The Era Of The Hired-Gun Poodle-For-The Rich Governor

[marmar]

from the Working Life blog:



The Era Of The Hired-Gun Poodle-For-The Rich Governor

by Jonathan Tasini
Monday 03 of January, 2011


My state is on the verge of a mass execution. It's an execution that will be carried out by a Democratic governor on behalf of the richest people in the state. It will be applauded by the traditional press, which will, in its collective willingness to ignore facts, bless the execution as the path to "fiscal stability".

It will be an unconscionable execution of innocent, hard-working people. It will leave a legacy that we will not easily repair for a generation or more--long after the hired-gun, poodle-for-the-rich governor moves on to the next step in his political career.

Let me paraphrase Jay Gould: It's clear that the richest people in the state can hire a Democratic governor to get one group of people to kill the other group, while the richest people laugh all the way to the purchase of their next Picasso.

Let's examine the insanity that we are about to descend into: the people of this state, and this country, have been robbed. Our economy has been drained of its great wealth by a systematic looting that has gone on for 30 years. In the most recent chapter of the economic crisis, a group of incompetent, greedy financiers obliterated trillions of dollars of wealth and cast millions of people out of their jobs.

And who should pay for this robbery, this foolishness, this immoral behavior?

The people who got screwed. The people who had nothing to do with triggering the economic crisis and were innocent by-standers.

You. Cannot. Make. This. Up. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view_post.php?content_id=15070

[SteppingRazor]

1. See, in my state of Florida, we're smart. We just cut out the middle man...

and put an uber-rich guy in charge of everything.

Next up: A 19 percent cut in education property taxes, corporate taxes cut to nothing (Literally! Nothing!) and the massive deficit to be made up for by cutting spending, even though the state already has a $3 billion shortfall.

[notesdev]

3. New York City beat you to it

They elected the richest guy in town years ago and even re-elected him. He changed his registration to Republican (he was a lifelong Democrat) for the effectively uncontested ballot line and claim to be the then-much-loved Giuliani's successor.

[DemoTex]

4. He's rich. He must be smart. Right?

:sarcasm:

[SteppingRazor]

5. Ah. but did you elect a multimillionaire who's also secretly a space alien?

google Rick Scott sometime. You'll get it.

[cali]

2. In my state we went in the opposite direction

Yay. Peter Shumlin is for shutting down Yankee, single payer health care and not letting the rich skate.