All the polling data indicate that in the upcoming mid-term elections the Republicans will win back many seats in the House, with an outside chance to take control. John Boehner, R.Ohio, minority leader is the likely Speaker if that should occur.
This morning on Face the Nation, Rep. Boehner stated with no uncertainty, that it is
the Republican Party intention to reinstate the tax and fiscal policies of the
Bush administration---low taxes, less regulation of business and drastic spending cuts. He included repeal of "Obama Care" the new Health Insurance Reform program and the Banking Reform act as first actions.
I am reminded of the old aphorism "insanity is repeating the same action and expecting a different result". We are in this deep recession as a direct result
of those policies prevailing and compounded by our participation in two off-budget wars, which still continue. None of our wars were financed by cutting taxes, particularly those which impact primarily on the most affluent. To act as if those wars don't exist is recklessly criminal behavior. Are those the hands
into which we should commit our nation's financial survival? Is a reprise of the
failed policies which devastated middle class Americans a responsible approach to
restoring their financial health, their jobs? Trickle down economics trickled down
misery on the middle class while further enriching the allready wealthy and making them insensitive to the plight of the less fortunate. How much is enough?
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So much hot air! It's as if we have nothing more to deal with than the political aspirations of anyone capable of buying their way into notoriety.
For the GOP Boehner might represent a new opportunity to gain recognition but have any of them looked at the results of local elections? If the GOP is to survive it will need to find a way of reconnecting with its members and that appears to be a far distant possibility now.
Both recognized parties are split in so many ways a few authoritative-sounding words are not likely to make any difference. Those words will certainly not produce jobs or take back the millions taxpayers have stuffed into banker's pockets. Until someone figures out how to do such things we are all going to be subject to the same drivel.
November will probably give all of us completely new perspectives. Until then the hot air will continue to blast across our nation like a wild fire completely beyond control and the effect will be even more distrust in the entire system.
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