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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (515671)	12/24/2003 8:36:08 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Ray, Attempting to carry on an intellectual debate with the “wingers” is in reality a lost cause. It is my contention that attempts to learn from history is a wasted effort on them. Merely come to this SI thread and see it confirmed each day. Prime example is the “blood thirsty” cry of want-to-be machos who have never wore the uniform of military activist and them ranting about the US military might and our “butt-kicking” John Wayne history. In doing so, they totally forget that since WW II, we have been engaged in two, not one, major foreign military actions, Korea and Viet Nam and we have had our “collective butts” handed to us by third world armies. And now that we didn’t learn from fifty plus years of the greatest military force in the Middle East not being able to win a war against religious fanatics as Israel has been unable to do, we now find ourselves in another quagmire to which Bush is now having to admit that he has no idea how long we will be bogged down in this Iraqi war. If the lack of military history isn’t enough, when you toss in the parallels to Hitler’s game plan of fooling the naïve public with charges of being “non-patriotic” if you didn’t buy into his lust for genocide and world domination, we now find the “wingers” accusing the common men and women of this country of not having a job because they support the transferring of such jobs overseas. And for a person to merely state that they want US citizens to have the opportunity to work, you get such imbecilic comments from the likes of Taggart who says that a person merely preparing for the job market by getting a college degree shouldn’t be guaranteed that they have a job. Does oxymoronic stupidity come into one’s mind when they read the likes of Taggart’s gibberish? Let’s see, my daughter goes to college to prepare for the job market, there is no job’s available and I’m thus accused of being a Communist. Did I dream it up or didn’t I read somewhere that in a communist society that people didn’t have to work? But as to this issue of jobs being moved overseas and the parallels in that dastardly realm of HISTORY that is forgotten by the wingers, it appears that most of them are too young to have lived during the GREAT DEPRESSION. Apparently they are so young (as demonstrated by their naivety and lack of debate ammunition) their parents didn’t live through these trying times, and they forgot to ask their grandparents about the late 1920’s and most of the l930’s. However, I would challenge anyone to deny (denial being the favorite discourse for those lost in the defense of their fanaticism) that the Great Depression in this country was caused by the unequal distribution of wealth. Money was distributed disparately between the rich and the middle classes during this period, and now we find the same scenario developing in this country with a new dimension added to the mix. That being not only the wealth distribution issue, but the lack of opportunities to work in jobs with livable wages. How obvious are the parallels, and how obvious the denials that one can readily see! The Revenue Act of 1926 promoted and signed into law by one Calvin Coolidge, which reduced federal income and inheritance taxes. How can one so easily forget Andrew Mellon’s role as Secretary of the Treasury under Coolidge. Just to provide one example of how wide the gap between the rich and middle class has become during this period and what is currently going on in the US can be seen in what Henry Ford was making in a given year and what it would be in comparable dollars today. Ford’s yearly take was $14million, while the average citizen was making about $7,000.00. In today’s numbers, we have the average income of about $18,000.00, but Ford would be making $345,000,000.00. The rich keep getting richer, and ironically I fall into this category!!!! So today, we face a growing issue! Workers not having jobs, because they are being moving overseas! We as a nation are increasingly dependent on foreign money supporting our economy, which will at some point will lead to foreign investors realizing that if the American worker has no job to buy their goods, he will stop buying our US Treasuries in exchange for their goods, and we have the Domino Affect, that some of us remember from history is a another Great Depression. Just to give you some idea as to where this issue stands today, since March of 2000 to May, 2003, the change in the holdings of US Treasury Securities has risen 39.4% in Japan, 704% in China, 27% in Hong Kong, and 78.1% in Korea. And look at our trade deficit… tradealert.org As Everett Dirksen, the once great Senator from Illinois once said about money, “A few million here and a few million there, and soon we are talking about real money “, only now we are talking about billions. I dare any winger to deny that the Great Depression wasn’t caused by what I state, and I dare them to deny that history doesn’t repeat itself!!!!