June 23, 2010

There is a lot of talk about Obama redistributing the wealth like a communist using Nazi tactics thereby dismantling our democracy. Certainly the billions distributed during his term have been wealth distribution and this is not unusual and has been part of the conservative and republican landscape for years.

For example:

Annually, we pay billions to big companies like oil companies and agro-businesses and no one thought this a problem and they still don't. This is definitely a redistribution of billions in wealth by the government at the expense of the taxpayer.

Then there is Medicare Part D which redistributes wealth to big pharma forever. Republicans and Bush pushed though wealth distribution because they wanted to be re-elected.

We heard nothing about how the conservative Republicans were dismantling the country when they forced though the Patriot Act at 3 am without anyone reading it. It was and is legislation that weakened Constitutional protections for every citizen.

What we need is corporate responsibility starting with illegal immigration especially because it is on everyone's mind and is a big political thing this year. So, let's get tough on it and suspend any statute of limitations of the Reagan Amnesty laws of the 1980s and compel prosecution kind of like the new Arizona immigration laws. This would mean that any company or business that ever hired an illegal after the law was originally enacted must be punished. The business officers must go to jail and pay a fine... no exceptions.

But we don't hear that from Republicans or anyone for that matter. Until the wealthy and US businesses start doing their part and take responsibility the rest is bullshit.

Using illegals is redistribution of wealth to businesses because they hire people who must accept the low pay they offer or face being reported which is extortion.

Also repeal the tax loop holes which exempt US businesses, mainly the big ones from paying ANY taxes to the US at all. By allowing  then to claim they are based outside the US but actually do most if not all their business in the US is wrong and is a redistribution of wealth to the corporations.

We are all useful idiots for the Unites States of Corporate America. People who claim it is all Obama's fault are shills and mouthpieces for corporations. And to be fair we also need to attack Bush and the Republicans for what they did and failed to do to preserve our democracy from attack by our enemy, Corporate America.

The association of Obama with Hitler is a tired and worn conservative talking point. It generates fear from the weak minded based on their ignorance of Hitler and his times. Equating what Hitler did with Obama is intellectually impossible and irresponsible but they do it anyway.

Again, we are just a bunch of useful idiots for corporate America.

An excellent example is the Tea Party movement which was started about 2007 by some very wealthy Republicans (i.e Koch Family). The beauty of this is that people who now support the movement don't know this or don't want to know that they have been duped. Talk about useful idiots. Hats off to the founders of the movement because they duped millions and it didn't take Hitler or Obama to do it either.