To the editor:
I wonder if the American public has finally had enough. As we careen headlong into the second Republican Great Depression, will the voters at long last wake up and recognize that the neo con revolution begun by Reagan, Gingrich and the rest is a total disaster? Every part of the Republican strategy is a miserable failure.
Ronald Reagan, the father of American fascism, infamously started it all by stating: “We must get the government regulators off the backs of the poor businessmen.” Well, those regulations were put in to address the economic fraud that let to the first Great Depression. It turns out that those poor businessmen are nothing but a bunch of crooks, looting the system and begging for taxpayer handouts when everything crashes.
The Republican party is the party of lies (“Iraq is an imminent threat”), kidnapping and torture (“extraordinary rendition”), treason (failure to uphold the Constitution - the right to peaceful assembly was denied in St. Paul at the Republican National Convention when police were ordered to target non-corporate media for arrest and confinement) and massive corruption (billions of taxpayer dollars have just disappeared in Iraq and Norm Coleman, chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, investigated nothing).
And now, we have the final chapter of Reaganomics. After a 27-year war on the middle class, the house of cards (or should I say sub prime mortgages) is crashing down. Send our jobs overseas, kill the middle class while the top two percent gobble up more and more of the nation’s wealth, let the Wall Street speculators bleed companies dry to the point of destroying them and make the taxpayers bail out the investment company crooks just like we bailed out the savings and loan crooks in the mid-1980s. After 27 years of Reaganomics, we are rapidly becoming a third world country: two classes of people, the rich and the poor, with not much in between. Working people deserve a decent share of the nation’s wealth.
Also, the next president will probably appoint three or four Supreme Court Justices. We can’t afford more corporate concubines like John Roberts and Sam Alito on the Court.
The government is supposed to be “of the people, by the people and for the people.” Under Republican control, corporations have more rights than citizens. Is that what you want? I don’t.
If you are fed up with this mess, vote Democrat. That is our only hope for change.
John Dalsveen
Brook Park
John- Wow, you liberals need to do your homework. This house of cards you refer to...the sub-prime mortgages...is a 100% left wing, democrate doing. It all started with guarantees the government made to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to bail them out if the mortgages they're backing go belly up. So Fannie and Freddi have no consequences if they back bad loans, so they go the banks and tell them to give mortgages to any Joe Smoe who wants one, because...hey, theres no risk in it for them. I'm sure you can figure out the rest from there. It was the doings of democrats like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, who by the way each received sweetheart loans deals from Countrywide for their backing and count the financial market as their biggest contributors.
There is a false sterotype out there that the Republicans are the ones in bed with the financial sector. That could'nt be further from the truth. I encourage everyone to look up the contributions the Financial sector has made to politcians at www.opensecrets.com, I think you'll find it very eye opening.
Just to clarify, the site is actually opensecrets.org. Helpful site.