THE REAL POLITIK EDITION: ISSUE 63, VOLUME 93
WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?!
by Malik Isasis
Ever since the Reagan Revolution, during the early eighties when the neocons first came to power with President Ronald Reagan, the Republican Party had one mission: to destroy Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal ushered in after the first Great Depression and World War II, which created many social welfare policies such as social security, unemployment, and Medicaid and Medicare. To a lesser extent, the Republicans are also after President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society, which expanded the government’s role in social welfare programs from education to healthcare.
How do the Republicans destroy these social programs without causing a revolution? Deficits. Run up the federal deficits so high that when a Democrat administration comes into power, the Republicans can argue spending freezes, and program cutbacks. In Republican philosophical circles this is call, Starving the Beast, which means, a fiscal-political strategy of some American conservatives to use budget deficits via tax cuts to force future reductions in the size of government. The past three Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush have run up incredible deficits and tax cuts to ensure that social programs will die from attrition.
The starve-the-beast doctrine is now firmly within the conservative mainstream. George W. Bush himself seemed to endorse the doctrine as the budget surplus evaporated: in August 2001 he called the disappearing surplus "incredibly positive news" because it would put Congress in a "fiscal straitjacket."
Here's how the argument runs: to starve the beast, you must not only deny funds to the government; you must make voters hate the government. There's a danger that working-class families might see government as their friend: because their incomes are low, they don't pay much in taxes, while they benefit from public spending. So in starving the beast, you must take care not to cut taxes on these "lucky duckies." (Yes, that's what The Wall Street Journal called them in a famous editorial.) In fact, if possible, you must raise taxes on working-class Americans in order, as The Journal said, to get their "blood boiling with tax rage."
See Chart for increase in Modern Republican Deficit Spending:
Enter President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama is pushing some progressive policies with his budget. His budget for instance takes student loans out of the hands of private banks. The money now will be going straight to the learning institutions. He is aiming for a continuation of the Democratic philosophy of using the government as a tool to help the people gain access to health care, and education, rather than oppressing them by having them voting against their own interests.
As predicted the Republicans who’ve run up federal deficits in the trillions for 30 years—based on their own philosophy are now saying that Obama’s deficits spending will—I’ll let them speak for themselves:
Republican deficit-spending is never challenged by media. The corporate media allows this toxic waste to spew from Republicans' mouths and pollute the masses. And it never gets challenged by the mainstream media.
“What about the children!” they cry. But for 8 years, under Bush, our children were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan to be killed and to kill other people’s children, while running up major deficits because of illegal wars and occupations. What about our children in New Orleans who drowned and lost everything? It was the Republican philosophy of Starving the Beast which collapsed the government, remember you pieces of shit?
These people don’t stand only for power for the sake of power. They resist President Obama’s budget because it is being spent on the people, rather than tax cuts to the wealthy and illegal wars. So it’s not deficit spending the Republicans worry about, they worry about the working, underclass, and middle class people becoming conscious about Republican evilness, their true intent. Did I tell you how much I hate these people?
The corporate media, the Republican’s echo chamber, carries the toxic waste, which is the Republican talking points—ever notice that President George W. Bush has completely disappeared from the newsreader’s mouths on the cable news?
The corporate media’s agenda is clear, they don’t like Obama’s budget no more than the Republicans—it’s why they say that Obama's taking on too much…"he should just focus on one thing," they say, "the economy should be his priority," they say…"health care and education can wait," they say, knowing that if he did, health care won't happen.
Republicans are crying about “future generations” but they don’t give a shit about any generation but their own. This party needs to be put to a political death. They are completely worthless, septic. I hate them and everything they stand for--
you pieces of excrement. If your party died, it would be the best thing for the children.
WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?!
by Malik Isasis
Ever since the Reagan Revolution, during the early eighties when the neocons first came to power with President Ronald Reagan, the Republican Party had one mission: to destroy Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal ushered in after the first Great Depression and World War II, which created many social welfare policies such as social security, unemployment, and Medicaid and Medicare. To a lesser extent, the Republicans are also after President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society, which expanded the government’s role in social welfare programs from education to healthcare.
How do the Republicans destroy these social programs without causing a revolution? Deficits. Run up the federal deficits so high that when a Democrat administration comes into power, the Republicans can argue spending freezes, and program cutbacks. In Republican philosophical circles this is call, Starving the Beast, which means, a fiscal-political strategy of some American conservatives to use budget deficits via tax cuts to force future reductions in the size of government. The past three Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush have run up incredible deficits and tax cuts to ensure that social programs will die from attrition.
The starve-the-beast doctrine is now firmly within the conservative mainstream. George W. Bush himself seemed to endorse the doctrine as the budget surplus evaporated: in August 2001 he called the disappearing surplus "incredibly positive news" because it would put Congress in a "fiscal straitjacket."
Here's how the argument runs: to starve the beast, you must not only deny funds to the government; you must make voters hate the government. There's a danger that working-class families might see government as their friend: because their incomes are low, they don't pay much in taxes, while they benefit from public spending. So in starving the beast, you must take care not to cut taxes on these "lucky duckies." (Yes, that's what The Wall Street Journal called them in a famous editorial.) In fact, if possible, you must raise taxes on working-class Americans in order, as The Journal said, to get their "blood boiling with tax rage."
See Chart for increase in Modern Republican Deficit Spending:
Enter President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama is pushing some progressive policies with his budget. His budget for instance takes student loans out of the hands of private banks. The money now will be going straight to the learning institutions. He is aiming for a continuation of the Democratic philosophy of using the government as a tool to help the people gain access to health care, and education, rather than oppressing them by having them voting against their own interests.
As predicted the Republicans who’ve run up federal deficits in the trillions for 30 years—based on their own philosophy are now saying that Obama’s deficits spending will—I’ll let them speak for themselves:
Republican deficit-spending is never challenged by media. The corporate media allows this toxic waste to spew from Republicans' mouths and pollute the masses. And it never gets challenged by the mainstream media.
“What about the children!” they cry. But for 8 years, under Bush, our children were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan to be killed and to kill other people’s children, while running up major deficits because of illegal wars and occupations. What about our children in New Orleans who drowned and lost everything? It was the Republican philosophy of Starving the Beast which collapsed the government, remember you pieces of shit?
These people don’t stand only for power for the sake of power. They resist President Obama’s budget because it is being spent on the people, rather than tax cuts to the wealthy and illegal wars. So it’s not deficit spending the Republicans worry about, they worry about the working, underclass, and middle class people becoming conscious about Republican evilness, their true intent. Did I tell you how much I hate these people?
The corporate media, the Republican’s echo chamber, carries the toxic waste, which is the Republican talking points—ever notice that President George W. Bush has completely disappeared from the newsreader’s mouths on the cable news?
The corporate media’s agenda is clear, they don’t like Obama’s budget no more than the Republicans—it’s why they say that Obama's taking on too much…"he should just focus on one thing," they say, "the economy should be his priority," they say…"health care and education can wait," they say, knowing that if he did, health care won't happen.
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Republicans are crying about “future generations” but they don’t give a shit about any generation but their own. This party needs to be put to a political death. They are completely worthless, septic. I hate them and everything they stand for--
you pieces of excrement. If your party died, it would be the best thing for the children.
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