Your View: Letters to the editor (Sept. 22)

The two letters read in tandem are a telling narrative about the sad state of our country. On the one we have a private business owner being railroaded by the unfair business practices of a government regulating him into submission. On the other we have a devoted progressive ideologue arguing for more such government regulations through the election of Diane Denish, another proud progressive. I pity you socialists when the well dries up and you resort to eating one another.

"Follow the money and remember in November that it is the Democrats who care about the "little" people like you and me"

And the Goldman-Sachs execs, those poor oppressed working class heroes, and don't forget the insurance / drug company CEOs ... so many little guys that the Ds care for

Let me translate for you P. Trynn:

BAHHHHHHHHHHH BAHHHHHHHH

R = D

P. Trynn please gimme a break. I've read a lot of crap today and yours fits right in. Please.

Quote --"....With the Republicans, you need to pay attention to who gives the big bucks to get them in office. They always say that Democrats have special interests giving, too, but it seems to me the Dems get from groups that represent people who care about the environment, labor laws, worker safety and pay, school and law enforcement people and the enhancement of life for everyone, not just for the top 10 percent.

Don't forget the Koch brothers of New York are bankrolling the Tea Party's surge against Obama and the Democrats, just as their father started and funded the John Birch Society who railed against John F. Kennedy and the progressives of that day."

You have been sniffing the fairy dust.

The Dems have been bought and paid for lock stock and barrel by labor union thugs, not to mention some pretty big checks written by big banks like Goldman Sachs. There is no moral difference between the 2 major parties. It always just comes down to money and power. We need to corral both parties and tie their freaking hands behind their backs so they can't spend any more. Obama and his band of chicago-style politicians are using their power of creating deficit spending to consolidate power and enslave generations to come to their brand of socialism. By the way, if you have studied John F. Kennedy's social and political philosophies and policies as a President, you'd know that he was conservative enough in many ways to make GW Bush look like a left wing radical. He would be sick to his stomach to see where the Democratic Party has gone since his demise.

" Don't forget the Koch brothers of New York are bankrolling the Tea Party's surge against Obama and the Democrats, just as their father started and funded the John Birch Society who railed against John F. Kennedy and the progressives of that day." And absolute rock solid FACT.

Thanks to the 5 ACTIVIST CONSERVATIVE Supreme Court Justices, the Reich-wing funders will be out-spending the Democrat's outside groups by damn near 9-1.

CITIZENS UNITED DECISION ALLOWS CORPORATIONS TO MAKE 2010 A RECORD-BREAKING YEAR IN CAMPAIGN SPENDING

" according to new research, corporations and their allies will trounce 2008’s “political spend-a-thon� in the 2010 midterm election season.“Liberated� by the Supreme Court’s recent Citizens United decision, corporations and “well-established political players� will pump in 10 to 15 percent more cash in 2010 to “disrupt� races with more negative ads:

After the astronomical sums of cash thrown into the 2008 campaign, everyone’s pumping in even more — about 10 to 15 percent more— according to Kip Cassino, vice president of research at the media analysis firm Borrell Associates.

“Unlike a lot of industries in the United States right now, which are seeing some downturns, political spending is absolutely a growth industry,� Cassino says.

Fueling it, he says, is corporate money — dollars liberated by the Supreme Court when it ruled that corporations and unions can be unrestrained in their campaign spending.

Cassino says corporate funds probably account for a 10 percent jump in advertising.

And of course, those advertisements are almost always negative.

“The unwritten charter of these groups is to really be disruptive and try to go in there and turn a race on its head — or put a candidate on the defense,� says Evan Tracey, president of the Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks political advertising.“And by that nature, most of those ads that they’re gonna run this fall are gonna be negative ads.“

The political players looking to up the ante include “big budget groups� like GOP operative Karl Rove’s American Crossroads and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is “the biggest collection point for corporate contributions.� American Crossroads “committed to raising tens of millions of dollars� while the Chamber will spend $40 million more than 2008 this year and “may go higher.� Along with a 2007 decision backing the Federal Election Commission’s drastic undercutting of disclosure rules,“business and its allies� can continue to support right-wing candidates and “wildly misleading� ads without anyone knowing who is pulling the purse strings."
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/17/citizens-...

America is ripe for revelation according to the Tea Party. People are angry and want THEIR country back.

Well truth be told they are getting their country back but not the way they want it.

Tax cuts do not work, its a gimmick just like religion. Gimmicks work to a point but man has evolved past faith, blind faith can satisfy the hunger for only so long. Blood has to be spilled in the name of GOD to truly satisfy the faithful.

Voting for either party is a sucker's bet, the lesser of two evils is for the youth to overthrow the false government that is feed by the R's and D's.

P. Trynn, you don't actually believe that BS you're spouting in your letter, do you? If so, then this country really is in trouble.

The Democrats have never cared for the regular working person in America. Their only goal is to get the votes of minorities so they can be re-elected. The very best example of that kind of dishonesty is Harry Reid of Nevada. He has attached a bill to the defense legislation that would allow "illegal" immigrants to qualify for citizenship after being in this country (illegally) for five years.

Apparently, you consider the commission of a crime the pathway to becoming a citizen, right?

PlacitasRoy wrote:

While both parties favor the rich and members of the entrenched oligarchy, the Dems outperform for the lower & middle classes while still treating the upper 2% with kid gloves. Such is the problem with living in a highly inequitable oligarchy. The history since WW2 documents that FACT.
THE RICH PEOPLE IN THE SENATE DEFEND THE INTERESTS OF RICH PEOPLE
Obviously there are multiple causes and complexities, but at root the answer is pretty simple: Politicians are disproportionately and overwhelmingly responsive to the minority of Americans who have lots of money...“Using data from voting records in the early 90s,[Bartels] shows that the responsiveness of senators to the views of the poor and working class is ... zero. Or maybe even negative. And that's true for both parties. The middle class does better -- again, with both parties -- and high earners do better still. In fact, they do spectacularly better among Republican senators. And this disparity has almost certainly gotten even worse over the past two decades….”
[The chart says it all!]
Both parties ignore the poor and working class, both are moderately heedful of the middle class, and Republicans are extremely solicitous toward the wealthy...”
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-09-21-rich-...

Placitas, why is it that the "stupids" never educate themselves before they open their mouth?

Gimme a break II wrote:

P. Trynn please gimme a break. I've read a lot of crap today and yours fits right in. Please.

Amen to that!

PlacitasRoy wrote:

While both parties favor the rich and members of the entrenched oligarchy, the Dems outperform for the lower & middle classes while still treating the upper 2% with kid gloves.

Yep.

To be ignorant of it is bad enough ...

To know this and support it is ... is ...(shudder)