Posted by
Joyanna Adams on Sunday, June 22, 2008 11:47:04 PM
Nobody's Opinion: NBC’s Brain Williams recently announced to a graduating class these ominous words: “You need to fix your country.” This remark drove Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, and just about every conservative within a few feet of a public microphone so crazy, they were hyperventilating with bloated examples of our country’s great wealth.
Why, there is nothing wrong with America! We are just going through a “cyclic” economic cycle! Even our poor people are fat and have big TV’s! What’s wrong with you lazy, spoiled rotten baby boomers! Why--- you’re parents went through WWII, and how about that depression! You’re a bunch of whiners!
So said the great Rush Limbaugh today, (Okay, due to problems with "crashing" e-mail servers, "today" was last week...but it's still releveant.) until the end of his radio program, when a man said that in reality, maybe the government should step in: something is very wrong when 90 percent of the wealth is owned by 10 percent of the people.
Well, Rush had to leave…sorry…get to that some other day.
It’s an especially scary time for Republicans. We all witness the major damage they did when they got the reigns of power in 2000. The money didn’t trickle down, it trickled out.
Thus, it’s hard to watch the current waves of conservative panic---and also watch Obama milk it for all it’s worth. Telling us all to “Don’t worry, be happy folks” is not helping the conservative power base one iota.
If they keep up this insanity, the insanity of pretending all our problems are just a small bump on the road to success, Obama will be elected, O'Reilly will have to leave the country, communism will overtake America sooner rather than later and it will be the Republicans fault.
After all they were the last ones standing.
The truth is; the majority of Americans are sick of both parties…the socialist/ communist Democrats and the big business will solve everything Republicans. We have an oligarchy of politicians fighting at the top for control of the global market, representing not the purple people out here in America, but the concerns of the big American multinational companies, who have taken away our manufacturing good paying jobs and replaced them with “service” jobs. Our political system is corrupted to the core.
And that’s not just a Nobody’s Opinion™. If you believe all the polling data, that’s a pretty well know fact. As Lou Dobb says, the middle class of America is being destroyed without a concern about any of the lives or the country that once was.
It seems the only real wealth to be made now is in stocks. And the rich have lots of stocks---Don’t you? Bill O’Reilly said that if anyone took more than 15 percent of his capital gains he was leaving the country.
What a whiner.
Let’s take Rush’s argument. So what if college is more out of the reach of most Americans now, the family unit is in deep trouble, our schools are among the worst on the planet, our food is being contaminated, and the reason our poor people are so fat is because they can only afford the cheap cereal and cheap bread in their local grocery stores, due to the fact that all manufacturing jobs are gone, and service jobs don’t pay as much.
The poor can get a cheap TV at Wal-Mart! Wow!
So Rush---lets’ go back. Suppose the great Limbaugh was talking to the people of 1776. They may not have had dishwashers or televisions, but they didn’t know what they were missing now did they? Let’s say they had radios and Rush was calling them all whiners because they were complaining too much. Why, the people in the Stone Age never had it so good! Suck it up, Boston!
They were being taxed, their tea was taxed, their papers were taxed, and it was pretty hard to have money to do much of anything else. Much like today, only we have it worse in comparison to their taxes.
On top of that, they had a King overseas who was telling them pretty much…buckle up, shut up, and pay the tax, you ungrateful whiners…
And talk about whiners. George Washington was one of the biggest. So were John Adams, Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson. The Declaration of Independence is one big whine session.
Well, so we don’t work as hard as they did, right Rush? Tell that to the man who’s holding down three service jobs because he lost his manufacturing job overseas.
We work until May for the government. And this mess is not “cyclic.” Even John McCain has told us those jobs are never coming back.
The shout from our great conservative leaders has been…basically daily denial.
While all the great conservative minds keep reminding us that capitalism and the great companies like GM, Wal-Mart are just great, they don’t have to shop there. It wasn’t Saks Fifth Avenue that wiped out the Middle Class.
Free market means competition, right? More choice---right? Tell me. Have Americans got more choices now? That’s the trouble with capitalism, it needs referees. It’s pretty simple really. Our founders knew that power corrupts almost all “elites” so they tried to put in a three-party system. But there is no system to check and balance big companies that have money to influence big politicians, and that’s where America has finally come, and the Marxists are loving every conservative blunder. There used to be anti-trust laws? What happened to them?
Actually, I tend to disagree with Rush. Rush telling us not to whine is just as offensive as Obama telling us what “we” will do.
I think we need more whiners not less. Before the purple people-eaters of a One World Government eats us all up.