March 25, 2008

IMPEACH BUSH

IMPEACH CHENEY

GOVERNMENT A TOOL OF THE RICH

Right-wingers call the very rich the "achievers." We're told you can't "punish the achievers" by making them pay taxes based on their wealth. We're told that the rich already pay most of the income taxes (maybe because they have most of the income). We're told that the business of America is business and all that nasty regulation is an impediment to business. Even though we hear about democracy in this country, we have morphed into a kleptocracy. Most of us, in one form or another, are servants of the very rich. Forget about all those glorious words like "all men are created equal." This article by Charles Sullivan is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

Neoconservatives derive much of their political strength from the portrayal of big government as the enemy of the people: a belief that plays only too well in America. Big government is indeed the enemy of the people when it does not serve the people’s interests, or when it betrays them.

Where the neoconservatives and the chicken hawks have been spectacularly successful is in the field of perception management. The super rich—or the ruling clique—constitutes no more than 0.1 percent of the US population. Yet they control the mainstream media, every branch government, the electoral process and the country’s major financial institutions.

Thus, 99.9 percent of the people are being manipulated and cannibalized by a tiny but powerful minority. It is the interests of this powerful minority that are served by government and it is their interests that are defined as the national interest or as national security; and it is hardly benign. Robbing the poor to pay the rich causes irreparable harm to the victim.