Posted by
rycK on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:40:55 PM
The New York Times Moans about the Poor, as Usual. Moan # 14,598,246.
We can depend on the New York Times, the Walter Duranty Papers, to moan and howl about the ‘poor’ and blame the whole sorry mess on capitalism. This is an ongoing sad saga dating back before Fabianism provided the final solution to poverty: equality of income.
We can address this mimeographic screed by pointing out two factors (in the form of questions), always ignored or sequestered by the pacific panderers of the Times:
[1] What happened to all the social programs that we spent a few dozen trillion dollars on since, say, 1950 and
[2] Why do some people refuse to [a] stay out of crime, [b] stay off drugs, [c] try to make it in school, [d] abandon their kids and family.
Much of this comes from the essence of politics: power. Some fool decided that we would have some form of a ‘representative democracy’ where everybody gets to ‘vote.’ This is a very complicated process, but suffice it to point out that the ‘vote’ in most western countries has little to do with the election or appointment of ‘leaders” and the voters are really so much chattel driven to the polls mostly by demagoguery and other forms of propaganda. Modern politics has to do with power and isolating various social groups so they are dependent upon the politicos:
A Comment on the Political Theory of the Left:
The functional political theory of liberalism is to isolate and divide groups and force social and economic warfare among these factions comprised of honest citizens on one side and the fabricated or imaginary groups that they deliberately create as dedicated opponents. As for racism, the left howl and whine daily about the injustices and insufficient wealth of minorities although they exploit these groups as packs of simpering dupes and treat them as a broad collection of properly propagandized ignoramuses to secure and maintain the large fraction of votes they cast in elections. Anyone with brains or a good education would seem to reject liberalism outright, or sooner. Racism is deliberately preserved, nurtured and held as a rabble rouser agenda item to keep certain votes properly corralled in their political camps. Any imbalance in society may be attributed to racism if any minorities are not equal participants in all economic strata. This form of hypocrisy is not noticed by the victims themselves as they have no choice but to believe in liberalism if they are to get freebees from the tax base. The support of liberal racism is further demonstrated by their supple and adamant support of Islamo-Fascism in all matters. There are no instances of any liberal with substantial political power not supporting our enemies and wildly supporting Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez or, in the past, Mao and Ho and Che. They see American military casualties as political pawns in the battle against capitalism.
In today’s maudlin lament we read the same old fluff:
Sharing the Pain By Bob Herbert:
”Now that the economic crunch is reaching those near the top of the pyramid, there is finally a sense that the U.S. is facing a real crisis.”
Next, we may be treated to a ‘the rich get richer’ cliché. We must be properly propagandized to believe that pain is a constant in the lower reaches of our society and that only when the nasty capitalists take an investment loss does ‘reality’ strikes them in the noggin. At other times, the rich merely enjoy their good life and giggle as the poor suffer in the ghettos or in prison or in their menial jobs with meager pay.
“Forget about a soft landing. The stock markets continue to tumble. The dollar has weakened. The subprime mortgage debacle has morphed into a full-fledged panic. And Joe Stiglitz is telling us the war in Iraq will cost $3 trillion.”
The problem with this is that stock market gyrations, up or down, will not affect the so-called ‘poor’ in the US as their welfare checks will not vanish, TV programs will run and dope and sex will be plentiful as usual. Since the top half pay 96% of the federal taxes the ‘poor’ will be excused from any debt here. This War on Terrorism is paid for only by the rich if you must use precise accounting. The military is now voluntary so as to exclude the ignoratti, the smelly, the druggies, unfit and social misfits from adulterating the military uniforms and can sit home in front of the TV and drink sodas. The poor don’t have to fight and they don’t have to pay for the war.
We can now await the solution to the problems:
“We have always gotten a distorted picture of how well Americans were doing from politicians and the media. The U.S. has a population of 300 million. Thirty-seven million, many of them children, live in poverty. Close to 60 million are just one notch above the official poverty line. These near-poor Americans live in households with annual incomes that range from $20,000 to $40,000 for a family of four.”
We spend $600,000,000,000 every year on the ‘poor’ and they don’t have to pay a dime. We spent 5 trillion on social programs since 1950, about 15 trillion adjusted for inflation .Also, they get the benefit of education, which they generally ignore as we look at the academics of the matter and get free treatment and protection from the law for drug addiction and worse.
Here we go:
“No one will tackle the crucial issue of employment in a serious way.”
“As Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, told me some months ago: “Workers are incredibly, legitimately scared that the American dream, particularly the belief that their kids will do better, is ending.”
The union lament and they are so dependent upon the Party of Democrats too! How about we just raise wages!!
“Americans save virtually nothing. They have looted the equity in their homes and driven their credit card balances to staggering heights. Meanwhile, the Bush administration has claimed colossal new standards of fiscal irresponsibility. At some point, to take just one example, someone will have to pay the $3 trillion for the war.”
This is so sad. Of course, if we look way back to the times of the Romans, English in Adam Smith’s times in the 1750s and elsewhere we find that the marginal propensity to save was essentially zero for the low class, as it is today. Surprise!
“Without an educated and empowered work force, without sustained investment in the infrastructure and technologies that foster long-term employment, and without a system of taxation that can actually pay for the services provided by government, the American dream as we know it will expire.”
Well, could we guess that this is a union-stooge piece that uses the case of the ‘poor’ to prod for more taxes? As for education, why do we double spending on ‘education’ and have numerous affirmative action programs and then the flunk out rate in high school is 50% for most blacks and one third of them will wind up in prison. The lefties might explain to us how we spent 50 years on this problem and the crime and drug addiction and family destruction just got wore. Does federal spending accomplish the opposite of what the liberals promise? Does the welfare and the caretaker society actually create ignorance, poverty, drug addiction and criminality?
A few questions for Herb:
Do poverty, disease and ignorance lead to more votes for the Party of Democrats?
Is ignorance the driving force for leftist politics?
If blacks moved up to the middle classes and above how many would still vote for Democrats in the same ratio as they do now?
Does the left maintain poverty as their special little nest egg that ensures them reelections and access to the tax base ad nauseum?
Do the lefties want to legalize dope although it is one of the things that destroy families and societies?
“David Brooks is off today.”
We give thanks for being spared another round from the babbling brooks. That was the most important piece of information in this plop.
And, they whine and they whine and they whine…..
The three pillars of liberalism: Sloth, Sodomy and Drug Addiction.
rycK
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Sharing the Pain By BOB HERBERT Op-Ed Columnist Published: March 11, 2008