Democrats voted overwhelmingly to cancel unemployment benefits to 1.3 million Americans. Now they’re launching a ferocious campaign against Republicans for supporting the same exact bill.
Voted to Screw the Unemployed Before Talking About Not Voting to Screw the Unemployed
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The Democrats have been posing as the party of workers, of the New Deal, for decades despite their opposition to significant labor initiatives passed during FDR’ s administration, beginning with roll-backs of the Wagner Act, by a majority of Democrats, by passage of the Taft-Harley Act and the passage of the anti-democratic 22nd Amendment, also passed by a Democratic Congress, making sure that no president would ever have to face an angry electorate after his second term.
Not a dime’s worth of difference, some would say.
I say they’re worse for their unconscionable pretenses.
Correction:
President Harry Truman vetoed the Taft–Hartley Act , but Congress overrode his veto. Majorities of both parties voted for the bill as well as the override.
The roll -back of the Wagner Act as well as the Passage of the anti-democratic 22nd Amendment could not have been accomplished without Democratic complicity.
They’re corporatists. They’ve done more through regulation (ostensibly to lessen the power of big business) to entrench big business in the US economy. The system freezes out smaller competitors while making the big players come hat in hand to the government for favors – and giving cushy “consulting” jobs to politicians and apparatchiks who’ve been especially generous.
And the social welfare system is just good enough to keep people from exploding but just bad enough to remind the peons who their daddy is.
But what happens, Comrade, when the social welfare system is dismantled (starve the beast) to the degree that it no longer suffices to keep large numbers of people from «exploding» – will they explode to the left or to the right ?…
Henri
Neither. It keeps going because it’s in the best interest of those in power. The right? They need a safe group to whip up resentment, envy and fear among their rank-and-file to advance their agenda. They’ll make cosmetic cuts here and there but won’t touch it outright.
The left? They need a safe group to whip up pity, guilt and fear among their own rank and file to advance *their* agenda. They’ll make cosmetic improvements but they won’t touch it either.
The racket is safe until they just plain run out of money but by then no one’s going to be able to do jack about it.
You seem to be saying that even when large numbers of people «explode», the system will still be safe, as «by then no one’s going to be able to do jack about it.». To my mind, that’s not much of an explosion, but perhaps I misinterpret you ?…
Henri
Mon Ami, have you noticed how law enforcement is becoming militarized? Have you questioned why Podunk PD needs military-grade weapons and armored vehicles – apart from “turrurists” of course?
Whether this is some grand conspiracy (unlikely) or just a bunch of very unfortunate coincidences I don’t know – but it’s happening. So any explosion will be contained.
I have never hoped harder to be wrong, but that’s how I see it.
They have learned from OWS. In a surveillance state, no matter which way you explode, the authorities will be there before you are. The only real hope is in coopting the gendarmes and military, but there’s that thing about people being inclined to believe things when their livelihood is dependent on doing so.
Ain’t democracy = capitalism grand ?…
Henri
Democrats are really just a sub-set of Republicans. :(=
I think one could argue it either way depending on whether one thinks honest brutality is a subset of dishonest brutality, or vice versa. I’m torn, myself.
But look! Drones will be the new job creators!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/31/drone-technology-uav-unmanned-aircraft/3683835/
Happy New Year, Ted!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaTbI7FCLl0&sns=em
Happy new year to you and to everyone else!
Indeed, Miep, but yet empires with mighty armies and gendarmeries have collapsed before, and it would surprise me me greatly – but on the other hand, many things have – were this to prove impossible even in the case of the «indispensable nation». Soldiers and cops don’t supply their own armaments or food, and when the worm turns, it turns even them….
Henri