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Published August 27, 2009 08:43 pm - Some of our politicians wrote articles for the papers recently. One said, “We must take out country back.” I guess he forgot his party lost the elections. The other guy made reference to the Nazis, but now it’s starting to come out some of these folks were there to disrupt, not talk. These were the tactics used by the Nazis in the 1930s. He had the right idea, just the wrong group. The woman said: “Capitalism made our country great.” Wrong again. The American worker made our country great. Capitalism made the sweatshops of the early 1900s.
Voices: Republicans to blame
Some of our politicians wrote articles for the papers recently. One said, “We must take out country back.” I guess he forgot his party lost the elections. The other guy made reference to the Nazis, but now it’s starting to come out some of these folks were there to disrupt, not talk. These were the tactics used by the Nazis in the 1930s. He had the right idea, just the wrong group.
The woman said: “Capitalism made our country great.” Wrong again. The American worker made our country great. Capitalism made the sweatshops of the early 1900s.
The truth is, most programs that level the playing field for Americans are Democratic in nature and socialistic in content. A few examples are Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Women’s Suffrage Act of the 1920s (yes, a woman’s right to vote has its roots in socialism) and unions.
Some unions have become too powerful, but in the past it was these organizations that put an end to sweatshops that worked women and children from daylight to dark for near-nothing wages.
So what have the Republicans done for us? After all, they held Congress for seven years and the White House for eight. Let’s see, a president that started a war no one wanted that helped to drain the American economy, not to mention the dead and wounded. Then he tried to do away with Social Security, and we shouldn’t forget taking the tax off big oil. Remember the $4-a-gallon gas? And, finally, they saw no need to regulate their Republican friends on Wall Street, which led to the American people being stolen blind and the economy left in shambles.
Mismanagement caused the problems we now have. Mismanagement by siding with big oil and capitalistic finance on Wall Street, mismanagement of a war we’re going to pay on for the next 50 years. It was mismanagement that caused hardworking Americans to lose their jobs and health care, not socialism. How dare they blame Democrats? They had their chance and they failed.
Raymond Smith
Goodman
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