First off, you continue to play this "right wing potent anger left wing cowering pussywhip" meme at your peril. The left is just as angry as the right - and although you won't admit it, we're well-armed too. And yes, we will rise up and fight. We will burn and kill. And ponder this: We are by and large better educated than you and most of my fellow atheists are on the left. Do you want to face armed, highly educated men who have nothing to lose and no fear of any phony god?
The repigs will not retake the government - that is a lie the right-biased MSM, which is terrified of the neocon / zionist @#$%&! led by Rupert Murdoch, is feeding US just to roil the pot. They too have bought into the above defined meme, and they think they can discourage the left into not voting. They are wrong - it'll have the opposite effect, because we HATE republicans. I was a repub - I moved out when the religious right white trash @#$%&! typified by Palin moved in. I would rather see this nation reduced to a moonscape than ran by them.
If the repigs do steal power they won't have the chance to ruin US again with their Neanderthal policies. We'll take up arms against them. Your revolution won't wait a decade. They are not going to drag US back into the dark ages - and we will not tolerate having their filthy god - or any filthy god - pushed into our government.
As for economic policies, we don't think the government has gone far enough. We don't think Obama went far enough. We think government is the answer.
Here are a few government solution points:
First, the truly wealthy are pathetically undertaxed. We need a 90% tax on any income from any source that exceeds $1,000,000 and much higher taxes on anyone between $100,000 and $1,000,000. They have reaped most of the gains in the last 40 years and by and large have done comparatively nothing to earn it. The system is rigged. Taxation levels the playing field, and will provide income to lower everyone elses' taxes and provide services like education and healthcare for all.
Next, one of the major things wrong with the status quo is there are no death penalty offenses for financial crimes. Madoff should have been executed. So should have been every one of the CEOs and major execs of every one of the large financial corporations which went under or lost large sums of other people's money. Hang them. And while we're at it, the execs of BP should have been hanged too...
Corporatism in general should be drastically curtailed and corporate rights abolished. But the rest of US need to be freed from the regulatory yolk. It is ridiculous to hold ma & pa to the same standard as a mega corporation.
Example: I grow a significant amount of my own food, including eggs and beef. I may occasionally sell a surplus to friends. Someday I might even expand this. But if I do I risk very little and very few. A corporation can risk whole states at once. Yet they insist - and their bought off lackeys in the government insist that "fair" means the same regulations for all. Well, fair is where you go to look at livestock, and anyone with common sense should see the regulation should fit the scope of potential damage. Regulating the little guy to "big" standards just forces them out and gives the big guy more market and control.
Leave US alone. Regulate them right up to their eyes...
Next, globalism has got to go. And stuff your lies about what the Dems did. This goes clear back to the end of WWII and along the way we've been abused by CAFTA, NAFTA, WTO, and every President from Nixon to the shrub. We need protectionist tariffs NOW.
Frankly, I'm glad Bin Laden flattened the WTC. Most of the sheeple have swallowed the lie it was an American symbol. Bunk. It was a symbol of globalism and globalism / multinational corporatism is the enemy. Furthermore the US military - which is far more expensive than we can afford - is a tool of globalism. As far as I'm concerned, they are fair game, and terrorists can fly planes into the pentagon every other day. I'll run the camera.
American medicine costs too much. No kidding? This is partly the result of greedy corporatists and the government lassitude they have bought. But it is also a result of an out of control, for-profit educational system that is screwing the people.
The other day Faux News ran a story about someone who blogged that his $600,000 income wasn't enough. I'd put him in the better dead category except that he mentioned the $250,000 in student loans he and his wife - one a doctor, the other a lawyer - spent on their educations. This is among the greatest corruptions we have created. No one should have to pay for an education. We can spend half a $trillion a year butchering babies around the world but we can't pay for PhDs? Education - all of it you can possibly absorb - should be free for everybody, paid for by the government.
There is only one war that matters in the world today - the war for education. We're losing it because the greedy upperclass and the globalists have pushed the cost of education out of reach for too many. The rich are too selfish to care and the globalists want the US to spend and bleed itself to death protecting their juggernaut. In their eyes, our function is to be the foot on every neck.
I'm in education on the college level. I get American and foreign students, and "they" are so much more prepared to learn that "we" are. Furthermore, we cannot find enough American born teachers with acceptable credentials to do the teaching, so we are hiring more and more foreigners.
I also have huge student loans - I "went back" to school mid-life - and I will never be able to pay them back. Being in the middle of the under $100,000 group I simply don't make enough. And right now, I am seeing a huge influx into the classroom of laid-off midlifers who are borrowing $thousands to try to rebuild their lives. They have no choice. The phony service jobs the globalists conned US into swapping for real work are gone forever - and so are the real jobs, outsourced to the billions of slaves in Asia. Our citizens have to learn new careers or starve.
But even if they get new jobs - far from guaranteed - they won't make enough to pay off those loans. They will be slaves to the bankers.
On this point, I am with the rabid right: Hang the bankers and start over. But they don't go far enough: We should nationalize all banking and insurance activity. There should never again be a dime made privately in either activity.
We don't need less government. If anything, we need more of it. But what we really need is government re-directed. If you are a corporation the richer and more powerful you are the more you should be regulated. The commerce clause should be used to regulate big business - especially multinational business - to the point they can't install a toilet without a regulator watching.
Oh, but they will offshore, they will decamp? No they won't. We won't let them. We'll seize their assets and if necessary jail their execs.
And if the chicoms and the Saud object - if those who have reaped the profits of our being raped don't like it, well, then maybe the military is still has a use. Flatten them while we still can. No more Mr. Nice Uncle Sam.
But if you are a person, the government has no business looking into your body, monitoring your politics, tapping your phone, or policing your morals, marital arrangements, or anything else that doesn't affect other citizens in a palpable and significant way that actually costs society MONEY.
@#$%&! the evangelists. Nothing is more unAmerican than pushing religion.
These are the changes we really need, just for starters. If it takes a war to make it happen, bring it on!
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