Herbert at the NYT: We Need More Race-Based Government and Higher Taxes to Be Fair.

We are always privileged to study and digest the frantic political theorizing that poses as thinking at the New York Times —aka the Walter Duranty Papers. [1] When certain events threaten the intended outcome for one of their precious leftist candidates or when new political actions are required so that the public can be reeducated and vote accordingly for whatever new taxes and oppressive government will favor the minority causes, Herbert wanders in with the usual stack of soiled clichés and ‘teaches’ us all about equality and fairness.

Bob Herbert of the NYT has been selected to unwarp our narrow little minds on certain matters of equality and fairness[2] as we shall see today:

From a recent comment by Herbert who handles only racial matters for the Times:

”Ignorance must really be bliss. How else, over so many years, could the G.O.P. get away with ridiculing all things liberal?”-- Hold Your Heads Up by Bob Herbert[3] Op-Ed Columnist Published: September 8, 2008

Actually, I have a long list some of which is given below.

This could also read in different venue:

”Ignorance must really be bliss. How else, over so many years, could the Democrats get away with ridiculing all things conservative?”— Hold Your Heads Up Down[4] rycK November 11, 2008

From today’s hackneyed essay:

“The most important thing the Democrats and President-elect Obama can do with regard to the economy is bring back a sense of fairness and equity[sic].”[5]-- Beyond the Fat Cats by Bob Herbert Op-Ed Columnist Published: November 10, 2008 [All quotes references this link in this blog unless otherwise noted. [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

Ah, Bob, did you might not know fairness and equity are synonyms.  Did you mean equality or did you mean real estate equity here or ownership in corporations? In our quest to be ‘fair’ and ‘ tolerant’ we need to let this  conundrum slide for the moment and try to deduce what he means here from the context of the rest of this screed.

We struggle on:

“Back in September, with the credit markets frozen and the stock markets panicking, the treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, was telling anyone who would listen that his $700 billion bailout package had to be passed with lightning speed — no time to look at it too closely, no time for dissent.”

If you struggle to keep up with the news you might tell us about the billions headed for the failed auto industry and more billions to rescue some states like California, New York and probably New Jersey and the failure of the 150 bln stimulus package that Democrats overwhelmingly voted for and the new  150 bln dollar stimulus that Nancy Pelosi begs for in the Lame Duck session and the 1 trillion dollars in new spending by B. Hussein Obama. Is all that going to the fat cats?  Is Nancy a multimillionaire? You seem to forget that the liberals were all in favor of this mess and only some conservatives and some blacks voted against it. Check out the vote Herbert. You might learn something about truth.

But, Herbert seems to grovel forward in his customary and obsequious prone position with his hand out for more and more and more money for the ‘poor’  and plead the case that many  were abused by the fat cats:

A glubberance[6]:

“In an article on Sunday, The Times mentioned a young woman in Philadelphia, Kyuana Everett, who is 21 years old, has a high school diploma and is desperate for work. “I’ve tried everything,” she said, “retail sales, office work, but the employers all say they have too many staff and they’re not hiring now.”

The article noted that Ms. Everett cannot even afford to rent a room for herself. She stays with her grandmother, secretly, in a home for the aged.

This is no ordinary recession. With brokerage houses, banks and a mammoth multinational insurance company depending on the Treasury for resuscitation, and with automakers like General Motors staring bankruptcy in the face, it has the feel of a monster downturn, a recession on steroids.”

Having a high school diploma certainly ranks her up in the top 80^th percentile of African-Americans. And it is true that she ought to have a job and participate in the Great Society.  Did you notice the tax whoring and the anti-business climate in Philadelphia? They have lost half their city population since 1950.  Do you know why? Do you wonder if Nutter and his thugs drove away business?

“Congress and the new administration need to think big — bigger than the stimulus package of $100 billion or so, which is being kicked around. Now is the time for a coast-to-coast “Rebuild America” infrastructure program. Put people to work repairing and rebuilding roads and bridges, decrepit schools and ancient sewer systems. Get the construction industry back on its feet.”

What is the cost of that Bob? Who pays for that Bob?

How much did we spend on financing zero-down mortgages for ‘the poor’ who could never pay their monthly mortgages Bob?  How about 3 trillion dollars Bob? Was that enough money for the poor Bob? 5 million of those phony mortgages went to illegal aliens Bob. Is that part of your fairness and equity [sic] theme of today? Or was that fairness in equity?

Bob seems to be blissfully unaware that the CRA [the phony Community Communist Reinvestment Act][7][8]  forced banks to lend out money at a loss and that this contributed to the collapse of the credit markets. The phony mortgages were bundled and sold as ‘investments.’ Fanny Mae was the toilet where bad loans could be flushed and Franklin Raines made a cool $90,000,000 dollars off this scam. Oh, he is black and works for Obama? Oh, yes. Is Raines a fat cat under your definition Bob?

Bob also might tell us about the fairness and equity in affirmative action, busing, welfare, Social Security, crime control and why cities like New Orleans, Detroit, Philly, Baltimore, Oakland, San Francisco and other crime centers were operated by liberal Democrats and now have the highest murder rates in the Western Hemisphere. What went wrong here Bob? Here are some numbers from Newark New Jersey:[9] Did you know about the crime statistics for Baltimore City [5.48 times the national average murder rate!], Oakland [3.5 times the national murder rate] , Houston [1.78 times] , Detroit [5.16 times!!] and other places and see similar corresponding trends and numbers. These are all liberal Democratic enclaves with high welfare demands and very high black populations.[10] Could you explain that to us Bob?

Please answer the following questions for us Bob:

Why is the Washington, DC school system the worst rated in the US [with the possible exception of the LA Unified School System] when it spends more money per student than any other district? Do we need educated people as employees or can we just ‘put people to work doing any old thing’ and call that full employment? How about our spending some more money on ‘education?’

Why is the crime rate so high in cities controlled by Democrats? Are criminals and druggies not good workers? Why is the high school dropout rate so high? Did Bear Stearns cause this? Did the Iraq war cause this?

Why the prisons are filled with mostly minorities Bob? What is the race factor here Bob?

Here are some facts Bob: the auto industry is finished and was killed off by C.A.F.E. standards, union demands, high gas taxes and bias against their industry by the EcoNazism[11] movement and now you want to rescue them for what? To save the unions? To build more cars and burn more gas? To provide more jobs? Do we need to provide more cars so then we can drive across your new bridges and infrastructure you give us in you plea for coast-to-coast “Rebuild America” infrastructure program. You didn’t know Al Gore wants to ban the internal combustion engine?[12] Didn’t you read Earth in the Balance? The way the auto industry went down reminds us of what happened to rail system in the US. Will the auto industry look like Amtrak?

Do you really want to raise taxes and do some really massive spending during a recession that looks like the beginning of some new monster version of the Great Depression? Your colleague Paul Krugman at the Times seems to think so. Read Krugman as he thinks we need to spend 50% more than we think we need to.[13] A trillion here and there is needed he thinks.

I don’t think you understand how capitalism works and the need for educated workers that are free of drugs, STDs and other hang-ups. But, you are certainly going to find out with your fairness and equity mumblings.

If you really want to help the ‘poor’ and criminal types you can advocate they be recruited into "… a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as…”[the army].[14]

Then, they can go door to door and ‘tax’ the rich and bring equality upon the land. How about 500 bln to fund this new political force? That is about the cost of the army.

All this is possible Bob if you just raise taxes and do some heavier spending in your quest for equity?

The answered is always the same from Bob Herbert: racism is the root cause of all our social problems. We can never find any blame to lay around on African-Americans for their sloth, drug addiction, high crime rates and dismal performance in the business and academic worlds. Affirmative action programs are a tacit admission that blacks cannot make it in a competitive society. The ‘educational’ programs are unproductive and that makes for good leftist politics. The only signal advance that blacks have made in the social world is abortion [politically sanctioned and celebrated murder] now running at about 1500 per day. That has spared us 25,000,000 unwanted citizens, so far, along with the welcome absence of their votes and that is probably the most praiseworthy social advance we can credit the New York Times with. That one really worked out well.

You might watch Doctor Zhivago[15] again and pay special attention to the scenes where Gromeko's house is confiscated and his literary works condemned by the state. That movie tells us much about the left and their mentality. The outcome of Doctor Zhivago is one leftist-endorsed way to get an enlightened ending to capitalist society that matches your notions of fairness and equity.  War and/or depression are the only changes that will allow for a concrete change in our society according to the left. They have nothing else but other people’s wealth.

We need a new version of the song Der morgige Tag ist mein[16] translated into Ebonics or Spanish of course and played on loudspeakers from the White House Lawn. Maybe Obama will phase out the military and replace them with a civilian national security force. That makes sense to a Marxist.  That is community activism using the theme of the Brown Shirts[17] or Black Shirts.

rycK

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