Herbert Stooges for the “Studies” by Leftist Think Tanks and Translates their Objectives: Higher Taxes

The NYT produces propaganda pieces that celebrate obvious ‘proof’ studies and other fluff to support their endless praise of the far left and to excoriate their enemies of the opposite view.

Today Herbert offers the fruits of some ‘studies”

“A number of studies, including new ones by the Center for American Progress in Washington and by Demos, a progressive think tank in New York, have shown that Americans in this age group [ED the 30 some things and labeled as 'Millennials'[1]]are faced with a variety of challenges that are tougher than those faced by young adults over the past few decades. Among the challenges are worsening job prospects, lower rates of health insurance coverage and higher levels of debt.” [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.][2]

 Now, let us hear about these sources:

The Center for American Progress in Washington[3] is run by an old Clinton crony, who is John Podesta was Clinton’s chief of staff and spent a lot of his time defending his perjury and other disgusting antics. Do you suppose he is biased to the left?

Demos[4] is supposedly politically neutral, but they argue for leftist platforms. Some examples of their tangled syntax:

On BUILDING A FUTURE MIDDLE CLASS

“Demos is working with national and state-level groups to educate policymakers and income security advocates about this silent, yet devastating burden facing millions of families. Our report, Borrowing to Make Ends Meet, details the growth of debt, the impact of deregulation on the cost of credit, and the multitude of economic factors driving so many families into debt. Our data analysis shows that between 1989 and 2001 average credit card debt among the lowest-income households ballooned by 184 percent, with even middle-class households' credit card debt ballooning by 75 percent over the decade. [5]

On Public Works: The DemosCenter for the Public Sector

“Achieving prosperity and opportunity for all in America requires strong, well-maintained public structures. From our public library systems and fair business regulations to our law enforcement agencies, social services and the roads we drive one, these public structures--our government--are the laws, regulations, systems, public programs, and infrastructure we have collectively created and which we must maintain to ensure our future success as a nation.[6]

Read Big Government here.

Lesson: Telling Stories about Government

“To broaden Americans' understanding of government, we all must become more purposeful storytellers about the things we need to do together and why we have created the public systems and structures that help our society function and thrive. We must become more aware of the stories that exist for our individual policy issues and able to determine their impact. And, ultimately, we must learn to tell the big stories -- the master narratives -- about what life in America could be about and about how our government could be a partner in achieving a quality of life to which we all aspire.”[7]

This entire Demos site is filled with rubber lingo that mumbles about intangibles and omits  the words tax and vote, but offers only BIG GOVERNMENT. The Soviet catechism went like this too.

This part hints at much:

“The Public: Consumers or Citizens? Our research also revealed that when Americans adopt a consumer stance towards government, they bring into civic thinking many of the habits of consumerist thinking. From a consumerist viewpoint, individual gain and individual responsibility is advanced. While from a citizen standpoint, common good, shared fate and mutual responsibility are prioritized. To combat the pitfalls of applying consumerist expectations towards government, we recommend portraying the public as citizens in your story. You can do this by emphasizing our shared responsibility and avoiding portraying government as a laundry list of services that individuals "buy" with their tax dollars.”[8]

Here is an ideological attack on conservatives and the work ethic. How about we portray them as parasites, which is more accurate.  This sounds like Marxism again with new paint. This is propaganda at its crudest level and a specialty of the New York Times. Walter Duranty [9]would be proud

This is all very oblique, cryptic, and quite sophomoric and offers us a fresh new attempt at a new trial  ‘back door entry’ into big government. This is a socialist site and the true objectives are buried in social concerns and other fuzz. But, fortunately for us, Herbert can sift out the politics and show us the real politics here:

There is the political shot:

“The upshot of all this is ominous for conservatives. The number of young people in the millennial generation (loosely defined as those born in the 1980s and 90s) is somewhere between 80 million and 95 million. That represents a ton of potential votes — in this election and years to come. And the American Progress study shows that those young people do not feel that they have been treated kindly by conservative policies or principles.”

Thanks Bob for unsnarling some of the propaganda for us.  Like the old joke goes, we knew there was a donkey under all this offal.

“Except for the expected continuing demand for registered nurses, the occupations projected to add the most jobs over the next several years do not offer much in the way of pay, benefits or career advancement. Demos listed the top five occupations in terms of anticipated job growth: registered nurses, retail sales, customer service reps, food preparers and office clerks.”[10]

“Whether young Americans can shift the balance of the presidential election is an open question. But there is very little doubt that over the next several years they are capable of loosening the tremendous grip that conservatives have had on the levers of American power.”[11]

Vote Democratic! Is this a political view from neutral sites?

What is missing here is the story of growth and how new jobs can be added to an economy where high taxes and more government regulation are the only two ‘promises’ the left offers us. We can expect little more from a far-left ragzine like the New York Times.  Where is the investment to generate new jobs? Does the government do that? They are  strikingly anti growth and business in these soggy screeds and this craggy piece of propaganda shows us what the political attributes of these think tanks offer us: big government and disdain for individual effort and achievement.

What can they tell us about education and their new need for some kind of finishing school to get some of their constituents in to college? Why do 53% blacks drop out of school even when we double spending on education twice since 1960.? Why is 7% of the black population now in jail. Why are 33% of prison inmates Hispanic? Why do we need to import middle-grade talent from abroad? We cannot educate our offspring now in spite of the full control of the leftist teachers unions and librarians and now we need some more government programs? To do what? We already saw the failures in Head Start [12], busing, the Great Society[13], the horrid HUD[14] and the phony welfare system that should have been entitled ‘Screwing for Dollars.’

What is the effect of the illegal aliens on the workforce and is that why we need more registered nurses?

What this essay says is that the government needs to fix ALL the social problems again, the old Fabian Grunt[15] that has destroyed honesty and the work ethic in employment through out Europe. G. Bernard Shaw gave a thousand speeches on ‘equal incomes’ and could never be coaxed into telling anybody how this might be accomplished.

What the liberal Democrats think is important in education is showing children how to mount a condom on a cucumber, why Lucy should be celebrated for having two mothers,  why drug addicts should be coddled and provided with vending machines on the streets, celebrating the rights of abortion and how evil corporations are destroying the environment. Such education subsidizes sloth, sodomy and drug addiction, the Three Pillars of Liberalism.

You get what you pay for in government and spending  and the liberals soaked the tax base to create this Age of Degenerates and taught them to be lazy, have sex often and adore Democrats as their Sugar Mamas. This means we need more tax revenues to subsidize more social failure. These are the products of failed Democratic social programs: 'Millennials'

The New York Times Message here: Socialism and high taxes can save us all: Vote for Obama. The need to resurrect HUD in a new shining form and milk the tax base with their usual incompetence and criminality.

Thanks to Bob Herbert for squeezing out most of the hokum and celebrating the fluff for us. We understand now.

rycK

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