Free Markets, Deregulation, Privitization, Globalization, and Greed

[mandyky]

subtitle -
How corporations and the GOP have and continue to destroy the middle class.

From NAFTA to health insurance, from Leave No Child Behind to the push to privatize Social Security, from 9-11 to Iraq via Afghaninstan - the US government, especially the new GOP are ruining our country and economy.

The poor and middle class are expected to consume (buy things) and make sacrifices, while the rich get richer and tax cuts to boot. Our jobs are being taken overseas by greedy corporations while the GOP wants to give them more tax breaks. The dittoheads lump communism and socialism all into one basket 'cause Rush (and his ilk say so). Where does it stop? Is there a way to mate a free market system with socialized medicine or reforming our trade agreements?

Okay, this is the beginning of an editorial I want to write on the economy and the future of our country. Since 9-11 when I had the premonition that shrubby would use the attacks as a reason to bankrupt our country and do away with the American lifestyle we have had since FDR and the New Deal, I have been contemplating writing something like this. Now the time is here, as the proof of his motives are coming to pass. If idiot boy had gotten help from the Un or better/more help from the donaor conference, we'd be at war with Syria or Iran by now. I still think we'll attack Cuba as a last ditch attempt by shrub to once again hide behind the label of "war time president", some time next year. Remember that the money for all this is coming from Social Security.

So what do you all think about any or all of these topics that all lead back to the present economy?

[IrateCitizen]

1. Democrats have been highly complicit in advancing all of the above

Just a case of how many areas the stances of both parties converge, and how they are both truly more interested in preserving the status quo than affecting real change.

[mandyky]

2. I know, that is why the DLC is evil

and any other group that is trying to move our party to far to the right.

[Armstead]

3. Unless the Democrats honestly raise these questions in 04..

they will lose. If they do address them they stand a chance of winning.

In my humble opinion it's that simple.

[mandyky]

4. Most of them have addressed Education and Healthcare

and Dean and Gephardt want to reform trade agreements.

I am talking top tier candidates.

I hope they take on more about the greed behind our current situation more.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

5. NAFTA etc. passed by corporations and the GOP

Hmm, are we forgetting a certain party, and perhaps a certain frontrunner for that party's nomination?