Tea Party’s misplaced rage ??
on 10/28/2010 at 11:16 AM
Meyerson, that leftist idiot, is expanding on Slick Willy’s counterpoint from the other day ... you know old Bill, always the opportunist ... “yeah, the Tea Party wants to take the country back ... All the way back!” Thus implying that we want to get rid of civil rights, re-institute slavery, etc. A one-two punch combined with NObama’s direct pandering to blacks and hispanics to vote against “their enemies”. All Conservatives are evil, don’t ever forget it!
Meyerson only focuses on the economic aspects though, claiming that FDR’s New Deal socialism is what made America prosper for more than 30 years ...
In fact, the New Deal order produced the only three decades in American history—the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s—when economic security and opportunity were widely shared. It was the only period in the American chronicle when unions were big and powerful enough to ensure that corporate revenue actually trickled down to workers. It marked the only time in American history when, courtesy originally of the GI Bill, the number of Americans going to college surged. It was the only time when taxes on the rich were really significantly higher than taxes on the rest of us. It was the only time that the minimum wage kept pace (almost) with the cost of living. And it was the only time when most Americans felt confident enough about their economic prospects, and those of their nation, to support the taxes that built the postwar American infrastructure.
So he’s totally full of it. While some of those union supported manufacturing jobs started to go away in the 70s, the exponential growth of the welfare state at that time allowed huge numbers of people to live almost as well on the dole as they did when they were working. So yeah, for the bottom rungs things have gone downhill a bit since that peak ... but those there then who are there now, generationally, mostly took that sleigh ride by choice, trading the never ending care of the Nanny State for the risky but more rewarding path of making it on your own. And in the decades since, with the rise of mass higher education, the miracles of technology, and the limitless horizons of a worldwide marketplace, those that had the moxie to go for it and make it got paid in spades. But Meyerson and Clinton HAVE to force the false belief that the world is a zero-sum game; the one and only way for anyone to get ahead is to push someone else behind. And that’s bullshit, but that is one of the core beliefs of the left.
10/28/2010 at 01:16 PM
