Obama and Kasich: Lessons from the heartland

tidy catz wrote:

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Fascism has a few different flavors to it, but it's very premise is built on the idea that a government be run by the elite for the elite. This has been building in our country for decades now and I think the people allowed it because at the time we, the working middle/class, we reaping benefits (jobs, wages, promotions, etc).
That is no longer true. We get NOTHING. We watch these corporations give our jobs away. We watch them kick us to the curb. We watch them hire cheap labor and/or do everything humanly possible to pay us as little as possible while making us work harder, while THEY, in turn, pay their top tier ungodly amounts of money. The REAL amounts of the bank bailout in 2008 only came out over the weekend. Over 2 TRILLION dollars, and here's Bank of America right now crying the blues because it's losing money. And you watch, they'll get money, because someone hoping to become president has been promised BOA backing.
We, the working middle class, have been treated like crap for at least the last decade. We've been put down by millionaire pundits who tell us we're not educated enough, don't work hard enough, aren't good enough. We've seen our standard of living continue to drop with every government bail out to the rich. We've lost our sons and daughters to wars created for no other reason than to exploit money from the tax payer into the pockets of the rich. Over the years they've plundered our retirement accounts, f*cked up our home values, made our children's education expensive beyond belief, destroyed our jobs, and ripped away every shred of hope for a future that many of us ever had. Now they want to suck our social security and Medicare away and leave us elderly and destitute, too.
They've given money away to foreign countries like it was nothing, yet complain our poor Americans getting welfare. We give billions upon billions away every year, yet spit in the face of needy Americas.
We can only assume that people who don't recognize these things are either brainwashed, stupid or part of the problem.

Superb post.

It doesn't get any clearer than that.

We give billions upon billions away every year to countries who don't like us very much.

But Yet all Obama and the democrats intend to do is Tax tax and more tax on all Americans

The Obama and his liberals are truly dangerous people.

Vance1 wrote:

We give billions upon billions away every year to countries who don't like us very much.
But Yet all Obama and the democrats intend to do is Tax tax and more tax on all Americans
The Obama and his liberals are truly dangerous people.

I totally agree ! Is this a giant money laundering scheme ? Why would we keep doing this ?

The dems can say whatever and it is acceptable ? No it isn't, just look at the racist maxine waters.

LOL.... If Obama were to come on TV anytime and announce, "I will not seek re-election in 2012,"...

That would be the equivalent to a Dr. walking into a Cancer ward and announcing.... "YOU ARE ALL CANCER FREE!!!!"

LOL

Move on? Haven't heard that lately-time to get it out again already? OK, I'm movin on!YeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaaa! Look out you Wall Street boot lickers.Get a job! The President is hiring!

One of the most important things to remember about socialism is it fails eventually because human beings have an innate desire for liberty and a strong need for personal property rights. In fact, the origins of government lie in the need of agricultural communities to protect themselves from violence and theft. So it is particularly ironic that in more recent times, it is government itself that has more frequently played the role of bandit. When you start taxing people at extreme rates to pay for socialist “benefits,” when you start telling them which schools their children must attend, when you start giving jobs away to people based on race instead of ability… you quash human freedom, which bogs down productivity… and if continued for long enough, leads to social collapse.

I find it perplexing that only 20 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the West continues to implement laws that mimic all of the failed policies of our former “communist” foes. In fact, our current president won the election by promising to “spread the wealth around.” But… truth be told… we don’t have to look to Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union to find a society destroyed by coercion, socialism, and the overreaching power of the State. We could just look at Detroit…

In 1961, the last Republican mayor of Detroit lost his re-election bid to a young, intelligent Democrat, with the overwhelming support of newly organized black voters. His name was Jerome Cavanagh. The incumbent was widely considered to be corrupt (and later served 10 years in prison for tax evasion). Cavanagh, a white man, pandered to poor underclass black voters. He marched with Martin Luther King down the streets of Detroit in 1963.(Of course, marching with King was the right thing to do… It’s just Cavanagh’s motives were political not moral.) He instated aggressive affirmative action policies at City Hall. And most critically, he greatly expanded the role of the government in Detroit, taking advantage of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Model Cities Program”– the first great experiment in centralized urban planning.

Mayor Cavanagh was the only elected official to serve on Johnson’s task force. And Detroit received widespread acclaim for its leadership in the program, which attempted to turn a nine-square-mile section of the city (with 134,000 inhabitants) into a “model city.” More than $400 million was spent trying to turn inner cities into shining new monuments to government planning. In short, the feds and Democratic city mayors were soon telling people where to live, what to build, and what businesses to open or close. In return, the people received cash, training, education, and health care.

The Model Cities program was a disaster for Detroit. But it did accomplish its real goal: The creation of a state-supported, Democratic political power base. The program also resulted in much higher taxes – which were easy to pitch to poor voters who didn’t have to pay them. Cavanagh pushed a new income tax through the state legislature and a “commuter tax” on city workers.

Unfortunately, as with all socialist programs, lots of folks simply don’t like being told what to do. Lots of folks don’t like being plundered by the government. They don’t like losing their jobs because of their race.

In Detroit, they didn’t like paying new, large taxes to fund a largely black and Democratic political hegemony. And so, in 1966, more than 22,000 middle- and upper-class residents moved out of the city.

But what about the poor? Doug Casey likes to say, in the War on Poverty, the poor lost the most. In July 1967, police attempted to break up a late-night party in the middle of the new “Model City.” The scene turned into the worst race riot of the 1960s. The violence killed more than 40 people and left more than 5,000 people homeless. One of the first stores to be looted was the black-owned pharmacy. The largest black-owned clothing store in the city was also burned to the ground. Cavanagh did nothing to stop the riots, fearing a large police presence would make matters worse. Five days later, Johnson sent in two divisions of paratroopers to put down the insurrection. Over the next 18 months, an additional 140,000 upper- and middle-class residents – almost all of them white – left the city.

And so, you might rightfully ask… after five years of centralized planning, higher taxes, and a fleeing population, what did the government decide to do with its grand experiment, its “Model City”? You’ll never guess….

Seeing it had accomplished nothing but failure, the government endeavored to do still more. The Model City program was expanded and enlarged by 1974&#8242;s Community Development Block Grant Program. Here again, politicians would decide which groups (and even individuals) would receive state funds for various “renewal” schemes. Later, Big Business was brought into the fold. In exchange for various concessions, the Big Three automakers “gave”$488 million to the city for use in still more redevelopment schemes in the mid-1990s.

What happened? Even with all of their power and all of the money, centralized planners couldn’t succeed with any of their plans. Nearly all of the upper and middle class left Detroit. The poor fled, too. The Model City area lost 63% of its population and 45% of its housing units from the inception of the program through 1990.

Even today, the crisis continues. At a recent auction of nearly 9,000 seized homes and lots, less than one-fifth of the available properties sold, even with bidding starting at $500. You literally can’t give away most of the “Model City” areas today. The properties put up for sale last week represented an area the size of New York’s Central Park. Total vacant land in Detroit now occupies an area the size of Boston – Detroit properties in foreclosure have more than tripled since 2007.

Every single mayor of Detroit since 1961 has been a Democrat. Every single mayor of Detroit since 1974 has been black. Detroit has been a major recipient of every major social program since the early 1960s and has received hundreds of billions of dollars in government grants, loans, and programs. We now have a black, Democrat president, who is promising to do to America as a whole what his political mentors have done to Detroit.

I have to agree ! The fact that the corruption goes unchecked and enabled by the dems is another subject !

The first thing they do is start calling names like Communist or Socialist when people start seeing thru thier lies.There is no difference between Democrats and Republicans who work for a living.The rich play us all like pawns.

I hope O'Bama doesn't catch anything from our worthless Wall Street enforcer.