will be based on profitability. If you can't make the corporate bosses a profit, you will be just left to figure out how to survive on your own. Look to India and China where a 'few' are allowed to control the wealth of the state. They drive through ghettos in their Lamborghinis and Porsches, have apartment buildings and homes several stories high but never 'see' the poor, the slums, the streets running in raw sewage at their feet.
Is this what you want for America? The Republicans do. Our assets are theirs and theirs alone. They scream "NO MORE TAXES!" while they pay NONE!
There will be NO public property. You have no right to own ANYTHING! Not even public land, not even the schools you educate your children in, not even the roads you drive on or the water you drink or the police paid for with your taxes to protect you or the prisons to keep the 'bad' guys off the streets. The police will protect only those who have the means to build high fences or gated communities. 'Break the law', and the private prisons will accept you as a non-paying member whose labor can and will be used to improve the corporations bottom line that owns that prison.
You will become a chattel of the corporation, to be done with as they see fit all because they believe you are too stupid to have this much wealth at your disposal and not profit from it. Our national parks will become like DisneyLand, only the very rich will be able to enjoy them.
If this is your idea of "America" count me out. The next election cycle is in 2014. If you enjoyed being 'played' by the Right Wing Tea Party you will continue to support their '2nd Amendment' right to own assault rifles, no health care for women just invasive illegal 'probes' of a woman's most private body parts by unqualified 'men', voter fraud laws (when there is no proof fraud exists), all designed to keep you from focusing on the 'real' issues of grand theft and larceny. If you care at all about what is left of our country you WILL vote. I hope you vote in favor of MY country. It's not going to be mine or yours for long if you don't. Your vote becomes more precious every day as the Republicans work to make it impossible for you to exercise that right.
Anyone watching the selling off of Detroit by the Republican governor and his elected goons who does NOT get so angry they take to the streets, just doesn't get it. You're next. The manufacturing jobs and equipment in Detroit were dismantled and shipped to China taking the middle class with them. Homes and businesses dependent on the auto industry that could not leave, went bankrupt. Public services have been reduced so low no one will move there. If it takes 58 minutes to get an ambulance or police to answer your call for help would you move there?
Austerity measures are designed to make YOU the abuser of public assets, YOU, the greedy 'me me me' glutton of our wealth and resources. You, the one 'suckling at the teat of state' demanding to be cared for. You, the one 'needing' state funded programs because you are too lazy to work.
Every Republican in office knows (and everyone waiting in the wings to replace any Democrat, Green party or liberal candidate presently in office) you put the onus, your ineptitudes, lies and corruption, on your opponent. Make them the 'bad' guy. Make them the ones having to undo the lies and misinformation printed or said about them. Make it impossible for them to achieve any 'liberal' agenda or goal by leaving office with the country in financial disarray and near bankruptcy. Make them spend all their money and resources trying to 'prove' they are NOT doing what the Republican party is doing behind your back. Make them spend their time and resources correcting the loss of public trust and bailing out the corporations the Republicans count on for their support and financial gain that sold YOU down the river for personal profit while hedging their bets that YOU couldn't save yourself from their corruption.
How much money did you get when the housing bubble burst? Bank of America, Wells Fargo and all of Wall Street made billions. Yet today BoA is STILL cheating, lying and dissembling on the loans they have in their control.
All of Detroit will be on the auction block; public schools, public services, public housing, you name it, ALL will be sold off to the highest bidder at firesale prices.
When the dust settles and Detroit is just another corporate town, people will get their education but it will cost more, be less comprehensive, more corporate oriented and NOT for the general public, it will be what is left after the profiteers have taken their 'share' of the tax dollars you will continue to pay. If you are the 1%, your child will go to a 'private school' funded by your tax dollars and taken as 'the best' education money can buy. Unfortunately your child won't get to go, you're too poor to pay for 'private' school. Medical services will be doled out as the need is determined to keep you 'healthy' as long as there is a place you can fill in the labor market. If you're not needed or become too old to work, you will be cast aside. Latin America is the example you can look to. It is your next stop on the economic road to poverty.
Everything will be based on profitability. If you can't make the corporate bosses a profit, you will be just left to figure out how to survive on your own. Look to India and China where a 'few' are allowed to control the wealth of the state. They drive through ghettos in their Lamborghinis and Porsches, have apartment buildings and homes several stories high but never 'see' the poor, the slums, the streets running in raw sewage at their feet.
Is this what you want for America? The Republicans do. Our assets are theirs and theirs alone. They scream "NO MORE TAXES!" while they pay NONE!
There will be NO public property. You have no right to own ANYTHING! Not even public land, not even the schools you educate your children in, not even the roads you drive on or the water you drink or the police paid for with your taxes to protect you or the prisons to keep the 'bad' guys off the streets. The police will protect only those who have the means to build high fences or gated communities. 'Break the law', and the private prisons will accept you as a non-paying member whose labor can and will be used to improve the corporations bottom line that owns that prison.
You will become a chattel of the corporation, to be done with as they see fit all because they believe you are too stupid to have this much wealth at your disposal and not profit from it. Our national parks will become like DisneyLand, only the very rich will be able to enjoy them.
If this is your idea of "America" count me out. The next election cycle is in 2014. If you enjoyed being 'played' by the Right Wing Tea Party you will continue to support their '2nd Amendment' right to own assault rifles, no health care for women just invasive illegal 'probes' of a woman's most private body parts by unqualified 'men', voter fraud laws (when there is no proof fraud exists), all designed to keep you from focusing on the 'real' issues of grand theft and larceny. If you care at all about what is left of our country you WILL vote. I hope you vote in favor of MY country. It's not going to be mine or yours for long if you don't. Your vote becomes more precious every day as the Republicans work to make it impossible for you to exercise that right.
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