October 28, 2008


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY


THE "REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH" CANARD

See McCain and Palin spin. Spin, spin, spin. They've tried almost everything out of the Republican playbook. First, there's the "war on terrorism." McCain was a POW in Vietnam, so of course he knows how to run the military and win the "war on terror." No? Palin lives in Alaska, which is near Russia, so of course she knows foreign policy. No? McCain is a "maverick," although he has voted with Bush 90% of the time. Palin is a "maverick" too, although her administration has all kinds of sordid deals leaking out. Now we hear the oldie but goodie spin about "redistribution of wealth." It's not much of a factor for most of us when you think about it because we don't have any wealth. But McCain and Palin would have you believe that Barack Obama will be reaching right into your wallet, swiping your money, and doling it out hither and yon. The real "redistribution of wealth" has been from the working class and the poor to the very rich and to corporations. This commentary by Bill Hare is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

John McCain has taken to once more demagoging the economic issue as the Republican right has traditionally done beginning in the modern era with the tactical and markedly unsuccessful propaganda front directed at Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal.

Roosevelt’s first reelection campaign in 1936 was fresh on the heels of congressional passage and the president’s signature on the landmark 1935 Social Security Act. There was much anger as well resulting from such sweeping legislation as the National Recovery Administration and the creation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with disciplinary powers applicable to Wall Street.

Laissez faire was what the members of the American Liberty League, the vigilant opposition group to Roosevelt’s economic policies, favored. His comprehensive changes in U.S. economic policy during a critical Depression period prompted them to hurl charges of “socialism” while others went beyond that and asserted that FDR was a dictator of a Communist or Fascist model.