Thursday, August 18, 2011
Wake up President Barak Obama, the clowns are coming in...
LOOKING AHEAD by Wally Dobelis
Wake up President Barak Obama, the clowns are coming in...
To a New Yorker the Iowa straw poll looks like a marionette show, with the players mouthing sound bites as they affirm their mantra imposed by another stagey figure of no political office stature, Grower Norquist of the Americans For Tax Reform (“no new taxes.”)
The result show it, of the 17,000 votes cast (Iowa has a population of 3 million souls), voters persuaded by free trips, dinners and millions spent in advertisements, winner is blowhard Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R, MN) with 4,823 (“let’s make Obama a one-term president”), followed by the luddite Rep .Ron Paul (R, TX) with 4,671 (“phony worthless paper money”), former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty (“Bachmann lies”) with 2,293, then former PA Rep. Rick Santorum – 1,456, write-in candidate Texas governor Rick Perry 718, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney 567, Newt Gingrich 386, former Utah governor Jon Huntsman 69 and Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R. MI) 35, with former Alaska governor Sarah Palin flitting around (more sound bites) but earning no known write-in votes.
Just cast your eyes at the names and numbers to share my sense of despair (Pawlenty wisely resigned). Are these the people America want to lead us in the crazy world of $900 billion annual trade deficit, 10 percent of growing unemployment, (constantly increasing as they try to balance budgets by firing civil service employees and teachers), and upping corporate pay with tax and deduction benefits (the more to enable the tycoons to kill US jobs by investing abroad) and putting the balancing burden of cutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits? And Afghanistan $1 T war?
Do the Iowa heroes have a clue of how to recover from a largely Republican-caused deficit? Well, being a hypocrite helps. Bachmann and gov. Perry have used Obama money, Perry to the tune of $6 billion that enabled him to balance a deficit, only to condemn the source. Being single tune anti-tax “balance the budget” ideologues, the common element in tea party membership also helps.
Re deficit, Conservatives, e.g. Jim Cramer of “The Street,” explain the American tycoons, who invest their high income tax and expense reimbursements abroad because the US government system has too many restrictions for investing at home. This is partially true, and a high standard of living is the main one. I remember hearing Robert Reich, then secretary of Labor, explain in a 1990s industry conference, that the US will never catch up in labor costs with the newly industrializing third world countries. He did not expect us to compete in the mass product industry, and opined that in transportation we could become the world’s special function automotive producer, e. g. the ten to fifteen special vehicles used only in airports. There was no question then that we would remain supreme in technology, now an area where we are challenged by the Asians. As to labor unions being a block, my upstate NYS conservative pizza shop owner friend tells me that a neighbor, a restaurant equipment maker, had moved his manufacturing to Pakistan. His last complaint had been the requirement, by law, to employ two carpenters, hired via union hall, for a few days, at the cost of $1,400 a day for the two, covering straight pay and deductions, a major one being unemployment insurance, to provide pay for the winter months when the carpenters are jobless. In terms of the US, the objections to unions are not quite valid, given that private industry union membership has shrunk from 35 percent area to under 10 percent, while the unionized government employee count has grown, from 10 to 35 plus percent, all within our generation. Non funded government union social benefits, plus widely reported abuses in using artificial overtime earnings to boost retirement benefits have been the sources in causing the state and legal government budget indebtedness reaching towards the trillions of dollars areas.
The Obama administration saved the American car industry, and its millions of direct and indirect jobs, against the Conservatives’ expressed principles and the unions cooperated. A two-tier wage system keeps the automobile prices competitive. In the realm of state and local government jobs and wages, our NYS governor Andrew Cuomo worked a set of funding compromises with the unions covering a total of over 100,000 employees, with full cooperation of labor leaders, who are in the process of persuading the members to accept a lesser take home pay rather than no pay. The tycoons who seek excuses to invest abroad and kill more jobs in the US are traitors breaching our social contract.
You tea party suckers beware, greed is at work.
This much for the Democratic and Obama no-leadership image perpetuated by the
opposition. There is also the Obama dollars’ use in developing new energy resources, the inevitable nuclear industry, in case sun and wind power development lags, and technology. As I recollect, President Obama intended to set up directions for his government, and let the precise details be worked out by Congress. This worked for the health plan, but not well. Now it is absolutely essential that the President take a stronger hand, else we will end up with some tea party guided marionettes leading the world. And the jobless uneducated minority young can start riots that will put Watts, Crown Heights and Detroit to shame.
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Wake up President Barak Obama, the clowns are coming in...
To a New Yorker the Iowa straw poll looks like a marionette show, with the players mouthing sound bites as they affirm their mantra imposed by another stagey figure of no political office stature, Grower Norquist of the Americans For Tax Reform (“no new taxes.”)
The result show it, of the 17,000 votes cast (Iowa has a population of 3 million souls), voters persuaded by free trips, dinners and millions spent in advertisements, winner is blowhard Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R, MN) with 4,823 (“let’s make Obama a one-term president”), followed by the luddite Rep .Ron Paul (R, TX) with 4,671 (“phony worthless paper money”), former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty (“Bachmann lies”) with 2,293, then former PA Rep. Rick Santorum – 1,456, write-in candidate Texas governor Rick Perry 718, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney 567, Newt Gingrich 386, former Utah governor Jon Huntsman 69 and Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R. MI) 35, with former Alaska governor Sarah Palin flitting around (more sound bites) but earning no known write-in votes.
Just cast your eyes at the names and numbers to share my sense of despair (Pawlenty wisely resigned). Are these the people America want to lead us in the crazy world of $900 billion annual trade deficit, 10 percent of growing unemployment, (constantly increasing as they try to balance budgets by firing civil service employees and teachers), and upping corporate pay with tax and deduction benefits (the more to enable the tycoons to kill US jobs by investing abroad) and putting the balancing burden of cutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits? And Afghanistan $1 T war?
Do the Iowa heroes have a clue of how to recover from a largely Republican-caused deficit? Well, being a hypocrite helps. Bachmann and gov. Perry have used Obama money, Perry to the tune of $6 billion that enabled him to balance a deficit, only to condemn the source. Being single tune anti-tax “balance the budget” ideologues, the common element in tea party membership also helps.
Re deficit, Conservatives, e.g. Jim Cramer of “The Street,” explain the American tycoons, who invest their high income tax and expense reimbursements abroad because the US government system has too many restrictions for investing at home. This is partially true, and a high standard of living is the main one. I remember hearing Robert Reich, then secretary of Labor, explain in a 1990s industry conference, that the US will never catch up in labor costs with the newly industrializing third world countries. He did not expect us to compete in the mass product industry, and opined that in transportation we could become the world’s special function automotive producer, e. g. the ten to fifteen special vehicles used only in airports. There was no question then that we would remain supreme in technology, now an area where we are challenged by the Asians. As to labor unions being a block, my upstate NYS conservative pizza shop owner friend tells me that a neighbor, a restaurant equipment maker, had moved his manufacturing to Pakistan. His last complaint had been the requirement, by law, to employ two carpenters, hired via union hall, for a few days, at the cost of $1,400 a day for the two, covering straight pay and deductions, a major one being unemployment insurance, to provide pay for the winter months when the carpenters are jobless. In terms of the US, the objections to unions are not quite valid, given that private industry union membership has shrunk from 35 percent area to under 10 percent, while the unionized government employee count has grown, from 10 to 35 plus percent, all within our generation. Non funded government union social benefits, plus widely reported abuses in using artificial overtime earnings to boost retirement benefits have been the sources in causing the state and legal government budget indebtedness reaching towards the trillions of dollars areas.
The Obama administration saved the American car industry, and its millions of direct and indirect jobs, against the Conservatives’ expressed principles and the unions cooperated. A two-tier wage system keeps the automobile prices competitive. In the realm of state and local government jobs and wages, our NYS governor Andrew Cuomo worked a set of funding compromises with the unions covering a total of over 100,000 employees, with full cooperation of labor leaders, who are in the process of persuading the members to accept a lesser take home pay rather than no pay. The tycoons who seek excuses to invest abroad and kill more jobs in the US are traitors breaching our social contract.
You tea party suckers beware, greed is at work.
This much for the Democratic and Obama no-leadership image perpetuated by the
opposition. There is also the Obama dollars’ use in developing new energy resources, the inevitable nuclear industry, in case sun and wind power development lags, and technology. As I recollect, President Obama intended to set up directions for his government, and let the precise details be worked out by Congress. This worked for the health plan, but not well. Now it is absolutely essential that the President take a stronger hand, else we will end up with some tea party guided marionettes leading the world. And the jobless uneducated minority young can start riots that will put Watts, Crown Heights and Detroit to shame.
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