---with the nation. The new Republican zealots are determined to eliminate any
trace of social service programs that make for the advanced and civilized life
which have made the United States so coveted a place to live. Our advanced
standard of living did not arrive by chance. It was as a result of many years of
deliberate planning and funding of education, the arts, security programs for the average working citizens.
It included National parks and Nature reserves, clean
water and air, libraries and national museums and infra-structure beyond counting. such as hospitals, clinics, veterans care and facilities. You can all come up with more. And for all of those, the dedicated hard working people to man them.
None of those caused our current financial crisis, but they are the areas being attacked by the know-nothings in Congress.The real causes of our difficulties
lie in the elimination of regulations and oversight of the financial markets,
our moth eaten tax laws encouraging evasion of taxes and diversion of capital,
our initiation and conduct of foreign wars, funded off budget, and our role as
world policeman, requiring us to maintain costly bases everywhere.
The demonization of taxes, which starved all levels of government, coupled with
unrestrained borrowing to finance military adventures of no benefit to the nation should be the areas of concern, not the social programs.
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As usual your commentary is painfully astute and should embarrass all of us.
What I am seeing is an extremely disturbing "we versus them" attitude in all American political systems. We have "newbies" who bought their way into office and stagnant dead wood that remain in the system because of intimidated and/or disaffected constituencies. Such "representatives" can never serve in any effective fashion and their only fodder is money they freely extract from the least capable to pay the cost - the very entities of greatest significance.
Residents of Wisconsin and Egypt have voiced the same, embarrassing concerns; "We want the right to rule our own destiny!" My money is on the Egyptians because Americans are still foolish enough to believe some great hero will soon arrive on the scene and bring the situation back to "normal".
What kind of terrible situation are we formulating to pass to our children?
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