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Republicans oppose infrastructure investment BECAUSE IT EMPLOYS PEOPLE
Republicans oppose infrastructure investment BECAUSE it demonstrates government doing good for We the People.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/dave-johnson/59768/heres-what-60-minutes-should-have-reported-about-infrastructure
Here’s the thing. This is THE REASON that the Republican Party – also known as the National Association of Low-Wage Employers (NALWE) – opposes investing in our infrastructure. They oppose it BECAUSE it (obviously) creates jobs. They oppose it BECAUSE it demonstrates government doing good for We the People.
There is a reason Congress is being obstructed from doing what it always did and taking this opportunity of low interest rates, high unemployment and low GDP growth to do the infrastructure work that needs doing. For the last few decades the Republican Party – also known as the National Association of Plutocrats and Billionaires (NAPAB) – has been in an anti-government frame of mind. In a democracy government (We the People) is the force that empowers *regular* people, giving them the ability to fight back against great wealth and build broad prosperity. The NAPAB (Republican Party) has opposed and obstructed democratic government’s efforts to empower the public, to strengthen unions, to fight monopoly, to hold people in power accountable.
Here is what “60 Minutes” missed: The NAPAB (Republican Party) blocked infrastructure BECAUSE IT EMPLOYS PEOPLE. They oppose it because it would be government helping people. Their clients, the billionaires and plutocrats, benefit from low wages and disempowerment of regular people. Government programs that employ enough people and increase wages would cause people to have increased faith in government instead of losing faith in government.
Beginning in the 1980s, the country has seen the ascendance of the finance sector of the economy, commonly called “Wall Street.” Their mottos is, “From the many to the few.” Wall Street, represented in Washington by the NAPAB, NALWE and NAPCC has been busy harvesting our country’s public wealth for private profit, a.k.a. eating the seed corn. Taxes on the wealthy have been cut, maintenance of infrastructure has been deferred, programs that benefit regular people have been cut and gutted, public wealth has been privatized, factories closed and moved out of the country, pensions raided, wages reduced, jobs *exported*. Strengthening public infrastructure is not on the agenda. This is not an accident. This is not “just another example of political paralysis in Washington,” it is the reason for it.
There is a reason Congress is being obstructed from doing what it always did and taking this opportunity of low interest rates, high unemployment and low GDP growth to do the infrastructure work that needs doing. For the last few decades the Republican Party – also known as the National Association of Plutocrats and Billionaires (NAPAB) – has been in an anti-government frame of mind. In a democracy government (We the People) is the force that empowers *regular* people, giving them the ability to fight back against great wealth and build broad prosperity. The NAPAB (Republican Party) has opposed and obstructed democratic government’s efforts to empower the public, to strengthen unions, to fight monopoly, to hold people in power accountable.
Here is what “60 Minutes” missed: The NAPAB (Republican Party) blocked infrastructure BECAUSE IT EMPLOYS PEOPLE. They oppose it because it would be government helping people. Their clients, the billionaires and plutocrats, benefit from low wages and disempowerment of regular people. Government programs that employ enough people and increase wages would cause people to have increased faith in government instead of losing faith in government.
Beginning in the 1980s, the country has seen the ascendance of the finance sector of the economy, commonly called “Wall Street.” Their mottos is, “From the many to the few.” Wall Street, represented in Washington by the NAPAB, NALWE and NAPCC has been busy harvesting our country’s public wealth for private profit, a.k.a. eating the seed corn. Taxes on the wealthy have been cut, maintenance of infrastructure has been deferred, programs that benefit regular people have been cut and gutted, public wealth has been privatized, factories closed and moved out of the country, pensions raided, wages reduced, jobs *exported*. Strengthening public infrastructure is not on the agenda. This is not an accident. This is not “just another example of political paralysis in Washington,” it is the reason for it.