I don't believe everything in this nation must trickle down. The middle class is under direct attack, as is Americans' accustomed standard of living. We're giving away the store to foreign nations, and in this country we are disadvantaged by the hemorrhages of NAFTA and CAFTA, the drug companies, insurance companies, medical costs, rising utilities, union busting, underemployment, and unemployment.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with passing some legislation to fix the problem and to deliver direct relief to the shameful circumstance of a shrinking middle class in the United States of America.
I use the word class advisedly, since we as a nation disdain the notion of classes. We believe in equality of the people and should always act like it. There is no higher type of human being in the United States of America than "American." The common man rules, and insists on ruling, this republic, and it is the common man's generous heart that shares our bounty with the rest of the world. But we can't take care of the world if we can't take care of ourselves first.
I don't mind the idea of giving up bad jobs for a new nation of "individual entrepreneurs" -- but why is all the seed money and other benefits going only to the big corporations so far, while all us new entrepreneurs are left to languish, as if we were the worker mob of Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" or Lang's "Metropolis?" This isn't what we bargained for.
I assure you, Americans do not consider themselves a worker mob -- particularly if they had good jobs before all this strategic bankruptcy and outsourcing to India and Mexico. They watch incompetent management preside over the demise of the company they work for, and they have good reason to conclude that THEY were the smarter half of the staff all along.
Our people consider themselves, accurately, the grass roots American majority, the backbone of the nation. They know they have the vote and the raw power, and they are feeling screwed lately -- by unkept promises of a strong standard of living based on a new individual entrepreneurship. They're underemployed, they're bankrupt, they're making less money while the cost of energy skyrockets. They're wondering if some immoral corporations are under the delusion that America can work without Americans. The current economy seems to imply a notion that there can be a strong America and thriving capitalism while the population languishes.
Such a development could not be hidden, and the people would bring it ALL down before allowing such a thing to occur -- thriving capitalism without thriving Americans. If America's managers are to abandon their own employees, dump their benefits, break their unions, reduce their salaries, declare a strategic bankruptcy, and create for themselves a golden parachute when they go -- then the balance of productive Americans are going to demand a red, white and blue parachute.
As a Republican, it's my view that the last election reflected NOT a rise of a die-hard Republican majority, certainly not a suddenly larger radical right, but something far more subtle and fascinating -- a taking back of the controls by our fed-up grass roots majority, who have decided to vote in larger numbers and declare their own agenda for a change. Politicians who get this are going to be the most successful in the near future.
I think whoever is talking sense in the next election will win regardless of party. The guy who is telling the middle class of America to tough it out, or to have sympathy for the rich, or to normalize radical lifestyles, or to "reform" the Constitution will find no friendly ear. We voted to let Bush try jump-starting the economy from the top down last time, but Americans are not going to put up with working at Wal-Mart for more than a heartbeat or two. They are not going to put up with gasoline that rivals the price of Sterling silver while their underemployment paychecks grow smaller.
About 200 million Americans are EXPECTING the promised results of all these choices we've let our administration make for us. I hope the White House is listening... Because I'm a Republican (for now), and I'm sounding the alarm.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with passing some legislation to fix the problem and to deliver direct relief to the shameful circumstance of a shrinking middle class in the United States of America.
I use the word class advisedly, since we as a nation disdain the notion of classes. We believe in equality of the people and should always act like it. There is no higher type of human being in the United States of America than "American." The common man rules, and insists on ruling, this republic, and it is the common man's generous heart that shares our bounty with the rest of the world. But we can't take care of the world if we can't take care of ourselves first.
I don't mind the idea of giving up bad jobs for a new nation of "individual entrepreneurs" -- but why is all the seed money and other benefits going only to the big corporations so far, while all us new entrepreneurs are left to languish, as if we were the worker mob of Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" or Lang's "Metropolis?" This isn't what we bargained for.
I assure you, Americans do not consider themselves a worker mob -- particularly if they had good jobs before all this strategic bankruptcy and outsourcing to India and Mexico. They watch incompetent management preside over the demise of the company they work for, and they have good reason to conclude that THEY were the smarter half of the staff all along.
Our people consider themselves, accurately, the grass roots American majority, the backbone of the nation. They know they have the vote and the raw power, and they are feeling screwed lately -- by unkept promises of a strong standard of living based on a new individual entrepreneurship. They're underemployed, they're bankrupt, they're making less money while the cost of energy skyrockets. They're wondering if some immoral corporations are under the delusion that America can work without Americans. The current economy seems to imply a notion that there can be a strong America and thriving capitalism while the population languishes.
Such a development could not be hidden, and the people would bring it ALL down before allowing such a thing to occur -- thriving capitalism without thriving Americans. If America's managers are to abandon their own employees, dump their benefits, break their unions, reduce their salaries, declare a strategic bankruptcy, and create for themselves a golden parachute when they go -- then the balance of productive Americans are going to demand a red, white and blue parachute.
As a Republican, it's my view that the last election reflected NOT a rise of a die-hard Republican majority, certainly not a suddenly larger radical right, but something far more subtle and fascinating -- a taking back of the controls by our fed-up grass roots majority, who have decided to vote in larger numbers and declare their own agenda for a change. Politicians who get this are going to be the most successful in the near future.
I think whoever is talking sense in the next election will win regardless of party. The guy who is telling the middle class of America to tough it out, or to have sympathy for the rich, or to normalize radical lifestyles, or to "reform" the Constitution will find no friendly ear. We voted to let Bush try jump-starting the economy from the top down last time, but Americans are not going to put up with working at Wal-Mart for more than a heartbeat or two. They are not going to put up with gasoline that rivals the price of Sterling silver while their underemployment paychecks grow smaller.
About 200 million Americans are EXPECTING the promised results of all these choices we've let our administration make for us. I hope the White House is listening... Because I'm a Republican (for now), and I'm sounding the alarm.
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