Free enterprise, say the leadership, the pundits, and the politicians from the Republican/Tea Party, let the chips fall as they may and if jobs are lost, people are sick, people are homeless it is part of the process to eventually find progress with private investment and enterprise. The future will be brighter we are told and if in the process of seeking the future the present is dull and dreary so be it, but the markets know best and free markets know better say the Corporate CEO’s their lobbyists and the elected lackey’s bought and paid for by the top 1%.
In Michigan today, Mitt Romney and his surrogates argue that the bailout for the auto-industry was a very Un-American action managed by the President. They say it was not the government’s responsibility to invest in American economy or jobs adding the government should not come to the rescue of any failing industry. Capitalism thrives with the ebb and flow of money, the ability to create and destroy, improve and remove, artificial involvement by government officials eliminate the will of the people to remain successful, so say those who also identify Corporations as people.
On the campaign trial the Republican/Tea Party candidates for president are insistent that one of the first actions they will take will be to eliminate “Obamacare”, stating that it is the first sign post to the road of Socialism. The candidates and their cohorts on Fox News, or the RNC define health care for all as a plot to remove freedoms for Americans, and an omen threatening to weaken our democracy. The free market, we are preached to, will find a fair price point for health care, and if it takes a decade to do so, so be it because a true America must rely on the markets and their fluctuations.
Educators, first responders, janitorial professionals, nurses to name a few are lazy individuals who demand outrageous salaries and gluttonous benefits so we are lectured to by the Republican/Tea Party majority led state legislatures. These workers are lemmings for a union leadership more concerned about their own political ambitions and less worried about what is good for ALL America and Americans. If a government has to pay its citizens minimum wages and then kick in for benefits or a safe work environment all that happens is a depletion of dollars to balance a budget that eventually will not include the health and welfare for a majority of population say the union buster bully’s.
Had we waited for the free market to assist in the resurrection of the auto industry as we waited, we would have witnessed millions of unemployed workers unable to pay mortgages, purchase food, pay for health care and maintain any kind of sane home life. Had we waited for the market to fluctuate or the CEO’s and their Board of Directors to debate the profit loss of their bottom line how many people would be hungry, homeless and hassled? If we go back to the free market to set a price waiting for the Health care Cartel to debate how much profit they need for the year how many people will go uninsured, die because they can not afford costly procedures, live a shorter life because of health issues. If we deny fair wages, healthy works spaces because right now we feel we should balance a budget without raising income how many people will struggle to just survive, retain some semblance of middle class life, thrive?
I can not understand how the here and now seem to be unimportant for the Republican/Tea Party voters. If people are hungry feed them, if people are homeless find them shelter, if people are ill make them better, if people must work pay them fair wages, if people grow old let them grow old with dignity. If we want a future of promise then why are we laying the ground work for the present to deny, delete and demean? Why should we be told we must be better for tomorrow when none of us are given the correct tools to survive today? If we would have waited for the fair market to handle the auto crisis, how many millions of people would have been unemployed, homeless, desperate? How many people currently can not afford health care now that it is at the whim of free markets? Why are wages for many only providing meager allowing for a priority of how to pay, food, shelter, health, imagine no minimum wages or fair wages?
I continue to worry when I see the throngs of people cheering on Santorum, Romney, Gingrich or Paul propelling them to restrict, deny, divide hoping they will be president to destroy today for some tomorrow which will only find the wealthy survive. I continue to wonder how the many millions of minions without decent health care, living at the poverty level , lacking proper education applaud the self serving and selfish machinations of Santorum, Romney, Gingrich, Paul. I am in sick awe as the crowds wave banners and signs supporting men whose rhetoric is filled with lies fiction and false prophecy encouraging them to lead this nation.
We need to look at today with clear head and clearer eyes.If we don’t this nation will have a very dreary tomorrow.
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