Response to Wayne Root's Opinion Piece of 2010

July 25, 2011

Wayne Allen Root wrote an opinion piece which published June 6, 2010. For reference: http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/obama-s-agenda--overwhelm-the-system-95716764.html

First off there is an email circulating about this and it incorrectly re-published the article. The first two paragraphs were added. Root never said Obama was Muslim nor did he comment on czars or Glenn Beck. Now back to the article:

Universal health care. The health care bill had everything to do with health care. Adding more to the debt is a not anticipated over the long-term. The current economic crisis is not a depression as stated but a recession which started under Republican George Bush after a Republican controlled congress relaxed financial standards.

Cap and trade. The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 of passed the House but not in the Senate. It was about energy and new standards.

Puerto Rico: Obama has never asked that Puerto Rico become a state. The citizens of that commonwealth rejected that idea some time ago. They are in political limbo and its citizen are American but cannot vote in federal elections. There are less than 4 million residents.

Immigration : As to legalizing 12 million illegal Mexican immigrants and saying a few trillion in welfare would be added. The math is incredible and unbelievable. The illegals are already here because businesses hire them and this has not added a few trillion to the debt. By paying them low wages they make a profit. If creating a legal path to citizenship is Marxist then Reagan was a Marxist in the 1980s for granting amnesty.

If illegal workers made legal are paying into Social Security then they should get Social Security like any other person. The implication that they would all become wards of the state is false.

Stimulus and bailouts. The money went to stabilize the economic system before Obama was elected and the stimulus was an attempt to help economy. There were not direct payments to unions or to ACORN. The money went to GM to help is reorganize and become successful and this has worked. To say the money was to only help unions is false. It's like saying if any money helped a Republican then all of the money went to republicans.

The bailouts program was successful in stabilizing the economy but unsuccessful in creating jobs. However TARP was not intended to create jobs.

Taxes: Obama has not raised taxes. He cut them. In 2011 he is asking the rich and large corporations to pay more by eliminating special subsidies for them. This will indeed raise their taxes. Most, about two-thirds of large corporations pay no taxes but earn billions in profits. They use their government subsidies and loop holes “earn” even more. This is a massive redistribution of income from the middle class to the rich.

Further, corporations which have the same rights as person can now donate unlimited money to their candidates which in turn affect elections their way.

The number of public employees has dropped significantly during Obama's term not increased.

Cloward and Piven Plan: The plan was originally proposed in the mid 1960s and it proposed overloading the welfare system to create a crisis that would replace the welfare system with a system of guaranteed income to eliminate poverty. The plan was not to take over the United States or bring down capitalism. The plan was not Marxist but democratic socialist.