TheStripey1
05-02-2008, 11:24 AM
My friend, Angel of Mercy, recently wrote this op-ed piece for DailyKOS... and although I have his permission to repost it in it's entirety, I will only post a small portion... but do feel free to read the whole thing, by simply clicking on the article's title...
The Republican Erosion of America
By Angel Of Mercy 26/04/08 “Daily Kos” (http://writechic.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/the-republican-erosion-of-america/)
There is, it seems to me, an area in the political discussion which has been woefully ignored for much, much too long. Historical fact: Prior to the rise of the radical right some 30 years ago, America was the most innovative, most prosperous, most vital nation on the face of the Earth. And it wasn’t just an obscenely rich fraction of one percent skewing the numbers, either…like it is today. Broad-based, bottom-up prosperity–in which liberal Democratic administrations specialize–really DID lift all boats. Lean in close and let me whisper to you an uncomfortable truth that the GOP will never dare mention…
Republicans are the rogues and rapscallions who took a hearty, robust economy that was the envy of the entire world and ran it into the ground. I’m not merely talking about the current fiscal catastrophe that is looming before us; no, I’m concerning myself here more with how we got this way, how the cheap-labor conservatives conspired, deliberately and with malice aforethought, to lay us low…for that is precisely what they did.
Follow me down and I’ll show you how…
...snip
Only the truly braindead could want to continue down the path that bush has set us upon...
The Republican Erosion of America
By Angel Of Mercy 26/04/08 “Daily Kos” (http://writechic.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/the-republican-erosion-of-america/)
There is, it seems to me, an area in the political discussion which has been woefully ignored for much, much too long. Historical fact: Prior to the rise of the radical right some 30 years ago, America was the most innovative, most prosperous, most vital nation on the face of the Earth. And it wasn’t just an obscenely rich fraction of one percent skewing the numbers, either…like it is today. Broad-based, bottom-up prosperity–in which liberal Democratic administrations specialize–really DID lift all boats. Lean in close and let me whisper to you an uncomfortable truth that the GOP will never dare mention…
Republicans are the rogues and rapscallions who took a hearty, robust economy that was the envy of the entire world and ran it into the ground. I’m not merely talking about the current fiscal catastrophe that is looming before us; no, I’m concerning myself here more with how we got this way, how the cheap-labor conservatives conspired, deliberately and with malice aforethought, to lay us low…for that is precisely what they did.
Follow me down and I’ll show you how…
...snip
Only the truly braindead could want to continue down the path that bush has set us upon...