The Repugnican Tea Party won mid-term election victories based upon promises of bringing back the jobs and restoring the economy.
Instead, Repugnican Tea Party leader John Boehner says “so be it” if federal government workers are laid off, and Repugnican Tea Party Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is ready to give out 1,500 layoff notices to Wisconsin state government workers.
Oh, and while they’re at it, the Repugnican Tea Party traitors want to decimate Social Security and Medicare, too.
We just can’t afford them, you see.
Except that we can.
Do two things, and we won’t have to lay off a single person or touch Social Security and Medicare: (1) meaningfully cut the budget of bloated military-industrial complex — which has been much more about legalized thievery from the nation’s treasury than about national defense for decades now – and move those wasted funds to human needs instead of to war profiteers’ greed, and (2) make the rich and the super-rich — and their tax-evading corporations, of course – pay their fair share of taxes.
Problem solved.
But the Repugnican Tea Party doesn’t want to solve the problem, because the Repugnican Tea Party is the problem. The Repugnican Tea Party exists for plutocrats, corporatocrats and war profiteers, so the only thing that we’re going to hear from the Repugnican Tea Party is that the nation just can’t afford us, the people.
Actually, we, the people, just can’t afford the treasonous members of the Repugnican Tea Party, and it’s long past time that we deal with them like the traitors that they are.
A traitor is one who harms his or her fellow human beings for his or her own selfish gain, with disregard for the damage that he or she is causing others. (And one who aids and abets traitors also is a traitor.)
Allowing traitors to persist in their treason can only cause the demise of the state. Like cancer, the traitors only cannibalize the body politic until it eventually dies.
To strike back at the traitors before they kill even more of us (and they are killing us, slowly) through their greed and thievery isn’t murder; it’s self-defense.
There are several reasons that the Repugnican Tea Party traitors are attacking government workers right now. In no certain order:
- The weaker our federal, state and local governments are, the more that corporations can get away with, be it their further exploitation of their workers, their further defrauding of their customers, their further fraudulent use/waste of government-contract funds, or their further despoilation of our environment.
- The corporations want to take over more and more governmental functions for profit. The private sector can do things better, the Repugnican Tea Party traitors argue. Bullshit. When ever-increasing profits – greed — is the No. 1 goal, the operation, whatever it is, can only get worse.
- Government workers are wonderful scapegoats, wonderful diversions from the real swine at the trough: the plutocrats and the corporatocrats whose incomes soar while the rest of us suffer. Their lives get better while ours get worse. Those morons who are susceptible to hating government workers have no real idea of what government workers do, buy the right-wing myth that government workers live high on the hog when most of us are quite middle class at best (and the myth that government workers are not us, but are other — even to the point that it is ignored that government workers are taxpayers, too — duh!), and see government workers as much more visible targets than the plutocrats whom we almost never see, because they quite intentionally hide from the view of the vast majority of us (whom they consider to be the rabble).
Whom does the Repugnican Tea Party’s war on government workers benefit?
Certainly not the majority of the people of the United States of America.
A small, selfish group of people who make things worse for the majority of the people is a group of traitors.
And the only good traitor is a dead traitor.
Let’s start by calling them what they are, “Public Servants”.
Both Republicans and Democrats have been on a pedestal for to long and it’s time to remove all parties from power. Let the people vote.
As for the rich, they are global players, If you make it to hard for them to do business, they will move their businesses. We are already living this in America, manufacturing has been moving overseas for years, it’s hard to find American made anymore. How many times have you called customer service only to get someone in India or the Ukraine. The US is becoming a giant retail mall selling products we don’t make. This can be tough on an economy. I believe the only real solution would have to involve global cooperation.
Government workers are public servants but not all public servants are government workers, are they?
Globalization already is happening, with some Egyptians already having expressed, via the Internet, their support for the pro-labor side in Wisconsin, to name just one of many possible examples. And, of course, the autocratic governments throughout the Middle East are toppling like dominoes, with news of the stirrings of public protests in Saudi Arabia now.
Agreed, the plutocrats are global, and we, the people, need to continue to go global, too.
As a registered member of the Green Party, one thing that I’ve always liked about it is that it’s an international party…
P.S. I’m not for the wholesale elimination of parties, which I can’t see happening in our lifetimes anyway. I’m for a multi-party system here in the U.S., however, intead of the duopolistic partisan system that we have.
To eliminate the Repugnican Party sure would be nice, but to eliminate all parties would, I believe, give the corporatocrats and the plutocrats even more of a field day using their million$ and billion$ to brainwash the masses with the mass-media messages that they can afford to cast broadly.
I had thrown around the idea of any given party not being allowed more then 20% representation, but it won’t stop the pork or the you scratch mine and i’ll scratch yours politics going on now.
Not my best idea but I have an interesting plan i’ll lay out here soon.
The problem, I think, isn’t the existence of political parties, but is the corporate dollar$ that are allowed to flow into the parties and the laws that prevent other parties from having any success. The benchmarks for third parties to be allowed to participate in the political process are so high that it keeps third parties from being successful. I don’t know how you could cap partisan representatition at 20 percent (or at any percent) while maintaining constitutionality — the First Amendment right of the people to assemble and associate.
The money certainly is a large part of the problem, there are also a lot of people who say they don’t want to waste a vote on a third party candidate. As for limiting party representation, I still think it would be better to have none.
Hypothetically
Lets say we take away voting power from our representatives, and each state gets one representative in congress. Bills are introduced through the states and voted on by everyone. Our representatives then take the results back to congress to be put on the books.
This way Everyone gets 100% representation and the big companies have no one to pay off. I still believe every person deserves a vote on every issue,
John has an interesting idea about all of the voting on major issues being done at the state level and then taken to congress, but I’m not exactly sure how that would work. I hope he’ll expand on this soon.